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Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint) (arxiv.org)

Abstract:...

Air Canada Has to Honor a Refund Policy Its Chatbot Made Up (www.wired.com)

Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything (archive.is)

Skiff is joining Notion (skiff.com)

Landing page:...

HP CEO: Blocking third-party ink from printers fights viruses (arstechnica.com)

His claims are quickly debunked in the article, as the true reason is, obviously, protecting their IP and subscription model

Why Linux is Best for Most People (medium.com)

Electric Vehicles Have 79% More Reliability Challenges Than Gas Powered Cars (samrome58.substack.com)

Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’, confirms IEA (International Energy Agency) (from 2020) (www.carbonbrief.org)

Bluesky CEO responds | 2023-07-22 Letter to the Community (blueskyweb.xyz)

The social media platform Bluesky recently had an incident where a user created an account with a racial slur as the handle. The Bluesky team quickly removed the account but realized they should have had automated filters in place to prevent such issues. They are now implementing a two-step automated filtering and flagging...

Reddit on iOS has an ugly new icon – and you have to pay to change it (9to5mac.com)

Twitter, Threads, and the misunderstood nature of engineering (beehaw.org)

Complex internet services fail in interesting ways as they grow in size and complexity. Twitter’s recent issues show how failures emerge slowly over time as relationships between components degrade. Meta’s quick launch of Threads demonstrates how platform investments can compound over time, allowing them to quickly build on...

Redditors, how do you like Lemmy?

I run a few groups, like @fediversenews, mostly on Friendica. It's okay, but Friendica resembles Facebook Groups more than Reddit. I also like the moderation options that Lemmy has....

Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (www.techdirt.com)

Nvidia is now worth $102M per employee (sherwood.news)

“…For Nvidia, after this latest run-up took it north of the $3T milestone, the company is being valued at more than $100M for each of its 29,600 employees (per its filing that counted up to the end of Jan 2024)....

ethinically ambigaus (feddit.de)

OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman (openai.com)

Philips Hue will soon require an account to use its app — here’s what that means (www.theverge.com)

According to its current privacy policy, with an account, Hue gets access to the configuration of your system to provide the right software updates to the devices. It can only use your data for marketing or share it with third parties if you provide additional consent....

EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (www.hackingbutlegal.com)

Apparently, the Chinese government brought the hammer down on Naomi for pointing out how they spy on Signal used via a third-party keyboard on phones...

Threads is All The Worst Parts of Twitter And Instagram in One Very Bad App (www.vice.com)

don't use ladybird browser lol (cyberpunk.lol)

github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)

Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is “dangerous malware” that’s secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....

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