Commented - technology

Apple Watch Series 10 Rumours: Expect Larger Screens, Faster Chip, But Health Features In Trouble (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

It is still unclear whether Apple will brand the new Apple Watches as unique anniversary models or wait until next year

A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too (www.nytimes.com)

Bleeding subscribers, cable companies force their way into streaming | Companies like Comcast and Charter brought about the streaming industry they now want to join (arstechnica.com)

The cable industry has been in a nose-dive for years. Comcast’s Q1 2024 earnings report showed its cable business losing 487,000 subscribers. The cable giant ended 2022 with 16,142,000 subscribers; in January, it had 13,600,000....

How does a car cigarette lighter work? (www.lumafield.com)

This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly (www.computerweekly.com)

Police could lawfully use bulk surveillance techniques to access messages from encrypted communications platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal, following a ruling by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court has heard.

North Korean hacker got hired by US security vendor, immediately loaded malware (arstechnica.com)

Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled (www.tomshardware.com)

Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.

NewPipe outage over: version 0.27.1 restores YouTube playback (github.com)

Discover Forums using the Discourse Software! (discover.discourse.org)

I spend way too much time on this. It has awesome features, a good mobile UI, maaany many systems to sort things, flexible permissions and more....

Investigation platform Bellingcat warns of ‘censorship’ on X after research on Russian attack on children's hospital in Kyiv is labeled spam (therecord.media)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/675670...

Real criminals, fake victims: how chatbots are being deployed in the global fight against phone scammers (www.theguardian.com)

Recycled Carbon Fiber Tested on Boeing MAX 9 Sidewalls (aviationweek.com)

How much is 25 lbs. of fuel savings worth to you? How much is it worth to Boeing?

Leaked WhatsApp Feature Allows Users to Create Customized Stickers Using Their Own Image (www.techtimes.com)

WhatsApp is developing an AI-powered feature allowing users to create personalized stickers using their own images. The feature is currently in beta testing and is expected to be rolled out to the public soon.

New technical framework for the European Digital Identity Wallet (eIDAS) reveals severe shortcomings, threatening user privacy and contradicting the regulation's intent, rights group says (epicenter.works)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/317047...

Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say | Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners. (www.nytimes.com)

AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature (www.nature.com)

It is now clear that generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as large language models (LLMs) is here to stay and will substantially change the ecosystem of online text and images. Here we consider what may happen to GPT-{n} once LLMs contribute much of the text found online. We find that indiscriminate use of...

Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice. (krebsonsecurity.com)

Warframe Staff Reveals Intel's 14th & 13th Gen CPUs Responsible For Instability Issues, i9-13900K Takes Up A Major Portion (wccftech.com)

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Ready to Implant a Second Volunteer (www.wired.com)

Grindr faces massive fine for allegedly sharing “sensitive” user data (www.lgbtqnation.com)

YouTube’s Rulings on Gaza War Videos Spark Internal Backlash (www.wired.com)

A month after Hamas militants from Gaza attacked an Israeli music festival last October, the Hebrew rap duo Ness & Stilla premiered “HarbuDarbu” on YouTube. The military hype song celebrates Israeli forces waging war in Gaza and has drawn over 25 million views; its critics have termed the song a violent and hateful...

Supreme Court kicks cases about tech companies’ First Amendment rights back to lower courts − but appears poised to block states from hampering online content moderation (theconversation.com)

Deleted GitHub data is forever accessible to anyone, researchers claim | Cybernews (cybernews.com)

“The implication here is that any code committed to a public repository may be accessible forever as long as there is at least one fork of that repository,” the report’s authors claim....

Despite Spending $100 billion on AI Google is still no where close to a real ai assistant | Amazon Walkout failure and no real plan for sustainable profit. (www.arktrek.shop)