Commented - technology

Latest WhatsApp Beta Features Native iPad Support (www.macrumors.com)

TL;DR: WhatsApp for iPad is finally coming as a separate app, allowing users to link it to their main account independently, syncing messages with their primary phone.

Paint app update adding support for layers and transparency begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (blogs.windows.com)

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2023/09/18/paint-app-update-adding-support-for-layers-and-transparency-begins-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/

Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself. (themarkup.org)

"Where can I keep all this time that I'm saving?" Thank to Silicon valley, mankind is finally free of drudgery to focus on what's important in life. (www.staygrounded.online)

‘One of the Most Hated People in the World’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s 250 Pages of Justifications (www.nytimes.com)

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Android App Pin Security Issue Allowing Unauthorized Payments via Google Wallet (github.com)

There is a possible way for a general purpose NFC reader to read the full card number and expiry details when the device is in locked screen mode due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation....

Google antitrust trial: Tech giant denies abusing power to gain monopoly - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

cross-posted from !google

How to talk to an AI (wapo.st)

An ordinary human’s guide to getting extraordinary results from a chatbot like ChatGPT...

Axon’s Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker. (themarkup.org)

Used Items Market Freecycle Suffers Data Breach Impacting 7 Million (restoreprivacy.com)

Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market (restofworld.org)

To stop wildfires, residents in some Greek suburbs put their own money toward early warning drones (abcnews.go.com)

Looria Reviews - Learn how products perform over their lifetime. | User compiled database of inferior consumer goods. (www.looria.com)

T-Mobile is laying off 5,000 employees : NPR (www.npr.org)

How Nvidia Built a Competitive Moat Around A.I. Chips (www.nytimes.com)

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Top Biden tech priorities stalled by misalignment between federal IT teams (fedscoop.com)

Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed. (arstechnica.com)

How Chinese surveillance methods are going global [Tutanota blog] (tutanota.com)

Authoritarian countries - but also democracies - use surveillance technology from China.

Senators Warren & Graham Want To Create New Online Speech Police Commission (www.techdirt.com)

The proposed Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act by Senators Warren and Graham seeks to create a new federal commission to regulate large tech platforms. However, the bill contains many problematic provisions that threaten free speech and internet freedom. It would require platforms to reveal content moderation policies,...

AI for identifying social norm violation (www.nature.com)

Prof. Yair Neuman and the engineer Yochai Cohen at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have designed an AI system that identifies social norm violations. They trained a system to identify ten social emotions: competence, politeness, trust, discipline, caring, agreeableness, success, conformity, decency, and loyalty....