Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250 (www.404media.co)
Microsoft in $29bn back taxes dispute in US (www.bbc.com)
Bluesky CEO responds | 2023-07-22 Letter to the Community (blueskyweb.xyz)
The social media platform Bluesky recently had an incident where a user created an account with a racial slur as the handle. The Bluesky team quickly removed the account but realized they should have had automated filters in place to prevent such issues. They are now implementing a two-step automated filtering and flagging...
Wave-Powered Desalination System Produces 13,000 Gallons of Drinking Water a Day From Each Buoy (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
French authorities raid Nvidia office in antitrust investigation (www.gamesindustry.biz)
Pebble Shuts Down...But Starts a Mastodon Instance? (wedistribute.org)
38TB of data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers (www.wiz.io)
A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care — what's next? (www.nature.com)
Become ungoogleable (joeyh.name)
EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from !android...
Opinion | Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called Cancer (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
The New York Times prohibits AI vendors from devouring its content (arstechnica.com) German
The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data (www.confiant.com)
cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/1680837...
A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good? (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/hguLn...
Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)
Stanford Scientists Find That Yes, ChatGPT Is Getting Stupider - Technology - kbin.social (kbin.social)
While looking into artificial intelligence “behavior,” researchers affirmed that yes, OpenAI’s GPT-4 appeared to be getting dumber.
Tinder now lets mom pick your next date (www.theverge.com)
Linux distros vulnerable to 'Looney Tunables' root bug (www.theregister.com)
“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale (arstechnica.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/vNSJa
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)
Reporters visited booths of Worldcoin, a global blockchain project championed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong to get a better sense of who was signing up for the service and why. In all three cities, the surge of interest for registering their biometrics to the blockchain was driven primarily by...
You can make top LLMs break their own rules with gibberish (www.theregister.com)
Paper & Examples...
Windows won't dominate enterprise in a decade, says outgoing Jamf CEO (appleinsider.com)
.io considered harmful (www.beep.blog)
This story really got my blood boiling. CW: involves a forced expulsion of people
Discord file links will expire after a day to fight malware (www.theverge.com)
Apple is cutting off social media support! (en.shiftdelete.net)
