That Electric Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Totally Fake (gizmodo.com)
AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have “Public Interest” In Pursuing Lawsuits (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
A federal judge rejected arguments from Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt that the suit is intended to suppress its free speech.
Apple is back to lobbying against right-to-repair bills (appleinsider.com)
Apple is back to lobbying against right-to-repair bills::While it may have supported a weaker right-to-repair bill in California, Apple is now lobbying against a stronger bill out of Oregon.
Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)
Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought::Is the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really, writes John Herrman.
America tires of big telecom’s shit, driving boom in community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
America tires of big telecom’s shit, driving boom in community-owned broadband networks::For decades, frustrated towns and cities all over the country have responded to telecom market failure by building their own fiber broadband networks. Data routinely shows that not only do these networks provide faster, better, and cheaper...
Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies (www.theguardian.com)
Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies::Law obliges social media platforms to remove illegal content – with fears that interview will give Russian leader propaganda coup
Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)
Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to six months in prison for stealing self-driving car tech (www.engadget.com)
Apple broke web apps in iOS 17 beta and hasn't fixed them (www.theregister.com)
My jaw hit the floor when I watched an AI master one of the world's toughest physical games in just six hours (www.techradar.com)
How did China get so good at chips and AI? Congressional investigation blames American venture capitalists (theregister.com)
‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
This is the real reason for companies wanting people back to the office....
Funimation is shutting down — and taking your digital library with it (www.theverge.com)
Funimation is shutting down — and taking your digital library with it::Funimation is shutting down on April 2nd, 2024. The service will automatically transfer subscribers to Crunchyroll, and legacy members will see a price increase.
this is a france countryball according to bing ai (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
tbh it looks like clipart
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED (youtu.be)
The blue LED was supposed to be impossible—until a young engineer proposed a moonshot idea.
Google Bard is dead, long live Google Gemini (www.androidpolice.com)
Google Bard is dead, long live Google Gemini::Google rebranded its Bard chatbot in February 2024 to Gemini. Gemini Ultra is a paid subscription platform.
Here's How to Try Apple's New AI Image Editor (gizmodo.com)
Chinese hackers infiltrated plane, train and water systems for five years, US says (www.theguardian.com)
Chinese hackers infiltrated plane, train and water systems for five years, US says::A group known as Volt Typhoon, geared toward sabotage, quietly burrowed into the networks of critical US infrastructure
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)
Oh look, Sony revoking more licenses for video content that people “bought”.
4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images (arstechnica.com)
4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images::New AI image filters are “just another obstacle to ‘defeat,’” researcher says.
Getting fresh: How supermarkets are using AI to predict sales (thenextweb.com)
Taylor Swift deepfakes on X falsely depict her engaging in election denialism — and have been viewed millions of times (www.nbcnews.com)
Taylor Swift deepfakes on X falsely depict her engaging in election denialism — and have been viewed millions of times::Taylor Swift is being targeted again by deepfakes, with supporters of Donald Trump posting manipulated media falsely showing her supporting Trump.
Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)
A fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just got pulled from the App Store | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public (www.washingtonpost.com)
Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public::undefined