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reddit users discuss its enshittification [SafeReddit mirror] (safereddit.com)

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The Epic Games Store is launching its iOS and Android versions later this year (alternativeto.net)

Is the Fediverse truly decentralized? Not exactly. (blog.benjojo.co.uk)

The author examined the distribution of instances in the fediverse. Given that many instances are hidden behind CDNs like Cloudflare or Fastly, the author employed ActivityPub’s functionality to discover the actual hosting locations of servers. More than half (51%) of the fediverse is hosted within a single hosting company....

X revives policy targeting deadnaming, misgendering (thehill.com)

Leap year software glitch closes fuel pumps across New Zealand (www.straitstimes.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12545090

OpenAI: 'The New York Times Paid Someone to Hack Us' * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

Judge cuts law firm's legal bill in half after it used ChatGPT to calculate "excessive" amount | ChatGPT thinks lawyers don't get paid enough, apparently (www.techspot.com)

Judge cuts law firm’s legal bill in half after it used ChatGPT to calculate “excessive” amount | ChatGPT thinks lawyers don’t get paid enough, apparently::undefined

The highest funded plagiarist is probably this AI ethicist (andreasplagiarism.wordpress.com)

Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot (arstechnica.com)

Don't tell your AI anything personal, Google warns in new Gemini privacy notice (www.zdnet.com)

Google Warns of Privacy Risks with New AI Assistant “Gemini”...

Terrorists Are Paying for Check Marks on XTwitter (www.nytimes.com)

OpenAI Gives ChatGPT a Better ‘Memory’ (www.nytimes.com)

How Mastodon made friends with Meta (www.platformer.news)

Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/11820406...

How Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages (www.cnbc.com)

Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta and hasn't fixed them (www.theregister.com)

Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs (www.nytimes.com)

Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs::undefined

AI lobbying spikes 185% as calls for regulation surge (www.cnbc.com)

AI lobbying spikes 185% as calls for regulation surge::AI-related lobbying reached new heights in 2023, with more than 450 organizations participating in the practice — a 185% increase from the year before.

UK law that could ban Apple security updates worldwide is an unprecedented overreach (9to5mac.com)

UK law that could ban Apple security updates worldwide is an unprecedented overreach::Proposed amendments to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) which could ban Apple security updates worldwide are an “unprecedented overreach,”…

Apple's rules to allow third-party app stores in the EU are not beneficial for users or developers (www.ghacks.net)

ApostrophyOS: A new privacy and security focused mobile OS (www.digitaltrends.com)

Looks like it’s taken some principles from GrapheneOS and other alternative ROMs....

Google and ATT invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service (arstechnica.com)

JPMorgan Chase fights off 45 billion hacking attempts each day (edition.cnn.com)

JPMorgan Chase fights off 45 billion hacking attempts each day::JPMorgan Chase says it has seen a sizable increase in attempts by hackers each day to infiltrate its systems over the last year, highlighting the escalating cybersecurity challenges the bank and other Wall Street titans are facing.

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