The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK (www.wired.com)
The Computer As A Brain Metaphor (arxiv.org)
This was originally going to be posted on Fuck AI, but it really applies to technology far more generally.
Urgent need to investigate role of technology, social media companies in killing Gazan civilians (euromedmonitor.org)
The role of major technology companies and international social media platforms in the killing of Palestinian civilians during Israel’s genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023, must be investigated. These companies need to be held accountable if found to be complicit or not to have taken adequate...
Enceladus: Decoding Life's Potential in Saturn's Icy Moon (www.arktrek.shop)
Discord wants to void your right to sue them in court — but you can opt out of the practice (www.polygon.com)
Porting 8-bit Sonic 2 To The TI-84+ CE (hackaday.com)
House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill (www.npr.org)
Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down (www.theverge.com)
Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”...
Beleave : A website to help people leave Reddit communities easily (beleave.virock.org)
Hi, I needed to leave multiple subreddits but it was a hassle doing so manually one by one. So, I built ‘Beleave’ to help automate the task. It uses Reddit’s API to mass leave subreddits. It’s completely free. I didn’t even put ads in it.
Meta says you can’t turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram (globalnews.ca)
ps6 expected to be released around 2026 (www.ign.com)
What is screen time doing to children? Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media. (www.economist.com)
The little smart home platform that could (www.theverge.com)
Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability....
Premier League Wants GoDaddy to Identify Live Streaming Pirates. (torrentfreak.com)
Dutch government says it may stop using Facebook over privacy concerns (www.cnbc.com)
The Dutch government said Friday that it may be forced to stop using Facebook after a warning from the Netherlands’ privacy regulator about the Meta owned social media platform’s privacy risks....
DuckDuckGo AI Chat (duckduckgo.com)
DDG is now offering free/private AI chat using several models.
A coffee roastery in Finland has launched an AI-generated blend. The results were surprising - KVIA (kvia.com)
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Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’ (www.bostonherald.com)
Elon Musk’s Grok keeps making up fake news based on X users’ jokes (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft wants to hide the 'Sign out' button in Windows 11 behind a Microsoft 365 ad (www.neowin.net)
Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road (fortune.com)
TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age (theconversation.com)
'Women Who Code' Shuts Down Unexpectedly (tech.slashdot.org)
Women Who Code (WWC), a U.S.-based organization of 360,000 people supporting women who work in the tech sector, is shutting down due to a lack of funding.
Nas’ 'Illmatic' Was the Beginning of the End of the Album (www.wired.com)
I know it doesn’t sound like a tech article but it is!
YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users (www.androidpolice.com)
Arif Dikici, who is a part of the Android Video and Image Codecs team at Google, recently announced on LinkedIn that Android will now use an AV1 decoder known as “libdav1d,” which was created by the team behind VLC.