The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI (www.spacebar.news)
2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.
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The activist who’s taking on artificial intelligence in the courts: ‘This is the fight of our lives’ (english.elpais.com)
The American Matthew Butterick has started a legal crusade against generative artificial intelligence (AI). In 2022, he filed the first lawsuit in the history of this field against Microsoft, one of the companies that develop these types of tools (GitHub Copilot). Today, he’s coordinating four class action lawsuits that bring...
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Pluralistic: Tech workers and gig workers need each other (13 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
eBay agreed to pay maximal possible fine of $3 million after employees harassed, intimidated, and stalked a Massachusetts couple in retaliation for their critical reporting of the online marketplace (arstechnica.com)
eBay’s harassment campaign against the couple, David and Ina Steiner, stretched for 18 days in August 2019 and was led by the company’s former senior director of safety and security, Jim Baugh. It started when then-CEO Devin Wenig and then-chief communications officer Steven Wymer decided to “take down” the Steiners...
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Timeline to remove DSA support in OpenSSH (lists.mindrot.org)
Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)
Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI....
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Security researchers warned Apple as early as 2019 about vulnerabilities in its AirDrop wireless sharing function that Chinese authorities claim they recently used to track down users (edition.cnn.com)
A Chinese tech firm, Beijing-based Wangshendongjian Technology, was able to compromise AirDrop to identify users on the Beijing subway accused of sharing “inappropriate information,” judicial authorities in Beijing said this week....
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Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware (arstechnica.com)
I’m a software engineer and I love actual technology, but I think we have reached the peak of mt. stupid
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Atuin is an open-source shell command history app for Linux with syncing, unlimited history, and with contextual search (beehaw.org)
Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. With this context, Atuin gives you faster and better search of your shell history!...
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Broadcom ditches most of VMware's Cloud Service Providers (www.theregister.com)
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X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (Elon Musk, Twitter) (www.vice.com)
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SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES (www.sagaftra.org)
this agreement is causing a great deal of distaste in VA spaces this week, perhaps best exemplified by this tweet which asserts that the deal was not sent to membership. as far as i can tell through the grapevine a lot of VAs concur that this was foist upon them suddenly and they were given no chance to vote on it or similar,...
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TikTok restricts tool used by researchers - and its critics - to assess content on its platform (apnews.com)
Among others, the social media company, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has removed certain hashtags from the Creative Center that some online researchers had stored for analysis. They include topics that would be seen as controversial to the Chinese government – such as “UyghurGenocide” and...
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Starbucks accused of manipulating app payments for $900 million profit (www.androidauthority.com)
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The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)
Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users....
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The worst technology failures of 2023 (www.technologyreview.com)
archive link
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First working graphene semiconductor could lead to faster computers (www.newscientist.com)
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Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History (www.malwarebytes.com)
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Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network (beehaw.org)
Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source alternative to other link aggregator services like Reddit. The initiative...
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Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times (www.axios.com)
U.S. Lawmakers Push to Consider Trade Limits With A.I. Company in the United Arab Emirates Tied to China (www.nytimes.com)
Unpaywalled link: web.archive.org/web/…/ai-china-uae-g42.html...
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The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. (www.theverge.com)
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Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal (arstechnica.com)
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This app lets restaurants and coffee shops charge to use the bathroom (techcrunch.com)
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