Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
AI language models are rife with political biases (www.technologyreview.com)
From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.656.pdf
Scientists vacuumed animal DNA from the air in a forest and the results are amazing (www.earth.com)
How a start-up built the search engine of the future — and then died (www.theverge.com)
Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name (www.reuters.com)
Corsair acquires mechanical keyboard specialist Drop (www.theverge.com)
Corsair has acquired Drop, an online retailer known for its mechanical keyboards and keyboard accessories. Drop will continue to operate independently under the leadership of CEO Jef Holove. Corsair hopes to expand Drops brand globally through its supply chain and distribution network. Drop intends to continue its enthusiast-led...
Gurman: First M3 Apple Silicon Macs likely to launch in October (9to5mac.com)
Somebody has made an affordable, good quality wireless finger trackball - Review of Nulea m505/m505b (clickque.codeberg.page)
I wanted to share this thing I found because it is great....
It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited (www.vice.com)
My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech (arstechnica.com)
German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' (www.hrw.org)
- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China’s Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....
Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same (www.bbc.com)
Sony Teases Futuristic Phones and PlayStation Controllers for the Coming Years - Yanko Design (www.yankodesign.com)
Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey is no longer on its board (www.theverge.com)
"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives (blog.documentfoundation.org)
Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...
Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
The rise and fall of robots.txt: As unscrupulous AI companies seek out more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart. (www.theverge.com)
Why does Gboard replace spaces with characters I add between words?
For example, if I type out a sentence and decide I want to add asterisks around a word for emphasis, why does Gboard replace the space between the previous word and the emphasized word instead of just adding the new character? Is this added functionality for something I just don’t understand?...
Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago (www.techspot.com)
Honda made an airport robot to handle all the boring, repetitive tasks - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Threads is struggling to retain users — but it could still catch up to X (www.theverge.com)
AI Weirdness: AI vs a giraffe with no spots (www.aiweirdness.com)
Recommendations re writing tablets e.g. reMarkable
I want to get back into creative writing, and for work I prefer to take handwritten notes (I have my own weird shorthand and it helps with retention). I’d also like the ability to write at night and not disturb my partner....
Hospital bosses love AI. Doctors and nurses are worried. (wapo.st)
Mount Sinai has become a laboratory for AI, trying to shape the future of medicine. But some healthcare workers fear the technology comes at a cost....
