Tuta Mail's Google Ranking Mysteriously Restored After Announcement to Take Legal Actions -- [Tuta blog] (tuta.com)
On March 7, 2024, Google inexplicably downranked the website of Tuta Mail in its search results. While Tuta Mail is a prominent provider of encrypted email services, focusing on security and privacy, our website was deranked for terms like “secure email” and “encrypted email” completely. The search results for our...
Opinion | Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms (www.nytimes.com)
I dislike linking to the NYT, but it seems to be the original source....
Talking Tiananmen with a Chinese chatbot: Chinese developers hope to build the AI of the future. What, if anything, will it have to say about the past? (chinamediaproject.org)
As China strives to surpass the United States with cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence, the leadership is keen to ensure technologies reach the public with the right political blind spots pre-engineered. Can Chinese AI hold its tongue on the issues most sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party?...
Phanpy: probably the best mastodon minimal webclient (phanpy.social)
Readme of the project:...
Chinese man arrested for allegedly running ‘largest ever’ malware network (www.aljazeera.com)
US officials say army of 19 million infected computers enabled fraud, identity theft and child exploitation....
Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive. Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder (www.theregister.com)
Archived link...
Censored: Last week, a writer on China's WeChat bemouned that a large part of information from the country's domestic internet had disappeared. Within hours, the writer's post had vanished too. (chinamediaproject.org)
Archived link...
The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media (link.springer.com)
The authors introduce and evaluate an open-source software package and methodological framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media, namely the Coordination Network Toolkit, utilising weighted, directed multigraphs to capture intricate coordination dynamics....
The Disinformation Machine: How Susceptible Are We to AI Propaganda? (hai.stanford.edu)
A cyberattack forces a big US health system to divert ambulances and take records offline (abcnews.go.com)
A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records...
Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity (www.nytimes.com)
This Asus PC case monitors your dust filter so you don't have to (www.xda-developers.com)
Traditionally, one would have to periodically check the status of the dust filtering on a PC case, but that’s not the case (pun intended!) with the Asus ProArt PA602. This chassis has a fancy infrared (IR) sensor behind the front-facing dust filter. Should this detect a set layer of dust covering the filter material, a small...
Spotting Visual Signs of Gentrification at Scale (hai.stanford.edu)
OpenCat: An open source quadruped robot pet framework (github.com)
AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft (www.forbes.com.au)
“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”
Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub (wedistribute.org)
Once Again, Ron Wyden Had To Stop Bad “Protect The Children” Internet Bills From Moving Forward (www.techdirt.com)
Wyden has been spectacular on actually understanding tech issues for a very long time at this point. The gerontocracy needs to stop acting like they have any clue how the internet works....
AMD continues to lock down AMDGPU features (www.phoronix.com)
Well, apparently, after just a few years the ability to control GPU operation in Linux will slide down considerably.
Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? - American Affairs Journal (americanaffairsjournal.org)
The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams (waxy.org)
Scribus Gets Huge Update (but the toolbar buttons are still too small to see!) (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
I want to like Scribus, but every time I hear about it getting updated, I download it, open it, only to find these tiny toolbar icons that have no apparent way of being made bigger. This is always what prevents me from trying it out! Seems like kind of a basic design no-brainer. Grrr. Does anyone else have this problem? I’m on...
IMF predicts AI will impact 40% of jobs worldwide, exacerbating inequality and social tensions (www.techspot.com)
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...
