Where there's a will, there's Huawei to develop one's own chipmaking kit (www.theregister.com)
The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Google One is shutting down its VPN feature later this year (www.engadget.com)
The company rolled out Google One’s VPN feature back in 2020, but you could only access it if you’re paying for a plan with at least 2TB of storage, which costs at least $10 a month....
Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility (www.theatlantic.com)
X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)
Apple alerts users in 92 nations to state-sponsored / mercenary-spyware attacks (techcrunch.com)
Mozilla Pushes Feds to Embrace Truly Open, Transparent AI Models (www.pcmag.com)
Mozilla and a host of other researchers are urging US officials to see value in open-source AI models when considering future regulation....
TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression (bellard.org)
from fabrice bellard.
An Only Slightly Modest Proposal: If AI Companies Want More Content, They Should Fund Reporters, And Lots Of Them (www.techdirt.com)
Debunking Devin: "First AI Software Engineer" Upwork lie exposed! (www.youtube.com)
YouTuber Internet of Bugs examines the latest demo from Cognition that showcases their “first AI software engineer” allegedly solving UpWork programming tasks.
Indeed Adds Generative AI to Help People Write Better Resumes (iblnews.org)
Apple is reportedly planning a big AI-focused M4 Mac upgrade (www.theverge.com)
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds (www.theregister.com)
Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....
Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS firewall zero-day used in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Sev 10!
Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon (www.pcworld.com)
Who Wrote That? Evaluating Tools to Detect AI-Generated Text (foundation.mozilla.org)
Mozilla research found that detection tools aren’t always as reliable as they say. Further, researchers found that large language models like ChatGPT can be successfully prompted to create more ‘human-sounding’ text...
My opinion on Bone conduction earphones (sh.itjust.works)
(Sorry if it’s a miss, this community looked the most fitting)...
Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets (arstechnica.com)
But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don’t do this not because they can’t but because they don’t want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.
Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility (www.theatlantic.com)
Humane AI Pin review: not even close (www.theverge.com)
What Would God Say About File-Sharing? * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors (www.theverge.com)
[Abstract Engineering] Masquerading Digitalization (open.substack.com)
Researchers Develop Horrifying Face-Mimicking Robot (gizmodo.com)
