China hacked Japan’s sensitive defense networks, officials say (www.washingtonpost.com)
According to former US and Japanese officials, the NSA discovered in the fall of 2020 that the PRC had persistent access to Japanese Defense Networks....
“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale (arstechnica.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/vNSJa
Google's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins say • The Register (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/15908451...
First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards (arstechnica.com)
Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services (www.bbc.com)
They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers - and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza....
This is What Prime Air Drone Delivery Looks Like - Core77 (www.core77.com)
Why is this still so funny to me?
Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement (www.axios.com)
How Subscription Services are designed to BANKRUPT you (piped.video)
Related: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time (www.404media.co)
“I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that’s what I am trying to build,” the founder of Stract said.
Bluesky is ready to open up (www.theverge.com)
Google's Chrome Browser Analyzing Your Browsing History with so-called "Privacy Sandbox" Feature
For nearly two years now, Google has been gradually rolling out a feature to all Chrome users that analyzes their browsing history within the browser itself. This feature aims to replace third-party cookies and individual tracking by categorizing you into an interest category and sharing that category with advertisers. It’s...
Vape-o-nomics: Why everything is addictive now. (youtu.be)
A video about disposable vapes, and how addiction became the goal of every single company on the planet.
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees (www.theverge.com)
But there may be more, and it’s possible that Google is attempting to spread out the bad news instead of having it hit all at once.
OpenAI CEO Altman: future AI depends on energy breakthrough (www.reuters.com)
Speaking at a Bloomberg event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Altman said the silver lining is that more climate-friendly sources of energy, particularly nuclear fusion or cheaper solar power and storage, are the way forward for AI....
Google says it's killing 17 Assistant features to improve the user experience (mobilesyrup.com)
Tech news doesn't understand ad blockers or Chrome extensions (www.spacebar.news)
PlayStation is removing hundreds of Discovery shows that users already purchased (www.businessinsider.com)
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman (www.theverge.com)
Well, this escalated quickly. So is this the end, or will the mods create an OpenAI megathread? ;)
OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO (www.theverge.com)
Are they drunk over there?
Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection scripts under EU law (www.theregister.com)
Google is shutting down its Jamboard whiteboarding app (www.theverge.com)
Apple now finally sells USB-C EarPods (www.theverge.com)
Apple’s new USB-C EarPods are compatible with a bunch of your Apple devices....
How are Tumblr and Discord re surveillance?
These and Instagram seem to be the main locii of conversation for a topic I’m interested in. Instagram is a no because Meta. Just trying to keep myself off of the big data mining sites and search results are a bit of a hot mess....
5th Circuit finds Biden White House, CDC violated First Amendment (wapo.st)
The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General’s office’s contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms’ content decisions...