Google turns 25: From garage startup to global giant (www.zdnet.com)
what do you guys think ? (www.youtube.com)
Robots Are Already Killing People (www.theatlantic.com)
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Need to scan a lot of book barcodes very quickly. Any suggestions?
Liberté, égalité, Fraternité: France Loses Its Marbles On Internet Censorship (hackaday.com)
cross-posted from: prime8s.xyz/post/17896...
Google Tests an A.I. Assistant That Offers Life Advice (web.archive.org)
The tech giant is evaluating tools that would use artificial intelligence to perform tasks that some of its researchers have said should be avoided....
StreetPass is a browser extension that helps you find your people on Mastodon (streetpass.social)
Social-media firms are lowering defenses to foreign disinformation campaigns, researchers warn (www.defenseone.com)
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Windows Zero-day Flaw Let Hackers Downgrade Fully Updated Systems to Old Vulnerabilities (cybersecuritynews.com)
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AI works better if you ask it to be a Star Trek character (www.fudzilla.com)
I’m leaving the hed as-is per protocol, but the larger story here seems to be we’ve already hit the point where LLMs produce better prompts for other LLMs than human prompt engineers do....
A social archipelago: Against social media colonialism (draft) (gils.nexus)
I don’t usually self promo but I was interested in the concept of a social archipelago facilitated by closed federation/allowlisting, in response to a lot of the bigotry and spam that’s on the Fediverse and how difficult it can be to moderate. I was also curious about how Beehaw/Lemmy users feel about allowlisting and closed...
U.S. sues TikTok for collecting kids’ data without parents’ permission: Justice Department calls TikTok’s age-gating methods ‘deficient in multiple ways' (www.theverge.com)
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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)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/375357...
[TechHut] my favorite app (Neofetch) is dead (www.youtube.com)
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A Suspected Human Smuggler Used AirTags to Track and Control The Woman He Brought Into the U.S. (www.404media.co)
Instagram is training AI on your data. It’s nearly impossible to opt out (www.fastcompany.com)
Critics of Putin and his allies targeted inside the EU with Israeli-made Pegasus spyware (www.theguardian.com)
At least seven journalists and activists who have been vocal critics of the Kremlin and its allies have been targeted inside the EU by a state using Pegasus, the hacking spyware made by Israel’s NSO Group, according to a new report by security researchers....
A look at search engines with their own indexes (seirdy.one)
If you ever wanted to know too much about where the majority of our search results come from and the many niche alternatives trying something different…
AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside (www.wired.com)
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Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry (futurism.com)
Thanks, I hate it.
Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat (gizmodo.com)
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