AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7700 XT & RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards (www.phoronix.com)
Finally getting some (closer to) mainstream video cards from AMD. Still feels overpriced but a lot better than $750 for a 7900xt.
AI-discovered drugs will be for sale sooner than you think (www.vox.com)
Gitlab working on ActivityPub for Merge/Pull requests (writing.exchange)
Pyramid Schemes Are Illegal. MLMs Are Not. What About the Tech That Powers Them? (themarkup.org)
Hackers are Attacking Observatories (www.universetoday.com)
Firefox can now import and use Chrome extensions as part of its migration import option (debugpointnews.com)
In a major update towards cross-browser compatibility, Firefox users are set to enjoy the benefits of importing Chrome extensions (note this is really part of the data import/migration from an existing Chrome browser installed, just for extensions that are already supported, and not installing from the Chrome web store), thanks...
Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI (literature.cafe)
One prominent author responds to the revelation that his writing is being used to coach artificial intelligence....
T-Mobile is laying off 5,000 employees : NPR (www.npr.org)
Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding (ai.meta.com)
cross-posted from !aistuff
In a historic about-face, Apple publicly supports right-to-repair bill (grist.org)
The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse (US focused) (buttondown.email)
Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act)....
Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer and co-inventor of the PDF whose invention actually made the world better (techxplore.com)
Warnock, who died Saturday, was one of the leading computer scientists of his era and co-founder in 1982 of Adobe Inc.
Plagiarism-Bot? How Low-Quality Websites Are Using AI to Deceptively Rewrite Content from Mainstream News Outlets (www.newsguardtech.com)
WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Recommendations of non-Apple products with similar longevity?
EDIT: Getting a ton of great responses thanks everyone
Just got a Samsung phone after years and years on a moto/droid. What apps should I get to up the qol?
New motos are just too big for my baby hands so I got myself an s23 for a steal, but I’m finding that I miss some of the functionality that I used to have, and that some features are just annoying on this phone....
Apple now endorses Right to Repair legislation (www.404media.co)
I believe this is genuine support of the bill from Apple. Between Right to Repair winning in Massachusetts and the EU demanding compliance, I think Apple decided to flip the script. They would want to continue the illusion of customer friendly tech.
Exposed: Facebook's Corrupt Spyware is Tracking you OFF the platform (monero.town)
From internal leaks within the company as well as external analysis, the tip of the iceberg behind Facebook’s spyware empire is exposed. Take a look to better protect yourself when you’re not even on the platform: simplifiedprivacy.com/facebooks-corrupt-off-platf…
Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012) (www.theguardian.com)
API Misuse: Hacker Leaks 2.6M Duolingo Users' Emails & Names (www.hackread.com)
“Will AI Destroy Us?”: Roundtable with Coleman Hughes, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Gary Marcus, and Scott Aaronson (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/2617125...
Leo, Brave's browser-native AI assistant, is now available in Nightly version for testing (brave.com)
What do I need to do if I want to use my old 4th gen iPad in 2023?
I recently was able to get back my 4th gen iPad that I used for university and got excited to start using it again just for basic stuff like searching stuff on the browser, reading comics and such. However I quickly realized that I was unable to download anything from the AppStore as my iOS version is 10.3.4 and apps like...
Need to scan a lot of book barcodes very quickly. Any suggestions?
What is your favorite todo app without a subscription?
Looking for an alternative to apps like TickTick and Todoist but I don’t want a subscription to deal with. I can justify a one time purchase of a todo app though as long as it’s reasonable. Any recommendations?