Vivaldi: "Many have tagged us in discussions about a specif…" - Vivaldi Social (social.vivaldi.net)
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[Gamers Nexus] Intel's Biggest Failure in Years: Confirmed Oxidation & Excessive Voltage (www.youtube.com)
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Meta tells court it won’t sue over Facebook feed-killing tool—yet (arstechnica.com)
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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)
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ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (www.newyorker.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!
Everyone Wants to Control the Internet. (cheapskatesguide.org)
Google U-turn over long-running plan to ditch cookies - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
At the Olympics, AI is watching you (arstechnica.com)
Given the shutdown/attack today, which targeted stations far from the capital, this, ah… did not go well....
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4 (blog.knowbe4.com)
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Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again (lucvandonkersgoed.com)
As an AWS focused solutions/systems architect, I’ve been feeling this for the last 10ish months too. I attended the first 9 re:Invent conferences (up until Covid upended things) but I was glad I didn’t attend last year; and re:Inforce sounds like it was even worse.
"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....
Google says it never collected users’ personal information / Asks for summary judgement (www.courthousenews.com)
At issue in the case is the Web and App Activity toggle in Android device’s settings. Turning the toggle off prevents future web and app activity being saved to a user’s Google account....
A new tool for copyright holders can show if their work is in AI training data (www.technologyreview.com)
Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, content creators have argued that their work has been scraped into AI models without their consent. But until now, it has been difficult to know whether specific text has actually been used in a training data set....
You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend: “The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too (www.niemanlab.org)
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How to install yt-dlp on Windows, Mac, and Linux (www.spacebar.news)
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)
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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)
Watch out for sharks: The bizarre history of internet outages (www.bbc.com)
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says the auto industry needs to move beyond Tesla (www.theverge.com)
Am I the only one that thinks Scaringe looks like Steve-O?
“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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