Google Discloses That Incognito Mode in Chrome Isn't Entirely 'Private' (news.itsfoss.com)
Google was already in the middle of a class-action lawsuit regarding the incognito mode, where they were accused of tracking user activity. And, they agreed to settle the lawsuit....
Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list (arstechnica.com)
This made me so weirdly sad. I remember this guy; he was well known for being technically skilled but a huge pain in the ass for everyone to work with, and it's weird to see how resigned he is now to his prison life....
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)
U.S., police used Clearview AI facial recognition in arrest of homeless man (reason.com)
Facial recognition technology is increasingly being deployed by police officers across the U.S., but the scope of its use has been hard to pin down....
Bruce Schneier: "Zelle Is Using My Name and Voice without My Consent" (www.schneier.com)
Big Tech Won’t Let You Leave. Here’s a Way Out (www.wired.com)
Any ghost(.org) bloggers out there? (getmidnight.com)
And if so, do you have any experience with this: Midnight?
Massive data dump containing millions of passwords sparks security alert: Is your data safe? (www.techspot.com)
[History] 1 February 1988: "Perl, a 'replacement' for awk and sed, Part01/10" (usenet.trashworldnews.com)
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees (www.theverge.com)
But there may be more, and it’s possible that Google is attempting to spread out the bad news instead of having it hit all at once.
Amazon is working on a new paid subscription plan for its Alexa voice assistant (www.businessinsider.com)
Amazon is revamping its Alexa voice assistant as it prepares to launch a new paid subscription plan this year, according to internal documents and people familiar with the matter. But the change is causing internal conflict and may lead to further delay.
Court documents underscore Meta's 'historical reluctance' to protect children on Instagram (apnews.com)
New Mexico’s Attorney General Raúl Torrez sued Facebook and Instagram owner Meta in December, saying the company failed to protect young users from exposure to child sexual abuse material and allowed adults to solicit explicit imagery from them....
You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.
Scribus Gets Huge Update (but the toolbar buttons are still too small to see!) (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
I want to like Scribus, but every time I hear about it getting updated, I download it, open it, only to find these tiny toolbar icons that have no apparent way of being made bigger. This is always what prevents me from trying it out! Seems like kind of a basic design no-brainer. Grrr. Does anyone else have this problem? I’m on...
Sixteen Stories for Flickr Commons' Sixteenth Birthday (www.flickr.org)
The Worst Devices of CES 2024! By iFixIt (piped.video)
Piped link: piped.video/watch?v=NXhmnQzZ7n8...
OpenAI opens the door for military uses but maintains AI weapons ban (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI CEO Altman: future AI depends on energy breakthrough (www.reuters.com)
Speaking at a Bloomberg event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Altman said the silver lining is that more climate-friendly sources of energy, particularly nuclear fusion or cheaper solar power and storage, are the way forward for AI....
Why is AI Pornifying Asian Women? (joysauce.com)
YouTube’s ad blocker problems are just an AdBlock Plus bug (arstechnica.com)
That would explain why I didn’t have any problems with Youtube and uBlock Origin.
GTA 5 Michael actor Ned Luke slams AI chatbot that uses his voice without permission (www.techspot.com)
New solid state battery charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles (www.pv-magazine.com)
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times — more than any other pouch battery cell — and can be recharged in a matter of minutes....
Using NLP to Detect Mental Health Crises (hai.stanford.edu)
‘The tide has turned’: why parents are suing US social media firms after their children’s death (www.theguardian.com)
While social media firms have long faced scrutiny from Congress and civil rights organizations over their impact on young users, the new wave of lawsuits underscores how parents are increasingly leading the charge, said Jim Steyer, an attorney and founder of Common Sense media, a non-profit that advocates for children’s online...