The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety. (www.nature.com)
Pavel Durov: The visionary whose alternative to Facebook was snatched away by the Kremlin and counterattacked with an even bigger hit, Telegram (english.elpais.com)
4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm (imgur.com)
Looks expensive. The grey ones are the broken ones.
Inside the Creation of the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model (www.wired.com)
20 years of Gmail (www.theverge.com)
AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark Web—Including Social Security Numbers (www.forbes.com)
Google Just Revealed When Apple Will Officially Adopt RCS: Northern Hemisphere Fall 2024 (lifehacker.com)
The Android developer just published an updated landing page for Google Messages, showing off key features ranging from customization, privacy and security, and, of course, AI....
Proton Pass now supports passkeys on all devices and plans: Beating Bitwarden to mobile devices (proton.me)
Passkeys are an easy and secure alternative to traditional passwords that can help prevent phishing attacks and make your online experience smoother and safer....
Practical Quantum Devices Now Closer to Reality – Scientists Unveil Room Temperature Photonic Chips (feddit.cl)
A new study by Hebrew University has made a significant breakthrough by successfully incorporating single-photon sources into small chips that operate at room temperature. This development marks a crucial progress in the field of quantum photonics, opening up possibilities for its use in quantum computing and cryptography. full...
Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals (arstechnica.com)
Ai Pin Video Handbook (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft word IDE 🥴 (infosec.pub)
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How do I turn off Windows 10 & 11 automatic updates? (www.hystou.com)
Overview: Windows 11 and 10 offers less UI control over the updating behavior of the operating system than previous versions of Windows. There is no option to turn off Windows Updates using the Control Panel or Settings app in Windows 11 & 10, it checks for updates automatically and install any updates they find, whether you...
Inside the $1 billion love affair between Stability AI’s ‘complicated’ founder and tech investors Coatue and Lightspeed—and how it turned bitter within months (fortune.com)
Without paywall: archive.ph/8QkSl
OpenAI Unveils A.I. Technology That Recreates Human Voices (www.nytimes.com)
First, OpenAI offered a tool that allowed people to create digital images simply by describing what they wanted to see. Then, it built similar technology that generated full-motion video like something from a Hollywood movie....
Generative AI Is Coming To Your Home Appliances (www.forbes.com)
Across all industries, organizations are rapidly embracing generative AI. Among them, makers of home appliances like fridges and ovens. Generative AI in your oven? Why not? Ater all, AI has been creeping into our homes for years (think smart lightbulbs and Alexa) – but thanks to generative AI, these interactions will become...
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections (arstechnica.com)
The malicious changes were submitted by JiaT75, one of the two main xz Utils developers with years of contributions to the project....
New open source GPU is free to all — FuryGPU runs Quake at 60fps, supports modern Windows software (www.tomshardware.com)
What if the Realtek RTL8821CE WIFI module is not recognized under the Ubuntu system? (www.hystou.com)
Overview：Most linux operating systems (such as Ubuntu) do not integrate Realtek RTL8821CE driver in the system library, so you can’t use WIFI in the operating system, and if you want to use WIFI networking, you need to install the driver manually. Here is how to install the driver:...
NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law (themarkup.org)
Calls for smartphone-free childhood grow in Britain (www.straitstimes.com)
Oregon's Breakthrough Right-to-Repair Bill Is Now Law (www.wired.com)
‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)
A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...
NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law (www.thecity.nyc)
