Commented - technology

[OpenAI] Sora: Creating video from text (openai.com)

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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...

EU takes action against Elon Musk's X over disinformation (www.bbc.co.uk)

Twitch allowing more nudity after disproportionately banning female streamers (arstechnica.com)

A new approach to create fast-charging lithium-ion batteries with a graphite-based anode (techxplore.com)

Adobe’s $20 billion bid for Figma in peril after EU warning (www.theverge.com)

The beauty of finished software (josem.co)

The "Tech Won’t Save Us" Podcast is doing a series on Musk (www.techwontsave.us)

We hear a lot about this guy, why not a little more. This podcast is doing a series on Musk that is quite revealing, totally worth a listen if you are interested in business or tech....

Thousands of remote IT workers sent wages to North Korea to help fund weapons program, FBI says (abcnews.go.com)

Foxconn and Nvidia are building 'AI factories' to accelerate self-driving cars | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Tools for collaboration (kbin.social)

So I have two coworkers who I want to help out with a problem. They have to collaborate on upgrades in a old factory, and they both use the same excel spreadsheet to keep track of the to-do list....

Microsoft in $29bn back taxes dispute in US (www.bbc.com)

Google extends Chromebook lifespan to ten years (www.zdnet.com)

Starting next year, Google will provide Chromebook security patches and software upgrades for up to a decade. This will effectively guarantee that no existing Chromebook will expire within the next two years....

Google turns 25: From garage startup to global giant (www.zdnet.com)

Robots Are Already Killing People (www.theatlantic.com)

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Liberté, égalité, Fraternité: France Loses Its Marbles On Internet Censorship (hackaday.com)

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Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice (web.archive.org)

The tech giant is evaluating tools that would use artificial intelligence to perform tasks that some of its researchers have said should be avoided....

StreetPass is a browser extension that helps you find your people on Mastodon (streetpass.social)

Researchers claim to have detected vulnerabilities in VPN clients that went unnoticed -at least publicly- since 1996 (tunnelcrack.mathyvanhoef.com)

Tests indicate that every VPN product is vulnerable on at least one device, the researchers say. VPNs for iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and macOS are extremely likely to be vulnerable, that a majority of VPNs on Windows and Linux are vulnerable, and that Android is the most secure with roughly one-quarter of VPN apps being...

Hydrogen-powered planes almost ready for takeoff (arstechnica.com)

Wikipedia Fighting Overseas SLAPP Suit Because Someone Didn’t Like The Factual Info Posted About Them (www.techdirt.com)

The case started in August 2021 with a complaint that de Paço was upset about the Portuguese and English language versions of the articles about him. The first judicial pass went well. But that’s where the good news ends. The next level of Portugal’s court system decided the lower court was wrong about everything, which...