Could the reddit API changes have to do with ChatGPT rather than third party apps? (old.reddit.com)
One of Spez's answers in the infamous Reddit AMA struck me...
Tafkars: Reddit-API proxy for Lemmy (help wanted) (imgur.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/768790...
Apparently the Reddit AMA with Steve Huffman went about as well as it could go off the rails. (techcrunch.com)
Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there’s a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’ (archive.ph)
OpenAI sued for defamation after ChatGPT fabricates legal accusations against radio host (www.theverge.com)
SimpleX messenger / secure messaging (social.lol)
Techlore gives an interesting short video on why he doesn’t recommend SimpleX right now....
Reddit CEO (/u/spez) is going to hold a AMA about the API update (www.reddit.com)
Apollo for Reddit is shutting down (www.theverge.com)
whelp, there it is
Timeline of total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances (public.flourish.studio)
A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances as a bar chart race: public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14058992/ and as a line chart: public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14080522/.
RIF will also shut down on June 30th (old.reddit.com)
After Apollo, RIF is also going to shut down.
Google Workspace users can now log in without a password, thanks to passkeys (arstechnica.com)
EU considers mandatory ban on using Huawei and several other suppliers to build 5G over security concerns (12ft.io)
In 2020, the EU members resisted pressure back then from the US for an outright ban on Chinese telcos and agreed instead on the implementation of a ‘toolbox’ of security measures. It enabled member states to either restrict or exclude high-risk 5G vendors such as Huawei from core parts of their telecoms network. By now,...
"Trust' and 'distrust' buttons -rather than 'like' and 'dislike' buttons- could reduce spread of misinformation on social media, experimental study suggests (web.archive.org)
Here’s a brief summary, although you miss something if you don’t read the study (trigger warning: stats):...
Researchers Develop Online Hate Speech “Shockwave” Formula (web.archive.org)
A George Washington University research team created a novel formula that demonstrates how, why, and when hate speech spreads throughout social media. They found that hate speech ripples through online communities in a pattern that non-hateful content typically does not follow. Researchers hope the formula can serve as a tool...
Healthcare org with over 100 clinics uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to write medical records (archive.today)
The doctor, and their steno-bot, will see you now.
Reddit to lay off about 5% of workforce (www.livemint.com)
Do People Actually Want to Wear a Headset All the Time? (www.wired.com)
Stack Overflow mods go on strike (openletter.mousetail.nl)
and as always, the culprit is ChatGPT. Stack Overflow Inc. won’t let their mods take down AI-generated content
US authorities charge Amazon with violating children’s privacy law by undermining parents’ deletion requests (web.archive.org)
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice will require Amazon to overhaul its deletion practices and implement stringent privacy safeguards to settle charges the company violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA Rule).
Two-thirds of all online shopping scams in the UK start on Facebook and Instagram, Lloyds Banking Group says (web.archive.org)
Lawyer "greatly regrets" use of ChatGPT in court, says he was "unaware of the possibility that its content could be false" (web.archive.org)
The court dismissed the claim and used the word “bogus” to describe the quotes and citations the US attorney provided, which were sourced from ChatGPT. “Six of the submitted cases appear to be bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations.” The judge further claimed that certain cases referenced...
"Colonial racial capitalism": China's mass surveillance in Xinjiang made the country a leading exporter of digital forensics, superseded only by Israel and the US (web.archive.org)
The hundreds of millions of dollars invested in Xinjiang surveillance created a system of digital enclosure that is part of the structure of dispossession that confronts Uyghurs, but the regime in Beijing wants the data of the colonized, too, a researcher says. This collection of data has significant consequences for the...
Vulnerability in Telegram on mac OS can grant access to your camera and microphone (danrevah.github.io)
The weakness was allegedly discovered in February by a Google engineer, but “despite attempts to alert Telegram’s security team, the issue remains unresolved”, Matt Johanson, a security expert, writes on Twitter....
Digital war: Social media data reveal how hate speech is used to dehumanise, call for violence against, and celebrate the death of Ukrainians (www.info-res.org)
Data collected from Twitter and Telegram shows that there is increased use of slurs against Ukrainians, calling for violence and celebrating the death of Ukrainians, despite platform policies that are meant to stop, or at least mitigate this activity, the Centre for Information Resilience says. The dataset collected and analysed...