Disturbing AI Images of Children Found for Sale on Shutterstock (petapixel.com)
Someone used Shutterstock's AI image generator to create them.
Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”::Tyler Perry is raising the alarm about the impact of OpenAI’s Sora on Hollywood.
Bring us the head of LockBit! $15 million bounty offered for information on leaders of notorious ransomware gang (www.tripwire.com)
70,000 ATT customers are without service across the US (arstechnica.com)
We made "ding" sounds in Microsoft Teams when people join a call (frameable.com)
Meet the Super DVD: Scientists Develop Massive 1 Petabit Optical Disk (gizmodo.com)
Note: Unfortunately the research paper linked in the article is a dead/broken/wrong link. Perhaps the author will update it later....
Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy (arstechnica.com)
Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy::“Cox did not profit from its subscribers’ acts of infringement,” judges rule.
FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers (techcrunch.com)
Twitch warns US sub price increases “extremely likely” after international updates (www.dexerto.com)
Twitch warns US sub price increases “extremely likely” after international updates::undefined
Breaking: Google announces cancellation of Gmail (sopuli.xyz)
Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch::Google is testing a feature that places a call to a business , waits on hold and then give you a call once a representative is available.
Intel separates Product and Foundry lines, updates its process roadmap and announces Microsoft partnership (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
The mobile S-curve ends, and the AI S-curve begins (archive.ph)
TLDR...
Capgemini to acquire Unity’s Digital Twin Professional Services arm to accelerate enterprises’ digital transformation through real-time 3D technology (www.businesswire.com)
PARIS & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Capgemini and Unity (NYSE: U), the world’s leading platform for creating and growing real-time 3D (RT3D) content, today announced an expansion of their strategic alliance that will see Capgemini take on Unity’s Digital Twin Professional Services arm. Per the agreement, Unity’s...
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything (www.ft.com)
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything::The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?
Vice Will Cease Publishing on Vice.com and Lay Off ‘Several Hundred’ Staffers, CEO Says (variety.com)
Vice Will Cease Publishing on Vice.com and Lay Off ‘Several Hundred’ Staffers, CEO Says::Vice Media Group CEO Bruce Dixon said the company will stop publishing on Vice.com and lay off “several hundred” staffers in the next week.
Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Its Content for AI: Report (www.thedailybeast.com)
Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Its Content for AI: Report::The move boosts revenue for Reddit ahead of its planned stock launch.
Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T Mobile and Verizon users, Downdetector shows (www.cnbc.com)
Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T Mobile and Verizon users, Downdetector shows::undefined
Privately built lunar lander makes history with successful moon touchdown (www.nbcnews.com)
Conservative government would require ID to watch porn: Poilievre (toronto.citynews.ca)
Conservative government would require ID to watch porn: Poilievre::OTTAWA — A future Conservative government would change the law to require that porn websites verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the content, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre signalled on Wednesday. When asked whether his government would...
[US] [EFF] NSA Spying Shirts Are Back Just In Time to Tell Congress to Reform Section 702 (www.eff.org)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging people to take action against the renewal of Section 702, a law that allows the NSA to conduct mass surveillance on US citizens....
Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget (www.theverge.com)
Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra (www.theverge.com)
Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra::Amazon Prime Video has removed Dolby Vision HDR, and Atmos surround sound, unless you pay an extra $2.99 a month for its new ad-free option. The company has confirmed the move.
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)
an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded....
Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear (www.theregister.com)
Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear::undefined
