AMD "INCEPTION" CPU Vulnerability Disclosed (www.phoronix.com)
AMD-SB-7005 “Return Address Security Bulletin” outlines this new speculative side channel attack affecting recent EPYC and Ryzen processors....
How Social Media Apps Could Be Fueling Homicides Among Young Americans (www.propublica.org)
China hacked Japan’s sensitive defense networks, officials say (www.washingtonpost.com)
According to former US and Japanese officials, the NSA discovered in the fall of 2020 that the PRC had persistent access to Japanese Defense Networks....
LK99 - The case for scepticism (twitter.com)
I’m not plugged into all the hype around lk99, but this person seems to be a nice balance of hype, technical background and eagerness to not be wrong about things....
Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel (www.vulture.com)
On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE. #HotUnionSummer #UnionStrong
ARM64 for the masses
Hey! Does anybody have any information about if and when a company might offer ARM64 for general desktop use? I would like to build my own in the same way that I might build a desktop PC out of an Intel or AMD processor.
We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD (www.theverge.com)
AI language models are rife with political biases (www.technologyreview.com)
From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.656.pdf
PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry By Default (www.techpowerup.com)
Intel graphic drivers collect Telemetry By default in windows.
US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction (www.theguardian.com)
US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction (www.theguardian.com)
The History of Superconductors (Before LK-99) (www.youtube.com)
Z-Library Rolls Out Browser Extensions in Anticipation of Domain Name Troubles (torrentfreak.com)
So tired of Adobe. They're part of the problem. (images4.imagebam.com)
I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until Adobe, and therefore my job, required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn’t the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.
I just wanted to take a minute to appreciate interchangable batteries (lemmy.ml)
I know these are currently out of fashion but I’m still thankful they exist....
How to Short-Circuit the Outrage Machine (slate.com)
Any citizen of the social internet knows the feeling: that irritable contentiousness, that desire to get into it that seems almost impossible to resist, even though you know you’ve already squandered too many hours and too much emotional energy on pointless internet disputes. If you use Twitter, you may have noticed that at...
Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google’s cloud services....
What Does The Norwegian Meta Behavioral Ads Ban Really Mean? (www.searchenginejournal.com)
The order on July 14 by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority imposes a country-wide three-month ban on personalized and behavioral ad targeting against Meta, starting August 2023. This means advertisers may see higher costs and lower relevance....
Zoom terms of use updated to allow AI training on user-generated data, no opt-out
Relevant text:...
Alphabet illegally ended contract employment for Google staffers as they tried to unionize, organizers say in a complaint to US labor board (www.business-standard.com)
Apple removes Russian-language news podcast produced by Meduza, an independent media outlet, from Apple Podcasts (meduza.io)
Earlier this summer, the Russian state censorship authority had asked Apple to block the show, Meduza says on its website. According to the outlet, Apple didn’t provide any explanation.
Elon Musk’s ‘fund your legal bill’ tweet is a brand new level of bullshit (www.theverge.com)
Sorry, another news from this asshole, but this is too much assholery to don’t be shared...
Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla (lunduke.locals.com)
The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.
Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users (gizmodo.com)
LMAO
