blep (mander.xyz)
It’s too warm and we both do our best to cope.
Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk (en.wikipedia.org)
Not everything should be connected to the Internet (www.theverge.com)
This is a good example, why not all devices should be connected to foreign servers. Errors can happen everywhere. But it could end badly, if some Corporations make errors and creating trouble, which would otherwise not happen....
A former executive says he was fired by Salesforce after raising concerns about software said to process and organize customer data in milliseconds: 'It was all a lie.' (www.businessinsider.com)
A former executive says he was fired by Salesforce after raising concerns about software said to process and organize customer data in milliseconds: ‘It was all a lie.’::The lawsuit alleged Salesforce retaliated against the executive after raising concerns about the product claims.
Now I am become purple. Destroyer of souls. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Florida officials tell state schools to teach AP Psychology 'in its entirety' (abcnews.go.com)
Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. has instructed Florida school officials to teach College Board’s AP Psychology course “in its entirety,” according to a letter obtained by ABC News from the state Department of Education.
*LLMs and AI art stepping over the corpse of NFTs* (i.imgur.com)
Imagine thinking this is acceptable on public transportation. (lemmy.world)
Original (i.imgur.com)
‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)
A website called zleague.gg has been scraping Reddit threads, feeding them into an AI and publishing auto-generated summaries without proper oversight. World of Warcraft players on Reddit noticed this and created a fake thread about a made-up feature called Glorbo to trick the AI. The AI then published an article summarizing the...
Sleepy teefies (lemmy.world)
$4 Lunch (lemmy.world)
[NEWS] Important update about the campaign against browser-levelcensorship in France (SREN bill) (imgur.com)
This was sent out by Mozilla today via email, fighting the recent SREN bill proposed by France ✊...
Israel-Palestine war: Israel set to ban Al Jazeera after attorney general approval (www.middleeasteye.net)
Jack has the greenest of eyes (startrek.website)
Can supermodels be the cat equivalent of grumpy old men?
Google Allegedly Pays Over $18 Billion a Year to Be Apple’s Favorite Search Engine (gizmodo.com)
Users dodge A.I. filters to generate pictures of pop-culture characters performing terrorism (kotaku.com)
Catnip (lemmy.zip)
Chinese censors block ‘Tiananmen’ image of athletes hugging (www.theguardian.com)
Wisdom from Ten Forward (startrek.website)
X makes cuts to disinformation and election integrity team (www.nbcnews.com)
X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, has slashed the number of people on its disinformation and election integrity team just weeks after it said it was hiring for new positions to help it guard against foreign interference....
I'm not touching you. (lemmy.ninja)
Noki and Scooter
Return to the office? These workers quit instead. (news.yahoo.com)
Return to the office? These workers quit instead.::When Rowan Rosenthal heard about Grindr’s return-to-office mandate during a virtual town hall meeting in August, anxiety, confusion and anger set in. The principal product designer lived within a 25-minute bike ride from the company’s Brooklyn office but instead was required...