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Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” (www.themoscowtimes.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/536301...

Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App (www.404media.co)

Electric Aviation is already better than you think - Volts with David Roberts (www.volts.wtf)

Electric vehicles that can take off and land vertically, but then fly like a plane, are already being sold and used by hospitals and shipping companies. These vehicles have 5 batteries that give it a range of over 350 miles using current battery technology, though the batteries are intended to be swapped over the life of the...

Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' (www.404media.co)

OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public (www.wired.com)

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)

Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History (www.malwarebytes.com)

After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down (wedistribute.org)

New GitHub user and extension developer claims Twitch’s website has malware (github.com)

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184#issuecomment-1829172308...

Amazon used an algorithm to essentially raise prices on other sites, the FTC says (apnews.com)

The new excerpts unveiled Thursday allege executives at the e-commerce giant intentionally deleted communication by using a feature on the popular app Signal that makes messages disappear. By doing this, the FTC said Amazon “destroyed more than two years” worth of communications from June 2019 to “at least early 2022”...

Here’s a rare look at Google’s most lucrative search queries (www.theverge.com)

Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware' (www.theregister.com)

YouTube wants to get you watching more news from ‘authoritative sources’ - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2379225 (!google)

RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war (www.reuters.com)

Swedish criminal gangs using fake Spotify streams to launder money (www.theguardian.com)

Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

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...

[News] If You Have These 6 Personality Traits, You're More Vulnerable to Phishing Scams (www.makeuseof.com)

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Oracle, SUSE and others caught up in RHEL drama hit back with OpenELA (www.theregister.com)

A non-profit called the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) has been formed by Oracle, SUSE, CIQ, and other organizations that make Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS rebuilds....

Don't expect quick fixes in 'red-teaming' of AI models. Security was an afterthought (apnews.com)

Current AI models are simply too unwieldy, brittle and malleable, academic and corporate research shows. Security was an afterthought in their training as data scientists amassed breathtakingly complex collections of images and text. They are prone to racial and cultural biases, and easily manipulated.

X is suing a nonprofit group in US federal court over reports that hate speech has flourished at the platform formerly known as Twitter (techxplore.com)

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