technology

Internet Archive’s legal woes mount as record labels sue for $400M::The Internet Archive also reached a confidential settlement with book publishers.

This is a meta-question about the community - but seeing how many posts here are made by L4sBot, I think it’s important to know how it chooses the articles to post....

AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans::The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans

Florida Man, associates, indicted for conspiracy to steal data, software::Voting machines and their info allegedly accessed without authorization by keen golfer’s gofers

Classic case of “If the research doesn’t support your position, lie like a rug.”

Top physicist says chatbots are just ‘glorified tape recorders’::Leading theoretical physicist Michio Kaku predicts quantum computers are far more important for solving mankind’s problems.

Okay, so what’s with Gitlab and ServiceNow getting so fat on whitespace that they no longer fit in half a 1920x1200 screen properly?...

Lockheed Martin plans to make its most powerful military laser yet, 500 kilowatts::The planned laser will be in the 500-kilowatt range. Weapons like these can defend a ship or base against drones or other projectiles.

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ChatGPT has a style over substance trick that seems to dupe people into thinking it’s smart, researchers found::Developers often prefer ChatGPT’s responses about code to those submitted by humans, despite the bot frequently being wrong, researchers found.

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/1743099...

In China, you can’t exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the...

I interviewed Pi on camera for fun. I had spoken with it before, and felt like an interview style recording would be a worthwhile experiment. I’m not affiliated with Inflection whatsoever, and I gave Pi the benefit of the doubt in the interview, but still steered the conversation towards interests of mine.

We need to start talking about the Cyber Resilience Act, because according to all major Open Source organizations the CRA is a threat to Free Software itself, and it has been approved by the European Committee that was working on it.