Elon: do as I says, but I don't have too.... (lemmy.world)
Pushing me so hard to abanden X
Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate (www.cnbc.com)
Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate::As Amazon tries to get employees back to the office, some staffers are being told to relocate to hubs in different states if they want to keep their jobs
NYT Disables Open AI bot (www.theverge.com)
NYT looks like it’s updated it’s robots.txt file to disallow the Open AI bot from scraping it’s data. Pretty interested to see if they just update their user agent string or if they’ll respect it
Implanted microchips restore feeling, movement for first time in man with quadriplegia (knowridge.com)
'Near Collisions' of Commercial Jets Happen All the Time: FAA Records (gizmodo.com)
Welcome to 404 Media (New Magazine from former VICE Motherboard staff) (www.404media.co)
The Kids Online Safety Act Denies Young People's Freedoms of Expression and Privacy. (www.libraryfutures.net)
The Kids Online Safety Act Denies Young People’s Freedoms of Expression and Privacy.::Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.
2-clicks to install Windows 11/10 without the third-party bloatware (www.ctrl.blog)
Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale (www.404media.co)
Each of these reads like an extremely horny and angry man yelling their basest desires at Pornhub’s search function.
Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam | Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and inefficient cleanup promises from the te... (newrepublic.com)
Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam | Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and inefficient cleanup promises from the te…::Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and...
What UserStyles can you recommend?
For those who don’t know: websites use HTML, CSS and JS. The code is downloaded from the server, but it is interpreted by the browser, locally on your device. So there is no problem to modify this code for yourself ;)...
Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel (www.theverge.com)
OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (www.businessinsider.com)
OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series::A new research paper laid out ways in which AI developers should try and avoid showing LLMs have been trained on copyrighted material.
Thematic Book Series: How to Build a Low-tech Internet? | Low Tech Magazine
(posted for discussion, not necessarily in agreement with author)...
AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless (qz.com)
New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power (www.pv-magazine.com)
New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power::In a recent study, researchers from the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) questioned the planned development of new nuclear capacities in the energy...
The Secret Weapon Hackers Can Use to Dox Nearly Anyone in America for $15 (www.404media.co)
Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus. Hackers have found a way into that data supply chain, and are advertising access in group chats used by violent criminals who rob, assault, and shoot targets.
Websites for file transfer without downloading additional software or apps (megatech.ng)
Microsoft will sell Activision Blizzard streaming rights to Ubisoft in attempt to win UK approval (www.engadget.com)
Europe's Sweeping Rules for Tech Giants Are About to Kick In (www.voanews.com)
What’s changing?...
Tesla reportedly asked highway safety officials to redact information about whether driver-assistance software was in use during crashes (www.businessinsider.com)
Tesla reportedly asked highway safety officials to redact information about whether driver-assistance software was in use during crashes::Elon Musk’s Tesla has faced investigations into Autopilot, including an ongoing NHTSA probe of more than 800,000 Teslas after several crashes.
Nvidia announces DLSS 3.5 "Ray Reconstruction" for all RTX-branded cards (www.youtube.com)
Replacing the usual denoising algorithms used to generate an image from the (usually small) number of traced rays in a scene with a new AI model that runs alongside DLSS upscaling, Nvidia is able to show ray traced reflections and shadows with less artifacts, significantly improved clarity, and more data points being represented...
Record 1.2 gigawatts of new solar added in Germany in July (ieefa.org)
Record 1.2 gigawatts of new solar added in Germany in July::Germany connected solar systems with a combined capacity of almost 1.2 GW to the power grid in July, hitting a new monthly record and bringing the total solar capacity in operation to 75.1 GW
The Trojan Room coffee pot was switched off at 09:54 UTC on 22 August 2001 (lemmy.capebreton.social)
cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/327322...