My brushstrokes against AI-art (www.davidrevoy.com)
Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming 'unconstitutional authority' in child privacy case (apnews.com)
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18....
New “Stable Video Diffusion” AI model can animate any still image (arstechnica.com)
After robotaxi dragged pedestrian 20 feet, Cruise founder and CEO resigns (arstechnica.com)
Artificial intelligence guzzles billions of liters of water (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5792180...
A threat actor abuses Google Ads to distribute malicious CPU-Z app from fake Windows news site, Malwarebytes reports (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5535431...
Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom (www.fsf.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7492853...
Facebook owner Meta faces EU ban on targeted advertising (www.reuters.com)
Western Digital is spinning off its flash memory business as sales decline (archive.ph)
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio. (www.androidauthority.com)
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio, so they can directly communicate with smart home devices. Old iPhones could probably be used as a smart home hub....
Everything announced at today's Apple event: iPhone 15, USB-C, Apple Watch Series 9 and more (www.engadget.com)
Say USB-C five times fast....
Apple unveils iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max - Apple (www.apple.com)
Telecom companies in India want tech firms to pay for network usage (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from !technology...
The boiling frog of digital freedom (gazoche.xyz)
Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer and co-inventor of the PDF whose invention actually made the world better (techxplore.com)
Warnock, who died Saturday, was one of the leading computer scientists of his era and co-founder in 1982 of Adobe Inc.
Corsair is moving away from 80 PLUS certification for PSUs, embraces Cybenetics (www.tweaktown.com)
Google violated antitrust laws to dominate online search, rules US judge | Google (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid (www.theguardian.com)
Too big to care? Cloudflare comes again under pressure for enabling abusive sites, anti-spam NGO says (www.spamhaus.org)
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Twitter disappears from Mac App Store | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It's Our Last Chance To Stop It (www.eff.org)
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web (www.newyorker.com)
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China: Tech giant Baidu’s mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate after a vehicle ran into a pedestrian in Wuhan last Sunday (www.sixthtone.com)
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[Palmer Luckey] created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine (www.npr.org)
It’s so easy to sanitize tech stories about murder weapons. Just say “Ukraine” in the title!
Has Facebook Stopped Trying? (www.404media.co)
In spring, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg invited more than a dozen professors and academics to a series of dinners at his home to discuss how Facebook could better keep its platforms safe from election disinformation, violent content, child sexual abuse material, and hate speech. Alongside these secret meetings, Facebook was regularly...
