Commented - technology

USA Today and Other Newspapers Are Churning Out AI-Generated Sports Stories (futurism.com)

Lede AI, the company powering Gannett's AI sports efforts, is supplying a number of local news publishers with the same service.

Thin laptops are fucking stupid (www.reddit.com)

Apple is cutting off social media support! (en.shiftdelete.net)

Hackers Are Selling Hacked Police Emails to Try to Grab Personal Data From TikTok, Facebook (www.404media.co)

If you are a high-profile target, or is worth the trouble of your adversaries, here’s another way your personal data can leak....

The living things that feast on plastic (knowablemagazine.org)

Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known (www.yahoo.com)

Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often Than Previously Known::On the afternoon of July 2, a Southwest Airlines pilot had to abort a landing at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. A Delta Air Lines 737 was preparing to take off on the same runway. The sudden maneuver avoided a possible collision by seconds. Nine...

Justice Department Sues SpaceX for Discriminating Against Asylees and Refugees in Hiring (www.justice.gov)

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring. The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider...

AI Christian bot for looking up scripture (gonzoknows.com)

Changes to UK Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law (www.justsecurity.org)

Proposed changes to the UK Investigatory Powers Act 2016 may violate international human rights law.

Fuck GPUs

Like… seriously, why every year is now the year of semiconductor deficiency, all thanks to the increase in GPU sales? First we had problems because of cryptomining boom, now everyone wants to train their own fucking AI. Fuck you Nvidia, fuck you AMD, I just want to buy the fucking computer!!...

Tesla data breach blamed on ‘insider wrongdoing’ impacted 75,000 (www.scmp.com)

Tesla data breach blamed on ‘insider wrongdoing’ impacted 75,000::undefined

Webb Reveals Intricate Details in the Remains of a Dying Star – James Webb Space Telescope (blogs.nasa.gov)

GitLab asking for credit card (forum.gitlab.com)

I was reading this issue from LibreWolf project when I read that some of new GitLab users were asking to give credit card information....

NASA’s buildings are even older than its graying workforce | The space agency says its facilities are in an "increasing state of decline." (arstechnica.com)

NASA’s buildings are even older than its graying workforce | The space agency says its facilities are in an “increasing state of decline.”::The space agency says its facilities are in an “increasing state of decline.”

How Drones Are Helping Demine Ukraine (gizmodo.com)

HashiCorp's license change [LWN.net] (lwn.net)

How a hacking crew overtook a satellite from inside a Las Vegas convention center and won $50,000 (cyberscoop.com)

How a hacking crew overtook a satellite from inside a Las Vegas convention center and won $50,000::The first capture the flag with an real-time in-orbit satellite took place over the weekend at the DEF CON conference.

The Cyber Resilience Act is Worse than I Thought... (www.youtube.com)

We need to start talking about the Cyber Resilience Act, because according to all major Open Source organizations the CRA is a threat to Free Software itself, and it has been approved by the European Committee that was working on it.