A New Tool Helps Artists Thwart AI—With a Middle Finger (www.wired.com)
Reddit Sees Copyright Takedowns Peak While Subreddit Bans Drop. (torrentfreak.com)
Why Big Tech's bet on AI assistants is so risky (www.technologyreview.com)
Firefox 118 boosts security with Encrypted Client Hello support (www.ghacks.net)
EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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Google Censors Freedom: the hard truth (monero.town)
Google is among the most pervasive and corrupt tools of the empire to suppress freedom and promote endless war and money printing for Wall Street. As Julian Assange points out, Google gets lucrative military cloud contracts, then turns around puts the regime’s pro-war propaganda on the front page. This article’s data on the...
An announcement regarding Kris Nóva [RIP] (nivenly.org)
It is with immense sadness that we must share with you the news of the loss of our friend, our leader, and our mentor, Kris Nóva....
Researchers explore best practices for talking to kids about online privacy (techxplore.com)
Stanford University just schooled Congress on AI (wapo.st)
The elite Silicon Valley university coaches Hill staffers on the benefits of artificial intelligence...
Statc Stealer: Windows malware stealing information from web browsers and apps, including login data, cookies, web data, and preferences, stealing cryptocurrency wallets, credentials, passwords, etc. (www.zscaler.com)
Summary...
Google fails to end $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit (neuters.de)
Research shows snoops can decipher keystrokes during Zoom calls (techxplore.com)
Z-Library Rolls Out Browser Extensions in Anticipation of Domain Name Troubles (torrentfreak.com)
Qualcomm—one of Arm’s biggest customers—starts a RISC-V joint venture (arstechnica.com)
Can you trust AI? Here's why you shouldn't (theconversation.com)
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds.
ChatGPT, The Worst Summer Intern Ever (hackaday.com)
Apple hit with $1B UK lawsuit over ‘abusive pricing’ in App Store (thenextweb.com)
A new partnership to promote responsible AI (blog.google)
Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism. (doctorow.medium.com)
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket....
New method of recycling colored plastics offers possible solution to 'huge environmental challenge' (phys.org)
Meta subsidiaries ordered to pay $20 million to Australian government over 'misleading' ads for security app (www.abc.net.au)
The excellent Arc browser is now available for anyone to download (www.theverge.com)
Arc, a Mac and iOS browser from The Browser Company, has officially launched after being in testing for over two years. The browser’s version number jumped to 1.0, meaning anyone can now download it from arc.net. Arc aims to be more than just a place to view webpages by offering tools for note taking, collaborative workspaces,...
Fibre optics could be the answer to water loss from leaky pipes: 48.6 billion cubic meters of water are lost globally daily (beehaw.org)
According to the International Water Association (IWA), the main culprits for this loss are underground leaks on water mains and service pipes....
Light is faster than... light!? (skullsinthestars.com)
This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it’s undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.
ASUS Signs Agreement to Continue Development and Support of Intel's NUC Business (www.anandtech.com)
Ten years ago, this would have been far more exciting news. However, given the quality issues Asus has been having for several years, this is not the company that should be picking up the baton. I’d have preferred to see ASRock, given their portfolio of NUC-alikes.