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Google turns 25: From garage startup to global giant (www.zdnet.com)

Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding (ai.meta.com)

cross-posted from !aistuff

4 Big Positive Changes coming to Google Search – including removing Private Info and Images from Search (beehaw.org)

Google has announced several key changes to make its search platform safer for users by giving more control to South Africans (and other countries) over what personal information appears in results....

Microsoft employees will keep free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate after complaints (www.theverge.com)

Google Censors Freedom: the hard truth (monero.town)

Google is among the most pervasive and corrupt tools of the empire to suppress freedom and promote endless war and money printing for Wall Street. As Julian Assange points out, Google gets lucrative military cloud contracts, then turns around puts the regime’s pro-war propaganda on the front page. This article’s data on the...

Stanford University just schooled Congress on AI (wapo.st)

The elite Silicon Valley university coaches Hill staffers on the benefits of artificial intelligence...

AI for identifying social norm violation (www.nature.com)

Prof. Yair Neuman and the engineer Yochai Cohen at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have designed an AI system that identifies social norm violations. They trained a system to identify ten social emotions: competence, politeness, trust, discipline, caring, agreeableness, success, conformity, decency, and loyalty....

FTC Seeks Comment on New Parental Consent Mechanism Under COPPA (www.ftc.gov)

Meta's Llama 2 is not open source (www.theregister.com)

Debian 12.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes (www.phoronix.com)

Attackers find new ways to deliver DDoSes with “alarming” sophistication (arstechnica.com)

Optus network outage affects millions of Australians (www.reuters.com)

Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop - Jeff Geerling (www.jeffgeerling.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/330591...

Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs (apnews.com)

The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio. (www.androidauthority.com)

The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio, so they can directly communicate with smart home devices. Old iPhones could probably be used as a smart home hub....

New Emulator Lets Some x86-64 Games Run on RISC-V Dev Board (www.tomshardware.com)

Amazoned! Online Vendors Abused and Screwed Over (particl.news)

Amazon is known for its anti-competition practices. While they aggressively charge you for every sale you make, they also get to see all of your sales data; valuable information to have if you want to launch products. Even better if you plan on launching copycats! In more than one way, just by selling on their platform, they get...

Suit against tech giant Cisco shines light on U.S. complicity in Chinese torture (www.news-journal.com)

After a 12-year legal battle, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lawsuit accusing technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. and two former executives of assisting the Chinese government in identifying and targeting Falun Gong practitioners for arrests, torture, and execution could proceed to trial. The ruling could...

Statc Stealer: Windows malware stealing information from web browsers and apps, including login data, cookies, web data, and preferences, stealing cryptocurrency wallets, credentials, passwords, etc. (www.zscaler.com)

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Perovskite + silicon solar panels hit efficiencies of over 30% (The two-layer panels still suffer from rapid decay of performance, though.) (arstechnica.com)

“Gig reviewers” are endorsing fake products for quick cash in Brazil ― gig workers in Brazil charge as little as $4 to record scripted reviews and make online advertising seem legitimate (restofworld.org)

BLASTPASS: NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in the Wild (citizenlab.ca)

Last week, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices, Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware. This latest find shows once again that civil society is...

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