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For All Mankind is coming back for a fifth season of space-based alt-history hijinks on Apple TV+. This is unsurprising news, given the near-universal critical acclaim heaped on season four. However, the company also surprise-announced a spinoff series called Star City that will follow the Russian space program. Original series creators Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi are all onboard for Star City, though theres no cast yet. The plot synopsis calls it a robust expansion of the universe and refers to it as a propulsive, paranoid thriller. It also looks to be taking viewers back to the events of season one of For All Mankind, chronicling the Russian moon landing that started the story. This time, we explore the story from behind the Iron Curtain, showing the lives of the cosmonauts, the engineers and the intelligence officers embedded among them in the Soviet space program, and the risks they all took to propel humanity forward, Apple wrote in a press release. The company didnt say if the show would rely on frequent time jumps, like its forebear. To that end, Apple hasn't released any casting information for season five of For All Mankind. Given the shows propensity toward expansive time skips, its highly possible series regulars like Joel Kinnaman and Krys Marshall are on their way out. After all, their characters were really getting up there in age and stretching credulity in season four. Apple TV+ This is some seriously good news for sci-fi fans, but still doesnt take away the brutal sting of Star Trek: Lower Decks getting canceled. Paramount should probably just sell Star Trek to Apple already, since the latter actually seems to care about science fiction.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/apple-renews-for-all-mankind-and-announces-a-spinoff-series-set-in-the-soviet-union-173950761.html?src=rss
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Last night, Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson had a rough outing shooting 0 for 10 in a loss against the Sacramento Kings, ending the teams chances of making the NBA playoffs. But then, almost as if to add insult to injury, Xs AI bot Grok generated a trending story claiming Thompson was vandalizing homes in the area with bricks. Now at this point, even casual basketball fans may be able to see what went wrong. But Grok isnt very smart, because it seems that after seeing user posts about a player simply missing a bunch of shots (aka shooting bricks), the bot took things literally resulting in a completely fictitious AI-generated report. After misinterpreting user posts about Klay Thompson's poor shooting during an NBA game, X's AI bot Grok created a fictitious story on the social media platform's trending section. Screenshot by Sam Rutherford (via X) In the event this fabrication which was the #5 trending story at the time of writing gets corrected or deleted by Elon Musk, Grok originally wrote In a bizarre turn of events, NBA star Klay Thompson has been accused of vandalizing multiple houses with bricks in Sacramento. Authorities are investigating the claims after several individuals reported their houses being damaged, with windows shattered by bricks. Klay Thompson has not yet issued a statement regarding the accusations. The incidents have left the community shaken, but no injuries were reported. The motive behind the alleged vandalism remains unclear. Amusingly, despite pointing out the unusual nature of the story Grok went ahead of put out some nonsense anyway. Granted, in fine print beneath the story, X says Grok is an early feature and can make mistakes. Verify its outputs. But even that warning seems to have backfired, as basketball fans began memeing on the AI with posts sarcastically verifying the AIs erroneous statement. After Grok created an erroneous story about Golden State Warriors guard Klay Thompson, users began memeing on the situation. Screenshot by Sam Rutherford (via X) For most people, Groks latest gaff may merely be another example in an ongoing series of early AI tools messing up. But for others like Musk who believes that AI will be smarter than humans as soon as the end of next year, this should serve as a reminder that AI is still in desperate need of regular fact-checking.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/xs-ai-bot-is-so-dumb-it-cant-tell-the-difference-between-a-bad-game-and-vandalism-172707401.html?src=rss
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A data scraping service is selling information on what it claims to be 600 million Discord users. A report from 404 Media details Spy Pet, an online service that gathers, stores and sells troves of information from the social platform. But have no fear: It markets its services to totally trustworthy paying clients like law enforcement, AI model trainers or your average person curious about what their friends are up to. Why ask them when you can simply purchase and download a copy of their Discord activity? For as little as $5 in cryptocurrency, Spy Pet lets you access data about specific users, such as which servers they participate in, what messages theyve sent and when they joined or left voice channels. It claims to have information on an alleged 600 million users across 14,000 Discord servers and three billion messages. As for what inspired Spy Pet, its creator suggested its a classic case of doing what one enjoys and pushing personal boundaries. I like scraping, archiving, and challenging myself, the creator told 404 Media. Discord is basically the holy grail of scraping, since Discord is trying absolutely anything to combat scraping. Some people run a 5K, set a weight-loss goal or take up pickleball. Others start a social scraping service that sells data to the feds, AI companies and creepy exes. To each their own! 404 Media says the database lets you search for specific users. For each search result, a page shows the servers the user has joined (at least among those Spy Pet monitors), their connected accounts, a table showing their recent messages (including the server name, time stamps and the message itself) and their voice channel entry and exit times. Paying customers can conveniently export their preys or friends chats into a CSV file. Discord says its investigating Spy Pet and weighing its options. Discord is committed to protecting the privacy and data of our users, a company spokesperson wrote in an email to Engadget. We are currently investigating this matter. If we determine that violations of our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines have occurred, we will take appropriate steps to enforce our policies. We cannot provide further comments as this is an ongoing investigation.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/creepy-monitoring-service-sells-searchable-discord-user-data-for-as-little-as-5-170228224.html?src=rss
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