How to use Stable Diffusion to create AI art on your PC (www.pcworld.com)
Purism Launches New Secure Librem 11 Tablet (puri.sm)
Unlike tablets supported by the Android OS, Apple iOS, or Microsoft Windows, the Librem 11 tablet runs PureBoot and PureOS offering the best security, privacy, and freedom respecting features that include:...
Element X: Ignition (element.io)
Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope (www.nytimes.com)
The company’s DVD subscription service is ending this month, bringing to a close an origin story that ultimately upended the entertainment industry....
Unpacking Amazon's stealthy mass layoff strategy in Seattle (www.seattletimes.com)
Amazon, frequently under the microscope for its pioneering but often criticized management techniques, now requires its employees to commit to office work at least three days a week. This new policy will necessitate some employees to uproot their lives and move to larger hubs closer to main offices....
Creating a Utopian City Is Harder Than Tech Billionaires Think (www.thedailybeast.com)
Creating a Utopian City Is Harder Than Tech Billionaires Think::The man who created Sandy Springs, Georgia, has some advice for those who want to a build a metropolis in northern California.
Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (pluralistic.net)
Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.
John David McAfee, author of the first commercial anti-virus software, was born on Sept 18th 1945 (en.wikipedia.org)
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Caesars reportedly paid millions to stop hackers releasing its data (www.engadget.com)
It’s the second Las Vegas casino group to be attacked this week.
Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus (meduza.io)
Pegasus is a highly sophisticated and controversial spyware tool developed by the Israeli cybersecurity firm NSO Group. Pegasus is designed to infiltrate and infect mobile devices, including smartphones, and it allows the attacker to remotely monitor and collect a wide range of information from the compromised device. This...
WhatsApp is working on cross-platform messaging (www.theverge.com)
NFL 'Sunday Ticket' expected to have major delays on YouTube TV. (www.nbcnews.com)
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa -- with a lot of water (apnews.com)
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa – with a lot of water::As they race to capitalize on a craze for generative AI, leading tech developers including Microsoft, OpenAI and Google have acknowledged that growing demand for their AI tools carries hefty costs, from expensive semiconductors to an...
X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions (arstechnica.com)
X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions::X decried law’s “draconian financial penalties” up to $15K per violation per day.
BLASTPASS: NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in the Wild (citizenlab.ca)
We refer to the exploit chain as BLASTPASS. The exploit chain was capable of compromising iPhones running the latest version of iOS (16.6) without any interaction from the victim.
Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning 'sprite' exposes one of nature's least understood phenomena (www.livescience.com)
Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning ‘sprite’ exposes one of nature’s least understood phenomena::An astronomer in Slovakia captured the rare luminous phenomenon as it briefly flashed in Earth’s upper atmosphere during a thunderstorm.
Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator::Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
China Decides iPhones Pose a National Security Risk (www.pcmag.com)
Employees at some Chinese ministries must stop using iPhones before the end of September.
Almost caught: How Roy Schestowitz and I cloned cell phones for free service (ameliasconjecture.wordpress.com)
In the year 2006, a time of burgeoning technological advancements, my life took an unexpected twist that led me down a path I could never have imagined. It all started when my boyfriend, Roy Schestowitz, came up with a daring plan to clone cell phone service and make free calls. His enthusiasm for the audacious idea was...
Microsoft to unbundle Teams in Europe in bid to avoid EU antitrust fine (www.engadget.com)
Meta announced the removal of thousands of fake accounts from Facebook that were operated as part of “the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world” (therecord.media)
Meta announced the removal of thousands of fake accounts from Facebook that were operated as part of “the largest known cross-platform covert influence operation in the world”::undefined
James Webb Space Telescope reveals the colorful Ring Nebula in exquisite detail (www.space.com)
James Webb Space Telescope reveals the colorful Ring Nebula in exquisite detail::The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the Ring Nebula in vibrant green and purple, presenting one of the most well-known objects in astronomy like never before.
X officially takes on LinkedIn with its new job posting feature (bgr.com)
X (formerly Twitter) is rolling out its X Hiring Beta, which like LinkedIn, lets employers post job openings on the social media platform.
Beating GPT-4 on HumanEval with a Fine-Tuned CodeLlama-34B
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