Reddit's licensing deal means Google's AI can soon be trained on the best humanity has to offer — completely unhinged posts (www.businessinsider.com)
A closer look on OpenAI's Sora (youtu.be)
How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk. (www.theverge.com)
How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk.::The Kids Online Safety Act, moving through Congress, presents serious privacy issues for adults and could hurt the kids it aims to protect, too.
A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months (www.theverge.com)
ATT’s botched network update caused yesterday’s major wireless outage (arstechnica.com)
Match Group inks deal with OpenAI, says press release written by ChatGPT | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
'You're an amazing father, Elon': Musk accused of running burner on X again—and nuking account who outed him (www.dailydot.com)
Conservative MP Says He Trusts Porn Companies Won’t Leak Digital IDs of Canadians Who Visit Porn Websites (pressprogress.ca)
Conservative MP Says He Trusts Porn Companies Won’t Leak Digital IDs of Canadians Who Visit Porn Websites::Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives voted to introduce digital IDs for porn users
More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities (www.techradar.com)
More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities::Phison quietly revealed an updated X2 SSD platform at CES
Reddit admits more moderator protests could hurt its business | Losing third-party tools "could harm our moderators’ ability to review content..." (arstechnica.com)
Reddit admits more moderator protests could hurt its business | Losing third-party tools “could harm our moderators’ ability to review content…”::Losing third-party tools “could harm our moderators’ ability to review content…”
Can AI help us predict extreme weather? (youtu.be)
AT&T’s botched network update caused yesterday’s major wireless outage (arstechnica.com)
AT&T’s botched network update caused yesterday’s major wireless outage::AT&T blamed itself for “incorrect process used as we were expanding our network.”
Elon Musk Says First Neuralink Patient Can Move Computer Cursor With Mind (singularityhub.com)
Yelp: It’s gotten worse since Google made changes to comply with EU rules (arstechnica.com)
Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price (gizmodo.com)
Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price::In its IPO documents, Reddit said the price and volume of its stock could “experience extreme volatility for reasons unrelated to our underlying business.”
The top 7 bestselling phone models of 2023 are all iPhones (arstechnica.com)
The top 7 bestselling phone models of 2023 are all iPhones::Every currently sold iPhone makes the top seven, except the iPhone SE.
Someone made a GPT-like chatbot that runs locally on Raspberry Pi, and you can too (www.xda-developers.com)
Twitter security staff kept firm in compliance by disobeying Musk, FTC says (arstechnica.com)
Twitter security staff kept firm in compliance by disobeying Musk, FTC says::Lina Khan: Musk demanded “actions that would have violated the FTC’s Order.”
X suspends account of Navalny's wife (news.sky.com)
X suspends account of Navalny’s wife::The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account restored after it was briefly suspended for unknown reasons. Meanwhile, his brother has been put on Russia’s wanted list. Listen to a Daily podcast special on the Russian opposition after Navalny’s death as you scroll.
Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
Korea slaps $327,067 fine on Twitch for suspending service::The Korean telecommunications watchdog said Friday it has slapped a fine of 435 million won ($327,067) on the U.S. live video streaming platform Twitch, which suspended its video-on-demand (VOD) service in the country last year.
Greener ‘water batteries’ a step closer (www.theguardian.com)
"Tony Delivers" - just order your food and send him a screenshot (piefed.social)
https://seattle.eater.com/2024/2/21/24079162/tony-delivers-seattle-delivery-app-fees-downtown...
Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was 'woke' (www.businessinsider.com)
Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was ‘woke’::After users complained Google’s Gemini had gone “woke,” the company said it will pause the image-generating feature of people while working on fixes.