Commented - technology

The President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. (www.propublica.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/24651183...

Threads hits 175 million users on first anniversary (www.rawstory.com)

Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)

Get the BBS Scene Vibes back with Neon Modem Overdrive (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

Flying cars they said

This is a genuine first hand experience to DHL’s shoddy AI virtual assistant

Are we <INSERT_TECHNOLOGY_NAME> yet? (github.com)

Are we Wayland yet? Are we JPEG XL yet? Are we Rust yet? Are we ActivityPub yet?...

Milk-V Jupiter is a mini ITX board with a SpacemiT K1/M1 RISC-V processor - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17417754

Zuckerberg responds to Musk fight invitation: ‘Are we really doing this again?’ (thehill.com)

KnowBe4 mistakenly hires North Korean hacker, faces infostealer attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes (www.wired.com)

The great it outage of 2024 (youtube.com)

this is the British television side of things.

Google slashes Indian maps API prices – after rival's launch (www.theregister.com)

The ‘godmother of AI’ has a new startup already worth $1 billion (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism (arstechnica.com)

The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper (www.schneier.com)

The NSA has a video recording of a 1982 lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper titled “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People.” The agency is (so far) refusing to release it....

Elon Musk's X deceives users and breaches online content rules, EU says (www.cnbc.com)

USB-C cables can talk (youtu.be)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17453840...

Microsoft fixes Windows 11 bug causing reboot loops, taskbar freezes (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing restart loops and taskbar problems on Windows 11 systems after installing the June KB5039302 preview update....

Rich People Are Freezing Themselves to Stay Wealthy Forever (archive.is)

The interesting thing about this is that these people never stop to think that the future they dream off might never happen. Aside from the fact that their cryo company might just go under, they don’t ever consider that in 200 years they might just wake up under a dystopia.

As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts (www.cbsnews.com)

After all, the privacy of our mind may be the only privacy we have left.

Threads hits 175 million users after a year (www.theverge.com)

Apple agrees to stick by Biden administration's voluntary AI safeguards (www.engadget.com)

Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook. (themarkup.org)

AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems (deepmind.google)

Today, we present AlphaProof, a new reinforcement-learning based system for formal math reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our geometry-solving system. Together, these systems solved four out of six problems from this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), achieving the same level as a silver...