Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari is not so private in Europe (www.theregister.com)
Apple’s grudging accommodation of European antitrust rules by allowing third-party app stores on iPhones has left users of its Safari browser exposed to potential web activity tracking....
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Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)
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Men Use Fake Livestream Apps With AI Audiences to Hit on Women (www.404media.co)
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Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement (www.axios.com)
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Singleboard Alpha: ESP32 powered full featured computer with a capacitive touch keyboard all on one PCB (a.singleboard.computer)
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FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared. (www.fromjason.xyz)
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Mastodon Incorporates as a Non-Profit in the US (wedistribute.org)
GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse (github.com)
This service is still in Alpha release but is already deployable and usable, and federates with other Fediverse servers....
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It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (www.theatlantic.com)
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Popular social media apps TikTok and Instagram use AI to analyze photos on your phone, introducing both bias and errors (news.wisc.edu)
Archived link...
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I Tried a Disney Secret Project! - YouTube (youtube.com)
I’m really hopeful for virtual reality tech. When they figure that out I reckon it will revolutionize our world. This is a good step in the right direction, though obviously we’ll all end up in pods/capsules.
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Apple’s censorship in China is just the tip of the iceberg (web.archive.org)
Archived link free of Cloudflare....
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China's recent campaign against domestic social media targeted falsehood and sensationalism. But the country's state-run media, not to be touched by the purge, are some of the worst culprits. (chinamediaproject.org)
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Safety in typing, no cloud needed (f-droid.org)
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Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers (www.cnn.com)
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How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) (www.nytimes.com)
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Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)
Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...
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Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals (citizenlab.ca)
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Generative AI is still a solution in search of a problem (www.axios.com)
What do you personally use AI for?
I really want to use AI like llama, ChatGTP, midjourney etc. for something productive. But over the last year the only thing I found use for it was to propose places to go as a family on our Hokaido Japan journey. There were great proposals for places to go....
Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded?
Isn’t that a prerequisite for enshitification? Publicly-traded companies are required (by law, I think) to maximize profits for their shareholders, even if that means utterly ruining their original product (Reddit, Boeing, etc.), yes? What do you think?
Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it (www.theverge.com)
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