Asian MIT grad asks AI to make her photo more ‘professional,’ gets turned into white woman (nextshark.com)
The student ended up with a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes after her Playground AI request
Letters from the lawyers: Musk threatens CCDH with brazen attempt to silence honest criticism. — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH (counterhate.com)
“Last week we got a letter from Elon Musk’s X. Corp threatening CCDH with legal action over our work, exposing the proliferation of hate and lies on Twitter since he became the owner. Elon Musk’s actions represent a brazen attempt to silence honest criticism and independent research in the desperate hope that he can stem...
‘X’ Rebrand Gets Twitter Blocked Under Indonesia Porn Laws (www.thedailybeast.com)
Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023 (www.theregister.com)
Report says Apple is working on a 20.5-inch foldable MacBook Pro that might arrive in 2025 (www.phonearena.com)
Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act (www.techdirt.com)
Apple Says It Will Exit The UK Market If Government Passes Update To Investigatory Powers Act::Apple fought the law and – contrary to the song lyrics – it won. Years later, Apple decided it would get ahead of the law enforcement curve by attempting to engage in client-side scanning of iPhone users’ content. That worked out...
Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking (www.latimes.com)
Hollywood is on strike because CEOs fell for Silicon Valley’s magical thinking::Inspired by the success of Netflix, Hollywood studios pursued Silicon Valley-style hypergrowth with tactics borrowed from the likes of Uber and Lyft.
Renewables surprisingly "on track" to meet net zero by 2050 (newatlas.com)
Renewables surprisingly “on track” to meet net zero by 2050::undefined
Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves (arstechnica.com)
Shareholder lawsuit said Tesla board pay “grossly exceeds” corporate norms.
Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW (mashable.com)
The Olympics has moved on from Mario and Sonic (www.theverge.com)
TL;DR: to NFTs and eSports
Posit: In the future, generative A.I. will be thought of as the unconscious part of a general A.I.'s mind.
Attribute...
How does a car cigarette lighter work? (www.lumafield.com)
This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.
Conspiracy Theorists Say Global Outage Was an Attack on Trump (gizmodo.com)
Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service (arstechnica.com)
Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers (www.newscientist.com)
In case of paywall: archive.is/kZAgI
Framework Laptop 16, six months later (www.theverge.com)
Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan (youtu.be)
If you are curious whether Ubiquiti ditched the fan on the new U7 Pro Max, well, I have some bad news for you. I opened the device and this is the teardown video.
NASA selects SpaceX to build deorbit vehicle for International Space Station (www.space.com)
NASA has selected SpaceX to develop a vehicle that will bring the International Space Station to a fiery end when the time comes....
Car dealerships in North America revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider (apnews.com)
Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles (apnews.com)
Are there any third party file explorers WITH TABS for Windows?
Bleh, haven’t been here in a while. So I have a Windows 10 PC that I use for gaming and a Fedora laptop I use for everything else. I simply cannot go back to not having tabs. I don’t understand why Windows doesn’t have them by default. So help me out here.
T-Mobile Will Shield You from Internet Outages for $30 a Month (www.howtogeek.com)
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned (arstechnica.com)
‘A fine line between humor and flopping’: tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe (www.theguardian.com)
The next time you’re sitting through a company-wide meeting, half-listening to a leader drone on about updates or product launches (and hoping they don’t announce layoffs or budget cuts), remember this: at least they’re not rapping....
