Ten-Minute VR Therapy Provides Sustained Pain Relief for Patients With Cancer (www.physiciansweekly.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/15454358...
A robot just performed fully autonomous surgery on a live patient for the first time (bgr.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/15413291...
A social archipelago: Against social media colonialism (draft) (gils.nexus)
I don’t usually self promo but I was interested in the concept of a social archipelago facilitated by closed federation/allowlisting, in response to a lot of the bigotry and spam that’s on the Fediverse and how difficult it can be to moderate. I was also curious about how Beehaw/Lemmy users feel about allowlisting and closed...
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From (www.404media.co)
Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Hed o’ the day so far …...
Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules (apnews.com)
Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport, a small town in the UK, much worse (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)
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"Brain time of young Europeans is not a currency for social media": TikTok commits to permanently withdraw TikTok Lite Rewards programme from the EU to comply with the Digital Services Act (ec.europa.eu)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1626469...
Google violated antitrust laws to dominate online search, rules US judge | Google (www.theguardian.com)
New Musk lawsuit against OpenAI claims Altman ‘betrayed’ him • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Maybe they’ll take each other out.
Leaked: Nvidia's AI Scraping Pipeline (www.404media.co)
Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats, emails, and documents obtained by 404 Media show....
4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) (privacy.thenexus.today)
Feedback welcome! Here’s the TL;DR list...
China is exporting its AI surveillance state: Beijing’s trade with the developing world does not foster democracy, but appears to be doing precisely the opposite (www.taipeitimes.com)
The original article is gated (requires free registering)...
New large-scale Russian disinformation campaign on TikTok aims at discrediting Ukraine’s mobilization efforts and territorial defense centers, investigation finds (texty.org.ua)
At the end of July 2024, the destructive #it’snotmyukraine was among the three most popular hashtags on the TikTok Creative Centre website, the Ukrainian media outlet Texty has found....
Codeberg versus AI Evangelist - Mastodon (social.anoxinon.de)
An interesting little back and forth between Codeberg and someone advocating for them to spend resources on AI assistants....
Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions (news.wsu.edu)
researchers conducted experimental surveys with more than 1,000 adults in the U.S. to evaluate the relationship between AI disclosure and consumer behavior...
To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands (www.niemanlab.org)
OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid (www.theguardian.com)
U.S. sues TikTok for collecting kids’ data without parents’ permission: Justice Department calls TikTok’s age-gating methods ‘deficient in multiple ways' (www.theverge.com)
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Too big to care? Cloudflare comes again under pressure for enabling abusive sites, anti-spam NGO says (www.spamhaus.org)
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Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit (www.404media.co)
Twitter disappears from Mac App Store | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Ding Dong KOSA’s Dead (For Now) (www.techdirt.com)
China ponders creating a national 'cyberspace ID' - because clearly it's better for Beijing to know who you are than for every ISP and social service to keep its own records (www.theregister.com)
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Scammer Allegedly Makes $600,000 a Month Holding Instagram Accounts Hostage (www.404media.co)
