Walmart's use of digital price tags signal the future of retail shopping, but consumers are worried (www.techspot.com)
AI Cheating Is Getting Worse (www.theatlantic.com)
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How Amazon “Lied, Spied, Cheated Its Way to the Top”: WSJ Reporter Dana Mattioli (www.democracynow.org)
Dana Mattioli speaks about her new book, The Everything War, which examines how Amazon came to dominate the U.S. economy through its “scorched-earth” tactics....
U.S.: Digital License Plates and the Deal That Never Had a Chance (www.eff.org)
Citing the EFF blog:...
NVIDIA: Copyrighted Books Are Just Statistical Correlations to Our AI Models * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; rule takes effect in October (www.cnbc.com)
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 Linux Performance For The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Review (www.phoronix.com)
The Kremlin's 'perceived enemies': new phishing campaign is targeting Western and Russian civil society (citizenlab.ca)
This campaign, which Canada’s Citizen Lab has investigated in collaboration with Access Now and with the participation of numerous civil society organizations including First Department, Arjuna Team, and RESIDENT.ngo, engages targets with personalized and highly-plausible social engineering in an attempt to gain access to...
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con (softwarecrisis.dev)
Israel Reportedly Used Fake Social Media Accounts To Garner Support From US Lawmakers On Gaza War (www.forbes.com)
5,000 AI-Controlled Fake X Accounts Linked to China Disinformation Campaign, Researchers Reveal (thecyberexpress.com)
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Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues (www.theverge.com)
What a bunch of clowns idiots (edited to remove the implication that clowns are genuinely as clueless and incompetent as Sonos execs). When Sonos launched in 2004 they were far ahead of any other company in the connected speaker landscape. And they stayed best-of-the-best for a dozen years. Since the S1/S2 split they have been...
Writing an MP4 Muxer for Fun and Profit | OBS (obsproject.com)
by Rodney July 12th, 2024...
Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to US (www.theguardian.com)
Kim Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges relating to the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, is to be extradited to the US, the New Zealand justice minister has said....
How Elon Musk uses his X social media platform to amplify right-wing views (www.pbs.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/19117230...
Disney wants a wrongful death lawsuit thrown out because the plaintiff had Disney+ (www.npr.org)
While this isn’t news about new technology, I thought it was an interesting look about how predatory EULAs can still hurt us even years later in seemingly unrelated ways...
The real story of the news website accused of fuelling riots in Southport (www.bbc.com)
What connects a dad living in Lahore in Pakistan, an amateur hockey player from Nova Scotia - and a man named Kevin from Houston, Texas?...
One law for megarich provocateur Elon Musk, another for the poor idiots who follow --- [Opinion] (www.irishtimes.com)
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Inside the FBI's Dashboard for Wiretapping the World [404 Media] (www.404media.co)
archive.today link to bypass the soft paywall.
Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum (arstechnica.com)
Yay!
Israel Police deploying Chinese traffic cameras blacklisted in the U.S. and Europe (www.jpost.com)
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Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine (jacobin.com)
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Social-media firms are lowering defenses to foreign disinformation campaigns, researchers warn (www.defenseone.com)
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UN Delegates Cheer As They Vote To Approve Increased Surveillance Via Russia-Backed Cybercrime Treaty (www.techdirt.com)
Push alerts from TikTok include fake news, expired tsunami warning, other misleading info (arstechnica.com)
TikTok has been sending inaccurate and misleading news-style alerts to users’ phones, including a false claim about Taylor Swift and a weeks-old disaster warning, intensifying fears about the spread of misinformation on the popular video-sharing platform....
