Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack (arstechnica.com)
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack::UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images.
Misinformation expert says she was fired by Harvard under Meta pressure (www.theguardian.com)
Misinformation expert says she was fired by Harvard under Meta pressure::Joan Donovan says funding was cut off for criticizing Meta when university was receiving $500m from Mark Zuckerberg’s charity
If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. (lemmy.world)
If you, like me, live in the EU, Facebook is now entirely clamping down and forcing free users to make their personal data available for monetization....
India reveals that it has returned lunar spacecraft to Earth orbit | India now credibly has the third most advanced deep-space program in the world. (arstechnica.com)
India reveals that it has returned lunar spacecraft to Earth orbit | India now credibly has the third most advanced deep-space program in the world.::India now credibly has the third most advanced deep-space program in the world.
Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! (odysee.com)
Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor (www.wired.com)
Direct Macro (discuss.tchncs.de)
Direct Macro unveils a steadfast technological ally, resolute in delivering avant-garde and dependable solutions tailored to address the panorama of your varied requirements. A steadfast commitment to quality and performance underscores our expansive array of state-of-the-art offerings 400-aemm Internal Hard Drive to elevate...
Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos (arstechnica.com)
"Imagine with Meta AI" turns prompts into images, trained using public Facebook data.
Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI's power to mislead (apnews.com)
Fake babies, real horror: Deepfakes from the Gaza war increase fears about AI’s power to mislead::Among images of the bombed out homes and ravaged streets of Gaza, some stood out for the utter horror: Bloodied, abandoned infants.
Navigating Your Vehicle Purchase Safely: The Comprehensive Guide to Car Pre-Purchase Inspections (discuss.tchncs.de)
Purchasing a car is often a thrilling experience, but it’s crucial not to let the excitement overshadow the necessity for a comprehensive pre-purchase inspection. In Qatar, Service My Car stands as a beacon of trust and reliability in ensuring that your potential vehicle isn’t just visually appealing but mechanically sound....
Cable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we charge (arstechnica.com)
Cable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we charge::ISPs are scared about the FCC’s plan to measure broadband affordability.
Arch and other Linux operating systems Beat Windows 11 in Gaming Benchmarks (www.tomshardware.com)
Arch and other Linux operating systems Beat Windows 11 in Gaming Benchmarks::ComputerBase benchmarked three different Linux operating systems and found that all three can achieve better gaming performance than Windows 11.
The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
Big AI Commons (blog.erlend.sh)
Some excerpts:...
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data (arstechnica.com)
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data::Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests.
What should I do with old electronics?
I got a box full of a bunch of stuff from over the years. Some big, some small, some expensive, some cheap. It seems like a shame to throw it all in a landfill, with or without personal data.
New report illuminates why OpenAI board said Altman “was not consistently candid” (arstechnica.com)
Hands-on with Gemini: Interacting with multimodal AI (www.youtube.com)
Gemini is Google’s natively multimodal AI model capable of reasoning across text, images, audio, video and code. This video highlights some of their favorite interactions with Gemini. Learn more and try the model: deepmind.google/gemini
Progressive Web Apps vs Native Apps
what is the best option for a Chromebook system?? I own a Chromebook but I don’t know what to choose, I can install Linux apps and they’re native and can be used offline, but Progressive Web Apps are smaller in storage!! So that’s nice too, I don’t know, I hope that in the future native apps will still exist.
Thieves return Android phone when they realize it's not an iPhone (9to5mac.com)
Thieves return Android phone when they realize it’s not an iPhone::A man in Washington, D.C. last month was the victim of an armed robbery in which the thieves stole “everything…
ASD jab: Chinese scientists reach milestone in revolutionary gene therapy for autism (www.scmp.com)
ASD jab: Chinese scientists reach milestone in revolutionary gene therapy for autism::undefined
Twitch to shut down in Korea over ‘prohibitively expensive’ network fees (techcrunch.com)
Twitch to shut down in Korea over ‘prohibitively expensive’ network fees::Twitch, the popular video streaming service, plans to shut down its business in South Korea on February 27 after finding that operating in one of the Twitch plans to shut down its business in South Korea after network costs became “prohibitively...