Consider Joining the UK Foundation Model Taskforce (thezvi.substack.com)
A few months ago, Ian Hogarth wrote the Financial Times Op-Ed headlined “We must slow down the race to God-like AI.”...
SQL JOINs (domesticatedbrain.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/953942...
Meta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadows (newsie.social)
Who is surprised?
What would be the long-term impact on the internet and society if Google were to completely fail? (lemmy.ca)
Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1874605...
Lemmy bot to automatically reply to YouTube links with Piped ones
cross-posted from: feddit.rocks/post/3214...
Microsoft moving fully to the cloud, does this mean something to us? (www.yourtechstory.com)
SpaceX Satellites Are Ruining Observations With "Unintended" Radiation (futurism.com)
A new study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests the satellites are emitting “unintended” radiation from the electronics onboard the satellites....
Types of software (domesticatedbrain.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/929291...
Updates on W7800 and W7900 GPU’s (aecmag.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ninja/post/78911...
US FOSSY 2023 in July 13-16th 2023 — Portland, OR [on-site, no online conference] (2023.fossy.us)
To whom it may concern.
Perovskite + silicon solar panels hit efficiencies of over 30% (The two-layer panels still suffer from rapid decay of performance, though.) (arstechnica.com)
“Gig reviewers” are endorsing fake products for quick cash in Brazil ― gig workers in Brazil charge as little as $4 to record scripted reviews and make online advertising seem legitimate (restofworld.org)
MIT develops a motion and task planning system for home robots (techcrunch.com)
What do you think are the biggest limitations to robots in the home? Privacy concerns, limited utility, inability to overcome simple obstacles, price or something else?
AI is a "tragedy of the commons." We’ve got solutions for that. (www.vox.com)
"Arms race" is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one.
Supercomputer makes calculations in blink of an eye that take rivals 47 years (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Is it akin to the revolutionary code-breaking system from Digital Fortress called TRANSLTR?...
How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed [Opinion] (web.archive.org)
Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry (web.archive.org)
Here is an additional article about it: web.archive.org/web/20230708002941/…/937528/
Creative Good: Why customers don’t want chat bots (creativegood.com)
The author argues that customers do not actually want chat bots for customer service, contrary to what companies claim. Chat bots can only handle simple, routine queries, but for complicated issues customers want to speak to a human representative. Companies are pushing chat bots to reduce costs and increase profits, without...
Five ways AI might destroy the world: ‘Everyone on Earth could fall over dead in the same second’ (www.theguardian.com)
Running DOOM inside the Windows kernel (lemmy.sdf.org)
NtDoom running inside the Windows kernel.
Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling? | First Dog on the Moon [COMIC] (www.theguardian.com)
Five Awesome Google Chrome Features (domesticatedbrain.com)
These are the five awesome Google chrome features we have selected for you to improve your web browsing experience.
The good version of TweetDeck is back, but for how long? (www.theverge.com)
