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Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service (arstechnica.com)

Tinder® Unveils 'Photo Selector' AI: Feature to Make Choosing Proﬁle Pictures Easier (www.tinderpressroom.com)

Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law (www.cnbc.com)

Open Letter: "The European Union must keep funding free software" (nextgraph.org)

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The Future of Odysee (odysee.com)

Apple Watch 2024 Lineup Might Undergo Rework: What to Expect? (www.techtimes.com)

Apple might be considering reworking the 2024 Apple Watch lineup. Rumors suggest that these models will have bigger displays.

Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data (libreddit.bus-hit.me)

Reddit link: reddit.com/…/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_…

Google tests out Gemini AI-created video presentations (www.theverge.com)

Google is launching its new Vids productivity app in Workspace Labs with the idea that “if you can make a slide, you can make a video in Vids.” Announced in April, Vids allows users to drop docs, slides, voiceovers, and video recordings into a timeline to create a presentation video to share with coworkers. Making it...

It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone (www.theverge.com)

NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s (gizmodo.com)

Kaspersky is shutting down its business in the United States (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Google’s $500M effort to wreck Microsoft EU cloud deal failed, report says (arstechnica.com)

Google tried to derail a Microsoft antitrust settlement over anticompetitive software licensing in the European Union by offering a $500 million alternative deal to the group of cloud providers behind the EU complaint, Bloomberg reported....

Kaspersky Lab is shutting down all its operations in the US by July 2024 due to recent ban (alternativeto.net)

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has confirmed that it will officially end its U.S. operations on July 20, 2024, following sanctions from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), imposed on back in June. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Commerce has added Kaspersky Lab and its...

Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI. (www.proofnews.org)

Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled (www.tomshardware.com)

Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.

Swedish digital forensic group Qurium shows how Russia is using European companies for propaganda (www.qurium.org)

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Intel venture arm’s China tech stakes raises alarm in Washington (www.ft.com)

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Gemini AI platform caught scanning Google Drive files without user permission (www.techradar.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18014226

‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’: Carissa Véliz, expert in ethics applied to technology, advocates for a system of digital anonymity (english.elpais.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/806357...

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott thinks LLM “scaling laws” will hold despite criticism (arstechnica.com)

Tesla Steers Onto Train Tracks It Apparently Mistook for a Road, Police Warn (www.hngn.com)

The incident in northern California marked the latest mishap blamed on the electric vehicle company’s Autopilot tech

Web application testing best practices (www.testingxperts.com)

Web applications are more than just simple information-based websites. The enterprises must deploy skilled testers to assess all aspects of the website across platforms, browsers, and devices. The testers must always implement web application testing best practices in order to produce accurate and reliable test results without...

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