Active - technology

Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)

Popular social media apps TikTok and Instagram use AI to analyze photos on your phone, introducing both bias and errors (news.wisc.edu)

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How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) (www.nytimes.com)

Apple’s censorship in China is just the tip of the iceberg (web.archive.org)

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China's recent campaign against domestic social media targeted falsehood and sensationalism. But the country's state-run media, not to be touched by the purge, are some of the worst culprits. (chinamediaproject.org)

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You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)

Substack Competitor Ghost Announces ActivityPub Integration (wedistribute.org)

The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)

Edward Zitron has been reading all of google’s internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ’s antitrust case against google....

AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)

Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers (restofworld.org)

IBM is registered as a sales company in Brazil, making its employees ineligible for benefits granted to tech workers....

Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract (www.nbcnews.com)

“Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.”

We Need To Rewild The Internet (www.noemamag.com)

The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store (www.theverge.com)

Caveat: It isn’t available in the app store in the EU, and is instead only available via the developer’s marketplace, AltStore¹. As far as I can tell, this genuinely isn’t because of greed, but because of a little detail in Apple’s EU rules (possibly wrong):...

Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)

Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic (www.helpnetsecurity.com)

cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/11194362...

Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be (wedistribute.org)

PubKit Officially Launches Closed Beta (wedistribute.org)

Kobo's new color E Ink eReaders start at only $150 (www.pocket-lint.com)

New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now (discord.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17618684...

Open source newsletter platform Ghost is considering joining the Fediverse (forum.ghost.org)

The nonprofit company is contemplating federating Ghost over ActivityPub. There is a survey asking users about their usage of ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon and how they expect ActivityPub functionality to work in Ghost.

Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)

Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home (www.physics.ox.ac.uk)

The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...