The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled: U.S. Republicans attacked the lab’s reports on misinformation and election integrity — and now the institution is pulling the plug (www.platformer.news)
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Android Dialer App Recommendations?
For years I was using Drupe, but they’ve thoroughly enshittified. What used to be a sleek, extremely functional dialer app with a fantastic UI has become a slow, ad-filled sack of garbage with a still pretty good UI....
Amid a decline in democratic standards, the Serbian government uses large-scale installation of surveillance systems with facial recognition technology to monitor opponents, activists and journalists (balkaninsight.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/375357...
[TechHut] my favorite app (Neofetch) is dead (www.youtube.com)
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China: Tech giant Baidu’s mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate after a vehicle ran into a pedestrian in Wuhan last Sunday (www.sixthtone.com)
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[Palmer Luckey] created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine (www.npr.org)
It’s so easy to sanitize tech stories about murder weapons. Just say “Ukraine” in the title!
Has Facebook Stopped Trying? (www.404media.co)
In spring, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg invited more than a dozen professors and academics to a series of dinners at his home to discuss how Facebook could better keep its platforms safe from election disinformation, violent content, child sexual abuse material, and hate speech. Alongside these secret meetings, Facebook was regularly...
Listen to the AI-Generated Ripoff Songs That Got Udio and Suno Sued (www.404media.co)
Apple Decides to Block Open-Source Emulator App for iOS (news.itsfoss.com)
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Top 10 Generative AI Models Mimic Russian Disinformation Claims A Third of the Time, Citing Moscow-Created Fake Local News Sites as Authoritative Sources (www.newsguardtech.com)
NewsGuard audit finds that 32% of the time, leading AI chatbots spread Russian disinformation narratives created by John Mark Dougan, an American fugitive now operating from Moscow, citing his fake local news sites and fabricated claims on YouTube as reliable sources....
US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel (www.theverge.com)
"Mentioning Xi Jinping leads to a complete block of translation results": Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’ (restofworld.org)
Bing’s translation and search engine services in China censor more extensively than Chinese competitors’ services do, according to new research....
[NightHawkInLight] DIY Supermaterial Could Save You From Heatstroke: Salt based PCMs (www.youtube.com)
[Framework News] Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing (frame.work)
Global security alliance warns of Russian disinformation campaign using Meliorator AI software allowing for the creation of authentic appearing fictitious personas to post content on X (www.cyber.gc.ca)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/645247...
Highlighting journalism on Mastodon (blog.joinmastodon.org)
It looks like it will require a manual review process for now but it could be automated down the line.
Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever (www.404media.co)
Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers (www.wired.com)
Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem) (samcurry.net)
“Morality and ethics should play no part”: Leaks reveal how Russia's foreign intelligence agency runs disinformation campaigns in the West (theins.press)
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Concurrency models of Rust and Golang (kerkour.com)
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....
Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump (www.theverge.com)
First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/14300049...
