AI Has Lost Its Magic (www.theatlantic.com)
FCC won’t block California net neutrality law, says states can “experiment” (arstechnica.com)
Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more (www.theregister.com)
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability (www.404media.co)
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety. (www.nature.com)
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web (blog.codinghorror.com)
This is a screenshot from an NPR article discussing the rising use of ad blockers. The page is 12 megabytes in size in a stock web browser. The same article with basic ad blocking turned on is 1 megabyte.
Show me how much you contribute to SponsorBlock
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Bubble Trouble (www.wheresyoured.at)
German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (blog.documentfoundation.org)
Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains (arstechnica.com)
Apple finally has a way to defeat ChatGPT | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
Facebook removed every post linking to Kansas Reflector’s website, apparently in response to an op-ed about Facebook's censorship of climate-related ads (kansasreflector.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8351513...
Google sues two crypto scammers over allegedly vast “pig butchering” scheme (arstechnica.com)
As much as I hate Google I think this lawsuit from them sets a good precedence against scammer and spammers...
Google fixes two Pixel zero-day flaws exploited by forensics firms. GrapheneOS discovered and reported these flaws. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
More Information: GrapheneOS Mastodon account
4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)
Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.
Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit. (www.reuters.com)
Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth (futurism.com)
Washington's Lottery AI site turned user photo into porn (mynorthwest.com)
TSMC “still assessing” chipmaking facilities after 7.4-magnitude quake hits Taiwan (arstechnica.com)
Google might make users pay for AI features in search results (arstechnica.com)
Google might start charging for access to search results that use generative artificial intelligence tools. That’s according to a new Financial Times report citing “three people with knowledge of [Google’s] plans.”...
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts.
I see your Termux server and raise you my iPhone - Self Post (www.floridaman7588.me)
Saw this post the other day and was inspired to make something slightly more stupid, plus it gave me an excuse to work on my website, lol
Quantum Internet: No One Needs This (www.youtube.com)
Vote to Restore Net Neutrality (www.reuters.com)
Stop enshitification 3 years ago!...
