Commented - technology

Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal (www.tomsguide.com)

Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal::The new Pika 1.0 tool comes after a $55 million funding round for the generative AI company and is a big step up in AI video production.

Jailbroken AI Chatbots Can Jailbreak Other Chatbots (www.scientificamerican.com)

Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive (arstechnica.com)

Apple will honor California's 'right to repair' rules nationwide (www.engadget.com)

Fighting pedophilia at the expense of our privacy: The EU rule that could break the internet (english.elpais.com)

US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network (www.bbc.com)

Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result (arstechnica.com)

Incorrect AI-generated answers are forming a feedback loop of misinformation online.

The Internet Is About to Get Much Worse (www.nytimes.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5400607...

Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company (torrentfreak.com)

Unity will quietly waive controversial fees if developers switch to its ad monetisation service - report (www.eurogamer.net)

A fresh report into Unity's hugely-controversial decision to start charging developers when their games are downloaded has thrown fresh light on the situation....

IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business (www.cnbc.com)

IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business::IBM will sell The Weather Company to Francisco Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum, it announced Tuesday.

YouTube Channel Linus Tech Tips’ Inaccuracies And Sexual Harassment Allegations, Explained (www.forbes.com)

Proton launches LLM and crypto wallet (proton.me)

proton.me/blog/proton-scribe-writing-assistant

People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are (gizmodo.com)

Apple Rumored to Be Working on AirPods With Built-in Cameras (gizmodo.com)

Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw (www.theregister.com)

Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in (www.theverge.com)

xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots. (github.com)

this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall’s screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.

Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI (www.theregister.com)

Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet (www.bbc.com)

Amazon's Hidden Chatbot Recommends Nazi Books and Lies About Amazon Working Conditions (www.404media.co)

An Amazon chatbot that’s supposed to surface useful information from customer reviews of specific products will also recommend a variety of racist books, lie about working conditions at Amazon, and write a cover letter for a job application with entirely made up work experience when asked, 404 Media has found.

Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 (www.pcgamer.com)

Interesting. Samsung making a bold move here, but one that could make sense.

YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions (www.businessinsider.com)

YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions::Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google’s refusal to negotiate with the union.

HP is in the rent-a-printer business now (www.theverge.com)

Friends don’t let their friends buy HP.

White House urges developers to dump C and C++ (www.infoworld.com)

White House urges developers to dump C and C++::Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.