Failed replication of claimed superconductor reported on arxiv (arxiv.org)
[News, Call for Action] The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
The U.K. Parliament is close to passing the Online Safety Bill, which threatens global privacy by allowing backdoors into messaging services, compromising end-to-end encryption. Despite objections, no amendments were accepted. The bill also includes content filtering and surveillance measures. There’s still a chance for...
Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users (gizmodo.com)
LMAO
Alexandrite is a Beautiful Web Frontend for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)
What a newsroom police raid teaches us about encrypting our devices (freedom.press)
Summary...
‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models (www.theguardian.com)
Employees say they weren’t adequately warned about the brutality of some of the text and images they would be tasked with reviewing, and were offered no or inadequate psychological support. Workers were paid between $1.46 and $3.74 an hour, according to a Sama spokesperson.
Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China (www.theverge.com)
China forced Apple to remove any app where the developer isn’t registered in China. Meaning they asked Apple to remove 95% of the apps and games available in the App Store....
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog (blog.kagi.com)
Kagi is a paid alternative to ad-supported search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo. It has recently revised its pricing model, reducing the cost for a plan with unmetered searches from $25 per month to $10....
Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For (www.techdirt.com)
Worldcoin isn’t as bad as it sounds: It’s worse (blockworks.co)
Worldcoin’s plan to collect biometric data from poor people to bootstrap their system is unethical and raises serious privacy concerns. Their promises to protect users’ data are not enough to ensure privacy and security, and linking immutable biometric traits to financial identities could enable total identity lockout with...
Android 14 adds support for using smartphones as a webcams (www.esper.io)
AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, U.S. Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI (www.nature.com)
Mastodon's Next Major Release Enables Full-Text Search (wedistribute.org)
Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over (arstechnica.com)
EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes (www.hackingbutlegal.com)
Apparently, the Chinese government brought the hammer down on Naomi for pointing out how they spy on Signal used via a third-party keyboard on phones...
Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data (arstechnica.com)
Why did the metaverse die? Because Silicon Valley doesn’t understand the concept of fun (www.fastcompany.com)
Reddit appears to be blocking VPNs (unverified) (beehaw.org)
I’m on iOS 17.1.1 using Safari. I also have Proton VPN enabled in the states but if I try to visit any page on the website I see this:...
Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago (www.techspot.com)
The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)
For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in....
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in hospital (www.bbc.co.uk)
I hope it isn’t anything too serious. Get well soon, Woz.
ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. (www.eff.org)
Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name (www.reuters.com)
Instead of visiting r/place to drive traffic to Reddit, try out HumanShader! (humanshader.com)
This website is pretty cool. It’s a shader algorithm with the goal of rendering an image pixel by pixel, but it relies entirely on human calculation, with no computers and no calculators. Claim a pixel, and follow the instructions to calculate the Red Green and Blue values of the pixel you have claimed....
