New Samsung phones block sideloading by default (www.androidauthority.com)
Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison (www.bbc.co.uk)
Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison::Judge says hacker remains a high risk through his skills and motivation to carry out cyber-crime.
The growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warning (arstechnica.com)
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4 (blog.knowbe4.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1094761...
Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions (www.wsj.com)
Llama 3.1 is Meta's latest salvo in the battle for AI dominance (www.engadget.com)
Meta on Tuesday announced the release of Llama 3.1, the latest version of its large language model that the company claims now rivals competitors from OpenAI and Anthropic. The new model comes just three months after Meta launched Llama 3 by integrating it into Meta AI, a chatbot that now lives in Facebook, Messenger, Instagram...
Llama 3.1 AI Models Have Officially Released (llama.meta.com)
Big day for people who use AI locally. According to benchmarks this is a big step forward to free, small LLMs.
Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS (www.tomshardware.com)
Southwest Airlines, the fourth largest airline in the US, is seemingly unaffected by the problematic CrowdStrike update that caused millions of computers to BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) because it used Windows 3.1. The CrowdStrike issue disrupted operations globally after a faulty update caused newer computers to freeze and stop...
Hands On with Spacetop the AR Laptop (www.youtube.com)
Google to purge low-quality apps from the Play Store with new policy starting next month (alternativeto.net)
Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage | Euronews (www.euronews.com)
CrowdStrike offers a $10 Uber Eats apology gift card to say sorry for outage (techcrunch.com)
Intel breaks silence on 13th and 14th-gen Raptor Lake desktop CPU instability issues (www.notebookcheck.net)
Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet (www.theverge.com)
Google Pixel 9 Pro XL Packs a Punch with New Specs Unveiled in Latest Leak (www.techtimes.com)
Google packed the Pixel 9 Pro XL with a punch, as evidenced by its latest leaked specs.
Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns (gizmodo.com)
Introducing InfinipilotAI - Your AI co-pilot for macOS apps (%20 off for lemmy.world: LAUNCH20) (lemmy.world)
We’re excited to introduce InfinipilotAI, your AI co-pilot for macOS. Designed to enhance productivity, InfinipilotAI offers:...
[Reuters->Bloomberg] Hackers Leak Documents From Pentagon IT Services Provider Leidos [Charles Gorrivan | July 23 2024 | Bloomberg] (www.reuters.com)
Edit: replaced Reuters article with Bloomberg article...
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says too many carmakers are copying Tesla (www.theverge.com)
What is Firefox supposed to do? (www.spacebar.news)
There is a lot of variance in regular USB-C cables (www.youtube.com)
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Security Firm Discovers Remote Worker Is Really a North Korean Hacker (www.pcmag.com)
CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes (twiiit.com) Spanish
…according to a Twitter post by the Chief Informational Security Officer of Grand Canyon Education....
Local AI is one step closer through Mistral-NeMo 12B (www.techzine.eu)
Mistral NeMo 12B is the name of the new AI model, presented this week by Nvidia and Mistral. “We are fortunate to collaborate with the NVIDIA team, leveraging their top-tier hardware and software,” said Guillaume Lample, cofounder and chief scientist of Mistral AI. “Together, we have developed a model with unprecedented...
After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts (www.dailydot.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/kamala-twitter-account-follow-l…
