Chinese search engine company Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 AI model, claims that it rivals GPT-4 (apnews.com)
Lakers legend Rick Fox built a house that can suck CO2 out of the atmosphere - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
A New Tool Helps Artists Thwart AI—With a Middle Finger (www.wired.com)
Reddit Sees Copyright Takedowns Peak While Subreddit Bans Drop. (torrentfreak.com)
Why Big Tech's bet on AI assistants is so risky (www.technologyreview.com)
Firefox 118 boosts security with Encrypted Client Hello support (www.ghacks.net)
Russell Brand’s CENSORSHIP Campaign Should Frighten You: Max Blumenthal (www.youtube.com)
EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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Google Censors Freedom: the hard truth (monero.town)
Google is among the most pervasive and corrupt tools of the empire to suppress freedom and promote endless war and money printing for Wall Street. As Julian Assange points out, Google gets lucrative military cloud contracts, then turns around puts the regime’s pro-war propaganda on the front page. This article’s data on the...
An announcement regarding Kris Nóva [RIP] (nivenly.org)
It is with immense sadness that we must share with you the news of the loss of our friend, our leader, and our mentor, Kris Nóva....
Prunes: Why You Ought to Eat Each Day (szmer.info)
Prunes are dried fruits well-known for his or her fluidity. To scale back the chance of illness, many individuals eat prunes or drink fruit juice. Scientists are at present finding out the advantages of prunes for various areas of well-being....
Researchers explore best practices for talking to kids about online privacy (techxplore.com)
Stanford University just schooled Congress on AI (wapo.st)
The elite Silicon Valley university coaches Hill staffers on the benefits of artificial intelligence...
Statc Stealer: Windows malware stealing information from web browsers and apps, including login data, cookies, web data, and preferences, stealing cryptocurrency wallets, credentials, passwords, etc. (www.zscaler.com)
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Google fails to end $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit (neuters.de)
Research shows snoops can decipher keystrokes during Zoom calls (techxplore.com)
Z-Library Rolls Out Browser Extensions in Anticipation of Domain Name Troubles (torrentfreak.com)
Qualcomm—one of Arm’s biggest customers—starts a RISC-V joint venture (arstechnica.com)
Can you trust AI? Here's why you shouldn't (theconversation.com)
If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds.
Will Society Survive Generative AI? (youtu.be)
Happy 50th birthday to the UPC barcode – no one expected you would revolutionize global commerce (theconversation.com)
The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio, in the U…S....
Watch out for sharks: The bizarre history of internet outages (www.bbc.com)
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says the auto industry needs to move beyond Tesla (www.theverge.com)
Am I the only one that thinks Scaringe looks like Steve-O?
“Morality and ethics should play no part”: Leaks reveal how Russia's foreign intelligence agency runs disinformation campaigns in the West (theins.press)
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