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A core developer of Nginx, the popular web server, has quit the project and started a fork called freenginx....

AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants::As firms increasingly rely on artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, many highly qualified candidates are finding themselves on the cutting room floor.

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

Apple is removing PWA(progressive web apps) from EU Which means:...

The majority of traffic from Elon Musk’s X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests::undefined

Russian military botnet discovered on 1000+ compromised routers — FBI deactivated Moobot by taking control of impacted::A GRU botnet using Moobot was installed on unsecured routers (including those belonging to many homes and small businesses) with default admin passwords.

Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence::Cisco revealed plans to slash its headcount by 5% on Wednesday, which will affect roughly 4,250 employees across the tech behemoth’s global workforce.

They frame it as though it’s for user content, more likely it’s to train AI, but in fact it gives them the right to do almost anything they want - up to (but not including) stealing the content outright.

An in-depth police report obtained by 404 Media shows how a school, and then the police, investigated a wave of AI-powered “nudify” apps in a high school.

Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It’s unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review.::It’s unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review.

So as a summary of the procedure from what I saw…you go in the tube, they spin a big ass magnet around you, the molecular resonance is captured into an image… somehow they figure out some areas or volumes are more active than others, then they sonicate those volumes. As they sonicate your memories away, they show you images...

Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge::Apple will no longer support web apps in the European Union in iOS 17.4. The company says building the feature would be “impractical” on top of the other changes it’s been asked to make.

Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions::Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions

Did you know that the first Pokémon games were full of fascinating errors in code, called glitches? I’m incredibly captivated by the mysteries behind them and by what they can do! So, let’s have a look at how I personally got into them! ✨...

According to subscribers suing, AMC allegedly installed tracking technologies—including the Meta Pixel, the X Tracking Pixel, and Google Tracking Technology—on its website, allowing their personally identifying information to be connected with their viewing history....

Lucid Motors drops the price of its cheapest EV by more than $8,000::Lucid Motors is lopping thousands of dollars off the price of its most affordable electric sedans as it looks to boost demand after a disappointing year of sales. The rear-wheel drive version of the base model Lucid Air Pure will now start a $69,900, down from...

HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges::Reg metrics show Enrique Lores is worth a lot of ink

Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?

Elon Musk’s X Will Give Blue Checks to Anyone, Even Terrorist Leaders | Leaders of Hezbollah, and other sanctioned groups, paid for premium features on Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ platform.::Leaders of Hezbollah, and other sanctioned groups, paid for premium features on Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ platform.

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