Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar (windowscopilot.news)
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" (wedistribute.org)
Hallucinated AI Dependencies as Vectors for Attack (www.theregister.com)
Archive Link: web.archive.org/…/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_pa…...
Ai Pin Video Handbook (www.youtube.com)
Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program Mac users run, and when and where they ran it (sneak.berlin)
Edit: Guys I didn't write the headline; the subtitle that I added, I've now fixed tho...
Democracy, Deepfakes, and the AI Balancing Act (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
The buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) has reached a crescendo, with concerns about its impact on elections and democratic processes.
Chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality (www.axios.com)
“Job Creator” Elon Musk Has Fired Over 6000 Employees in the Last 4 Years, Some for Trying to Unionize (medium.com)
Archive: archive.is/PhiXk
Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat (gizmodo.com)
Archive.org link...
Spotting Visual Signs of Gentrification at Scale (hai.stanford.edu)
A Digital Twin Might Just Save Your Life (www.noemamag.com)
Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)
Is Threads Hiding Mentions of Pixelfed? (wedistribute.org)
Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate (www.theverge.com)
The US’s latest attempt to chill speech online, KOSA-a bill to effectively force everyone to identify themselves to online platforms-is picking up steam and looking like it will pass the Senate.
What's the deal with these methane satellites? - Volts by David Roberts (www.volts.wtf)
Mozilla just ditched its privacy partner because its CEO is tied to data brokers (www.theverge.com)
OpenCat: An open source quadruped robot pet framework (github.com)
Across the Metaverse: My trip though VR social platforms (www.spacebar.news)
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)
The department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device....
Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! (www.ebu.ch)
Edit: DW changed the link after they published the piece. Sigh. Updated. Edit2: again. What the fuck.
Beeper couldn’t bring iMessage to Android — but it can still make a great chat app (www.theverge.com)
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet (www.staygrounded.online)
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😠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.”