Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA (International Energy Agency) (from 2020) (www.carbonbrief.org)
Bluesky CEO responds | 2023-07-22 Letter to the Community (blueskyweb.xyz)
The social media platform Bluesky recently had an incident where a user created an account with a racial slur as the handle. The Bluesky team quickly removed the account but realized they should have had automated filters in place to prevent such issues. They are now implementing a two-step automated filtering and flagging...
Reddit on iOS has an ugly new icon – and you have to pay to change it (9to5mac.com)
Nvidia is now worth $102M per employee (sherwood.news)
“…For Nvidia, after this latest run-up took it north of the $3T milestone, the company is being valued at more than $100M for each of its 29,600 employees (per its filing that counted up to the end of Jan 2024)....
ethinically ambigaus (feddit.de)
OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (openai.com)
Philips Hue will soon require an account to use its app — here’s what that means (www.theverge.com)
According to its current privacy policy, with an account, Hue gets access to the configuration of your system to provide the right software updates to the devices. It can only use your data for marketing or share it with third parties if you provide additional consent....
EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (www.hackingbutlegal.com)
Apparently, the Chinese government brought the hammer down on Naomi for pointing out how they spy on Signal used via a third-party keyboard on phones...
don't use ladybird browser lol (cyberpunk.lol)
github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)
Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is “dangerous malware” that’s secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....
Raspberry Pi is now a public company (techcrunch.com)
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)
Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules (arstechnica.com)
On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out (arstechnica.com)
As a general rule, when trillion-dollar companies don’t like regulation, it simply means they’re admitting the rules are good for their customers.
The deal to bring Sam Altman back to OpenAI has fallen apart, Former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear will now take over as interim CEO (www.theverge.com)
In today’s OpenAI clown show news
Safety and Research were Sacrificed for Profit under Altman (www.theatlantic.com)
Article from The Atlantic, archive link: archive.ph/Vqjpr...
No Bing, no Edge, no upselling: De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon (arstechnica.com)
Nothing Announces "iMessage on Android" (us.nothing.tech)
“Nothing Chats, powered by Sunbird, allows you to directly message other phone users from your Nothing phone via blue bubbles.”...
7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8 series (blog.google)
Enough with the Mark Zuckerberg Love (jogblog.substack.com)
The article criticizes recent media coverage portraying Mark Zuckerberg as “cool” again based on his success with Threads and a shirtless photo he posted. The author argues that Zuckerberg’s photo looks like that of a middle-aged man cheating on his wife, and that Threads’ success is questionable given it is mostly used...
German parliament will stop using fax machines (www.npr.org)
Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it (www.theverge.com)
Kobo's new color E Ink eReaders start at only $150 (www.pocket-lint.com)
Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use?
I haven’t used an Android device since my last one, the Galaxy S8. Beautiful hardware, beautiful design, but it was plagued with animation stutters and dropped frames. I switched to an iPhone and an iPad around 6 years ago. And the animations were buttersmooth. It was almost unthinkable to achieve such a fluid interface on any...
Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood (theconversation.com)
Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and how people use their computers, to detect and predict how someone is feeling. It can be used in the workplace, for hiring, etc. Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are...
