In Indonesia, social media is a “hunting ground” for religious minorities. (restofworld.org)
Google’s new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics. (www.technologyreview.com)
Europe must end its quantum technology research with China over security and military risks of collaboration, researcher says (www.merics.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1019342...
Doing unit test generation better with LLMs and mutation testing (github.com)
Anime music piracy website closes after industry goes to court (asia.nikkei.com)
Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI (www.wired.com)
Google Open-Sources ‘Project Oscar’, An AI Agent that Enriches Issues Reports. (iblnews.org)
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Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting (www.techdirt.com)
Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting::Video game addiction. Sigh. Big sigh, even. Like, the biggest of sighs. We’ve talked about claims that video game addiction is a documentable affliction in the past, as well as the pushback that claim has received from...
CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem
This is an unpopular opinion, and I get why – people crave a scapegoat. CrowdStrike undeniably pushed a faulty update demanding a low-level fix (booting into recovery). However, this incident lays bare the fragility of corporate IT, particularly for companies entrusted with vast amounts of sensitive personal information....
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Supreme Court Dodges Key Question in Murthy v. Missouri and Dismisses Case for Failing to Connect The Government’s Communication to Specific Platform Moderation. (www.eff.org)
Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier (m.gsmarena.com)
Netflix execs needs a new jet.
UK parents should check under-18s’ phones for nude photos, says police chief (www.theguardian.com)
Microsoft Says Bye-Bye DEI, Joins Growing List Of Corporations Dismantling Diversity Teams (atlantadailyworld.com)
cross-posted from: yall.theatl.social/post/3229309...
TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/14914636
Gambling Is No Game: DNS Links Between Chinese Organized Crime and Sports Sponsorships (blogs.infoblox.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1024102...
To what extent, if at all, would have CrowdStrike's faulty update have been easier to deal with with an immutable distro?
Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)
Disney hack leads to 1.2TB of Slack communications leaked online (stackdiary.com)
In a significant data breach, hacktivist group NullBulge has infiltrated Disney’s internal Slack infrastructure, leaking 1.2TB of sensitive data. This breach, posted on the cybercrime platform Breach Forums on July 12, 2024, exposes many of Disney’s internal communications, compromising messages, files, code, and other...
Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no (www.techspot.com)
Companies are going all-in on artificial intelligence right now, investing millions or even billions into the area while slapping the AI initialism on their products, even when doing so seems strange and pointless....
Conspiracy Theorists Say Global Outage Was an Attack on Trump (gizmodo.com)
Instructions for Windows users who want have improved security without CrowdStrike (programming.dev)
Boeing and NASA engineers have wrapped up ground tests on the Starliner thruster (www.engadget.com)
OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole (www.theverge.com)
CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
