Commented - technology

Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says (arstechnica.com)

Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation (www.wired.com)

The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions....

Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (learn.microsoft.com)

cross-posted from !android...

Google wants to use your photos and searches to build an AI storyteller (www.androidpolice.com)

The internet is littered with fake reviews. Amazon, Glassdoor and others are trying to fight back (apnews.com)

Ring Is Cashing In on the UFO Craze to Promote Its Surveillance Dystopia (www.vice.com)

I Tested an HDMI Adapter That Demands Your Location, Browsing Data, Photos, and Spams You with Ads (www.404media.co)

An iPhone to HDMI adapter was discovered that, when plugged in, runs a program prompting users to download an app. This EZ Cast app collects extensive personal data and sends it to China for ad targeting. It requires location access, photos, and installs tracking cookies. The adapter appears designed to mimic official Apple...

Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair (www.404media.co)

The organization that represents Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s works has petitioned the U.S. government to restrict the right to repair a religious artifact called an E-Meter. This device is core to Scientology practices but the group argues exemptions allowing device hacking should not apply to equipment restricted to...

Upcoming .COM and .XYZ domain price increases (www.namecheap.com)

On September 1, 2023, the domains registry for .COM and .XYZ will implement universal price increases of up to 9% for .COM renewals, and up to 9% for .XYZ renewals, registrations, and transfers.

With our own image and video search, Brave Search now offers comprehensive independent results, giving users a fully-fledged, privacy-preserving choice outside of Big Tech (brave.com)

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

‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)

A website called zleague.gg has been scraping Reddit threads, feeding them into an AI and publishing auto-generated summaries without proper oversight. World of Warcraft players on Reddit noticed this and created a fake thread about a made-up feature called Glorbo to trick the AI. The AI then published an article summarizing the...

Nvidia becomes the most valuable public company - GSMArena.com news (m.gsmarena.com)

Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)

The world's only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming (electrek.co)

Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” (www.theverge.com)

Magnets are switching up the keyboard game with an additional keystroke setting (techcrunch.com)

These keyboards rely on magnets and springs and activate by sensing changes in the magnetic field. Popularized by Dutch keyboard startup Wooting, these switches rely on the Hall Effect and have actually been around since the 1960s....

YouTube’s ad blocker problems are just an AdBlock Plus bug (arstechnica.com)

That would explain why I didn’t have any problems with Youtube and uBlock Origin.

HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly (arstechnica.com)

A 2 way micro USB connector. Never thought they existed (lemmy.zip)

Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (www.404media.co)

What is this camera like thing on electronic shop price tags? (And how does it work) (lemmy.zip)

I first thought it was a camera but there was no point, After some searching I found that these things could communicate optical, so that might be it, if so how do they work?