A close reading of Twitter’s legal letter to Meta: a guided tour of a weak litigation letter (davidallengreen.com)
Israel’s Failure to Stop the Hamas Attack Shows the Danger of Too Much Surveillance (www.wired.com)
Essay | The Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover (www.wsj.com)
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AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study (arstechnica.com)
While LLMs have been used for… a lot, it seems like this use might be one where it’s not only reliable but it appears to outperform existing methods of image compression. Being able to cram more data into less space tends to lead to interesting developments, so I will be keeping my eye on this....
The Man Amazon Erased (www.tabletmag.com)
A man who got kicked off a service because of an alleged remark.
Microsoft to Drop Support for Third-Party Printer Drivers on Windows (petri.com)
“With the release of Windows 10 21H2, Windows offers inbox support for Mopria compliant printer devices over network and USB interfaces via the Microsoft IPP Class Driver. This removes the need for print device manufacturers to provide their own installers, drivers, utilities, and so on. Device experience customization is now...
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk’s Rebranded Twitter Cuts Ad Prices (www.wsj.com)
The Last Social Network: Your Own
I just read Cory Doctorow’s article “Let the Platform Burn”. It reminded me of something I’ve been thinking about for some time. Instead of joining yet another social network and recreating yourself, why not create your personal social network object and link it to others via a federation of the personal social network...
Peertube's moment might come soon
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NYC Mayor Announces New NYPD RoboCop That Needs a Cop to Guard It (www.vice.com)
Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI (www.theatlantic.com)
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[Corp Blog] Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking charge (www.malwarebytes.com)
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Twitter fired us then ghosted us – Africa staff (www.bbc.com)
By Nkechi Ogbonna BBC News, Lagos...
Signal may soon be getting usernames (nitter.lacontrevoie.fr)
Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more (arstechnica.com)
Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company over song lyrics (www.theguardian.com)
Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers (www.theguardian.com)
Opinion | AI Causes Real Harm. Let's Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype (www.scientificamerican.com)
Research shows snoops can decipher keystrokes during Zoom calls (techxplore.com)
Z-Library Rolls Out Browser Extensions in Anticipation of Domain Name Troubles (torrentfreak.com)
Scientists vacuumed animal DNA from the air in a forest and the results are amazing (www.earth.com)
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
Apple threatens to kill FaceTime and iMessage in the U.K (www.macworld.com)
Apple slams Android as a 'massive tracking device' in internal slides revealed in Google antitrust battle (www.theregister.com)
