Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters (arstechnica.com)
Australian federal police using AI to analyse data obtained under surveillance warrants (www.theguardian.com)
The AFP’s use of AI has been limited so far but the agency hopes the technology will help police identify money laundering and potential fraud
Microsoft AI team accidentally leaks 38TB of private company data (mashable.com)
Canadian-founded Rumble rejects British government request on Russell Brand content (www.cbc.ca)
Canadian-founded Rumble rejects British government request on Russell Brand content::undefined
Two Vegas casinos fell victim to cyberattacks, shattering the image of impenetrable casino security (apnews.com)
Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews (www.engadget.com)
Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews::Yelp has a new tool to help people track businesses that have tried to manipulate their standing on the review platform…
Cisco buying cybersecurity company Splunk for $28B (www.splunk.com)
Cisco on Thursday announced an agreement to buy cybersecurity and observability company Splunk for about $28 billion....
Humble Bundle expressing their feelings about Unity (lemmy.today)
Tesla is the next biggest union target in the United States. Sorry, Elon Musk (www.theguardian.com)
First automatic JPEG-XL cloud service (www.gumlet.com)
JPEG 's conspicuous issues like lack of transparency, animation, lossless compression and high bit depth support makes it little tough to justify it as leading format for time to come. Various attempts like WebP and AVIF are made (and are supported on modern browsers) to overcome problems of JPEG but they all also suffer some...
One of the FBI’s most wanted hackers is trolling the U.S. government | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
One of the FBI’s most wanted hackers is trolling the U.S. government | TechCrunch::Russian hacker Mikhail Matveev is making T-shirts featuring his FBI most wanted poster, and asking his followers if they want to buy merch.
The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it (www.space.com)
Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is “noctalgia.” In general, it means “sky grief,” and it captures the collective pain...
Uber: EU rules will see us pull out of “hundreds” of European cities — Brussels’ proposal to classify gig workers as de facto employees could slam the breaks on operations across the bloc (www.cityam.com)
Uber: EU rules will see us pull out of “hundreds” of European cities — Brussels’ proposal to classify gig workers as de facto employees could slam the breaks on operations across the bloc::An Uber boss has issued a stark warning that Brussels’ proposal to classify gig workers as de facto employees could slam the breaks...
Mastodon 4.2 - Mastodon Blog (blog.joinmastodon.org)
Intel is making progress on a handy new material for building even bigger computer chips: glass (www.pcgamer.com)
Microsoft AI team accidentally leaks 38TB of private company data (mashable.com)
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Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike (www.vice.com)
Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike::In an email obtained by Motherboard, Google tells YouTube Music workers it will “not be participating in collective bargaining.”
Google sued for negligence after man drove off collapsed bridge while following map directions (abcnews.go.com)
What the most ‘Chinese’ smartphone yet tells us about politics | Financial Times (www.ft.com)
From the author of Chip War:...
The GNU Project turns 40 this month (www.theregister.com)
US rejects AI copyright for famous state fair-winning Midjourney art (arstechnica.com)
Controversial AI art piece from 2022 lacks human authorship required for registration.
SBF’s parents were given $16.4M house paid for entirely by FTX, lawsuit says — FTX sues Bankman and Fried to claw back millions “siphoned” (arstechnica.com)
SBF’s parents were given $16.4M house paid for entirely by FTX, lawsuit says — FTX sues Bankman and Fried to claw back millions “siphoned”::FTX sues Bankman and Fried to claw back millions “siphoned” from crypto firm.
Elon Musk: X/Twitter to charge all users with monthly subscription fees (www.axios.com)
Elon Musk: X/Twitter to charge all users with monthly subscription fees::undefined
Any good tech sites without the fluff?
I am looking for some good tech sites that have longer articles and indepth reviews. Preferably without an obvious biased towards a particular company or brand. edit: I should have clarified what to was looking for. I would like to compile a list of lesser-known but useful websites so that I can stay current on tech news without...
DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI. (www.technologyreview.com)
DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI.::DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat. In a recent conversation I had with him, he told me that generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI: bots that can carry...
