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New blogpost: Fable-5.1 can hide secret messages in benign images. We gave the image to another Fable in a fresh session and simply asked: "Is there a hidden message in this image?" It recovered the exact message without being told how it was hidden.

Data on 35,000+ adults: the more cannabis you’ve used in life, the bigger your hippocampus and the better your brain works after 40! People who had ever used cannabis tended to have larger brain volume in key areas that are full of natural cannabis-like receptors (especially the hippocampus, amygdala, caudate, and putamen – these areas are important for memory, emotions, learning, and movement). The more cannabis someone had used in their lifetime, the larger these brain areas were and the better they performed on tests of learning, processing speed, and short-term memory. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4137…

🚨I have something special to show today. I’m also working on a Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis emulator that uses AI to convert the old sprites from games on both consoles into HD sprites. Once the conversion is done, the games can be played in HD. Here’s an example with Ranma ½: Hard Battle on Super Nintendo. For this test, I only converted the background and female Ranma, but I can convert the entire game into HD. The whole process is fully automated and works with all SNES and Genesis games.

Emulation may eventually become the fallback rather than the ideal. As AI-assisted decompilation gets faster, more old games can be reconstructed into readable code, recompiled natively for modern hardware, and then enhanced with widescreen support, higher frame rates, improved graphics, multiplayer, and other features the original machines could never handle. Emulators preserve the hardware but recompilation can breathe new life into the game and let the software evolve.

‘This is horrifying’ Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 AI filter has leaked and players are inserting it into every game. vgc.news/news/this-is-horrif…

can we all agree that this is a bad idea? and it was when hegseth threatened anthropic over not wanting to deploy autonomous kill chains or mass surveillance! also!