Streaming video changed the internet forever (archive.is)
YARH.IO THEBRICK Cyberdeck (yarh.io)
Honda built a powered chair to zoom around theme parks while wearing an AR headset. (www.engadget.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/16368424...
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint) (arxiv.org)
Abstract:...
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools (www.404media.co)
this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...
Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s Vegas Tunnel Project Has Been Racking Up Safety Violations (www.bloomberg.com)
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Large Language Models Are Drunk at the Wheel (matt.si)
A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO (www.theverge.com)
Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but it just filed to go public anyway (edition.cnn.com)
We are closing in on zero-carbon cement (www.volts.wtf)
Windows-as-a-nuisance: How I clean up a “clean install” of Windows 11 and Edge (arstechnica.com)
Here's what's new about the Fairphone 4 - Fairphone (www.fairphone.com)
“We just gave the Fairphone 4 a revolutionary update, with a completely refreshed camera experience, and we couldn’t be prouder.”...
JavaScript Bloat in 2024 (tonsky.me)
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control (www.wired.com)
That graphic sums up my entire educational experience. archive.is/hvZ5q
Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers (apnews.com)
Report: 75K loyal Redditors can snag shares before Reddit goes public (arstechnica.com)
This is one of the more scathing pieces to come out on Ars about Reddit. As the site did not respond to inquiries, all that was available to report on was profoundly negative statements that Advance is unlikely to enjoy seeing.
EU launches NGI TALER project (taler.net)
Cryptocurrencies are often understood to enable private payments, but most don’t. Monero does, but its value still fluctuates and wastes energy (even if far less than Bitcoin) in time of the climate catastrophe....
Alan Pope: "Multiple genuine-looking scam cryptocurrency miners and fake Bitcoin wallet applications have been published in the Snap store since 2018." (popey.com)
I used a sentence from the article as the title since I felt it represented the actual issue better, let me know if I should change it....
Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests (www.reuters.com)
Britain’s National Crime Agency Cyber Division, with the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies seized control of websites used by Lockbit the gang and U.S. and British authorities said. The agencies also took the extraordinary step of using Lockbit’s own website to release internal data about...
How Google is killing independent sites like ours (housefresh.com)
China's latest stealth tech promises invisible fighter jets, says report (interestingengineering.com)
New plasma stealth device targets specific areas, not entire aircraft....
All you need to know about the Digital Services Act (blog.cloudflare.com)
February 17, 2024 marks the entry into force of a landmark piece of European Union (EU) legislation, affecting European users who create and disseminate online content as well as tech companies who act as “intermediaries” on the Internet.