Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government (www.theverge.com)
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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....
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.”
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...
"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 …...
Google violated antitrust laws to dominate online search, rules US judge | Google (www.theguardian.com)
Leaked: Nvidia's AI Scraping Pipeline (www.404media.co)
Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats, emails, and documents obtained by 404 Media show....
China is exporting its AI surveillance state: Beijing’s trade with the developing world does not foster democracy, but appears to be doing precisely the opposite (www.taipeitimes.com)
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Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport, a small town in the UK, much worse (www.prospectmagazine.co.uk)
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New large-scale Russian disinformation campaign on TikTok aims at discrediting Ukraine’s mobilization efforts and territorial defense centers, investigation finds (texty.org.ua)
At the end of July 2024, the destructive #it’snotmyukraine was among the three most popular hashtags on the TikTok Creative Centre website, the Ukrainian media outlet Texty has found....
Codeberg versus AI Evangelist - Mastodon (social.anoxinon.de)
An interesting little back and forth between Codeberg and someone advocating for them to spend resources on AI assistants....
To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands (www.niemanlab.org)
4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!) (privacy.thenexus.today)
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid (www.theguardian.com)
Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions (news.wsu.edu)
researchers conducted experimental surveys with more than 1,000 adults in the U.S. to evaluate the relationship between AI disclosure and consumer behavior...
