How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet (www.staygrounded.online)
Not paywalled, you can just click "No thanks" on the popup.
😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 (www.theverge.com)
AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft (www.forbes.com.au)
“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”
Lemmy's Image Problem (wedistribute.org)
Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled (www.theverge.com)
Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears (www.wired.com)
🤔Am I overdoing it with all the reddit-related posts? archive.is/SFcRn
Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked (techcrunch.com)
Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken (arstechnica.com)
Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub (wedistribute.org)
We're Hosting Our Own Fediverse Instance. Here's Why. (wedistribute.org)
Mozilla Drops Axe on its Privacy-Friendly Location Service (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation (www.wired.com)
The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions....
Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet (arstechnica.com)
Ars provides this asterisk:...
Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO? (www.wired.com)
archive.is/urG1R
SIM swappers hijacking phone numbers in eSIM attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/9868784...
I see your Outlook (new) and I raise you Microsoft Teams classic (work or school) (beehaw.org)
Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood (theconversation.com)
Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and how people use their computers, to detect and predict how someone is feeling. It can be used in the workplace, for hiring, etc. Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are...
Outlook (new) (jlai.lu)
House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate (www.nbcnews.com)
TikTok prepares to challenge Instagram with 'TikTok Photos' (www.androidauthority.com)
From mono to mainstream: 20 years of Bluetooth audio (archive.is)
Loving these articles about how the technology has changed in 20 years.
Why it’s hard to write a good book about the tech world (www.economist.com)
WHEN PEOPLE ask Michael Moritz, a former journalist and prominent tech investor, what book they should read to understand Silicon Valley, he always recommends two. “They are not about Silicon Valley, but they have everything to do with Silicon Valley,” he says....