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Nearly 500 Brands Exited Smartphone Market During 2017-2023 (www.counterpointresearch.com)

New study uncovers a "vicious cycle" between feeling less socially connected and increased smartphone use (www.psypost.org)

New study uncovers a “vicious cycle” between feeling less socially connected and increased smartphone use::Using smartphones for extended periods could negatively impact mental well-being and social connectedness, according to a recent study from researchers at the University of British Columbia and a media lab in Germany....

Fake naked pictures of young girls created with AI spark fury in a small Spanish town (www.businessinsider.com)

Fake naked pictures of young girls created with AI spark fury in a small Spanish town::More than 20 girls aged 11 to 17 have been identified as victims in Almendralejo, in the western Spanish region of Extremadura, reports say.

Smileys were 41 years old yesterday (mastodon.lawprofs.org)

EU regulator slaps TikTok with $368m fine for violating privacy laws (www.aljazeera.com)

TikTok fined €345m for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts (www.theguardian.com)

My reaction to "Unity plan pricing and packaging updates" (feddit.uk)

Explaining Google Chrome's new Privacy Sandbox (www.spacebar.news)

Unearthed touchscreen iMac G3 prototype evokes a very different era of Apple | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

What we know about a mysterious launch from Florida this week — The Pentagon is mum about this test launch from Cape Canaveral (arstechnica.com)

What we know about a mysterious launch from Florida this week — The Pentagon is mum about this test launch from Cape Canaveral::The Pentagon is mum about this test launch from Cape Canaveral.

Toyota says lack of disk space shut down all of its factories (asia.nikkei.com)

Toyota says lack of disk space shut down all of its factories::TOKYO (Reuters) – The malfunction that shut down all of Toyota Motor’s assembly plants in Japan for about a day last week occurred because some serve

Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here (huggingface.co)

Context: Falcon is a popular free LLM, this is their biggest model yet and they claim it’s now the best open model in the market right now.

US Air Force is toying with idea of building this Batman villain’s weapon (www.independent.co.uk)

FBI operation tricked thousands of computers infected by Qakbot into uninstalling the malware (techcrunch.com)

FBI operation tricked thousands of computers infected by Qakbot into uninstalling the malware::The U.S. government dismantled the infrastructure of the notorious Qakbot malware, which caused millions of dollars of damage.

Young professionals are turning to AI to create headshots. But there are catches (www.npr.org)

Young professionals are turning to AI to create headshots. But there are catches::undefined

T-Mobile laying off 5,000 employees (thehill.com)

T-Mobile laying off 5,000 employees::T-Mobile plans to lay off close to 5,000 employees, about 7 percent of its workforce, by the end of September, the company’s president and CEO said in an email to employees Thursday. The layoffs will primarily affect corporate, back-office and technology roles, while retail and other...

Websites for file transfer without downloading additional software or apps (megatech.ng)

Google announces new algorithm that makes FIDO encryption safe from quantum computers (arstechnica.com)

Recently, the government was hacked. As a result, I created a blog post detailing how this occurred. (opsecguardian.com)

Do i missed anything HAHA?

How do I or someone else audit graphineos updates, Drama?

For context, this video got me a little spooked about my current OS, I never was super comfortable with their “overnight update” style despite it being more secure. How do they prevent unsafe binaries from a rouge employee being pushed to the device, deviating from / hidden in its open source roots, I know manually...

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