Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year (qz.com)
Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year::Worse than Etsy. Worse than Boeing. Simply the worst
How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
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Qualcomm CEO says that the next version of Windows is due in mid 2024 - place your bets on Windows 11 24H2 or Windows 12 (www.tomshardware.com)
Qualcomm CEO says that the next version of Windows is due in mid 2024 - place your bets on Windows 11 24H2 or Windows 12::Qualcomm’s CEO alludes to the “next version of Windows” with a launch date in the middle of the year.
🚨SIGNIFICANT, POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT🚨The European Mathmatical Society working with research libraries have found a way to make ALL of the research journals they publish open access, with no APC (mastodon.world)
The problem with standalone VR and "spatial computing" (www.spacebar.news)
The Icon Factory has a kickstarter fund for an app that would wrangle your feeds on iOS (www.kickstarter.com)
Tapestry would pull your many feeds together and sort them by timeline....
Weaver: New Specialised Writing LLMs Outperform GPT-4 (arxiv.org)
Weaver introduces a new family of specialised large language models tailored for creative and professional writing. Offering models ranging from 1.8B to 34B parameters, said to outperform larger generalist models like GPT-4 by focusing on human-like text production and diverse content creation capabilities.
Microsoft endorses anti-LGBTQ online "child safety" bill KOSA night before Big Tech hearing (US Politics) (gazette.com)
cross-posted from: infosec.exchange/users/…/111847834655628571...
Republicans in Congress try to kill FCC’s broadband discrimination rules (arstechnica.com)
Republicans in Congress try to kill FCC’s broadband discrimination rules::Over 65 Republicans file resolution of disapproval, while lobby groups sue FCC.
Bodycam Maker Axon has acquired AI surveillance company Fusus amid a push into retail and healthcare settings (www.vice.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/axon-acquires-fusus-ai-surveill…
Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say extreme content being pushed on young people and becoming normalised
Workaround helps improve gaming performance on outdated Intel CPUs — Resizable Bar UEFI mod works with CPUs as old as Sandy Bridge (www.tomshardware.com)
Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs (www.404media.co)
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3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet. (jezebel.com)
3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.::The misleadingly-named Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) just got a boost from Silicon Valley.
Chinese consumers unimpressed by Samsung phones powered by Baidu AI (www.scmp.com)
For those who lurk on Reddit - my read-only, ad-free, open source Reddit viewer RDX is better than ever now (rdx.overdevs.com)
I am posting the updates here because most of the users of RDX came from this community only....
Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules (arstechnica.com)
Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules::Google and Mozilla want iOS’s new EU browser rules to apply worldwide.
Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
After almost a year as an invite-only app, Bluesky is now open to the public. Funded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bluesky is one of the more promising micro-blogging platforms that could provide an alternative to Elon Musk’s X....
First functional human brain tissue produced through 3D printing (interestingengineering.com)
First functional human brain tissue produced through 3D printing::undefined
Vivaldi explains why they will not embed LLM functionality in their browser (vivaldi.com)
'Betrayed' SAP workers rebel against forced office return (www.euronews.com)
‘Betrayed’ SAP workers rebel against forced office return::The German software giant has changed direction, and more than 5,000 employees have signed an internal petition saying they feel ‘betrayed’.
Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.
Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback (finance.yahoo.com)
Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback::(Bloomberg) – Boeing Co. found more mistakes with holes drilled in the fuselage of its 737 Max jet, a setback that could further slow deliveries on a critical program already restricted by regulators over quality lapses. Most Read from BloombergWhy NYC Apartment...
Gen Z is choosing not to drive (www.newsweek.com)
Gen Z is choosing not to drive::Less Gen Z Americans own a driver’s license than previous generations, according to consulting firm McKinsey.
MIT PhD Student Hacks Apple Vision Pro Days After Release, Reveals Potential Jailbreaks And Malware Threats (in.mashable.com)
MIT PhD Student Hacks Apple Vision Pro Days After Release, Reveals Potential Jailbreaks And Malware Threats::Student Hacks Apple Vision Pro
