New Jersey Supreme Court: If Cops Are Going To Digitally Wiretap A Facebook Account, They Need A Wiretap Order (www.techdirt.com)
Signal may soon be getting usernames (nitter.lacontrevoie.fr)
‘What seemed like science fiction is already here’: why it’s important to talk (seriously) about neurorights (english.elpais.com)
The risk, explains Yuste, is that the same tools which – in medicine – can help improve people’s lives, can also end up violating the information stored in the brain. “Although the roadmap is beneficial, these technologies are neutral and can be used for better or worse,” he notes. This isn’t only about securing...
AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models (futurism.com)
“Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease,” they added. “We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD).”...
Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says (techcrunch.com)
Will the European Cyber Resilience Act Kill Open Source Software? (fossforce.com)
Archive link...
Meta and Mastodon: What’s really on people’s minds? (ianbetteridge.com)
A very detailed article about the whole Meta (Instagram/Threads) vs. Fediverse discussions. It’s a long read, but well-worth it if you’re interested in the subject.
Gurman: First M3 Apple Silicon Macs likely to launch in October (9to5mac.com)
Lemmy instance for amateur radio enthusiasts (lemmy.radio)
All things amateur radio at this instance. So if you’re interested, you can follow from any existing Lemmy instance you’re at. I see the following communities already there:...
Reddit And Twitter: The New Giants Of Anti-Social Media (www.forbes.com)
This pretty much sums up the last couple days. Thankfully we have Beehaw and Mastodon.
Twitter Rolls Out Ad Sharing Program (www.thestreet.com)
Competition is great
Dangerzone will convert it into a safe PDF (dangerzone.rocks)
Literally one of the worst formats I deal with daily, from a security standpoint are PDFs. Very useful and predictable for the end user; yes, but very dangerous for the capabilities it allows....
Tech Workers Coalition onboarding meeting - Thursday Sep 20th, 5pm PT - Register now! (us02web.zoom.us)
Tedd.it is Shutting Down (tedd.it)
Tedd.it, a website that aggregates content from Reddit, is shutting down permanently on August 1st, 2023 due to restrictions on the Reddit API. The site has been experiencing “429 Too Many Requests” errors as Reddit has severely limited its access to content in an effort to cut costs. The site owner cannot afford the high...
A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font (jdsalaro.com)
Hey Folks!...
Scientists Create 'Biological Camera' That Stores Images in DNA (www.vice.com)
Easy HTTPS for your private networks (www.getlocalcert.net)
This webpage provides instructions for using the acme-dns DNS challenge method with various ACME clients to obtain HTTPS certificates for private networks. Caddy, Traefik, cert-manager, acme.sh, LEGO and Certify The Web are listed as ACME clients that support acme-dns. For each client, configuration examples are provided that...
So long, Calibri: Microsoft has settled on a new font for its Office apps (arstechnica.com)
DÜNYA BUNU OKUYORSAN SENİN AMK (akparti.xyz)
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FTC loses again, Microsoft is now clear to close the Activision-Xbox deal in the US (www.windowscentral.com)
tl;dr from the article:...
Cancel Amazon Prime [2021] (archive.ph)
Amazon Prime is a remarkable success but also dystopian. It has made convenience and speed the norm, habituating consumers to buy more products. Prime’s flywheel effect - where more customers lead to more data and scale which attracts more customers - has fueled Amazon’s dominance. Prime subscribers spend twice as much and...
EU commission clears acquisition of VMware by Broadcom (ec.europa.eu)
[EU] It's official: Smartphones will need to have replaceable batteries by 2027 (www.androidauthority.com)
Social Media is broken. Can we fix it? (beehaw.org)
Most people agree that Social Media is broken and that we need to find new solutions. Max DeMarco embarked on a journey to find out more about a new invention called NOSTR. This is his documentary about that journey and his interview with key players....
Replacing human research subjects with AI chatbots. (www.science.org)
As far as I understand this, they seem to think that AI models trained on a set of affluent westerners with unknown biases can be told to “act like [demographic] and answer these questions.”...