Hyundai pauses X ads over pro-Nazi content on the platform (www.nbcnews.com)
Netflix doc accused of using AI to manipulate true crime story (arstechnica.com)
“Nanostitches” enable lighter and tougher composite materials (news.mit.edu)
Killing the Middlemen in the Rideshare Industry (www.hamiltonnolan.com)
Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students (www.theregister.com)
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices.
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy (www.theregister.com)
The EU’s Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising....
OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022 | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record (www.404media.co)
‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram (finance.yahoo.com)
Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse (www.pcgamer.com)
New Boston Dynamics Robot (bostondynamics.com)
How long before I can fuck it?
Adobe's new generative AI tools for video are absolutely terrifying (mashable.com)
How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++ (slrpnk.net)
Disclaimer: I know TurboVPN and the others mentioned are not good services to use, I’m strictly doing research. I’m not looking for VPN recommendations....
How to Turn Off Just Rolled Out Meta AI on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp (lifehacker.com)
Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” (spectrum.ieee.org)
…replacing the previously hydraulic version....
Humane AI Pin: much-hyped gadget rocked by bad reviews (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2686042...
Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)
Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....
The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived (www.wired.com)
YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking (alternativeto.net)
The company’s team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership. Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it’s plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be...
House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel (www.nytimes.com)
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That. (www.nytimes.com)
STATEMENT from Google workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign on Google’s mass, retaliatory… (web.archive.org)
If you’ve got an EV, Google Maps is about to become much more valuable | New updates address one of Americans’ top concerns about owning an electric car: finding a place to charge (wapo.st)
Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service (arstechnica.com)
The Department of Justice is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation (www.theverge.com)
