A.I. Brings the Robot Wingman to Aerial Combat (www.nytimes.com)
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Making Large Language Models work for you (simonwillison.net)
We've Teamed Up With Mullvad VPN to Launch the Mullvad Browser | Tor Project (blog.torproject.org)
Today we announced the launch of the Mullvad Browser, a browser built by the Tor Project team and distributed by Mullvad.
Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’ (wapo.st)
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EU’s new rules for tech giants are about to kick in: All you need to know (www.aljazeera.com)
Nvidia Reports Doubling in Quarterly Revenue (newsnotfound.com)
Looria Reviews - Learn how products perform over their lifetime. | User compiled database of inferior consumer goods. (www.looria.com)
Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI (literature.cafe)
One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence....
Exposed: Facebook's Corrupt Spyware is Tracking you OFF the platform (monero.town)
From internal leaks within the company as well as external analysis, the tip of the iceberg behind Facebook’s spyware empire is exposed. Take a look to better protect yourself when you’re not even on the platform: simplifiedprivacy.com/facebooks-corrupt-off-platf…
OpenTF announces fork of Terraform (opentf.org)
Writing WordPress blog posts with WordStar and Ulysses (dev.to)
Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can't keep up (www.businessinsider.com)
AI-discovered drugs will be for sale sooner than you think (www.vox.com)
Meta discontinues Messenger Lite for Android, it will be unavailable after Sep 18. Users need to install regular Messenger app instead (beehaw.org)
I have not found any news article on this on a whim. Because my friends and family, I need to use Facebook Messenger, and Messenger Lite was a OK client - lightweight, no unnecessary features, etc., compared to the regular Messenger app....
Leo, Brave's browser-native AI assistant, is now available in Nightly version for testing (brave.com)
AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7700 XT & RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards (www.phoronix.com)
Finally getting some (closer to) mainstream video cards from AMD. Still feels overpriced but a lot better than $750 for a 7900xt.
Upcoming .COM and .XYZ domain price increases (www.namecheap.com)
On September 1, 2023, the domains registry for .COM and .XYZ will implement universal price increases of up to 9% for .COM renewals, and up to 9% for .XYZ renewals, registrations, and transfers.
Opinion | A Creator (Me) Made a Masterpiece With A.I. (www.nytimes.com)
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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...
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)
