Windows 11 24H2 to enforce hardware requirement - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
Protesters Gather Outside OpenAI Headquarters after Policy Against Military Use is Quietly Removed (www.bloomberg.com)
Protesters Gather Outside OpenAI Headquarters after Policy Against Military Use is Quietly Removed::Protesters at OpenAI’s office demanded the startup cease military work. But first…
Court To Elon: No You Can’t Just Ignore The SEC’s Investigation Into Your Failure To Comply With The Law (www.techdirt.com)
New York City files a lawsuit saying social media is fueling a youth mental health crisis (abcnews.go.com)
New York City files a lawsuit saying social media is fueling a youth mental health crisis::New York City, its schools and public hospital system are suing the tech giants that run Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube
A look at Israel’s AI generated war on Gaza and the Western Governments and Tech Corporations who are invested in it. (kolektiva.social)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14443367...
Closing the Data Broker Loophole - Congress must pass legislation that prohibits government agencies from buying its way around the Fourth Amendment and other legal privacy protections. (www.brennancenter.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/closing-data-broker-loophole
Pkl - Configuration that is Programmable, Scalable, and Safe (pkl-lang.org)
Apple released a new open-source programming language, described as: Configuration that is Programmable, Scalable, and Safe....
Gun violence killed them. Now, their voices will lobby Congress to do more using AI (www.npr.org)
U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Customer Emails in Major Security Blunder (krebsonsecurity.com)
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Feds Have Warned Medicare Insurers That ‘AI’ Can’t Be Used To (Incompetently And Cruelly) Deny Patient Care (www.techdirt.com)
Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors (arstechnica.com)
Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors::OpenAI plans to defeat authors’ remaining claim at a “later stage” of the case.
Lyft shares hit 52-week high after accidently including an extra zero to one of its profit margins in an earnings statement (www.wsj.com)
Lyft shares hit 52-week high after accidently including an extra zero to one of its profit margins in an earnings statement::undefined
Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off (arstechnica.com)
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)
Oh look, Sony revoking more licenses for video content that people “bought”.
Nerd Goggle Wars Intensify As Mark Zuckerberg Rips Apple's Vision Pro (www.businessinsider.com)
Transport For London Adds AI To Its Cameras To Bust Fare Jumpers, Bike Riders (www.techdirt.com)
The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be 'worse than ever' (www.npr.org)
The Dating App Paradox: Why dating apps may be ‘worse than ever’::undefined
Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months. (skiff.com)
All skiff users have received a mail in this regard and Skiff has also tweeted about the same.
Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)
“Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...
Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire (www.tomshardware.com)
The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco (newrepublic.com)
The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco::A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.
Samsung purposely knives customer's TV to weasel out of repair (youtu.be)
Absolutely disgusting behaviour from an official Samsung technician who swipes a exacto knife on a customers TV to void his warrenty....
European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption (www.eureporter.co)
Audacity adds AI audio editing capabilities thanks to free Intel OpenVINO plugins (www.notebookcheck.net)
How much power do older mainframes need (if they're actually even run)?
I’ve never worked with major enterprise or government systems where there’s aging mainframes — the type that get parodied for running COBOL. So, I’m completely ignorant, although fascinated. Are they power hogs? Are they wildly cheap to run? Are they even run as they were back in the day?