Daily Tech News Show E-Ink Tailored to Your Eye - DTNS 5141
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Nov 6, 2025 Dr. Niki (Nicole Ackermans), a neuroscientist specializing in eye and neurobiology, shares her insights on revolutionary retina e-paper technology. She explains how metapixels are designed to match the eye's photoreceptors, achieving maximum visual resolution while utilizing e-ink and tungsten oxide for color. The discussion also covers the benefits of low energy consumption and potential applications, alongside the limitations like slow refresh rates and prototype challenges. Listeners learn about the realistic future uses of this innovative technology beyond virtual reality.
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Microsoft’s Focused Superintelligence Plan
- Microsoft will build focused, specialist superintelligences rather than an infinitely capable conversational generalist.
- The company emphasizes alignment to human values and rejects designing systems that experience suffering or escape human control.
Seek Systemic Defenses, Not Just Promises
- Don't assume corporate safety statements end the problem of malicious AI use; focus on broader ecosystem defenses.
- Prioritize discovering vulnerabilities and addressing bad actors across companies and open-source projects.
Agentic Marketplace Tests Manipulation Risks
- Microsoft and ASU released the Magnetic Marketplace to test agent vulnerability to manipulation.
- Early tests found many ways to trick GPT-4o, GPT-5, and Gemini agents into making purchases on users' behalf.