The birth of id Software - In 1990, John Romero, John Carmack, and Tom Hall were working at Louisiana software maker Softdisk. There, they had an idea that would change PC games forever. (www.theverge.com)
Twitter Faces $500 Million Lawsuit for Allegedly Not Paying Employee Severance (gizmodo.com)
So where are we all supposed to go now? (www.theverge.com)
Add it all up, and the social web is changing in three crucial ways: It’s going from public to private; it’s shifting from growth and engagement, which broadly involves building good products that people like, to increasing revenue no matter the tradeoff; and it’s turning into an entertainment business. It turns out...
Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down (www.ghacks.net)
FBI and privacy hawks clash over encryption after Trump assassination attempt (www.msn.com)
The AI race’s biggest shift yet (www.theverge.com)
Apple agrees to stick by Biden administration's voluntary AI safeguards (www.engadget.com)
How ordinary failure could have a seismic effect on an industrial giant (www.bbc.com)
Earlier this year, a Boeing aircraft’s door plug fell out in flight – all because crucial bolts were missing. The incident shows why simple failures like this are often a sign of larger problems, says John Downer.
I spoke with Llama 3.1-405B (medium.com)
How a North Korean Fake IT Worker Tried to Infiltrate Security Awareness Firm KnowBe4 (blog.knowbe4.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/1094761...
Businesses are harvesting our biometric data. We need new protections (thenextweb.com)
These days, our biometric data is valuable to businesses for security purposes, to enhance customer experience or to improve their own efficiency....
Ericsson Struggles with Huawei's Dominance in European Telecom Market Despite Ban - EconoTimes (www.econotimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17999198
AVP has yet to sell 100k units (gizmodo.com)
OpenAI board shakeup: Microsoft out, Apple backs away amid AI partnership scrutiny (arstechnica.com)
How Disinformation From a Russian AI Spam Farm Ended up on Top of Google Search Results (www.wired.com)
The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again (www.openculture.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/14303847...
Remote IT management provider TeamViewer says it has been hacked, allegedly by Russian state hackers from APT29 (www.teamviewer.com)
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This cute pink blob could lead to realistic robot skin (www.engadget.com)
Elon Musk Tries to Make Nice With Advertisers at Cannes (www.thedailybeast.com)
Let Readers Read | Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)
The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery (www.bbc.com)
AI candidate running for Parliament in the U.K. says AI can humanize politics (www.nbcnews.com)
Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request (theintercept.com)
Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' (www.404media.co)
A group of hackers that says it believes “AI-generated artwork is detrimental to the creative industry and should be discouraged” is hacking people who are trying to use a popular interface for the AI image generation software Stable Diffusion with a malicious extension for the image generator interface shared on Github....
