Meet Window Snyder, the trailblazer who helped secure the internet and billions of devices (techcrunch.com)
“For 25 years, Window has been quietly changing the security industry with her pioneering work at Apple, Mozilla, Fastly, and Intel, among others....
Bitwarden passkey support starts rolling out through the browser extension (www.androidpolice.com)
AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices (www.scientificamerican.com)
After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers
HBO CEO Confesses to Trolling Critics With Fake Tweets: ‘Dumb Idea’ (www.rollingstone.com)
HBO CEO Confesses to Trolling Critics With Fake Tweets: ‘Dumb Idea’::Casey Bloys confirmed Rolling Stone’s report that he ordered staff to create fake accounts to fire back at critics during a press event.
WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’ (www.theguardian.com)
WhatsApp’s AI shows gun-wielding children when prompted with ‘Palestine’::By contrast, prompts for ‘Israeli’ do not generate images of people wielding guns, even in response to a prompt for ‘Israel army’
Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’ (www.theguardian.com)
Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry
New videos of Tesla Cybertruck off-roading appear to show it struggling to climb up a steep dirt hill (www.msn.com)
New videos of Tesla Cybertruck off-roading appear to show it struggling to climb up a steep dirt hill::One video showed a 1946 Jeep CJ-2A successfully navigating the same hill that the Cybertruck struggled to summit.
Scientists make breakthrough in research that could change the way our homes are constructed: mycocrete (finance.yahoo.com)
Scientists make breakthrough in research that could change the way our homes are constructed: mycocrete::Soon, we could be living like gnomes.
The people who ruined the internet (www.theverge.com)
Apple shows its 'massive battleship' is getting tougher to move (www.marketwatch.com)
Apple shows its ‘massive battleship’ is getting tougher to move::Apple’s $89.5 billion in quarterly revenue is nothing to sneeze at, but it also illustrates some of the challenges of being a mature company.
Apple slides from 2013 skewer Android as “a massive tracking device” (arstechnica.com)
Max users grandfathered into $15.99 ad-free plan lose 4K, HDR next month (arstechnica.com)
Max users grandfathered into $15.99 ad-free plan lose 4K, HDR next month::Number of devices you can stream from simultaneously is decreasing, too.
Tech bros' attitude to female colleagues stuck in dark ages (www.theregister.com)
Tech bros’ attitude to female colleagues stuck in dark ages::Research sheds light on attitudes holding industry back
How engineering leaders can use AI to optimize performance | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Indian CEOs (sh.itjust.works)
Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC (www.reuters.com)
In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one (www.theregister.com)
YouTube Wants to Stop Sending Kids Down the Rabbit Hole of Eating Disorder Videos. (finance.yahoo.com)
YouTube Wants to Stop Sending Kids Down the Rabbit Hole of Eating Disorder Videos.::YouTube announced a new effort to curb its own recommendation algorithms to protect teenagers from the rabbit hole of videos that could inspire eating disorders, body image problems, violence, and other problems. The new initiative comes amidst a...
Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’ (www.theguardian.com)
Model says her face was edited with AI to look white: ‘It’s very dehumanizing’::Shereen Wu says leading designer uploaded altered picture, amid fears AI could ‘turn back the clock’ on progress in the industry
No Coding Required: A Step-by-Step Guide to Scraping Websites With Data Miner – Global Investigative Journalism Network (gijn.org)
Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO (arstechnica.com)
Baker’s testimony shows that Mozilla depends so much on its deal with Google for revenue that “the biggest loser of a DOJ win in the Google case would be Mozilla.”
YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers (www.theverge.com)
YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers::YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers. In a statement to The Verge, YouTube’s Christopher Lawton says the company has launched a “global effort” to urge people to allow ads on the platform.