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Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism (apnews.com)

Japan startup develops 'Gundam'-like robot with $3 mln price tag (www.reuters.com)

Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs (apnews.com)

“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated] (arstechnica.com)

France orders Apple to halt iPhone 12 sales due to high radiation levels (www.france24.com)

French regulators on Tuesday ordered Apple to halt sales of the iPhone 12 for emitting too much electromagnetic radiation, and to fix existing handsets....

California passes right-to-repair act guaranteeing seven years of parts for your phone (www.theverge.com)

The bill outlines three years for products costing $50 to $99.99 and seven years for products priced at $100 or more. The bill will cover electronics and appliances made and sold after July 1st, 2021.

Mastodon's Next Major Release Enables Full-Text Search (wedistribute.org)

"Test for Ricardo" Notification?

Any other Motorola phone users get this notification pop-up? I found a post on the forum that shall not be named and it seems like a worldwide Motorola glitch but no official word yet....

AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7700 XT & RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards (www.phoronix.com)

Finally getting some (closer to) mainstream video cards from AMD. Still feels overpriced but a lot better than $750 for a 7900xt.

"Automated Racism": China's Hikvision still sells Uyghur-tracking surveillance cameras, powered by America's Nvidia (ipvm.com)

Despite assurances for years that Hikvision has stopped minority analytics, just 7 months ago local PRC authorities awarded a $6 million contract that explicitly requires Hikvision analytics to identify Uyghurs (维族), powered by NVIDIA hardware, security specialist IPVM says.

Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data (arstechnica.com)

Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Who Once Eluded Authorities, Is Dead at 59 (archive.is)

Alternative YouTube clients having issues loading videos

It seems YT started another attempt at blocking alternative clients. They changed something in their API and both SmartTube and Tubular (NewPipe fork) are completely broken. Apparently it started happening this past week, but we personally just felt it today....

Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register (www.theregister.com)

Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI (arstechnica.com)

A New Study Investigates 'The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter' To Mastodon (arxiv.org)

Archived version...

Mysterious cyberattack took down more than 600,000 routers in the U.S. (thehackernews.com)

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Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)

cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075

Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears (www.wired.com)

🤔Am I overdoing it with all the reddit-related posts? archive.is/SFcRn

Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok (archive.is)

How much would hash digsets shortened if the whole alphabel was used

The sha1 hash for 64test64xa is 6779c53432b8badf049bb9d8924a5785dd887243 which is 41 characters only using hexadecimal, 10digits and 6letters. But how long it would be if it was using the whole 26 letters in the latin alphabet? What if it also differentiated between UPPER and lower cases?

Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list (arstechnica.com)

This made me so weirdly sad. I remember this guy; he was well known for being technically skilled but a huge pain in the ass for everyone to work with, and it's weird to see how resigned he is now to his prison life....

Atuin is an open-source shell command history app for Linux with syncing, unlimited history, and with contextual search (beehaw.org)

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. With this context, Atuin gives you faster and better search of your shell history!...

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