Nintendo vs. Garry's Mod: Dissecting the 'Fake' Domain Behind All the Chaos (torrentfreak.com)
CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences (futurism.com)
U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users (torrentfreak.com)
A Baltimore-area teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist (www.npr.org)
Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data (www.techradar.com)
Deloitte confirms PIA’s no-log claims, with servers running on RAM-only system for maximum privacy....
Offline llama3 says it sends corrections back to Meta's server; I was not aware of it (jeena.net)
A System to Remove Real-World Reflections from RAW Photos (arxiv.org)
“We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking in the opposite direction, e.g., using the selfie camera on a mobile device, which helps disambiguate what should be considered the...
Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers (www.cnn.com)
An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary (www.technologyreview.com)
Thanks to rapid advancements in generative AI and a glut of training data created by human actors that has been fed into its AI model, Synthesia has been able to produce avatars that are indeed more humanlike and more expressive than their predecessors. The digital clones are better able to match their reactions and intonation...
Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? (arstechnica.com)
Reddit embracing all out enshittification (arstechnica.com)
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed...
Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)
US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio (www.theguardian.com)
Cybersecurity researchers spotlight a new ransomware threat – be careful where you upload files (theconversation.com)
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)
IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes (www.nextplatform.com)
FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Communications Commission voted 3–2 to impose net neutrality rules today, restoring the common-carrier regulatory framework enforced during the Obama era and then abandoned while Trump was president....
Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion (arstechnica.com)
AI CloudFlare: Access different LLM models over API (ai.cloudflare.com)
ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac (www.theverge.com)
Post Office executive denies cover-up over Horizon back door (www.bbc.co.uk)
Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' (www.thecooldown.com)
