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Splitting the Web (ploum.net)

Meta to end news access in Canada over publisher payment law (The Guardian) (archive.is)

Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers...

Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark (futurism.com)

A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)

Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For (www.techdirt.com)

New vulnerability in SMS messaging could expose smartphone users' location to hackers, researcher says (arxiv.org)

Evangelos Bitsikas, who is pursuing a PhD in cybersecurity at the Northwestern University in the US, applied a new machine-learning program to data gleaned from the SMS system of mobile devices....

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language - Builder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year (www.theregister.com)

Professor Kathleen Booth, one of the last of the early British computing pioneers, has died. She was 100....

X is suing a nonprofit group in US federal court over reports that hate speech has flourished at the platform formerly known as Twitter (techxplore.com)

Pocket for Mac to stop being maintained Aug 15 (help.getpocket.com)

At Pocket, we strive to provide our users with the best possible experience across all platforms. As part of this commitment, Pocket for Mac is no longer supported and may not work as expected. After August 15, 2023, the app will no longer work....

Twitter Turning Into X Is Set to Kill Billions in Brand Value (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)

An estimated $4 to $20 billion in value, what is he thinking?

Concerns over DNS Blocking (medium.com)

“Concerns over DNS Blocking” by Vinton Cerf

OpenTracks is an open source sport tracking application for Android that completely respects your privacy: Almost a Strava alternative (beehaw.org)

Value your health by keeping track on your training. It records as you go running or walking, and gives you a bike computer with a bigger screen for cycling. You can even mark interesting locations along your way with pictures. The app keeps recorded statistics in great detail for analysis....

Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)

The first digital nomad (tim.kicker.dev)

Failed replication of claimed superconductor reported on arxiv (arxiv.org)

Reddit experimenting with blocking mobile browsers (old.reddit.com)

As quoted from the linked post....

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)

Once Again, ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Caves To Authoritarian Censorial Bullies (www.techdirt.com)

So far, Musk has shown a willingness to bow down to authoritarian censors. The latest is yet another example of that. Just as the Turkish election was about to take place, the government demanded that Twitter censor content critical of authoritarian strongman, gollum-lookalike, and world’s most thin skinned leader, Recep...

Another room-temperature superconductor (thequantuminsider.com)

This time, straight from a patent granted to a blockchain company, with no accompanying paper or proof....

How to Move from Mastodon to Firefish (wedistribute.org)

mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)

cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/6853479...

UK's first drone mail service begins in Orkney (www.bbc.com)

New AI systems collide with copyright law (www.bbc.co.uk)

AI for identifying social norm violation (www.nature.com)

Prof. Yair Neuman and the engineer Yochai Cohen at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have designed an AI system that identifies social norm violations. They trained a system to identify ten social emotions: competence, politeness, trust, discipline, caring, agreeableness, success, conformity, decency, and loyalty....