Firefox 118 Released With Killer New Feature - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
X Announces It’s Shutting Down ‘Circles’ As of October 31st (www.socialmediatoday.com)
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)
OpenTF announces fork of Terraform (opentf.org)
AI-discovered drugs will be for sale sooner than you think (www.vox.com)
EU’s new rules for tech giants are about to kick in: All you need to know (www.aljazeera.com)
Saving Vivaldi Social from doom: A Sysadmin adventure (vivaldi.com)
[Corp Blog] Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking charge (www.malwarebytes.com)
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ARM64 for the masses
Hey! Does anybody have any information about if and when a company might offer ARM64 for general desktop use? I would like to build my own in the same way that I might build a desktop PC out of an Intel or AMD processor.
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)
How exactly do Matrix bridges work? Are they secure?
What I’m looking for ultimately is a universal chat type app like Beeper that can handle Signal and SMS, however, reading this about it gives me pause. It would be nice if I could get all my peeps on matrix, but since it was so hard to get them on to Signal, I think the best I can hope for is something than can handle matrix,...
Critical Vulnerability Exploits Several Lemmy Instances (wedistribute.org)
Taliban Endorses Twitter Over Threads (www.vice.com)
Anas Haqqani, a Taliban thinker with family ties to the leadership, has endorsed Twitter over the Facebook-owned Threads. He said Twitter has more freedom of speech and credibility than other platforms. The Taliban likes Twitter’s lax moderation policies which allow them to spread their message. Facebook and TikTok ban the...
Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM (arstechnica.com)
I have to admire a company following through on the e-waste reduction by doing it’s own updates of the Android OS for an EOL chip. I just wish the fairphone 3 was actually more usable....
What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (www.theatlantic.com)
Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)
Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it’s visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit....
Other Fediverse projects (en.wikipedia.org)
I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I’m enjoying BookWyrm very much; it’s the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I’ve been looking for for years....
Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theory rabbit holes? (theconversation.com)
Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues (www.theverge.com)
What a bunch of clowns idiots (edited to remove the implication that clowns are genuinely as clueless and incompetent as Sonos execs). When Sonos launched in 2004 they were far ahead of any other company in the connected speaker landscape. And they stayed best-of-the-best for a dozen years. Since the S1/S2 split they have been...
Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum (arstechnica.com)
Yay!
I Gazed Lovingly Into Strangers’ Eyes on ‘Eyechat’ (www.404media.co)
Russia legalizes Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining (cointelegraph.com)
Sam Altman urges formation of US-led AI freedom coalition • The Register (www.theregister.com)
This guy! 😮💨
‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’: Carissa Véliz, expert in ethics applied to technology, advocates for a system of digital anonymity (english.elpais.com)
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