Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Germany spends big to win $11 billion TSMC chip plant (www.reuters.com)
The famously overworked visual effects workers behind the Marvel movies just voted to join a union (fortune.com)
Intel's deepfake detector tested on real and fake videos (www.bbc.com)
Intel’s deepfake detector tested on real and fake videos::We tested Intel’s new tool, “FakeCatcher”, on videos of Donald Trump and Joe Biden - with mixed results.
It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk (www.theverge.com)
Best portable Bluetooth speakers?
Looking to buy one of these for use around the house, but I’m not overly knowledgeable about them....
AI researchers claim 93% accuracy in detecting keystrokes over Zoom audio (arstechnica.com)
Laptops more susceptible to having keyboard recorded in quieter areas, like coffee shops, libraries, offices. Previous attempts at keylogging VoIP calls achieved 91.7 percent top-5 accuracy over Skype in 2017 and 74.3 percent accuracy in VoIP calls in 2018.
Zoom Changes TOS to Say It Won't Train AI on Your Calls 'Without Your Consent' After Backlash (www.vice.com)
Zoom Changes TOS to Say It Won’t Train AI on Your Calls ‘Without Your Consent’ After Backlash::Zoom added a line to its terms of use on Monday, after concerns that the company was using calls to train artificial intelligence algorithms went viral.
Beijing Superconductor Levitation Video Author Admits Fraud, Takes it Down (www.tomshardware.com)
$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial | Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers denied Google’s push for a summary judgment in a lawsuit over the way it tracked... (www.theverge.com)
$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial | Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers denied Google’s push for a summary judgment in a lawsuit over the way it tracked…::Google’s push for a summary judgment in a lawsuit over tracking internet activity even after users activated Chrome’s...
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AI is ruining the internet (www.businessinsider.com)
Tech bosses and finance CEOs are using holograms to be in two places at once (www.cityam.com)
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Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors (www.cityam.com)
Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors::A Bill Gates-backed clean energy player is hoping to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the UK and will compete with global rivals.
Saudi Arabia mandates all electronic devices to use USB-C charging ports from 2025 (www.gsmarena.com)
Will electric flying taxis live up to their promise? (www.bbc.co.uk)
Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office (arstechnica.com)
Baffled Scientists Detect Massive Unexplained Radiation From the Sun, Study Reports (www.vice.com)
Baffled Scientists Detect Massive Unexplained Radiation From the Sun, Study Reports::“The Sun’s emission at high energies challenges present models,” scientists say, and “decisive” new probes are needed to solve the mystery.
If you were to create a cloud community, how would you do it? (thought experiment)
Somewhat recently I learned about tildaverses which if you’re unaware are communities where everyone gets an ssh account on a server to do things like hosts sites or gemini capsules, and access to services like a community IRC server or the ability to host their email there. This kinda got me thinking of community run clouds...
Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August (www.theguardian.com)
Norway to fine Meta $98,500 a day over user privacy breach from 14 August::Country’s data protection regulator said firm cannot harvest user information such as physical locations for showing targeted ads
Shopify Tutorials : Shopify Apps Charges Types (blog.startbitsolutions.com)
Announcing the Tor University Challenge (www.eff.org)
[Discussion] Early August - What tech has really garnered your interest as of late?
What tech if any have you found interesting lately?...