The world's only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming (electrek.co)
Elon Musk drops claims that OpenAI abandoned mission (arstechnica.com)
Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' (www.404media.co)
Why data is being stored in glass and holograms (www.bbc.com)
In a former wallpaper factory in Chiswick, west London, a start-up firm has been developing a long-term storage system that uses lasers to burn tiny holograms into a light-sensitive polymer....
Raspberry Pi is now a public company (techcrunch.com)
Adobe roofies all of their customers - Louis Rossmann (yt.artemislena.eu)
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This Is How the 3D Pipes Windows Screensaver Was Created (www.howtogeek.com)
Court Allows K-Pop Group to Subpoena YouTuber's Identity from Google (www.404media.co)
NewJeans filed an ex parte application in late March in the Northern District of California, where Google is headquartered, for an “order authorizing limited discovery” of the user’s data from the company “for use in a criminal matter in Korea,” the order granting the application states. The group alleges that the...
Shop on the Temu app? Why class-action lawsuits in Canada and the U.S. have been proposed over privacy (globalnews.ca)
Temu, a popular marketplace where consumers can buy direct from factories overseas at cheap prices, is drawing concerns from lawyers and privacy experts in North America who allege the shopping app can be “invasive” for unwitting users....
A New Study Investigates 'The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter' To Mastodon (arxiv.org)
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Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature (www.dailydot.com)
Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas 🏴☠️
Nvidia is now worth $102M per employee (sherwood.news)
“…For Nvidia, after this latest run-up took it north of the $3T milestone, the company is being valued at more than $100M for each of its 29,600 employees (per its filing that counted up to the end of Jan 2024)....
Flexible Display (www.youtube.com)
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)
What is Cara, the anti-AI social media app for artists? (mashable.com)
Calcium oxide's quantum secret: Nearly noiseless qubits (phys.org)
US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI (arstechnica.com)
Operation Overload: how pro-Russian actors flood newsrooms -mostly in Ukraine, France and Germany- with fake content and seek to divert their efforts (checkfirst.network)
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Microsoft's Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought (www.wired.com)
Adobe Announces That They Can Use Your Content for AI (www.youtube.com)
Even though there are already a couple of other threads about this Schweinerei, there wasn’t a good place to insert this into the discussion, and for those unfamiliar, this video’s a good starting point.
UK election: TikTok users being fed misleading election news, investigation finds (www.bbc.com)
Young voters in key election battlegrounds are being recommended fake AI-generated videos featuring party leaders, misinformation, and clips littered with abusive comments, the BBC has found....
Adobe's ToS changes could be an AI overreach on user data (appleinsider.com)
Change to Adobe terms & conditions outrages many professionals - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and 'writes fiction' using AI (www.reuters.com)
Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined “Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns.”...