Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites (arstechnica.com)
Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry (time.com)
Google provides cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the tech giant has negotiated deepening its partnership during Israel’s war in Gaza, a company document viewed by TIME shows....
Beeper was just acquired by Automattic, which has big plans for the future of messaging (www.theverge.com)
Samsung will soon release new affordable Galaxy Watch FE smartwatches. What we know about them • (ua-stena.info)
Samsung will launch a new Galaxy Watch FE smartwatch...
The internet is dying - here's why. (yt.drgnz.club)
Why big tech companies suck right now. Looking at you Amazon, Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube… (sponsor was here)...
Best Hire Dissertation Formatting Writers (sopuli.xyz)
That is, you have given your everything to your dissertation. Therefore, whether or not you received the conviction that you were qualified to defend it is very important. You had done your homework well. You had made your research, analyzed, and formed some arguments and these were sterling. But before you hit that final submit...
Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images (www.bloomberg.com)
When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software last year, the company said the artificial intelligence model was trained mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of hundreds of millions of licensed images. Firefly, Adobe said, was a “commercially safe” alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned by...
Why AI is going to be a shitshow.
I was just watching a tiktok with a black girl going over how race is a social construct. This felt wrong to me so I decided to back check her facts....
Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly (arstechnica.com)
Kaspersky: Biden administration preparing to prevent Americans from using Russian-made software over national security concern | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)
On a huge election year for the world, Meta will shut down CrowdTangle, it's tool for election integrity observers without replacement (foundation.mozilla.org)
This is quite concerning
Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. (www.brookings.edu)
Bluesky federation goes live (bsky.social)
Apple Announces 'Groundbreaking' New Security Protocol for iMessage (www.macrumors.com)
Apple Announces ‘Groundbreaking’ New Security Protocol for iMessage::Apple today announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage called PQ3. Apple says this “groundbreaking” and…
A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco (www.theverge.com)
A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco::A Waymo car was destroyed in San Francisco as a crowd began vandalizing it and ultimately set the car on fire. Nobody was in the vehicle at the time.
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds (www.theregister.com)
Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....
A new bill wants to reveal what’s really inside AI training data (www.theverge.com)
More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs (www.androidauthority.com)
Open-Source Exploitation - David Whitney - NDC London 2024 (youtu.be)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14246943...
Mozilla Pushes Feds to Embrace Truly Open, Transparent AI Models (www.pcmag.com)
Mozilla and a host of other researchers are urging US officials to see value in open-source AI models when considering future regulation....
A Judge Can Break Up Google Right Now. Will He? (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork lie exposed! (www.youtube.com)
YouTuber Internet of Bugs examines the latest demo from Cognition that showcases their “first AI software engineer” allegedly solving UpWork programming tasks.
Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military (theintercept.com)
Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s mega-popular image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the Department of Defense build software to execute military operations, according to internal presentation materials reviewed by The Intercept. The revelation comes just months after OpenAI silently ended its prohibition against...