X goes offline in Brazil after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws (www.theguardian.com)
Servo Browser Now Supports Tabbed Browsing, WAV Audio Files. (www.phoronix.com)
The Computer We All Wish We’d Had In The 8-Bit Era (hackaday.com)
Intel: Laptop Processors, Future Chips Not Affected by CPU Bug (www.pcmag.com)
Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed (www.w3.org)
Smartwatch insults Chinese as authorities struggle to tame AI. (www.voanews.com)
Where is Naomi Wu? (ofb.biz)
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End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell (www.anandtech.com)
I was assuming this was a retirement announcement from the editor....
TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled (www.theverge.com)
TikTok has to face a lawsuit from the mother of 10-year-old Nylah Anderson, who “unintentionally hanged herself” after watching videos of the so-called blackout challenge on her algorithmically curated For You Page (FYP). The “challenge,” according to the suit, encouraged viewers to “choke themselves until passing...
Silicon Valley’s Very Online Ideologues are in Model Collapse (www.reimaginingliberty.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/19683130...
A quantum neural network can see optical illusions like humans do. Could it be the future of AI? (theconversation.com)
LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English (arstechnica.com)
Has anyone tried Proton VPN?
I’ve been using Express and had a great experience so far, but I may want to try a Proton subscription for cloud space and more emails. It also comes with a VPN service but I’m a little leary on trying something new. Any thoughts on Proton VPN?
Chatbots offer cops the “ultimate out” to spin police reports, expert says (arstechnica.com)
Here’s a great example of dystopian tech being rolled out without guardrails. Brought to you by Axos, which you may know as the company that rebranded after Taser became a liability as a name.
Telegram has become a key tool for the Russian military. Why does Moscow continue to rely on a Dubai-based civilian messaging app? (meduza.io)
Poland develops compact, lethal drone (defence-blog.com)
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The Uruguayan company teaching people how to turn regular cars into EVs. (restofworld.org)
Google: "State-backed attackers and commercial surveillance vendors repeatedly use the same exploits" (blog.google)
“Our research underscores the extent to which exploits first developed by the commercial surveillance industry are proliferated to dangerous threat actors.”...
Light on Safety: How TikTok Lite Sacrifices User Protections in the Global South (foundation.mozilla.org)
An investigation into TikTok Lite — a low-bandwidth alternative to the TikTok app predominantly accessible in the so-called Global Majority countries in South America, Africa, and Asia — has revealed significant safety concerns....
Your YouTube Comments (myactivity.google.com)
You can edit or delete your comments and replies directly on YouTube. If you delete comments, it may take a few hours before they’re fully removed: myactivity.google.com/page?hl=en&page=youtube…...
Telegram CEO's arrest sparks flurry of questions over motivation, privacy impact. (therecord.media)
Lionsgate Marketing Consultant Built Movie Trailer Filled With AI Generated Fake Movie Reviews Of Old Films (www.techdirt.com)
I did see this trailer or at least part of it somehow and thought they were joke quotes. The ChatGPT connection isn’t really the issue here, it’s fucking lorem ipsum in production (that’s why it’s used; this is what inevitably happens otherwise). They don’t have an AI problem; they have a process problem if there’s...
What We Learned In Our First Year of 404 Media (www.404media.co)
We have learned that there is an audience that is happy to pay for fearless journalism and fun blogs that are written by real human journalists who prioritize the interests of their readers, not search algorithms and AI bots. And we have learned that a small team can hold companies that are worth trillions of dollars to account...
France says Telegram CEO has been freed, will appear in court (www.voanews.com)
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, hires former employee of U.S. Republican's 'Project 2025' (newrepublic.com)
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