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John Leonard

Tech news stories from in Asia. This time we look at the advent of robot chefs in South Korea’s roadside diners, the welcome downturn in China’s CO2 emissions thanks to its epic renewables rollout, and a North Korean hacker infiltrating a US politician’s election campaign.

computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/s

www.computing.co.ukSouth Korea’s robot chefs - Asian Tech RoundupWelcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the advent of robot chefs in South Korea’s roadside diners, ...
#robot#southkorea#china
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The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🤖💨 Can a robot move without a brain? Researchers built a soft #robot that walks, hops, and swims using air-filled tubes that naturally synchronize their movements.

Like inflatable tube dancers at car dealerships, but working together to create purposeful motion—all through clever physics rather than electronics or programming.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/a

A small white soft robot with flexible tubular limbs and orange/red connection points is suspended against a black background.
#tksst#video#design
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C.

Posting in case this helps someone else.

For the last month or two, I've had problems visiting some sites with #Firefox. The sites use #Cloudflare, and it would give the "prove you're a human by checking this box" prompt. I'd never had problems with this before.

Suddenly that started failing consistently. Clicking the box would do something, but then just reload the challenge. There was no way to pass it. I tried reconfiguring and even disabling the "uBlock Origin" extension, cookie policies, other things - no luck.

Based on a comment on this discussion:
ask.metafilter.com/385480/fixi

... I tried disabling the "Disable HTML5 Autoplay" extension, and ... fixed! That was *not* an obvious candidate for causing the problem, unlike adblockers etc.

So it appears Cloudflare changed their in-browser testing JS such that it requires HTML5 autoplay to pass the check. Which is ... special. I can think of lots of people with very good reasons to have that disabled.

Anyways, I hope this helps someone.

ask.metafilter.comfixing Verify You Are A Human - Firefox + cookies + UBlock OriginCloudflare's 'verify that you are a human' test always fails for me in Firefox, but works in Safari - I can load sites in Safari that won't load in Firefox. I suspect the Firefox problem is my...
#browser#check#BrowserCheck
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The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨

🤖💨 Can a robot move without a brain? AMOLF’s researchers built a soft #robot that walks, hops, and swims using air-filled tubes that naturally synchronize their movements.

Like inflatable tube dancers at car dealerships, but working together to create purposeful motion—all through clever physics rather than electronics or programming.

👉 Learn more: thekidshouldseethis.com/post/a

A small white soft robot with flexible tubular limbs and orange/red connection points is suspended against a black background.
#tksst#video#design
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SnowshadowII :maple:

" I recently found myself at a dinner in an upstairs room at a restaurant in San Francisco hosted by a venture capital firm. The after-dinner speaker was a tech veteran who, having sold his AI company for hundreds of millions of dollars, has now turned his hand to investing. He had a simple message for the assembled startup founders: the money you can make in AI isn’t limited to the paltry market sizes of previous technology waves. You can replace the world’s workers – which means you can capture their salaries. All of them.

Replacing all human labour with AI sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But it is the explicit aim of a growing number of the tech elite – and these are people who lack neither drive nor resources, who have deep pockets and even deeper determination. "

#Robot #Tech #Employment #Economy

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · For Silicon Valley, AI isn’t just about replacing some jobs. It’s about replacing all of themBy Ed Newton-Rex
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