Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)
The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords (arstechnica.com)
Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard activity simulation (www.tomshardware.com)
Google to push ahead with Chrome's ad-blocker extension overhaul in earnest (www.theregister.com)
Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' (www.techradar.com)
Meta accused of trying to discredit ad researchers (www.theregister.com)
Former head of NSA joins OpenAI board (www.theverge.com)
Paul M. Nakasone stepped down as NSA director in February and will now join the company’s Sam Altman-led safety team.
What Do Neural Networks Really Learn? Exploring the Brain of an AI Model (youtu.be)
Neural networks have become increasingly impressive in recent years, but there’s a big catch: we don’t really know what they are doing. We give them data and ways to get feedback, and somehow, they learn all kinds of tasks. It would be really useful, especially for safety purposes, to understand what they have learned and...
Apple seems to have persuaded OpenAI to work for exposure (www.engadget.com)
Samsung is sunsetting Tizen and fully ending support for the smartwatch OS (9to5google.com)
‘Looks at perfectly functional Galaxy Watch 3 on my wrist’
The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap (www.nextplatform.com)
Snowden: OpenAI just went full mask off (x.com)
I personally don’t trust Snowden. Lookin at the difference between how he was treated and how Assange was treated. One guy gets to rot in prison, other guy gets movies made about him from Hollywood. Snowden is very much controlled opposition in my mind....
Why you like Apple?
Cross posted from: lemdro.id/post/9803202
Meta says European regulators are ruining its AI bot (www.theverge.com)
Meta is putting plans for its AI assistant on hold in Europe after receiving objections from Ireland’s privacy regulator, the company announced on Friday....
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)
The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...
Desk read error occurred.
What’s going on here? A week or so ago this showed up and haven’t been able to turn on my laptop since. Some hardware issue?
DC-ROMA Laptop II packs an octa-core RISC-V processor, 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu Linux - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens (www.cbsnews.com)
Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month (apnews.com)
Mozilla restores Firefox add-ons banned in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated previously banned Firefox add-ons in Russia that were designed to circumvent state censorship, such as a VPN and a tool to access Tor websites....
Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices (www.theverge.com)
The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....
Blue Origin joins SpaceX and ULA in new round of military launch contracts (arstechnica.com)
iOS 18 Hints At A Buttonless Future For iPhone 16, Improved Battery On The Horizon (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
The latest iOS 18 update strongly hints that Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 16 lineup might incorporate the highly anticipated solid-state buttons....
All three game console makers, Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony, have now abandoned X (formerly Twitter) integration (www.theverge.com)
The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas (www.theverge.com)
