After its reputation went up in flames, Humane warns users its charging case may too (www.engadget.com)
RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time (arstechnica.com)
Tesla is being investigated by the DOJ for securities and wire fraud by making misleading self-driving claims (arstechnica.com)
U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users (torrentfreak.com)
Here's the full text of the “PROTECTING AMERICANS’ DATA FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARIES ACT OF 2024” currently in in the resolving difference phase before the POTUS signs it. UPDATED 4/24 for Accuracy
UPDATE: Adding Division H as well since it’s very relevant, before it was just Division I shown here...
Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn (www.rollingstone.com)
In 2023, more deepfake abuse videos were shared than in every other year in history combined, according to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh. What used to take skillful, tech-savvy experts hours to Photoshop can now be whipped up at a moment’s notice with the help of an app. Some deepfake websites even offer...
OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices (www.nytimes.com)
First, OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see. Then, it built similar technology that generated full-motion video like something from a Hollywood movie....
Mercedes is trialing humanoid robots for ‘low skill, repetitive’ tasks (www.theverge.com)
Banana Pi's $31 BPI-WiFi 6 router runs a fork of OpenWrt - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
New router with OpenWrt compatibility out of the box! It’s a fork, but of what I am reading it’s similar approach to GL.iNet routers with little work to flash a vanilla version.
Roku got hacked (www.theverge.com)
CALLED IT
HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver | Linux users can't hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort. (arstechnica.com)
HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver | Linux users can’t hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort.::Linux users can’t hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort.
[Broken clocks are still right twice a day] Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for Making Money Over Benefitting Humanity (www.rollingstone.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/9303135...
Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death (arstechnica.com)
Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death::So what are we to make of this? Is Odysseus a success or a failure?
Big Tech is extremely unimpressed by Apple’s EU App Store changes (arstechnica.com)
Cybertruck engineer pushes back on claims that Tesla EVs rust in the rain — “It's surface contamination only and can be cleaned off easily.” (www.businessinsider.com)
Cybertruck engineer pushes back on claims that Tesla EVs rust in the rain — “It’s surface contamination only and can be cleaned off easily.”::A Cybertruck engineer, Wes Morrill, addressed claims Tesla’s truck rusts in the rain and said the specks of rust were the size of a “pinhead.”
Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor (www.theregister.com)
Zuckerberg to Get $700 Million a Year From Meta’s New Dividend (www.bloomberg.com)
Zuckerberg to Get $700 Million a Year From Meta’s New Dividend::Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg stands to receive a payout of about $700 million a year from the social media giant’s first-ever dividend for investors.
After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
French regulator fines Amazon $35 million over its surveillance system of warehouse workers (techcrunch.com)
Pope calls for treaty regulating AI, warning of potential for ‘technological dictatorship’ (edition.cnn.com)
Pope calls for treaty regulating AI, warning of potential for ‘technological dictatorship’::Pope Francis has called for an international treaty to regulate the use of Artificial Intelligence, warning that the new technology risks causing a “technological dictatorship” which would threaten peace and democracy.
Social media platform X̶ Twitter suffers global outages (www.bbc.com)
Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones (gizmodo.com)
Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones::IOS 17.2 cut off Flipper Zero users running the Xtreme third-party firmware from mass-spamming popups at iPhones.
A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks (apnews.com)
A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks::A new nuclear missile is coming, a gigantic ICBM called the Sentinel. It marks the largest cultural shift in 60 years in the land leg of the Air Force’s nuclear missile mission.
Grok refuses to answer a prompt, says its a violation of the "OpenAI Policy" (stackdiary.com)
Twitter enforces strict restrictions against external parties using its data for AI training, yet it freely utilizes data created by others for similar purposes.
Dear YouTube; About that Chapter Skipping Feature
Please, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, allow us to disable this chapter skipping feature (the one where tapping left or right to bring up the scrubber, then double tapping the other direction because 100% of people want to skip that direction some unit time - 10 seconds by default). This ends up feeling random and is...