The mobile S-curve ends, and the AI S-curve begins (archive.ph)
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rebuilt pc parts en route after 9 years
I’ve delayed making the transition to a fully “secure” set up until upgrading my PC and moving to a Linux distro from windows. now that that is happening and my parts are in the mail, what does the Lemmy community recommend for my personal network data to remain as eyes free as possible from potential hostile gov & non gov...
Capgemini to acquire Unity’s Digital Twin Professional Services arm to accelerate enterprises’ digital transformation through real-time 3D technology (www.businesswire.com)
PARIS & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Capgemini and Unity (NYSE: U), the world’s leading platform for creating and growing real-time 3D (RT3D) content, today announced an expansion of their strategic alliance that will see Capgemini take on Unity’s Digital Twin Professional Services arm. Per the agreement, Unity’s...
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything (www.ft.com)
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything::The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?
Vice Will Cease Publishing on Vice.com and Lay Off ‘Several Hundred’ Staffers, CEO Says (variety.com)
Vice Will Cease Publishing on Vice.com and Lay Off ‘Several Hundred’ Staffers, CEO Says::Vice Media Group CEO Bruce Dixon said the company will stop publishing on Vice.com and lay off “several hundred” staffers in the next week.
Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Its Content for AI: Report (www.thedailybeast.com)
Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Its Content for AI: Report::The move boosts revenue for Reddit ahead of its planned stock launch.
Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T Mobile and Verizon users, Downdetector shows (www.cnbc.com)
Cellular outage in U.S. hits AT&T, T Mobile and Verizon users, Downdetector shows::undefined
Privately built lunar lander makes history with successful moon touchdown (www.nbcnews.com)
Conservative government would require ID to watch porn: Poilievre (toronto.citynews.ca)
Conservative government would require ID to watch porn: Poilievre::OTTAWA — A future Conservative government would change the law to require that porn websites verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the content, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre signalled on Wednesday. When asked whether his government would...
[US] [EFF] NSA Spying Shirts Are Back Just In Time to Tell Congress to Reform Section 702 (www.eff.org)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging people to take action against the renewal of Section 702, a law that allows the NSA to conduct mass surveillance on US citizens....
Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. (programming.dev)
Switch to Linux!...
Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget (www.theverge.com)
Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra (www.theverge.com)
Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra::Amazon Prime Video has removed Dolby Vision HDR, and Atmos surround sound, unless you pay an extra $2.99 a month for its new ad-free option. The company has confirmed the move.
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)
an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded....
Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear (www.theregister.com)
Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear::undefined
AI Breakthrough Predicts and Prevents Plasma Disruptions in Fusion Reactors, Scientists Claims (www.vice.com)
Scientists at Princeton University have developed an AI model that can predict and prevent plasma instabilities, a major hurdle in achieving practical fusion energy....
Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data (www.theverge.com)
White House to weaken climate-fighting fuel efficiency targets for 2030 (arstechnica.com)
White House to weaken climate-fighting fuel efficiency targets for 2030::The plan faced opposition from OEMs, car dealers, and the United Auto Workers.
Firefox 123 is out with broken site reporting tool (www.ghacks.net)
3D Physically Based Rendering with Flutter - Slides from Singapore Flutter meetup (docs.google.com)
I gave a talk about my flutter_filament package, which integrates the Filament PBR renderer so you can display 3D content in Flutter applications....
It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)
Google pauses Image Generation in Gemini (newshint.in)
Chat Control May Finally Be Dead: European Court Rules That Weakening Encryption Is Illegal (tuta.com)
The EU Court ruled that “Backdoors may also be exploited by criminal networks and would seriously compromise the security of all users’ electronic communications. The Court takes note of the dangers of restricting encryption described by many experts in the field.” Any requirement to build in backdoors to encryption...
Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)
First RCS now this, today has been wild
Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women (www.theregister.com)
Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women::Employees feel frustrated by lack of communication and bosses’ inability to tell them which offices are open
