How Talking With Animals Would Change Our World (www.youtube.com)
Google adds tracking to Google docs documents? (fosstodon.org)
Title says it all. Somewhat interesting if true. I wouldn’t be surprised either way.
We tested ChatGPT in Bengali, Kurdish, and Tamil. It failed. (restofworld.org)
Outside of English, ChatGPT makes up words, fails logic tests, and can’t do basic information retrieval.
The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website (wapo.st)
The anonymous forum, known as Kiwi Farms, keeps popping back online despite a relentless campaign by transgender activists and a former insider...
A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care — what's next? (www.nature.com)
Duet AI for Google Meet can take notes, summarize, and even attend meetings - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Another new Meet feature lets Duet “attend” a meeting on your behalf. On a meeting invite, you can click an “attend for me” button, and Google can auto-generate some text about what you might want to discuss. Those notes will be viewable to attendees during the meeting so that they can discuss them.
Gitlab working on ActivityPub for Merge/Pull requests (writing.exchange)
The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse (US focused) (buttondown.email)
Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act)....
What do I need to do if I want to use my old 4th gen iPad in 2023?
I recently was able to get back my 4th gen iPad that I used for university and got excited to start using it again just for basic stuff like searching stuff on the browser, reading comics and such. However I quickly realized that I was unable to download anything from the AppStore as my iOS version is 10.3.4 and apps like...
New Emulator Lets Some x86-64 Games Run on RISC-V Dev Board (www.tomshardware.com)
25 years ago, Apple changed everything with the first iMac (www.xda-developers.com)
Social media channels in China are filled with anti-black racist content, rights activists say (www.hrw.org)
"For you" isn't - The case against corporate algorithmic feeds (www.staygrounded.online)
Designing Friction (philosophical essay about technology) (designingfriction.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39429322...
U.S. regulator proposes new rules for AI-generated robocalls and robotexts to protect consumers and stop election misinformation by phone (www.engadget.com)
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Introducing Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (www.raspberrypi.com)
We’re happy to announce the launch of Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our second-generation microcontroller board, built on RP2350: a new high-performance, secure microcontroller designed here at Raspberry Pi....
I Tried to Vape the Internet (www.404media.co)
Vivaldi: "Many have tagged us in discussions about a specif…" - Vivaldi Social (social.vivaldi.net)
Full toot:...
Are you embracing AI? (viewber.co.uk)
There’s something of a misunderstanding in the UK property industry that agents are luddites, clinging to fax machines and Rolodexes, but quite the opposite is true. Sales and letting agents like nothing more than finding new efficiencies – whether through careful outsourcing, digital signatures or virtual tours, begging the...
Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome (and other browsers) (www.spacebar.news)
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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Change to Adobe terms & conditions outrages many professionals - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. (mullvad.net)
Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been...
Chinese, Iranian, and Russian cyberattacks against water utilities across the U.S. becoming more frequent and more severe, officials say (fortune.com)
- Attacks against water provider’s websites aren’t new, but now attackers are increasingly targeting utilities’ operations...
Minister suggests Canada is considering tariffs on Chinese EVs following U.S. move (www.cbc.ca)
Canada’s industry minister says Ottawa is “considering all measures” after the U.S. announced it would be hiking tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles and other related goods....