Meta admits that it trains its AI on your Instagram and Facebook posts (www.axios.com)
Meta admits that it trains its AI on your Instagram and Facebook posts::undefined
Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’ (news.yahoo.com)
Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’::Ultimately, it’s incumbent on lawmakers to take steps to ensure this practice is discouraged.
Russell Brand: Thames Valley Police investigates allegations (www.bbc.com)
Thames Valley Police says it is looking into a woman's complaint of harassment and stalking.
Relatable? (suppo.fi)
The Trump administration touted him as a victim of MeToo. Now he’s accused of dismembering a girlfriend (www.sfchronicle.com)
The gruesome discovery spoke to a ghastly crime....
Ireland: Wind generation exceeds demand for electricity for the first time ever (www.euronews.com)
Birmingham PhD student guilty of using 3D printer to build ‘kamikaze’ drone (www.theguardian.com)
Mohamad al-Bared used technology at Coventry home to make drone designed to deliver a warhead or chemical weapon for IS...
Bacteria found in bento box lunches in Japan that poisoned nearly 400 people (www.thesundaily.my)
Microplastics Are Present In Clouds, Confirm Japanese Scientists (www.ndtv.com)
$5,000 Google Jamboard dies in 2024—cloud-based apps will stop working, too (arstechnica.com)
Remedy says its Max Payne remakes are ‘a big, big project’ | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
I hear we're tired of American memes so I made this one for the Europeans (lemmy.zip)
Auf Deutsch: Kinder in Berlin, wenn sie einen Zentimeter eines Gebäudes ohne Graffiti sehen
North Korea to 'expel' US soldier Travis King, who crossed from South, state media reports (www.cnn.com)
North Korea has decided “to expel” US Army Private Travis King, who crossed into the North from South Korea during a tour of the joint security area in July, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday....
The FCC plans to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules (www.engadget.com)
FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel has announced the agency's plans to restore net neutrality protections. Previous rules, which prevented ISPs from blocking or throttling specific websites, were nixed in 2017 under the Trump administration.
Facebook accused of not showing insurance ads to women and older people in violation of civil rights laws (www.theverge.com)
AI is fundamentally 'a surveillance technology' (techcrunch.com)
Blizzard bans 250,000 Overwatch 2 cheaters, says its AI that analyses voice chat is warning naughty players and can often 'correct negative behaviour immediately' (www.pcgamer.com)
Blizzard bans 250,000 Overwatch 2 cheaters, says its AI that analyses voice chat is warning naughty players and can often ‘correct negative behaviour immediately’::Overwatch 2 has not been having a good time of it in 2023. May brought the unwelcome news that Blizzard’s original plans for the game’s post-launch support...
Trump confuses Obama and Biden in speech, warns Biden will lead U.S. into 'World War II' (www.msnbc.com)
There was more of this at the weekend....
Metaverse: What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's next big thing? (www.bbc.com)
Two years ago, the metaverse was billed as the next big thing - but many in the tech world have already moved on....
ROCm Is AMD’s No. 1 Priority, Exec Says (www.eetimes.com)
Saudi Arabia sentences schoolgirl to 18 years over tweets, says rights group (www.middleeasteye.net)
How would you expain the idea of social status to a child? (en.wikipedia.org)
Social status (in my own words) is the idea that a person has a relative social worth in a certain context. For example in a class room a teacher has a high social status and therefore must be listened to. On the other hand, if that same teacher was stopped by the police for speeding, they would not have a relatively low status...
NYC Mayor Announces New NYPD RoboCop That Needs a Cop to Guard It (www.vice.com)
Vaping linked to higher risk of asthma in teens - UPI.com (www.upi.com)
New research underscores the harms of e-cigarettes, showing that vaping increases the risk of asthma in teens who have never smoked cigarettes....
