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Hackers are Attacking Observatories (www.universetoday.com)

Gitlab working on ActivityPub for Merge/Pull requests (writing.exchange)

WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Pyramid Schemes Are Illegal. MLMs Are Not. What About the Tech That Powers Them? (themarkup.org)

Firefox can now import and use Chrome extensions as part of its migration import option (debugpointnews.com)

In a major update towards cross-browser compatibility, Firefox users are set to enjoy the benefits of importing Chrome extensions (note this is really part of the data import/migration from an existing Chrome browser installed, just for extensions that are already supported, and not installing from the Chrome web store), thanks...

What is your favorite todo app without a subscription?

Looking for an alternative to apps like TickTick and Todoist but I don’t want a subscription to deal with. I can justify a one time purchase of a todo app though as long as it’s reasonable. Any recommendations?

T-Mobile is laying off 5,000 employees : NPR (www.npr.org)

API Misuse: Hacker Leaks 2.6M Duolingo Users' Emails & Names (www.hackread.com)

The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse (US focused) (buttondown.email)

Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act)....

Plagiarism-Bot? How Low-Quality Websites Are Using AI to Deceptively Rewrite Content from Mainstream News Outlets (www.newsguardtech.com)

In a historic about-face, Apple publicly supports right-to-repair bill (grist.org)

Apple now endorses Right to Repair legislation (www.404media.co)

I believe this is genuine support of the bill from Apple. Between Right to Repair winning in Massachusetts and the EU demanding compliance, I think Apple decided to flip the script. They would want to continue the illusion of customer friendly tech.

Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding (ai.meta.com)

cross-posted from !aistuff

Need to scan a lot of book barcodes very quickly. Any suggestions?

Liberté, égalité, Fraternité: France Loses Its Marbles On Internet Censorship (hackaday.com)

cross-posted from: prime8s.xyz/post/17896...

What do I need to do if I want to use my old 4th gen iPad in 2023?

I recently was able to get back my 4th gen iPad that I used for university and got excited to start using it again just for basic stuff like searching stuff on the browser, reading comics and such. However I quickly realized that I was unable to download anything from the AppStore as my iOS version is 10.3.4 and apps like...

Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud (techcommunity.microsoft.com)

Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don't give a fuck for life offtheline

[Ian Cutress] The Problem with Tech Media: Ego, Dogmatism, and Cult of Personality (www.youtube.com)

The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)

For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in....

Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (www.404media.co)

shared via feddit.de/post/2805371...

Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012) (www.theguardian.com)

“Will AI Destroy Us?”: Roundtable with Coleman Hughes, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Gary Marcus, and Scott Aaronson (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/2617125...

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