X, formerly known as Twitter, will begin charging new users $1 a year to access key features including the ability to tweet and retweet (fortune.com)
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Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines (quandyfactory.com)
AI Isn’t Banning Books in Iowa Schools. Republicans Are. (theintercept.com)
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UNESCO calls for global ban on smartphones in schools (news.un.org)
Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half (www.bbc.com)
Amazon hit with antitrust lawsuit by FTC, 17 states (thehill.com)
I Used a Game Boy Camera for FaceTime Video Calls in iPadOS 17 and It Was Glorious (www.macstories.net)
This is magnificent.
‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders (www.theguardian.com)
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
The District of Columbia fits fleet of EVs with bogus gadget promising 60% range boost (arstechnica.com)
The Energy Management Module claims it can “rejuvenate a battery” somehow....
WD refused to answer our questions about its self- wiping SanDisk SSDs (www.theverge.com)
Twitter, Threads, and the misunderstood nature of engineering (beehaw.org)
Complex internet services fail in interesting ways as they grow in size and complexity. Twitter’s recent issues show how failures emerge slowly over time as relationships between components degrade. Meta’s quick launch of Threads demonstrates how platform investments can compound over time, allowing them to quickly build on...
Elon Musk goes low against Zuckerberg as Twitter-Threads spat intensifies (www.theguardian.com)
“Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk’s network”...
Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7456748...
Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix (arstechnica.com)
The bug allows attackers to swipe data from a CPU’s registers. […] the exploit doesn’t require physical hardware access and can be triggered by loading JavaScript on a malicious website.
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....
A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco (www.businessinsider.com)
Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For Upwards Of $50,000 (www.msn.com)
AI Is Writing Books About Foraging. What Could Go Wrong? (civileats.com)
mastodon.art defederating calckey firefish social. Cites behavior of lead project dev (dotart.blog)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/6853479...
Blocked by Cloudflare (jrhawley.ca)
The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing...
Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio (shkspr.mobi)
I've built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome.
YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2787773 (!google)
The Cobra Effect: Why Anti-Adblock Policies Could Hurt Revenue Instead (yt.artemislena.eu)
The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google (arstechnica.com)
It is perhaps another sign of how bad things have become with Google’s search results—full of algorithmically generated junk sites—that publications like CNET are driven to such extremes to stay above the sea of noise....
