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X previews its 'shadowban' alerts (www.engadget.com)

Accounts that share "sensitive content" will be labeled and restricted from search, recommendations and other features....

Opinion | A Creator (Me) Made a Masterpiece With A.I. (www.nytimes.com)

NYT gift article expires in 30 days....

[News, Opinion] The 6 Best Encryption Apps for Windows (www.makeuseof.com)

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[Opinion, Schneier on Security] UK Electoral Commission Hacked - Schneier on Security (www.schneier.com)

Entire comment:...

George Hotz and Eliezer Yudkowsky AI Safety Debate - 8/15/23 5pm ET (lemmy.intai.tech)

cross-posted from: lemmy.intai.tech/post/234347...

AI's Role in Cybersecurity: Research Reveals How Large Language Models Are Shaping the Future of Phishing Attacks and Defense (i.blackhat.com)

Paper Title...

I’m considering setting up a server for various uses, advice?

I’m looking at various single board computers ( think raspberry pi) to host a server on. Namely for hosting media, an email, and perhaps a web site/fediverse instance/blog/forum on....

How do you do GitHub bug triage?

I’ve been using GitHub’s UI to do it. It seems just very slow to open issues in a new tab to analyse and label the issues....

ProtonMail exposing Threads user data harvesting (mastodon.social)

Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000 (mashable.com)

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/tech/t/116728...

What are you self-hosting? (beehaw.org)

Thinking of self-hosting some basic tools; SearxNG, Bitwarden, Lemmy....

Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange. (fosstodon.org)

The exchange is about Meta's upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!

The developer of Sync for Reddit is working on a Lemmy app (www.reddit.com)

New subreddit talking about it here. I'm assuming it will eventually be a Lemmy community...

BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization (rys.io)

Almost exactly six months after Twitter got taken over by a petulant edge lord, people seem to be done with grieving the communities this disrupted and connections they lost, and are ready, eager even, to jump head-first into another toxic relationship. This time with BlueSky.

Chinese chip equipment makers grab market share as US tightens curbs (www.reuters.com)

HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response (youtu.be)

From the video description: In HW News this week, we start with a discussion about Linus Sebastian's recent reply to our commentary about Linus Tech Tips' issues with accuracy, data, corrections, ethics, and conflicts. We are baffled and disappointed by the hastily, angrily-written, and at times inaccurate statement posted.

Reflections before the storm: the AI reproduction of biased imagery in global health visuals (www.thelancet.com)

PDF: www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2214-109X(2…

can someone tell me the difference between sdi-tool.org and www.snappy-driver-installer.org

Running Microsoft Teams in Parallels on Apple Silicon

Hi folks!...

Far right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme (archive.ph)

Twitter has begun sharing ad revenue with some content creators on its platform for the first time. Several far-right and conservative influencers announced they had received payments from Twitter, while some prominent right-wing accounts said they were not part of the program. The lack of transparency around which creators...

Opinion | The Rich Are Crazier Than You and Me (archive.today)

Why shouldn't anyone switch to iOS?

I’m planning on switching platforms and I’m just curious of the opinions of people here. I think that Android can have advantages in areas of privacy and external app installation, but most of the benefits come with a lot of tinkering out of the box....

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