SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA (www.phoronix.com)
Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’ (wapo.st)
WP gift article expires in 14 days....
Google fails to end $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit (neuters.de)
Installing Firefox... With Custom Profiles! (yewtu.be)
Link if you rather use YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGC5CwEgr_g
Google delays its upgraded Find My Device network until Apple can add safety alerts (www.theverge.com)
Also, Android users will soon begin seeing notifications for unknown item trackers that are traveling with them — no separate app downloads or installs required.
Dark patterns employed by online companies. (theconversation.com)
A study on online companies employing dark patterns. Dark patterns are clever tricks built into apps and websites to encourage you to do things you may not necessarily want to do, for the gain of the companies.
Exclusive: Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit on Wednesday (www.reuters.com)
OpenTF announces fork of Terraform (opentf.org)
API Misuse: Hacker Leaks 2.6M Duolingo Users' Emails & Names (www.hackread.com)
AMD Unveils The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D For Laptops With 3D V-Cache (www.phoronix.com)
AMD is releasing (what appears to be, still need all the reviews to come in) a beast of a mobile processor. 16 cores, 32 threads, and 128MB of L3 cache.
How a start-up built the search engine of the future — and then died (www.theverge.com)
What can you tell me about Bluesky?
I just received my invite code today and took a quick look around the app. Like Mastodon I do not prefer microblogging platforms. And that’s all I know about Bluesky....
Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism (apnews.com)
Panasonic to produce solid-state battery for drones by 2029 (asia.nikkei.com)
Archive...
Raspberry Pi 5: EVERYTHING you need to know (www.youtube.com)
AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To) (www.tomshardware.com)
Avram Piltch is the editor in chief of Tom’s Hardware, and he’s written a thoroughly researched article breaking down the promises and failures of LLM AIs.
Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism. (doctorow.medium.com)
Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket....
Light is faster than... light!? (skullsinthestars.com)
This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it’s undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.
Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses (www.theguardian.com)
Amazon is experimenting with humanoid robots for warehouse work.
Microsoft Repositions 7TB 'Project Silica' Glass Media as a Cloud Storage Solution (www.tomshardware.com)
They Literally Don't make Things Like They Used To - SOME MORE NEWS (www.youtube.com)
(Sorry if this is the wrong community to post this)
Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones (www.wired.com)
IT DIDN’T TAKE long. Just months after OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot upended the startup economy, cybercriminals and hackers are claiming to have created their own versions of the text-generating technology. The systems could, theoretically at least, supercharge criminals’ ability to write malware or phishing emails that trick...
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)
In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....
I love it when the clock app on my phone crashes
It’s only the most basic functionality
The Tech Industry Has a New Plan to Stop Right to Repair Laws (www.404media.co)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/6395416...
