Ransomware gangs collected record $1.1 billion from attacks in 2023 (www.axios.com)
How Quora Died: The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing. (slate.com)
Inside the shifting plan at Elon Musk’s X to build a new team and police a platform ‘so toxic it’s almost unrecognizable’ (fortune.com)
Over Three Decades, Tech Obliterated Media (nymag.com)
Bluesky is ready to open up (www.theverge.com)
‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 (www.techradar.com)
Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird (www.ifixit.com)
Fans preserve and emulate Sega’s extremely rare ‘80s “AI computer” (arstechnica.com)
The fediverse, explained (www.theverge.com)
The problem with standalone VR and "spatial computing" (www.spacebar.news)
Pluralistic: The CHIPS Act treats the symptoms, but not the causes (pluralistic.net)
Bluesky is ready to open up (www.theverge.com)
"Open Source Windows" ReactOS just got better GUI install setup, no GPT yet (www.neowin.net)
The Cult of AI: How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future (www.rollingstone.com)
From the (middle of the) story: The reason CES was so packed with random “AI”-branded products was that sticking those two letters to a new company is seen as something of a talisman, a ritual to bring back the (VC) rainy season.
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist (arstechnica.com)
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead (arstechnica.com)
Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address (www.404media.co)
AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.
Snap is recalling and refunding every drone it ever sold (www.theverge.com)
I created an app where you can share your thoughts fully anonymously and vote for the weekly "Thought of Humanity" (www.toh-social.app)
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23andMe’s Fall From $6 Billion to Nearly $0 (archive.fo)
This AI Paper Unveils the Future of MultiModal Large Language Models (MM-LLMs) – Understanding Their Evolution, Capabilities, and Impact on AI Research (www.marktechpost.com)
Brace for impact.
"We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic) (pluralistic.net)
Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse (arstechnica.com)
What’s next for Mozilla? (techcrunch.com)
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