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Say "goodbye" to cookies and cookie banners with vanilla Firefox

For those that don’t know, Firefox has in-built support for automatically rejecting cookies and blocking the cookie banners from popping up....

AI could lead to better comoression algorithms! (arstechnica.com)

This would lead to some very large cost savings if AI could compress video/audio even better than current compression algorithms. Data borders unite!

How to regulate AI? Bioethicist David Magnus on medicine's critical moment (scopeblog.stanford.edu)

Meduza - Exiled Pirate Media Outlet Breaks Thru the Kremlin Propaganda Firewall (DEF CON 31) (www.youtube.com)

A blueprint for writing introductions in technical tutorials (jamesg.blog)

Introduce the main concept being discussed in an article, with relevant background....

To stop wildfires, residents in some Greek suburbs put their own money toward early warning drones (abcnews.go.com)

Emergency alerts on phones without turning on precise location? Is this still possible?

I’ve gotten emergency weather alerts on my phone for most of my life, but didn’t get one today that another person in my household did. It’s …possible that they lied about this -but, still, it spooked me and I want to make sure that I get important weather alerts where I live. In my phone’s settings, it says that...

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.

Unveiling ChatGPT's Insane Nuclear Reactor Design (www.youtube.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:...

Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin v1.2.0 is now available on Chrome & Firefox!

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/1418762...

MIT develops a motion and task planning system for home robots (techcrunch.com)

What do you think are the biggest limitations to robots in the home? Privacy concerns, limited utility, inability to overcome simple obstacles, price or something else?

Mercedes-Benz says “ja” to Tesla’s EV charging connector (www.theverge.com)

Mercedes adopts Tesla’s EV charger.

After Suspending Its Self-Driving Cars, Cruise Takes Steps to Win Back Trust (www.nytimes.com)

Slashdot Summary...

Gogoro batteries power this tiny urban electric car - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Would it be possible (at some point) cool aur by pulling heatenergy from it?

I recently had a discussion about ACs and how they heat up cities....

Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices - Google Security Blog (security.googleblog.com)

cross-posted from !googlepixel !android...

A Discussion of Mastodon's Potential Growth Needs (erinkissane.com)

The title I have assigned this article is intentionally boring. The article’s body goes out of its way to not provide simple summaries, silver bullets, or otherwise give a single size fits all answer to everything. The author actually gave it a fun title that, I felt, did a slight disservice to their overall point, but hey, we...

Need recommendations for a reliable mobile phone (UK)

This might not be the best place to ask this as you’ll all be asking far more of your phones than I ever will, but I need to buy a mobile phone so friends can get a hold of me when we meet up in a different city next month. The battery on the mobile I bought when I moved two years ago won’t take a charge now....

Tech Workers Coalition onboarding meeting - Thursday Sep 20th, 5pm PT - Register now! (us02web.zoom.us)

Claude 2 [new AI model released by Anthropic] (www.anthropic.com)

Claude 2 is a new AI model released by Anthropic that improves upon Claude 1.3 with better performance, longer responses, and larger input and output capabilities. Claude 2 scored higher on various tests and evaluations compared to Claude 1.3, indicating improved coding, math, and reasoning skills. Anthropic has worked to make...

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