Modder is hosting his personal website on a 40-year-old IBM PCjr (www.techspot.com)
Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
Wind and solar unbeatable for low cost new electricity (cosmosmagazine.com)
Wind and solar unbeatable for low cost new electricity::Onshore wind and solar photovoltaic technologies have maintained their position as the lowest cost form of new electricity generation, despite global supply
The NYPD is testing drones that broadcast public safety warnings during emergencies (www.theverge.com)
Threads collects so much sensitive information it’s a ‘hacker’s dream,’ experts say (archive.today)
The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree....
TikTok’s new program aims to identify rising artists in the music industry (techcrunch.com)
very Reddit way of dealing with ending awards and coins. (lemmy.world)
It’s graphically very pretty, at least, and I’m gonna miss the place.
How to Redeem Social Media (www.theatlantic.com)
New AI/LLM Breakthrough - FlashAttention: Fast and Memory-Efficient Exact Attention with IO-Awareness
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1709025...
I made a website called ConspiracyTheoryGenerator
The website generates conspiracy theories using gpt. You need an openai api key to use it. You can generate conspiracy theories with specific themes. The website...
Anonymous puts Taiwan flag, national anthem on 2 UN websites (www.taiwannews.com.tw)
Anonymous puts Taiwan flag, national anthem on 2 UN websites::Collective hacks UN to protest Google inactive account policy, Russia’s nuclear threats against Ukraine | 2023-07-18 09:56:00
JumpCloud, an IT firm serving 200,000 orgs, says it was hacked by nation-state (arstechnica.com)
“Extremely targeted” attack involved a data injection into JumpCloud’s commands framework.
In Praise of Phone Numbers (www.theatlantic.com)
Most outsourced coders in India will be gone in 2 years due to A.I., Stability AI boss predicts (www.cnbc.com)
Most outsourced coders in India will be gone in 2 years due to A.I., Stability AI boss predicts::Most outsourced programmers in India will see their jobs wiped out in the next year or two, Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque said.
Owner of BreachForums Pleads Guilty to Cybercrime and Child Pornography Charges (thehackernews.com)
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the now-defunct BreachForums website, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his operation of the cybercrime forum as well as having child pornography images.
Meta unveils new AI data centers and supercomputer to power AI-first future (venturebeat.com)
At the AI Infra @ Scale event today — a one-day virtual conference hosted by Meta’s engineering and infrastructure teams — the company announced a series of new hardware and software projects that aim to support the next generation of AI applications. The event featured speakers from Meta who shared their insights and...
Microsoft brings Bing Chat to the enterprise (techcrunch.com)
At its annual Inspire conference, Microsoft unveiled Bing Chat Enterprise, a version of Bing Chat with business-focused data privacy and governance controls. With Bing Chat Enterprise, chat data isn’t saved, Microsoft can’t view a customer’s employee or business data and customer data isn’t used to train the underlying...
Reddit nukes everyone’s pre-2023 chats and messages (www.androidpolice.com)
Reddit nukes everyone’s pre-2023 chats and messages::Shooting itself in the foot again
LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service” (www.theregister.com)
LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”::Subscription fatigue is a thing and regulators are circling, but Korean giant reckons you’re ready to cough up after buying hardware
Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert (www.businessinsider.com)
Children addicted to video games ran away from home in the middle of the night to find WiFi when parents turned their internet connection off, says expert::Children have been found sitting by the front door of random homes, desperately trying to tap into the owner’s WiFi connection.
Threads Usage Drops By Half From Initial Surge (www.similarweb.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/560250...
An email typo has reportedly sent millions of US military messages to Mali (www.engadget.com)
‘This risk is real and could be exploited by adversaries of the US,’ warned the Dutch whistleblower who discovered them.
For this who aren’t aware, Memmy for lemmy is now available in the app store [iOS]
❤️🔥 🎇 It’s finally here! And it will live on my home screen just like Apollo used to do. 🔥 ❤️🔥...
Tesla directors agree to return $735 million following claims they were massively overpaid (www.engadget.com)
Tesla directors agree to return $735 million following claims they were massively overpaid::Elon Musk, Larry Ellison and other current and former members of Tesla’s board of directors will return $735 million to settle claims that they massively overpaid themselves…