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Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (www.404media.co)

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Critical Vulnerability Exploits Several Lemmy Instances (wedistribute.org)

Tumblr says it’s going to “fix” its “core experience” to appeal to new users (www.theverge.com)

Tumblr plans to make changes to appeal to new users and improve growth. The post states that Tumblr is currently difficult for new users to use and curates content poorly. Tumblr aims to improve how users discover and sign up, encourage frequent engagement, and boost creators’ ability to attract audiences. Specific changes...

A threat actor abuses Google Ads to distribute malicious CPU-Z app from fake Windows news site, Malwarebytes reports (feddit.de)

Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5535431...

Oracle, SUSE and others caught up in RHEL drama hit back with OpenELA (www.theregister.com)

A non-profit called the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA) has been formed by Oracle, SUSE, CIQ, and other organizations that make Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS rebuilds....

Something weird going on at DuckDuck… (beehaw.org)

The Intercept conservative?! The Nation conservative?! What gives? https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/17db21e0-7037-4d77-b3fd-fa7b958a3432.webp

DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide (arstechnica.com)

Opinion: The Copyright Office is making a mistake on AI-generated art (arstechnica.com)

I’ve generally been against giving AI works copyright, but this article presented what I felt were compelling arguments for why I might be wrong. What do you think?

“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)

The "Tech Won’t Save Us" Podcast is doing a series on Musk (www.techwontsave.us)

We hear a lot about this guy, why not a little more. This podcast is doing a series on Musk that is quite revealing, totally worth a listen if you are interested in business or tech....

T-Mobile is laying off 5,000 employees : NPR (www.npr.org)

House Dems Slam 'Racist Tropes' in New Florida K-12 History Curriculum (www.commondreams.org)

Four Black Democratic members of Congress criticized Florida’s new K-12 history curriculum, calling it racist and inaccurate. They objected to parts that claim slavery benefited slaves and downplay the horrors of slavery by comparing it to serfdom and indentured servitude. The lawmakers demanded the Florida Board of Education...

New phone sparks worry China has found a way around U.S. tech limits (www.washingtonpost.com)

As Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was visiting China earlier this week, a sea-green Chinese smartphone was quietly launched online....

Beeper Finally In Public Invite Stage! (refer.beeper.com)

If any of y’all were curious of Beeper when it came out (a Matrix backed chat app) but weren’t able to get an invite for whatever reason, then here ya go! Feel free to ask any questions about it if you got any! (No I don’t work for Beeper, just like this more than Element and self-hosting)

Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom (www.fsf.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7492853...

Dead NFTs: The Evolving Landscape of the NFT Market (dappgambl.com)

TL;DR: The NFT market has drastically declined since its peak in 2021, with most NFT collections having no value. There’s an oversupply of NFTs, leading to a buyer’s market, and environmental concerns due to energy consumption. Top NFTs also struggle to maintain value, and the future of NFTs depends on utility and genuine...

Element X preview is now on Android too! (element.io)

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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....

Another room-temperature superconductor (thequantuminsider.com)

This time, straight from a patent granted to a blockchain company, with no accompanying paper or proof....

TikTok adds text-only posts as social media battle escalates (www.bbc.com)

AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models (futurism.com)

“Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease,” they added. “We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD).”...

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