Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit. (www.reuters.com)
Qualcomm quietly demos Baldur’s Gate 3 and Control on Snapdragon X Elite laptops (www.theverge.com)
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Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on X? (nymag.com)
Spam is hard. No real platform has solved it completely, and none ever will. Spammers evolve, platforms catch up, spammers evolve again, and so on until the last post is posted and the last user signs out. Individual spam tactics, however, do tend to have short lives, and while PIB won’t be with us forever, it’s notable that...
First Human to Receive Neuralink Implant Says It Lets Him Play Civilization VI (www.pcmag.com)
Apple to allow iOS app downloads direct from websites in the EU (with restrictions), in compliance with the Digital Markets Act (www.pcmag.com)
Developers interested in distributing iOS apps on their websites also have to cross a high bar. This includes being registered or incorporated in the EU, being a member of “good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more,” and having an app that received “more than one million first annual...
Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet (www.nature.com)
X walks back its misgendering policy after right-wing complaints (www.engadget.com)
Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”::Tyler Perry is raising the alarm about the impact of OpenAI’s Sora on Hollywood.
Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was 'woke' (www.businessinsider.com)
Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was ‘woke’::After users complained Google’s Gemini had gone “woke,” the company said it will pause the image-generating feature of people while working on fixes.
Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget (www.theverge.com)
Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data (www.theverge.com)
Apple's next generation CarPlay allows auto manufacturers to license the OS | Don't look now but Apple is back to licensing an operating system after decades (www.techspot.com)
Apple’s next generation CarPlay allows auto manufacturers to license the OS | Don’t look now but Apple is back to licensing an operating system after decades::undefined
The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse (gizmodo.com)
The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse::Deepfakes are blurring the lines of reality more than ever before, and they’re likely going to get a lot worse this year.
“Don’t let them drop us!” Landline users protest AT&T copper retirement plan | California hears protests as AT&T seeks end to Carrier of Last Resort obligation. (arstechnica.com)
“Don’t let them drop us!” Landline users protest AT&T copper retirement plan | California hears protests as AT&T seeks end to Carrier of Last Resort obligation.::California hears protests as AT&T seeks end to Carrier of Last Resort obligation.
Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs (www.404media.co)
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Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany (alexwlchan.net)
Some version of this has been floating around the Internet since 2007, probably earlier. This tweet is pretty emblematic of posts about this claim: it’s stated as pure fact, with no supporting evidence or explanation. We’re meant to just accept that a single PDF can only cover about half the area of Germany, and we’re not...
Any suggestions for overcoming addiction to capitalist big tech social media and streaming etc?
I’ve tried getting into peertube to have something to watch. I’m exploring copyleft music on open audio / funkwhale. I’m on here in lemmy as of this week. I’m playing with mastodon and the fediverse. I’ve tried studying psychology and psychology-adjacent territory like Deleuze and Guattari and Foucault and Derrida so I...
Hyundai's "E-corner" system (www.youtube.com)
I am all for easy parallel parking and tight turn-around!
Nintendo’s Next Switch Coming This Year With LCD, Omdia Says (archive.ph)
Fragging: The Subscription Model Comes for Gamers (www.eff.org)
Full text from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) article:...
Meta won't remove fake Instagram profiles that are clearly catfishing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll (ktla.com)
1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll::For years, scholars and science fiction writers have warned about the possibility of workers being replaced by machines. Now after the world of artificial intelligence took a giant leap forward in 2023, it appears we are one step closer to that...
Climate denialists find new ways to monetize disinformation on YouTube (arstechnica.com)
Cursed 32 Gig NVMe drive? (lemmy.world)
Can anyone explain the purpose of a 32 gig NVMe SSD? I think it’s quite an apple thing to install such a stupidly tiny drive into a computer, but on the other hand it doesn’t seem right. This can’t be a system drive can it? But what else could it be? This is like an impractical, high-speed USB drive that requires...
