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Meta To Use Public Photos and Posts To Train AI: Here's How US, UK And Europe Users Can Opt Out (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

Artists flee Instagram as Meta trains AI on their public posts, sparking privacy concerns. Europe offers opt-out, but US users have few options.

Four more states join US monopoly lawsuit against Apple (ca.finance.yahoo.com)

Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director (foundation.mozilla.org)

The linked article is the intro message from her. I copied a part of it here:...

The AI grift that can literally poison you (www.vox.com)

Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down (www.theverge.com)

Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”...

The Tiny Ultrabright Laser that Can Melt Steel (spectrum.ieee.org)

Odours have a complex topography, and it’s been mapped by AI (aeon.co)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14276504...

Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade (www.theverge.com)

Global PC shipments return to growth and pre-pandemic volumes in 1Q24, says IDC (www.digitimes.com)

German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice (blog.documentfoundation.org)

Google fixes two Pixel zero-day flaws exploited by forensics firms. GrapheneOS discovered and reported these flaws. (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

More Information: GrapheneOS Mastodon account

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)

Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts.

Ransomware attackers are increasingly targeting backups — so make sure yours are protected (www.techradar.com)

Pavel Durov: The visionary whose alternative to Facebook was snatched away by the Kremlin and counterattacked with an even bigger hit, Telegram (english.elpais.com)

OpenAI Said to Court Hollywood in Meetings With Film Studios, Directors (www.gadgets360.com)

A Chinese Humanoid Just Broke the Robot Speed Record—and Now It's a Race Against Time (www.popularmechanics.com)

Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)

A top auto safety group tested 14 partial automated systems — only one passed (www.theverge.com)

Even Korea is starting to prefer an iPhone over a Samsung (www.androidpolice.com)

Self-Destructing Chips: Researchers Unveil Techniques to Thwart Sophisticated Cyberattacks (www.techradar.com)

Researchers presented new techniques to fight sophisticated hacking at a tech conference. Here are the highlights:...

Lawyers who sunk Elon Musk's big pay package are now asking for nearly $6 billion worth of Tesla stock. Musk doesn't seem happy. (www.businessinsider.com)

Lawyers who sunk Elon Musk’s big pay package are now asking for nearly $6 billion worth of Tesla stock. Musk doesn’t seem happy.::After sinking Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package, lawyers are now asking a Delaware court for about 11% of those Tesla shares for their fee.

Could Google be using Reddit to revive an ancient, failed project? — 60,000+ Redditors may well be mTurk’ing for Google Answers 2.0 (www.techradar.com)

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