Essay | The Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover (www.wsj.com)
ghostarchive.org...
School district in the U.S. uses ChatGPT to help ban library books (web.archive.org)
Faced with new legislation, Iowa’s Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books ‘contain a description or depiction of a sex act.’
Blocked by Cloudflare (jrhawley.ca)
The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing...
OpenTracks is an open source sport tracking application for Android that completely respects your privacy: Almost a Strava alternative (beehaw.org)
Value your health by keeping track on your training. It records as you go running or walking, and gives you a bike computer with a bigger screen for cycling. You can even mark interesting locations along your way with pictures. The app keeps recorded statistics in great detail for analysis....
Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2399016...
Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable (www.tomshardware.com)
Adobe's ToS changes could be an AI overreach on user data (appleinsider.com)
Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse (arstechnica.com)
truth of opensource and foss (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them (arstechnica.com)
Sweden’s Tesla Blockade Is Spreading. Swedish ports will refuse to offload Teslas, cleaning crews will no longer clean showrooms, and mechanics won’t fix charging points. (www.wired.co.uk)
US agency sues Tesla as Black workers report “swastikas, threats, and nooses” (arstechnica.com)
AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study (arstechnica.com)
While LLMs have been used for… a lot, it seems like this use might be one where it’s not only reliable but it appears to outperform existing methods of image compression. Being able to cram more data into less space tends to lead to interesting developments, so I will be keeping my eye on this....
US FCC chair to seek reinstating net neutrality rules rescinded under Trump (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: dubvee.org/post/205595...
A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco (www.businessinsider.com)
AI Isn’t Banning Books in Iowa Schools. Republicans Are. (theintercept.com)
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Mozilla allows desktop extensions on Firefox for Android (www.theregister.com)
New vulnerability in SMS messaging could expose smartphone users' location to hackers, researcher says (arxiv.org)
Evangelos Bitsikas, who is pursuing a PhD in cybersecurity at the Northwestern University in the US, applied a new machine-learning program to data gleaned from the SMS system of mobile devices....
Adobe Announces That They Can Use Your Content for AI (www.youtube.com)
Even though there are already a couple of other threads about this Schweinerei, there wasn’t a good place to insert this into the discussion, and for those unfamiliar, this video’s a good starting point.
Why I Lost Faith in Kagi (d-shoot.net)
follow-up Mastodon thread from the author: hackers.town/
DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers (www.wired.com)
Needs archive.is link!
Chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality (www.axios.com)
Beeper couldn’t bring iMessage to Android — but it can still make a great chat app (www.theverge.com)
The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy (www.nyuengelberg.org)
this is a very lengthy piece but quite interesting. from the introduction:...
Microsoft: Introducing Sudo for Windows! (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Shipped in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052. https://www.tiraniddo.dev/2024/02/sudo-on-windows-quick-rundown.html claims it has a big security problem that makes the program accept calls to elevate from anywhere once first run...
