Opinion | Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto (www.nytimes.com)
‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war (www.972mag.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18923426...
Video on how autistic people are often mistaken for AI and how that is harmful (youtu.be)
alt-text for thumbnail in case it embeds: it is an image of a queer flag with an infinity symbol, on a drawn wooden background with the words “autistic people mistaken for AI” on it
Corsair is moving away from 80 PLUS certification for PSUs, embraces Cybenetics (www.tweaktown.com)
‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections (www.wired.com)
Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government (www.theverge.com)
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Need help selecting SBCs for a pair of projects
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Introducing Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (www.raspberrypi.com)
We’re happy to announce the launch of Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our second-generation microcontroller board, built on RP2350: a new high-performance, secure microcontroller designed here at Raspberry Pi....
0.0.0.0 Day - 18 Yr Old Vulnerability Let Attackers Bypass All Browser Security (cybersecuritynews.com)
Worldcoin may not be legal in Colombia, but that’s not stopping it: scan eyeballs first, answer government inquiries later (restofworld.org)
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It’s practically impossible to run a big AI company ethically: Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry. (www.vox.com)
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Ten-Minute VR Therapy Provides Sustained Pain Relief for Patients With Cancer (www.physiciansweekly.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/15454358...
AI works better if you ask it to be a Star Trek character (www.fudzilla.com)
I’m leaving the hed as-is per protocol, but the larger story here seems to be we’ve already hit the point where LLMs produce better prompts for other LLMs than human prompt engineers do....
Microsoft Ruined Windows (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft is ruining Windows. It just keeps getting worse. Whether it be their insistence on AI and cloud garbage, or just a general sense of incompetence, I can’t help but feel like the operating system has seen better days....
Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
“I think the existing, altruistic, free version of Reddit will continue to exist and grow and thrive just the way it has,” Huffman said. “But now we will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas, things of that nature.”
Evidence That Our Names Physically Change Our Faces Over Time (Anton Petrov, YouTube) (www.youtube.com)
According to their studies, the older we get, the more we will match our name. Wild, but interesting theory.
A robot just performed fully autonomous surgery on a live patient for the first time (bgr.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/15413291...
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From (www.404media.co)
A social archipelago: Against social media colonialism (draft) (gils.nexus)
I don’t usually self promo but I was interested in the concept of a social archipelago facilitated by closed federation/allowlisting, in response to a lot of the bigotry and spam that’s on the Fediverse and how difficult it can be to moderate. I was also curious about how Beehaw/Lemmy users feel about allowlisting and closed...
JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip (www.youtube.com)
[email protected], Community Culture, and Moderation
Hey Beeple and visitors to Beehaw: I think we need to have a discussion about !technology, community culture, and moderation. First, some of the reasons that I think we need to have this conversation....
"Brain time of young Europeans is not a currency for social media": TikTok commits to permanently withdraw TikTok Lite Rewards programme from the EU to comply with the Digital Services Act (ec.europa.eu)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1626469...
Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules (apnews.com)
New Musk lawsuit against OpenAI claims Altman ‘betrayed’ him • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Maybe they’ll take each other out.
Elon Musk moves X out of San Francisco. City leaders shrug. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Hed o’ the day so far …...