TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out (www.businessinsider.com)
Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)
A System to Remove Real-World Reflections from RAW Photos (arxiv.org)
“We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking in the opposite direction, e.g., using the selfie camera on a mobile device, which helps disambiguate what should be considered the...
Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick (www.nature.com)
Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users' photos to train AI if they don't delete them (techcrunch.com)
WeTransfer beta will allow payment per download (feddit.it)
It reads: News! Set a price for your file and got the payment before they will be downloaded...
WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections | foundation.mozilla.org (foundation.mozilla.org)
The link above is for the petition...
DuckDuckGo AI Chat (duckduckgo.com)
DDG is now offering free/private AI chat using several models.
TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 (www.theregister.com)
Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' (www.thecooldown.com)
What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet (www.nytimes.com)
Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.
UK: Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones (www.bbc.com)
Raspberry Pi CM5 Forward Guidance released (pip.raspberrypi.com)
The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 will have the following features....
Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools (www.neowin.net)
TLDR: StartAllBack, ExplorerPatcher and some other projects are being blocked on 24H2....
Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System (computerhistory.org)
chatGPT login cycle
are you guys able to login these days? I’m struck with the endless login cycle on firefox and librewolf. I verify that I’m human two or three times in a row, solve the puzzle then enter the credentials but i always end up at the login page again. I tried disable ublock and umatrix in FF but with no luck.
U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users (torrentfreak.com)
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary (www.technologyreview.com)
Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation...