‘Let Me Tell Them Goodbye Before They Get Killed’: How eSIM Cards Are Connecting Palestinian Families – The Markup (themarkup.org)
Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media (www.businessinsider.com)
Millennials: It’s ok to mourn the death of social media::Wired writes how “first-gen social media users have nowhere to go.” Ouch.
Adobe is selling fake AI images of the Israel-Hamas war (www.crikey.com.au)
Adobe is selling fake AI images of the Israel-Hamas war::Adobe Stock’s image service has fake, artificially generated images of Israel, Gaza and Hamas which are being used by online news sites.
Xbox plans for using AI to create scripts, dialogue trees, quest lines (www.theverge.com)
YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues (www.theregister.com)
YouTube cares less for your privacy than its revenues::Ad blockers are firewalls for our sanity – turning them off is madness
The new Twitter is becoming a cesspit of disinformation (www.nature.com)
‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy (www.nature.com)
Mozillas petition to get an answer from Microsoft, is it using your data to train its AI? (foundation.mozilla.org)
Microsofts new Terms and Service agreement is rather questionable. In short; It does not clarify if Microsoft will use your data to train it’s AI....
Reddit is starting to test its own add-ons for the platform (www.theverge.com)
Do we even care? Intrigued at all?
TikTok Is Shutting Down its $2 Billion Creator Fund (time.com)
TikTok Is Shutting Down its $2 Billion Creator Fund::TikTok’s controversial creator fund allowed short-form content creators to earn money for their videos. The program will end in December.
Overheating datacenter thwarts 2.5 million bank transactions (www.theregister.com)
Exclusive: Baidu placed AI chip order from Huawei in shift away from Nvidia (www.reuters.com)
CBS Launches Fact-Checking News Unit to Examine AI, Deepfakes (variety.com)
CBS Launches Fact-Checking News Unit to Examine AI, Deepfakes::CBS’ news-and-stations unit will launch a new effort to probe deepfakes and misinformation.
Inspired by online dating, AI tool for adoption matchmaking falls short for vulnerable foster kids (apnews.com)
Former social worker Thea Ramirez has developed an artificial intelligence-powered tool that she says helps social service agencies find the best adoptive parents for some of the nation’s most vulnerable kids.
AI-generated scam cons Houston-area man out of $17,000 (www.chron.com)
AI-generated scam cons Houston-area man out of $17,000::An 82-year-old man reportedly received a call that he believed was from his son-in-law. The caller convinced him to send him thousands of dollars.
The WeWork soap opera’s latest episode includes filing for bankruptcy (www.theverge.com)
Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices (finance.yahoo.com)
Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices::Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn’t easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of...
YouTube tests AI-generated comment summaries and a chatbot for videos (au.finance.yahoo.com)
YouTube announced two new experimental generative AI features today. Premium subscribers can soon try AI-generated comment summaries organized by topic, and a chatbot that answers questions about videos....
Michigan's 100% clean energy bill heads to governor's desk (www.solarpowerworldonline.com)
Michigan’s 100% clean energy bill heads to governor’s desk::The bill that’s expected to be signed by Gov. Whitmer would raise caps on distributed energy sources and set a goal of 100% clean energy by 2040.
Even Google Calendar isn't safe from hackers any more | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
Hacked proxy service has already infected 10,000 systems worldwide with malware | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
Discord is switching to temporary links to stop malware | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
Microsoft 365 apps have a lot of new security vulnerabilities - here's what we know | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
This new macOS malware could leave you severely short-changed | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)
OpenAI says ChatGPT has 100 million weekly users (www.theverge.com)
OpenAI says ChatGPT has 100 million weekly users::100 million people are using its ChatGPT chatbot on a weekly basis, OpenAI has said at its developer conference. Over 2M developers are also building on its API.
