Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts (www.engadget.com)
Man accused of using generative AI to create virus in Japan 1st (mainichi.jp)
TOKYO – A 25-year-old man has been served a fresh arrest warrant for allegedly creating a computer virus using generative artificial intelligence (AI), the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s cybercrime control division announced on May 28, in what is believed to be the first such case in Japan....
China's latest AI chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping's political ideology (apnews.com)
Secret meeting between Apple and TSMC reported, possibly to reserve all 2nm capacity (9to5mac.com)
Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices (www.theregister.com)
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Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company (www.reuters.com)
May 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk’s X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform....
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)
More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed.
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability (simonwillison.net)
GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse (github.com)
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Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? (www.androidauthority.com)
As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse (digiday.com)
The possibility of a TikTok ban is inching closer to becoming a reality at this point. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill that would bar the social media platform from operating in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells its stake....
The End of an Era: Women Who Code Closing - Women Who Code (womenwhocode.com)
Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site (www.theregister.com)
Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove....
Intel investigating games crashing on 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 processors (www.theverge.com)
Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List” (theintercept.com)
The Israeli military has reportedly implemented a facial recognition dragnet across the Gaza Strip, scanning ordinary Palestinians as they move throughout the ravaged territory, attempting to flee the ongoing bombardment and seeking sustenance for their families....
Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs (www.theregister.com)
Apple wouldn’t let Jon Stewart interview FTC Chair Lina Khan, TV host claims (arstechnica.com)
Inside the Creation of the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model (www.wired.com)
Scientists Invent World's Fastest Camera That Shoots 156.3 Trillion Frames Per Second (petapixel.com)
reddit users discuss its enshittification [SafeReddit mirror] (safereddit.com)
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The Epic Games Store is launching its iOS and Android versions later this year (alternativeto.net)
Is the Fediverse truly decentralized? Not exactly. (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
The author examined the distribution of instances in the fediverse. Given that many instances are hidden behind CDNs like Cloudflare or Fastly, the author employed ActivityPub’s functionality to discover the actual hosting locations of servers. More than half (51%) of the fediverse is hosted within a single hosting company....
X revives policy targeting deadnaming, misgendering (thehill.com)
Leap year software glitch closes fuel pumps across New Zealand (www.straitstimes.com)
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