Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang (www.theverge.com)
The AI bill that has Big Tech panicked (www.vox.com)
Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Artificial Superintelligence Could Arrive by 2027, Scientist Predicts (futurism.com)
Longi claims world record-breaking 34.6% efficiency for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell (www.pv-magazine.com)
AI Loophole #1; Your GitHub README.md (lemmy.world)
I used to be the Security Team Lead for Web Applications at one of the largest government data centers in the world but now I do mostly “source available” security mainly focusing on BSD. I’m on GitHub but I run a self-hosted Gogs (which gitea came from) git repo at Quadhelion Engineering Dev....
Meta accused of trying to discredit ad researchers (www.theregister.com)
Voyager 1 Once Again Returning Science Data From All Four Instruments (hackaday.com)
Why you like Apple?
Cross posted from: lemdro.id/post/9803202
Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin....
The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas (www.theverge.com)
Blue Origin joins SpaceX and ULA in new round of military launch contracts (arstechnica.com)
Researchers claim GPT-4 passed the Turing test (bgr.com)
Snowden: OpenAI just went full mask off (x.com)
I personally don’t trust Snowden. Lookin at the difference between how he was treated and how Assange was treated. One guy gets to rot in prison, other guy gets movies made about him from Hollywood. Snowden is very much controlled opposition in my mind....
Meta says European regulators are ruining its AI bot (www.theverge.com)
Meta is putting plans for its AI assistant on hold in Europe after receiving objections from Ireland’s privacy regulator, the company announced on Friday....
Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)
The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap (www.nextplatform.com)
How Elon Musk Went from Innovative Car Maker to Racist Demagogue Just Like Henry Ford (medium.com)
Man sues Apple for accidentally exposing his infidelity (appleinsider.com)
A British man is ridiculously attempting to sue Apple following a divorce, caused by his wife finding messages to a prostitute he deleted from his iPhone that were still accessible on an iMac....
Desk read error occurred.
What’s going on here? A week or so ago this showed up and haven’t been able to turn on my laptop since. Some hardware issue?
The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords (arstechnica.com)
Mozilla restores Firefox add-ons banned in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated previously banned Firefox add-ons in Russia that were designed to circumvent state censorship, such as a VPN and a tool to access Tor websites....
Leaked Memo Claims New York Times Fired Artists to Replace Them With AI (futurism.com)
One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down (arstechnica.com)
Meta to pause plans to use personal data to train AI models (www.rte.ie)
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is to pause plans to use personal data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models after concerns were raised by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).