New ALPR Vulnerabilities Prove Mass Surveillance Is a Public Safety Threat [automated license plate readers] (www.eff.org)
Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds (www.businessinsider.com)
$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era (arstechnica.com)
Systemd 256.1 Addresses Complaint That 'systemd-tmpfiles' Could Unexpectedly Delete Your /home Directory (linux.slashdot.org)
Tech Firms Prey on Poor Under Guise of Expanding Access to Financial Services (truthout.org)
‘Blue screen of death’ at the ballpark: How the Mariners tapped a tech nerve in viral rally video (www.geekwire.com)
Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees (www.fastcompany.com)
VPN by Google One shuts down (9to5google.com)
Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' (www.businessinsider.com)
Scientists Propose New Way to Find Aliens: Detect Their Failing Warp Drives (gizmodo.com)
Inside Netflix’s bet on advanced video encoding (www.theverge.com)
New Report: AI could displace up to 800 million jobs globally by 2030 (medium.com)
“We Can Still Contact Technical Support in the West”: Russian weapons are being manufactured on foreign machinery — but why are they still running? (istories.media)
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Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google (www.wired.com)
Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company says (www.cnbc.com)
Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)
Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (www.wired.com)
Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases.
Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined (variety.com)
Elon Musk has another secret child with exec at his brain implant company (www.theverge.com)
NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense (www.theregister.com)
Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)
Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans.
US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk' (kyivindependent.com)
Apple Seeks AI Partner for Apple Intelligence in China (www.macrumors.com)
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De Toonaangevende Chat GPT Applicatie op de Nederlandse Markt (lemdro.id)
InleidingIn een tijdperk waar digitale technologie en kunstmatige intelligentie (AI) steeds prominenter worden, neemt de rol van AI in ons dagelijks leven snel toe. Een van de meest baanbrekende ontwikkelingen in dit domein is de introductie van geavanceerde taalmodellen die natuurlijke en contextueel relevante conversaties...
Ex-OpenAI star Sutskever shoots for superintelligent AI with new company (arstechnica.com)
Their “manifesto”:...
