MSP Cybersecurity: What You Should Know (dataconomy.com)
Samsung's 4 nm process node achieves yield rates of 75 percent (www.techspot.com)
Corsair acquires mechanical keyboard specialist Drop (www.theverge.com)
Corsair has acquired Drop, an online retailer known for its mechanical keyboards and keyboard accessories. Drop will continue to operate independently under the leadership of CEO Jef Holove. Corsair hopes to expand Drops brand globally through its supply chain and distribution network. Drop intends to continue its enthusiast-led...
New Jersey Supreme Court: If Cops Are Going To Digitally Wiretap A Facebook Account, They Need A Wiretap Order (www.techdirt.com)
Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption, requires online companies to report drug activity (therecord.media)
A bill requiring social media companies, encrypted communications providers and other online services to report drug activity on their platforms to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) advanced to the Senate floor Thursday, alarming privacy advocates who say the legislation turns the companies into de facto drug...
Iran’s Claim Of Quantum Processor Draws Ridicule (www.iranintl.com)
It’s an… FPGA (?)
LBRY, company behind Odysee, shutting down after SEC Fine (archive.is)
Signal may soon be getting usernames (nitter.lacontrevoie.fr)
‘What seemed like science fiction is already here’: why it’s important to talk (seriously) about neurorights (english.elpais.com)
The risk, explains Yuste, is that the same tools which – in medicine – can help improve people’s lives, can also end up violating the information stored in the brain. “Although the roadmap is beneficial, these technologies are neutral and can be used for better or worse,” he notes. This isn’t only about securing...
AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models (futurism.com)
“Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease,” they added. “We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD).”...
Gurman: First M3 Apple Silicon Macs likely to launch in October (9to5mac.com)
iPhone Photo Rejected from Photo Contest for Suspected AI Use (www.theguardian.com)
Always love when self agrandized authorities act like idiots. Feels like the box wine wins wine competition article....
Will the European Cyber Resilience Act Kill Open Source Software? (fossforce.com)
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Tedd.it is Shutting Down (tedd.it)
Tedd.it, a website that aggregates content from Reddit, is shutting down permanently on August 1st, 2023 due to restrictions on the Reddit API. The site has been experiencing “429 Too Many Requests” errors as Reddit has severely limited its access to content in an effort to cut costs. The site owner cannot afford the high...
Bluesky allowed people to include the n-word in their usernames | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Bluesky, a decentralized social network, allowed users to register usernames containing the n-word. When reports surfaced about a user with the racial slur in their name, Bluesky took 40 minutes to remove the account but did not publicly apologize. A LinkedIn post criticized Bluesky for failing to filter offensive terms from the...
Dangerzone will convert it into a safe PDF (dangerzone.rocks)
Literally one of the worst formats I deal with daily, from a security standpoint are PDFs. Very useful and predictable for the end user; yes, but very dangerous for the capabilities it allows....
I almost can’t believe it, but Google Tasks is finally kind of good (www.theverge.com)
For years, Google’s to-do list app Tasks was poorly integrated and underdeveloped. Recently, Google has combined all their reminder products into a single Google Tasks app that is accessible across Google products. While still lacking some advanced features, Google Tasks’ simplicity and integration make it easy to add tasks...
DÜNYA BUNU OKUYORSAN SENİN AMK (akparti.xyz)
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RAM issues help please (beehaw.org)
hey all. I’ve tried different ram, a different windows version, I’ve messed around in bios and updated it as well. How can i get my pc to register the rest of my ram??...
Twitter Rolls Out Ad Sharing Program (www.thestreet.com)
Competition is great
Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says (techcrunch.com)
FTC loses again, Microsoft is now clear to close the Activision-Xbox deal in the US (www.windowscentral.com)
tl;dr from the article:...
Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts (mashable.com)
Reddit recently removed years of chat and message archives from users’ accounts without warning as part of an infrastructure upgrade. Many Redditors were upset to discover that their chat histories from before January 2023 were no longer accessible. Reddit claims they only migrated data from 2023 forward during the transition...