Reddit moderator rebellion: AI moderation is part of the solution (9to5mac.com)
Free returns disappearing from retailers | The era of free returns — an essential part of the rise of online shopping — is ending (www.axios.com)
Should I putchase a 4-year-old nVidia TV Pro, another technology, or wait for next Gen? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
It’s my birthday, and I want the upscaling, the single platform, the flexibility (sailing the high seas), but it’s soooo old. $200? IDK
The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it (www.space.com)
Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is “noctalgia.” In general, it means “sky grief,” and it captures the collective pain...
Tesla Full Self Driving Is Now 'End-To-End AI' (odysee.com)
Which privacy-focused search engine are you using?
TL;DR - which privacy-focused search engine do people recommend, preferably one that can also easily be used as a default option in Safari?...
HBO Max was renamed Max, and Warner Bros. Discovery lost subscribers (www.theverge.com)
HBO Max was renamed Max, and Warner Bros. Discovery lost subscribers::Warner Bros. Discovery lost 1.8 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2023 following HBO Max’s rebrand to Max. The company now has 95.8 million subscribers across all of its services.
Pentagon AI more ethical than adversaries’ because of ‘Judeo-Christian society,’ USAF general says (www.defenseone.com)
Pentagon AI more ethical than adversaries’ because of ‘Judeo-Christian society,’ USAF general says::The path to ethical AI is a “very important discussion” being held at DOD’s “very highest levels,” says service’s programs chief.
Microsoft is reworking Recall after researchers point out its security problems (arstechnica.com)
the company says that Recall will be opt-in by default, so users will need to decide to turn it on
Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband (www.popsci.com)
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)
Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.
Public trust in AI is sinking across the board (www.axios.com)
Trust in AI technology and the companies that develop it is dropping, in both the U.S. and around the world, according to new data from Edelman shared first with Axios....
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)
an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded....
Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes (www.theverge.com)
Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show (gizmodo.com)
Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform (www.irishtimes.com)
Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform::The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said
AMD’s new CPU hits 132fps in Fortnite without a graphics card (www.pcgamesn.com)
AMD’s new CPU hits 132fps in Fortnite without a graphics card::Also get 49fps in BG3, 119fps in CS2, and 41fps in Cyberpunk 2077 using the new AMD Ryzen 8700G, all without the need for an extra CPU cooler.
Online travel agent allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 Max planes (www.theguardian.com)
Online travel agent allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 Max planes::Kayak customers can exclude Max 9 aircraft after cabin panel blowout on Alaska Airlines flight
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules (arstechnica.com)
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules::Phone-unlocking case law is “total mess,” may be ripe for Supreme Court review.
A bride to be discovers a reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography (appleinsider.com)
A U.K. woman was photographed standing in a mirror where her reflections didn't match, but not because of a glitch in the Matrix. Instead, it's a simple iPhone computational photography mistake.
Sam Altman fired as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
Sam Altman has been fired as CEO of OpenAI, the company announced on Friday....
Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music (www.theverge.com)
Google is embedding inaudible watermarks right into its AI generated music::Audio created using Google DeepMind’s AI Lyria model will be watermarked with SynthID to let people identify its AI-generated origins after the fact.
Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good (www.androidpolice.com)
Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good::The company is exploring an integrity API that could lock down WebViews with DRM
A Jury Will Decide If Google's App Store Is an Unjust Monopoly (www.wired.com)
Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying (www.androidpolice.com)
Apple Music isn’t the best streaming music service — it’s just the least annoying::Competitors like Spotify and YouTube Music may be your first choice for music on Android, but you might want to reconsider
