Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs (www.nytimes.com)
Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs::undefined
Smart TVs must showcase Australian free-to-air channels alongside streaming services under proposed legislation (www.theguardian.com)
Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users (www.techspot.com)
[On the lighter side] Billionaire suggests a payload would have solved Starship explosion due to venting oxygen. And we have a suggestion for who that payload could be (www.theregister.com)
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Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” (au.news.yahoo.com)
Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’”::A Taylor Swift fan believed her VIP ticket was ‘stolen’ from her account by Ticketek after an apparent system ‘glitch’.
🚨SIGNIFICANT, POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT🚨The European Mathmatical Society working with research libraries have found a way to make ALL of the research journals they publish open access, with no APC (mastodon.world)
The problem with standalone VR and "spatial computing" (www.spacebar.news)
Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It (www.techdirt.com)
Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It::Amidst all of the attention paid to last week’s Senate hearing on child safety online, it remains stunning just how little time was actually spent on how to help children online. Instead, we saw pure theatrical...
Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials (www.freethink.com)
Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials::undefined
Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say extreme content being pushed on young people and becoming normalised
Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups, leaving developers and customers in disarray (techcrunch.com)
Weaver: New Specialised Writing LLMs Outperform GPT-4 (arxiv.org)
Weaver introduces a new family of specialised large language models tailored for creative and professional writing. Offering models ranging from 1.8B to 34B parameters, said to outperform larger generalist models like GPT-4 by focusing on human-like text production and diverse content creation capabilities.
Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year (qz.com)
Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year::Worse than Etsy. Worse than Boeing. Simply the worst
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist (arstechnica.com)
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist::Hong Kong firm tricked by simulation of multiple real people in video chat, including voices.
TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out (gizmodo.com)
Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu... (www.theverge.com)
Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu…::Parisians have voted to increase parking charges for out-of-town SUV drivers as part of the city’s efforts to address road...
Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
After almost a year as an invite-only app, Bluesky is now open to the public. Funded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bluesky is one of the more promising micro-blogging platforms that could provide an alternative to Elon Musk’s X....
Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules (arstechnica.com)
The Icon Factory has a kickstarter fund for an app that would wrangle your feeds on iOS (www.kickstarter.com)
Tapestry would pull your many feeds together and sort them by timeline....
Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling. (www.vice.com)
Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.::After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.
How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
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Bodycam Maker Axon has acquired AI surveillance company Fusus amid a push into retail and healthcare settings (www.vice.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/axon-acquires-fusus-ai-surveill…
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses (www.techspot.com)
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined