Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections (arstechnica.com)
The malicious changes were submitted by JiaT75, one of the two main xz Utils developers with years of contributions to the project....
Why Threads is suddenly popular in Taiwan (www.technologyreview.com)
Apparently, Twitter was quite niche and the launch of Threads coincided with a surge of interest in presidential elections, for which one party's supporters rallied on Threads which also pulled in their friends....
Discord to start showing ads in-app this week - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
In early March 2024, Discord revealed that “sponsored quests”, or ads would be added to the platform to help “support game developers” through the popular chat app....
Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft (MSFT.O) will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine.
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)
A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...
Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment (www.androidpolice.com)
Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals (arstechnica.com)
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)
Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI....
For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small (tech.slashdot.org)
Proton Pass now supports passkeys on all devices and plans: Beating Bitwarden to mobile devices (proton.me)
Passkeys are an easy and secure alternative to traditional passwords that can help prevent phishing attacks and make your online experience smoother and safer....
The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)
Generative AI Is Coming To Your Home Appliances (www.forbes.com)
Across all industries, organizations are rapidly embracing generative AI. Among them, makers of home appliances like fridges and ovens. Generative AI in your oven? Why not? Ater all, AI has been creeping into our homes for years (think smart lightbulbs and Alexa) – but thanks to generative AI, these interactions will become...
Google to delete records from Incognito tracking (www.bbc.com)
The search giant will block third party tracking by default for people searching the web in private mode.
Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment (www.androidpolice.com)
reddit users discuss its enshittification [SafeReddit mirror] (safereddit.com)
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Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab (tech.slashdot.org)
Inside the Creation of the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model (www.wired.com)
How a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet From Hell Slowed Williams' F1 Cars For Years (www.thedrive.com)
20 years of Gmail (www.theverge.com)
OpenAI's chatbot store is filling up with spam (techcrunch.com)
The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future (www.rollingstone.com)
OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices (www.nytimes.com)
First, OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see. Then, it built similar technology that generated full-motion video like something from a Hollywood movie....