T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default (tmo.report)
Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO (www.theregister.com)
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, which had the same ultimate root cause as recent XZUtils backdoor incident (optimizedbyotto.com)
The XZ Utils backdoor, discovered last week, and the Heartbleed security vulnerability ten years ago, share the same ultimate root cause. Both of them, and in fact all critical infrastructure open source projects, should be fixed with the same solution: ensure baseline funding for proper open source maintenance.
StoreDot’s EV battery cells achieve 2,000+ consecutive XFC cycles (electrek.co)
Surveillance as a Service: The Global Impact of Israeli “Defense” Technologies on Privacy and Human Rights | Tor Project (blog.torproject.org)
China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total (www.ecowatch.com)
China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.
Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop (www.businessinsider.com)
"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI (arstechnica.com)
On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt “sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License,” and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.
Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
In A Twist, Humans Take Jobs From AI (hackaday.com)
SiFive is back with another 64-bit RISC-V dev board – hopefully (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14247376...
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)
Asking for your opinion on decentralized applications' usability (questionnaire.ink)
Hi all! I’m working on my cyber security bachelor’s thesis and am reaching out to gather insights from users who use decentralized messaging applications....
Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island (www.wired.com)
Webserver Runs On Android Phone (hackaday.com)
What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part) (www.theatlantic.com)
Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)
A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.
Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip (www.theverge.com)
Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company...
AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, Judge Says In Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now (discord.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17618684...
Disney to implement measures limiting password sharing on streaming services from June (alternativeto.net)
Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List” (theintercept.com)
The Israeli military has reportedly implemented a facial recognition dragnet across the Gaza Strip, scanning ordinary Palestinians as they move throughout the ravaged territory, attempting to flee the ongoing bombardment and seeking sustenance for their families....
A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....
