NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law (themarkup.org)
Calls for smartphone-free childhood grow in Britain (www.straitstimes.com)
Oregon's Breakthrough Right-to-Repair Bill Is Now Law (www.wired.com)
‘IRL Fakes:’ Where People Pay for AI-Generated Porn of Normal People (www.404media.co)
A Telegram user who advertises their services on Twitter will create an AI-generated pornographic image of anyone in the world for as little as $10 if users send them pictures of that person. Like many other Telegram communities and users producing nonconsensual AI-generated sexual images, this user creates fake nude images of...
NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law (www.thecity.nyc)
‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person — Update (deadline.com)
The BBC has issued a statement that offers important context to Sara Poyzer’s viral social media posts. The British broadcaster said it is using AI technology in a “highly sensitive documentary” to represent the voice of a person who is nearing the end of their life....
Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare (unlimitedhangout.com)
Scientists Invent World's Fastest Camera That Shoots 156.3 Trillion Frames Per Second (petapixel.com)
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (prospect.org)
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Parabon Introduces DNA Nanostructure CAD Studio backed by Evolutionary Algorithm Sequencing
parabon-nanolabs.com/nanotech/
The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)
Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.
Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab (tech.slashdot.org)
AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them. (wapo.st)
Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft — with ordinary people finding their faces and words twisted to push often offensive products and ideas
SoylentNews: A Hotbed of Crime? – The Legal Beaver (legalbeaver.ca)
Windows AI PC manufacturers must add a Copilot key, says Microsoft (www.xda-developers.com)
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Disney+ debuts a new logo and integrates Hulu content, offering joint subs in the US (alternativeto.net)
In-app browsers still a privacy, security, and choice issue (www.theregister.com)
In-app browsers are like standalone web browsers without the interface – they rely on the native app for the interface. They can be embedded in native platform apps to load and render web content within the app, instead of outside the app in the designated default browser....
AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)
vCard + RSS as an alternative to social media (nfraprado.net)
I would love to see a resurgence in RSS instead of all the bloat thats so prevalent nowadays.
Wubuntu, the Dubious Linux Windows (www.youtube.com)
What do you guys think?
Webserver Runs On Android Phone (hackaday.com)
Majority of Americans now use ad blockers (www.theregister.com)
Israel quietly rolled out a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip (www.theverge.com)
Israel has deployed a mass facial recognition program in the Gaza Strip, creating a database of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, The New York Times reports. The program, which was created after the October 7th attacks, uses technology from Google Photos as well as a custom tool built by the Tel Aviv-based company...
