Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership was born from Google envy (www.engadget.com)
Open source project seeks to clone classic Z80 chip • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Notesnook v3 is out. Thoughts on the changes? (blog.notesnook.com)
I wonder what my fellow lemmygoers think about the new Notesnook updates, privacy and security-wise.
Moral Crumple Zones: Crushing the Human to Preserve Venture Capital (papers.ssrn.com)
Moral Crumple Zones discusses how humans are used to absorb liability from automated systems....
HMD Pulse trio unveiled: affordable phones with 'Gen 1 repairability' (www.gsmarena.com)
HMD is betting that consumers are moving to more environmentally-conscious products and are placing an emphasis on repairability. HMD says the Pulse range is built to “Gen 1 repairability” and that users can pick up self-repair kits from iFixit. Repairs include changing the battery, but also swapping the screen.
Baltimore County educator framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say (www.thebaltimorebanner.com)
Baltimore County Police arrested****Pikesville High School’s former athletic director Thursday morning and charged him with allegedly using artificial intelligence to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors....
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed (arstechnica.com)
Framwork announces $18M in Funding! + Framework’s Series A-1 and Community Participation (frame.work)
The blog post...
ps6 expected to be released around 2026 (www.ign.com)
The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived (www.wired.com)
Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm (cloud.google.com)
What’s worrying about this report is that it’s coming from Google itself....
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat (www.theverge.com)
Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government (www.wired.com)
Smart locks from Chirp systems found to store app credentials in plain text (krebsonsecurity.com)
TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression (bellard.org)
from fabrice bellard.
Beeper Took On Apple’s iMessage Dominance. Now It’s Been Acquired | WIRED (www.wired.com)
Beeper was just acquired by Automattic, which has big plans for the future of messaging (www.theverge.com)
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, which had the same ultimate root cause as recent XZUtils backdoor incident (optimizedbyotto.com)
The XZ Utils backdoor, discovered last week, and the Heartbleed security vulnerability ten years ago, share the same ultimate root cause. Both of them, and in fact all critical infrastructure open source projects, should be fixed with the same solution: ensure baseline funding for proper open source maintenance.
Academics reckon Apple's default apps have privacy pitfalls (www.theregister.com)
Google sues two crypto scammers over allegedly vast “pig butchering” scheme (arstechnica.com)
As much as I hate Google I think this lawsuit from them sets a good precedence against scammer and spammers...
A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC’s Attention. Do His Claims Add Up? (www.wired.com)
Why Threads is suddenly popular in Taiwan (www.technologyreview.com)
Apparently, Twitter was quite niche and the launch of Threads coincided with a surge of interest in presidential elections, for which one party's supporters rallied on Threads which also pulled in their friends....