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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[Discussion] Nostr
Im creating this thread to discuss all things about Nostr and learn from your thoughts. Which your experiences using Nostr and things you like and dont like about it....
Federation, Defederation, and You - FAQ and Megathread
Regarding Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, this post goes into detail on the why and the philosophy behind that decision. Additionally, there is an update specific to sh.itjust.works here....
This app lets restaurants and coffee shops charge to use the bathroom (techcrunch.com)
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Study finds no “smoking gun” for mental health issues due to Internet usage (arstechnica.com)
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said their study was the largest of its kind, said they found no evidence to support “popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk” from the technology....
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Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators (www.theverge.com)
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Android users could soon replace Google Assistant with ChatGPT (arstechnica.com)
With a fair amount of system integration (no wake word available) missing, of course. Which rather sounds like a feature.
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