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The End of AppleTalk - August 28th, 2009 (en.wikipedia.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/392224...

Republicans Are Fooling Democrats on Kids’ Online Safety. (newrepublic.com)

Republicans Are Fooling Democrats on Kids’ Online Safety.::A bill before Congress would help the far right advance its ideological war—but Democrats apparently haven’t noticed or don’t care.

The Cheap Radio Hack That Disrupted Poland's Railway System (www.wired.com)

Apple quotes customer $1075 to replace every part BESIDES the bad one 🤣 (www.youtube.com)

He discussing another right-to-repair story and how apple’s genius bars are scamming people - Laptop owner baffled over two very different repair quotes www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdr5RKi75NI

Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars (www.npr.org)

Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars::undefined

Is an end to using imperiled horseshoe crabs for U.S. drug testing in sight? (www.science.org)

Steam condenser coating could save 460 million tons of carbon dioxide annually (techxplore.com)

Steam condenser coating could save 460 million tons of carbon dioxide annually:: If coal and natural gas power generation were 2% more efficient, then every year, there could be 460 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide released and 2 trillion fewer gallons of water used. A recent innovation to the steam cycle used in fossil fuel...

Major websites like Amazon and the New York Times are increasingly blocking OpenAI's web crawler GPTBot (www.businessinsider.com)

Major websites like Amazon and the New York Times are increasingly blocking OpenAI’s web crawler GPTBot::Companies like Amazon and The New York Times are rushing to prevent ChatGPT from collecting their data.

Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can't keep up (www.businessinsider.com)

Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can’t keep up::Social media is being flooded with spammy AI content. Research by Indiana University details how artificial intelligence is being used to scam people on social media platforms.

API Misuse: Hacker Leaks 2.6M Duolingo Users' Emails & Names (www.hackread.com)

Leo, Brave's browser-native AI assistant, is now available in Nightly version for testing (brave.com)

Introducing Stable-Diffusion.cpp (Inference in Pure C/C++)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3549390...

Adobe Co-Founder Dr. John Warnock Passes at 82 (news.adobe.com)

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)-- It is with profound sadness that Adobe shares the passing of the company’s beloved co-founder Dr. John Warnock. Dr. Warnock passed away on Saturday surrounded by his family....

With HR 3557, Broadband Monopolies Are Pushing A Bill That Would Crush Your Town’s Ability To Stand Up To Them (www.techdirt.com)

AI will be at the center of the next financial crisis, SEC chair warns (www.axios.com)

CEO regrets her firm took on Facebook moderation work after staff ‘traumatised’ (www.theguardian.com)

Lightyear, the Dutch solar car maker goes back in business after restructuring caused by bankruptcy (insideevs.com)

The data of 760,000 Discord.io users was put up for sale on the darknet (stackdiary.com)

An unidentified individual has listed the data of 760,000 Discord.io users for sale on a darknet forum. This discovery was brought to light by the “Information Leaks” Telegram channel, associated with the Russian service for tracking vulnerabilities, data leaks, and monitoring fraudulent online resources....

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