How Disinformation From a Russian AI Spam Farm Ended up on Top of Google Search Results (www.wired.com)
The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again (www.openculture.com)
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Remote IT management provider TeamViewer says it has been hacked, allegedly by Russian state hackers from APT29 (www.teamviewer.com)
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This cute pink blob could lead to realistic robot skin (www.engadget.com)
Elon Musk Tries to Make Nice With Advertisers at Cannes (www.thedailybeast.com)
Let Readers Read | Internet Archive (blog.archive.org)
The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery (www.bbc.com)
AI candidate running for Parliament in the U.K. says AI can humanize politics (www.nbcnews.com)
Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request (theintercept.com)
Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' (www.404media.co)
A group of hackers that says it believes “AI-generated artwork is detrimental to the creative industry and should be discouraged” is hacking people who are trying to use a popular interface for the AI image generation software Stable Diffusion with a malicious extension for the image generator interface shared on Github....
Apple’s next nebulous idea: smart home robots (www.theverge.com)
The future of the smart kitchen: robots, apps, and AI, oh my! (www.theverge.com)
Humane AI Pin Owners Told to Stop Using Charging Cases Due to ‘Fire Safety Risk’ (gizmodo.com)
How Elon Musk's Starlink Turned Remote Amazon Tribe Into Social Media And Pornography Addicts (in.mashable.com)
Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account (arstechnica.com)
Earlier this month, Google Cloud experienced one of its biggest blunders ever when UniSuper, a $135 billion Australian pension fund, had its Google Cloud account wiped out due to some kind of mistake on Google’s end. At the time, UniSuper indicated it had lost everything it had stored with Google, even its backups, and that...
Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running (arstechnica.com)
Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI’s Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.
Comcast to Launch Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ Bundle at a ‘Vastly Reduced Price’ (variety.com)
Comcast later this month will launch a streaming bundle with Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ at a deep discount, Comcast chief Brian Roberts said.
Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says (arstechnica.com)
Flood of AI-Generated Submissions ‘Final Straw’ for Small 22-Year-Old Publisher (www.404media.co)
A small publisher for speculative fiction and roleplaying games is shuttering after 22 years, and the “final straw,” its founder said, is an influx of AI-generated submissions....
Huawei's woes really were just a flesh wound – profits just soared 564 percent (www.theregister.com)
The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks (www.wired.com)
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