Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens (www.theguardian.com)
Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’....
Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling (arstechnica.com)
The truly shocking thing to me is that any voters believe the ISP’s arguments and are … I guess fine with a portion of their monthly bills being earmarked for litigation to make their consumer experience ever worse....
Is Threads Hiding Mentions of Pixelfed? (wedistribute.org)
Should Caddy and Traefik Replace Certbot? (www.eff.org)
Generative AI Tools Now Advanced Enough to Mislead Voters, Researchers Show (www.extremetech.com)
Not much to add here, given the opening dependent clause.
Why 404 Media Needs Your Email Address (www.404media.co)
AI stealing our work. The collapse of social networks. The need to pay journalists to produce impactful journalism. Here is why we are asking for your email address to read 404 Media.
FCC plans shutdown of Affordable Connectivity Program as GOP withholds funding (arstechnica.com)
The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI (www.spacebar.news)
2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.
Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
Teens Are Online 'Almost Constantly,' Usually on These Apps (libranet.de)
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Nuclear Reactor Simulator (dalton-nrs.manchester.ac.uk)
Generative AI a stumbling block in EU legislation talks (www.reuters.com)
The biggest challenge to getting an agreement over the European Union’s proposed AI Act has come from France, Germany and Italy, who favour letting makers of generativeAI models self-regulate instead of having hard rules....
Study finds no “smoking gun” for mental health issues due to Internet usage (arstechnica.com)
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said their study was the largest of its kind, said they found no evidence to support “popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk” from the technology....
Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect that led to killing of Florida man (www.reuters.com)
Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor, called the judge’s summary of the evidence significant because it suggests “alarming inconsistencies” between what Tesla knew internally, and what it was saying in its marketing....
Let the community work it out: A throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy (www.niemanlab.org)
[…]why should a few companies — or a few billionaire owners — have the power to decide everything about online spaces that billions of people use? This unaccountable model of governance has led stakeholders of all stripes to criticize platforms’ decisions as arbitrary, corrupt or irresponsible. In the early, pre-web days...
Australian retailers add security tech amid rising theft, aggression (www.reuters.com)
DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide (arstechnica.com)
Chinese EV owners are losing access to smartphone app updates and driving features when companies go bust (restofworld.org)
Chinese drivers’ frustrations point to the broader risks of “smartphones on wheels,” where reliability is contingent upon software maintenance and updates....
Microsoft is building a data center in a tiny Indian village. Locals allege it’s dumping industrial waste. (restofworld.org)
“These big companies think they can enter small villages like ours, take our land, and destroy it.”...
AI’s Impact on Black Americans (hai.stanford.edu)
A robot just performed fully autonomous surgery on a live patient for the first time (bgr.com)
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