Russia has escalated its information war against Moldova joining the European Union (www.usip.org)
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AI-powered network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories targeting the US election, investigation finds (www.bbc.com)
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VW will invest up to $5 billion in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer – CPO (www.theregister.com)
“We Can Still Contact Technical Support in the West”: Russian weapons are being manufactured on foreign machinery — but why are they still running? (istories.media)
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Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure (proton.me)
Meta says European regulators are ruining its AI bot (www.theverge.com)
Meta is putting plans for its AI assistant on hold in Europe after receiving objections from Ireland’s privacy regulator, the company announced on Friday....
Texting 911 via RCS is coming to Google Messages (www.theverge.com)
'Google Cast' is replacing the 'Chromecast built-in' brand (9to5google.com)
Well, at least they aren’t outright throwing the functionality in the trash.
Arizona lawmaker uses ChatGPT to help craft legislation to combat deepfakes (www.nbcnews.com)
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Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 85% of threads retract in 1st (arstechnica.com)
Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot (arstechnica.com)
Colorado Passes Its Third ‘Right To Repair’ Bill (www.techdirt.com)
The Man Who Destroyed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
It’s a story from April, I tried seeing if it was posted before, however it’s the story about how the advertising and finance team beat the search team into submission by ousting the core person protecting it to pursue “growth” and “revenue” at all costs.
Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace (www.businessinsider.com)
It’s true not many people need work, so the lack of open roles isn’t critical to the economy. But not everyone is happy at their job.
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary (www.technologyreview.com)
Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation...
Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion (arstechnica.com)
Boeing retaliated against its own engineers working for FAA, union says (www.seattletimes.com)
Lawsuit alleges Grindr illegally shared users' HIV status, sensitive data with third-party advertisers. (www.theregister.com)
Hundreds have joined a UK class action lawsuit against LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr, seeking damages over a historical case of the company allegedly forwarding users’ HIV status as well as other sensitive data to third-party advertisers....
UK flooded with forged stamps despite using barcodes — to prevent just that (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
If a stamp have a barcode, why not just let people who have printers at home to print it on the envelope directly? This eliminates the need to buy physical stamp, thus the probability of buying counterfeit stamps.
Someone made a GPT-like chatbot that runs locally on Raspberry Pi, and you can too (www.xda-developers.com)
Britain’s Social Security has banned its staff from using ChatGPT—but it’s okay with Microsoft Copilot (fortune.com)
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content (www.theverge.com)
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content::Reddit has reportedly made a deal with an unnamed AI company to allow access to its platform’s content for the purposes of AI model training.
Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box (www.theregister.com)
Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse (arstechnica.com)
Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse::Apollo dev: “I don’t believe Reddit’s leadership… cares about developers anymore.”
