UBlock Origin Lite - Nice adblocker for modern challenges (www.dedoimedo.com)
FCC pushes ISPs to fix security flaws in Internet routing (arstechnica.com)
Just got an operating system update for my Galaxy S10 phone (fedia.io)
haven't gotten one of these in years, can't find any press about it, which i'm surprised by...
I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL (awesomekling.substack.com)
For those who don’t know, Ladybird is a new open-source browser not based on Chromium or Gecko. It started as part of the SerenityOS project. Since then it’s taken on a life of its own with lots of contributors and some pretty cool progress. I’ve been watching the updates on Andreas’s YouTube channel and it really gives...
The Future of Large Language Model Pre-training is Federated (arxiv.org)
Also See: Worldwide Federated Training Of Language Models...
Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy (foundation.mozilla.org)
Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI board first learned about ChatGPT from Twitter, according to former member (arstechnica.com)
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/13237910...
How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld (www.theverge.com)
Apple's Wifi router database: Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems (www.cs.umd.edu)
Apple’s huge database, which usually records the locations of Wi-Fi base stations to the nearest metre, has apparently been exploited without hindrance: With little effort, attackers are able to create a ‘global snapshot’ of all the location data of the WLANs recorded there. This allows them - over a longer period of time...
Europe sets benchmark for rest of the world with landmark AI laws (www.reuters.com)
California Resto Lets You Pay For Meal With Your Face: Payment Method May Be Available Nationwide Soon (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Forget swiping your card - thanks to a banner year for biometric payments, with JPMorgan and Mastercard joining the fray, paying with your face could soon be your new reality.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web (www.theverge.com)
Here Is What Axon’s Bodycam Report Writing AI Looks Like (www.404media.co)
Axon has been inviting police departments to webinars about the new AI-based product, which will automatically generate police reports based on bodycam audio, according to emails obtained by 404 Media.
Waymo Under Investigation for Driverless Car Crashes and Traffic Violations (www.thedrive.com)
The NHTSA is probing Google-supported Waymo regarding crashes caused by its driverless taxi program and underperforming self-driving tech.