The First AI Gadgets Are a Cautionary Tale (nymag.com)
Riley Testut launches Delta emulator on US App Store (free) - shows middle finger to Europe (payment required) (9to5mac.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14398634...
Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site (www.theregister.com)
Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove....
Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging (chainstoreage.com)
Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply (arstechnica.com)
Whistleblower 'would not' put family on Boeing 787 jet (www.bbc.com)
Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline (www.theregister.com)
Relevant bits from the article:...
Apple fixes iPhone bug that suggested Palestinian flag when some people typed ‘Jerusalem’ (www.cnn.com)
Vodafone insists UK 5G is at risk without Three merger (www.lightreading.com)
Unearthing APT44: Russia’s Notorious Cyber Sabotage Unit Sandworm (cloud.google.com)
What’s worrying about this report is that it’s coming from Google itself....
Using Artificial Intelligence Tools in K–12 Classrooms (www.rand.org)
Uber Eats launches TikTok-style video feature to promote new food products - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
Big Tech Says Spy Bill Turns Its Workers Into Informants (www.wired.com)
The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat (www.theverge.com)
So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post (arstechnica.com)
ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say (arstechnica.com)
We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA (www.noemamag.com)
Sex-ed content creators discuss shadowbanning and censorship on Meta platforms (www.storyboard18.com)
A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store (www.theverge.com)
Now, clicking on a link to Bimmy shows “This app is currently not available in your country or region.” This time, it wasn’t Apple that removed it but the developer. Over on MacRumors’ forums, the developer said it pulled the app “out of fear.” “No one pressured me to, but I got more nervous about it as the day...
End of coding? Microsoft framework makes devs AI supervisors (vulcanpost.com)
Meta and Lavender (blog.paulbiggar.com)
A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?...
Tik-Tok Lite (www.reuters.com)
Wait, so now people are going to be monetarily rewarded for using tiktok?...
Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out (stackdiary.com)
The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.
Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps (www.ghacks.net)
Google warns users of these apps that their experience may deteriorate soon. They may “experience buffering issues” or see errors such as “the following content is not available on this app” when trying to watch videos....