There is no Black Friday - Brett Scott on cultural malware (www.asomo.co)
Mozilla hit with privacy complaint over Firefox user tracking (www.reuters.com)
STOCKHOLM, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Vienna-based advocacy group NOYB on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority against Mozilla accusing the Firefox browser maker of tracking user behaviour on websites without consent....
Reuters: OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity (www.reuters.com) Dutch
An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers - Webventures (webventures.rejh.nl)
TL;DR: iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers, it's the fundamental reason interoperability has been stymied in...
As the open social web grows, a new nonprofit looks to expand the 'fediverse' (techcrunch.com)
A new project launching today aims to capitalize on the momentum seen within the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which describes interconnected social networking services powered by the ActivityPub protocol. Co-founded by the co-author and current editor of ActivityPub, Evan Prodromou, a new nonprofit organization...
China’s AI firms are cleverly innovating around chip bans (www.economist.com)
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Israel's pager attack in Lebanon will blow back: Western tech can't be trusted anymore (youtu.be)
How we redesigned the ProleWiki homepage and what anyone can learn from it (criticalresist.substack.com)
cross-posted from: lemmygrad.ml/post/5770703...
Amazon, Tesla and Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report (www.theguardian.com)
Some of the world’s largest companies have been accused of undermining democracy across the world by financially backing far-right political movements, funding and exacerbating the climate crisis, and violating trade union rights and human rights in a report published on Monday by the International Trade Union Confederation...
Why office workers could soon be filmed all day at their desks (metro.co.uk)
These Images Of An F-22 Raptor's Crumbling Radar Absorbent Skin Are Fascinating (www.twz.com)
Cloudflare's new marketplace will let websites charge AI bots for scraping (techcrunch.com)
Delete America, GPS, and BeiDou: the Great Power Competition in satellite navigation systems (youtu.be)
China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries (itif.org)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/43060836
Exclusive: US to propose ban on Chinese software, hardware in connected vehicles, sources say (www.reuters.com)
WASHINGTON, Sept 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department is expected on Monday to propose prohibiting Chinese software and hardware in connected and autonomous vehicles on American roads due to national security concerns, two sources told Reuters....
DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: jlai.lu/post/10771034...
Tech giants push to dilute Europe's AI Act (www.reuters.com)
LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The world’s biggest technology companies have embarked on a final push to persuade the European Union to take a light-touch approach to regulating artificial intelligence as they seek to fend off the risk of billions of dollars in fines....
Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea (www.bunniestudios.com)
MAGA World’s Belief In Their Made Up Claim That Biden Is ‘Censoring’ Conservatives On Social Media May Kill KOSA (www.techdirt.com)
Qualcomm approached Intel about acquisition, report claims (www.tomshardware.com)
OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet (www.theverge.com)
Qualcomm wants to buy Intel (www.theverge.com)
Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents (www.tomshardware.com)
Alibaba releases 100+ open-source AI models and new text-to-video generator - SiliconANGLE (siliconangle.com)
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Ltd., today announced the release of more than 100 new artificial intelligence large language models open source as part of the Qwen 2.5 family of models....
How Upside-Down Models Revolutionized Architecture (www.youtube.com)
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