End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell (www.anandtech.com)
I was assuming this was a retirement announcement from the editor....
Musk's X allowing Maga activists to earn cash from conspiracies about U.S. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris (inews.co.uk)
Pro-Trump activists are earning cash from spreading conspiracy theories about Kamala Harris on Elon Musk‘s X platform, an i investigation has found....
My little macgyver meshtastic node ^^
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/2189807...
Will Google’s Monopoly Be Vanquished? (prospect.org)
In many ways, we’re right back to where we were during the last major monopolization case against Microsoft in the late 1990s. From the time Microsoft first lost in 2000 to when it struck a settlement in 2001, legal challenges, tech lobbying, and the turnover of presidential administrations into more tech-friendly hands all...
UN Delegates Cheer As They Vote To Approve Increased Surveillance Via Russia-Backed Cybercrime Treaty (www.techdirt.com)
The Revenge of the Home Page: As social networks become less reliable distributors of the news, consumers of digital journalism are seeking out an older form of online real estate. (www.newyorker.com)
archive.is link...
Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government (www.theverge.com)
Archived version...
Ding Dong KOSA’s Dead (For Now) (www.techdirt.com)
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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Concurrency models of Rust and Golang (kerkour.com)
Tuta Mail's Google Ranking Mysteriously Restored After Announcement to Take Legal Actions -- [Tuta blog] (tuta.com)
On March 7, 2024, Google inexplicably downranked the website of Tuta Mail in its search results. While Tuta Mail is a prominent provider of encrypted email services, focusing on security and privacy, our website was deranked for terms like “secure email” and “encrypted email” completely. The search results for our...
Opinion | Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms (www.nytimes.com)
I dislike linking to the NYT, but it seems to be the original source....
Talking Tiananmen with a Chinese chatbot: Chinese developers hope to build the AI of the future. What, if anything, will it have to say about the past? (chinamediaproject.org)
As China strives to surpass the United States with cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence, the leadership is keen to ensure technologies reach the public with the right political blind spots pre-engineered. Can Chinese AI hold its tongue on the issues most sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party?...
Phanpy: probably the best mastodon minimal webclient (phanpy.social)
Readme of the project:...
Chinese man arrested for allegedly running ‘largest ever’ malware network (www.aljazeera.com)
US officials say army of 19 million infected computers enabled fraud, identity theft and child exploitation....
Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive. Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder (www.theregister.com)
Archived link...
Censored: Last week, a writer on China's WeChat bemouned that a large part of information from the country's domestic internet had disappeared. Within hours, the writer's post had vanished too. (chinamediaproject.org)
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Minimum ! (jlai.lu)
The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media (link.springer.com)
The authors introduce and evaluate an open-source software package and methodological framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media, namely the Coordination Network Toolkit, utilising weighted, directed multigraphs to capture intricate coordination dynamics....
The Disinformation Machine: How Susceptible Are We to AI Propaganda? (hai.stanford.edu)
A cyberattack forces a big US health system to divert ambulances and take records offline (abcnews.go.com)
A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records...
Giant Batteries Are Transforming the Way the U.S. Uses Electricity (www.nytimes.com)
