Temporary Internet Outage on All U-M Campuses (umich.edu)
On the eve of classes starting for the fall term, the University of Michigan has decided to cut the internet connection of all campuses....
[Corp Blog] AnonAddy has rebranded as addy.io (addy.io)
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Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel (www.vulture.com)
On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE. #HotUnionSummer #UnionStrong
4 Big Positive Changes coming to Google Search – including removing Private Info and Images from Search (beehaw.org)
Google has announced several key changes to make its search platform safer for users by giving more control to South Africans (and other countries) over what personal information appears in results....
Installing Firefox... With Custom Profiles! (yewtu.be)
Link if you rather use YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGC5CwEgr_g
At the Olympics, AI is watching you (arstechnica.com)
Given the shutdown/attack today, which targeted stations far from the capital, this, ah… did not go well....
Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again (lucvandonkersgoed.com)
As an AWS focused solutions/systems architect, I’ve been feeling this for the last 10ish months too. I attended the first 9 re:Invent conferences (up until Covid upended things) but I was glad I didn’t attend last year; and re:Inforce sounds like it was even worse.
"Mentioning Xi Jinping leads to a complete block of translation results": Microsoft Bing’s censorship in China is even “more extreme” than Chinese companies’ (restofworld.org)
Bing’s translation and search engine services in China censor more extensively than Chinese competitors’ services do, according to new research....
[NightHawkInLight] DIY Supermaterial Could Save You From Heatstroke: Salt based PCMs (www.youtube.com)
[Framework News] Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing (frame.work)
Router scan
Today I scanned my router with routersploit. The scan ended and showed one vulnerability: eseries_themoon_rce....
UK election: TikTok users being fed misleading election news, investigation finds (www.bbc.com)
Young voters in key election battlegrounds are being recommended fake AI-generated videos featuring party leaders, misinformation, and clips littered with abusive comments, the BBC has found....
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
I found this article a bit too elaborate and digressive, but it has a lot of content and sourcing....
What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs (archive.ph)
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
Edward Zitron has been reading all of google’s internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ’s antitrust case against google....
Why Large Language Models Like ChatGPT Treat Black- and White-Sounding Names Differently (hai.stanford.edu)
T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default (tmo.report)
Surveilling Alone: In the U.S., home security cameras are booming in an era of rising crime and declining trust. But they’re driving neighbors further apart. (www.thenewatlantis.com)
Today, a different form of efficient design is eliminating “eyes on the street” — by replacing them with technological ones. The proliferation of neighborhood surveillance technologies such as Ring cameras and digital neighborhood-watch platforms and apps such as Nextdoor and Citizen have freed us from the constraints of...
Honda built a powered chair to zoom around theme parks while wearing an AR headset. (www.engadget.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/16368424...
Any ghost(.org) bloggers out there? (getmidnight.com)
And if so, do you have any experience with this: Midnight?
OpenAI opens the door for military uses but maintains AI weapons ban (arstechnica.com)
GTA 5 Michael actor Ned Luke slams AI chatbot that uses his voice without permission (www.techspot.com)
OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare” (theintercept.com)
X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (Elon Musk, Twitter) (www.vice.com)
Ukraine’s SBU said that Russia’s intelligence hacked surveillance cameras to direct a missile strike on Kyiv (securityaffairs.com)
