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Across the Metaverse: My trip though VR social platforms (www.spacebar.news)

Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken (arstechnica.com)

Free Group Cards (kbin.melroy.org)

free Group Cards on Sendwishonline.com offer a dynamic and collaborative platform for celebrating special occasions, milestones, or achievements within a group or community. These digital cards provide a modern and inclusive way for members to come together, contribute personalized messages, and create a unified expression of...

Need, Want, and Agency: Mapping the Digital User Experience (theluddite.org)

Streaming video changed the internet forever (archive.is)

YARH.IO THEBRICK Cyberdeck (yarh.io)

Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests (www.reuters.com)

Britain’s National Crime Agency Cyber Division, with the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies seized control of websites used by Lockbit the gang and U.S. and British authorities said. The agencies also took the extraordinary step of using Lockbit’s own website to release internal data about...

All you need to know about the Digital Services Act (blog.cloudflare.com)

February 17, 2024 marks the entry into force of a landmark piece of European Union (EU) legislation, affecting European users who create and disseminate online content as well as tech companies who act as “intermediaries” on the Internet.

Pluralistic: The CHIPS Act treats the symptoms, but not the causes (pluralistic.net)

This AI Paper Unveils the Future of MultiModal Large Language Models (MM-LLMs) – Understanding Their Evolution, Capabilities, and Impact on AI Research (www.marktechpost.com)

Brace for impact.

Lawmakers want US to probe four Chinese firms involved in Ford battery plant (www.reuters.com)

The chairs of two U.S. House committees asked the Biden administration to investigate four Chinese companies they say are involved in Ford Motor’s (F.N), opens new tab planned Michigan battery plant, according to a letter....

The FTC is investigating Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet's investments into AI startups (archive.is)

Sixteen Stories for Flickr Commons' Sixteenth Birthday (www.flickr.org)

Pluralistic: Tech workers and gig workers need each other (13 Jan 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)

Security researchers warned Apple as early as 2019 about vulnerabilities in its AirDrop wireless sharing function that Chinese authorities claim they recently used to track down users (edition.cnn.com)

A Chinese tech firm, Beijing-based Wangshendongjian Technology, was able to compromise AirDrop to identify users on the Beijing subway accused of sharing “inappropriate information,” judicial authorities in Beijing said this week....

Kagi adds lenses support for Lemmy (kagi.com)

Pankek Makinesi (www.mutfaktanal.com) Turkish

Pankek İşletmenizde pancake servisini hızlandırmak ve lezzetini artırmak için tasarlanmış pankek makinesi, pratik kullanımı ve hızlı pişirme özellikleriyle öne çıkıyor. Müşterilerinize taptaze ve sıcak pankekleri anında sunmanın keyfini çıkarın. İşletmenizdeki kahvaltı ve brunch servislerini daha...

Year In Review: Google’s Corporate Paternalism in The Browser | EFF (www.eff.org)

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First EV fueled with a sodium-ion battery introduced in China (www.techspot.com)

CES 2024: What we expect in Las Vegas this year (archive.is)

From Code to Chemistry: Coscientist, the AI System Mastering Nobel Prize-Winning Reactions (scitechdaily.com)

This study shows the development and capabilities of Coscientist, an artificial intelligence system driven by GPT-4 that autonomously designs, plans and performs complex experiments using tools such as documentation search, code execution and experimental automation....

[37c3] The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT): Building the biggest optical telescope on earth (media.ccc.de)

AstronomersEngineers^1^ presenting at the 37th Chaos Communication Congress for a general but technical audience. The congress is still going on in case you’re interested, lots of interesting stuff there and don’t be afraid of German talks there’s real-time dubbing....

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