Meta launches consumer AI chatbots with celebrity avatars in its social apps (arstechnica.com)
Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs (techcrunch.com)
You can no longer activate new Windows 11 builds with Windows 7 or 8 keys; maybe last chance to activate using Windows 7 or 8 keys, for 22H2. (www.neowin.net)
Scientists confirm that the first black hole ever imaged is actually spinning (www.engadget.com)
Scientists confirm that the first black hole ever imaged is actually spinning::The first black hole humanity has ever imaged has also provided us with what researchers are calling “unequivocal evidence” that black holes spin.
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show (www.404media.co)
Russian zero-day seller offers $20M for hacking Android and iPhones | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’ (nypost.com)
Meta sparks privacy fears after unveiling $299 Smart Glasses with hidden cameras: ‘You can now film everyone without them knowing’::These stylish shades may look like a regular pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers, but they’re actually Meta’s new Smart Glasses, complete with two tiny cameras and speakers implanted in the arms. The...
ChatGPT users can now browse internet, OpenAI says (www.msn.com)
New Raspberry Pi 5 comes with PCIe 2.0 x1 interface and power button (www.raspberrypi.com)
Broadcom BCM2712 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache...
"Our Wire Mothers" - It's important for us to be careful that our technology does not supplant the human need for socialization. (www.staygrounded.online)
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Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” (arstechnica.com)
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”::The modified firmware used by BlackTech is hard to detect.
An Analysis of DeepMind's 'Language Modeling Is Compression' Paper (codeconfessions.substack.com)
Statement: the FCC should ignore the inevitable flood of telecom industry astroturf and move full steam ahead with restoring net neutrality. (www.fightforthefuture.org)
Statement: the FCC should ignore the inevitable flood of telecom industry astroturf and move full steam ahead with restoring net neutrality.::undefined
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent. Most notably though, it is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity....
Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI (venturebeat.com)
Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI::Gagan Ghotra observed that Google Search had begun to index shared Bard conversational links into its search results pages, potentially…
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform::Reddit is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity and adding ability to restrict certain types of ads.
Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade (arstechnica.com)
Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.
Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed (www.theregister.com)
Many firms aren't reporting breaches to the proper authorities (www.techradar.com)
Many firms aren’t reporting breaches to the proper authorities::Keeper study finds many feel too guilty to report
Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O (www.phoronix.com)
Four years after the Raspberry Pi 4 shipped, today the Raspberry Pi 5 is launching with a much improved SoC leading to significant performance gains....
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)
Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely passive device that is inspired by the ocean, and powered by the sun....
Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive (www.washingtonpost.com)
Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive::undefined
Google launches earthquake alerts on Android in India - TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Amazon Has Turned Into an Monopolistic Shithole Littered With Pay-to-Play Ads, FTC Lawsuit Solemnly Argues (www.404media.co)
