Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for ‘low skill, repetitive’ tasks (www.theverge.com)
OpenAI aims to make its own AI processors — chip venture in talks with Abu Dhabi investment firm: report (www.tomshardware.com)
Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts (www.zdnet.com)
Calling them “free-form ads,” Reddit said the new advertisements are its most native format ever, designed to look and feel like community content shared by real people....
evisa azerbaijan (evisa-azerbaijan.com)
“Evisa Azerbaijan: Simplify your travel plans with easy online applications for an Azerbaijan eVisa. Expedited processing guarantees swift approval, easing your entry into this culturally rich and visually captivating destination.”
Core i9-14900KS overclocked to 9.1 GHz, breaking numerous world records (www.tomshardware.com)
Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved (techcrunch.com)
AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating (arstechnica.com)
Futurism report highlights the reputational cost of publishing AI-generated content.
A.I. Is Making the Sexual Exploitation of Girls Even Worse (www.nytimes.com)
A.I. Is Making the Sexual Exploitation of Girls Even Worse::Parents, schools and our laws need to catch up to technology, fast.
The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals (www.engadget.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/7669534...
Evangelical app 'Bless Every Home' is mapping personal information of immigrants and non-Christians in a bid to conduct door-to-door religious conversions and “prayerwalking” rituals targeting them. (newrepublic.com)
It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household....
Painful day for tech titans as EU finally sinks its regulatory teeth into them (www.theguardian.com)
Cory Doctorow gets scammed (pluralistic.net)
I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.
Killed by Google / #Keen | Expand your interests (staykeen.com)
ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots (arstechnica.com)
Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature (news.itsfoss.com)
OpenAI’s GPT Is a Recruiter’s Dream Tool. Tests Show There’s Racial Bias (www.bloomberg.com)
Code used in the analysis is here
Russia's GPS jamming puts aviation, shipping at additional risk as well | News | ERR (news.err.ee)
Claude 3 launched by Anthropic — new AI model leaves OpenAI's GPT-4 in the dust (www.tomsguide.com)
Title is a bit dramatic, but yes, Claude 3 claims to be better than GPT 4 in most ways.
F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues (www.nytimes.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/2Ir4Q
Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law (www.vice.com)
IBM and NASA build language models to make scientific knowledge more accessible (research.ibm.com)
Telegram Is a 'Scammer's Paradise' Thanks to Cheap Phishing Tools (www.pcmag.com)
Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13207517...
Retiring the Mozilla Location Service (web.archive.org)
Patent infringement threat(Skyhook Holdings, Inc), lack of further investment seems to have been the reason of killing the service around 2021. It seems google location service seems to be the only player in town(other than OpenCellID, which I do not have experience with).
Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU, as did Brave. (www.theverge.com)
Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France....
