X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum (www.engadget.com)
STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems (en.wikipedia.org)
A paper[1] presented in June at the NAACL 2024 conference describes "how to apply large language models to write grounded and organized long-form articles from scratch, with comparable breadth and depth to Wikipedia pages." A "research prototype" version of the resulting "STORM" system is available online and has already...
Instagram Isn’t Protecting Women Politicians From Hate Speech (www.wired.com)
Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)
California launches electric trains as US lags behind world in rail electrification (youtu.be)
AltStore PAL drops its annual subscription thanks to a grant from Epic (www.theverge.com)
Musk’s new Grok upgrade allows X users to create largely uncensored AI images (arstechnica.com)
So his site that already doesn’t make money with let subscribers make porn at an astonishing rate of electricity. He has no clue how to run a business.
Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code to extend runtime (arstechnica.com)
Windows 11 is getting a new start menu. EDIT: this replaces the "all apps" page by default, not the home screem
More info about it here: ghacks.net/…/windows-11-start-menu-is-getting-a-n…...
Subvert wants to be ‘a collectively owned Bandcamp successor’ (musically.com)
The world's largest single-capacity floating wind platform has two turbines (electrek.co)
This will be the first geothermal energy storage system on the Texas grid (electrek.co)
Security Issues in Matrix’s Olm Library. (soatok.blog)
I don’t consider myself exceptional in any regard, but I stumbled upon a few cryptography vulnerabilities in Matrix’s Olm library with so little effort that it was nearly accidental....
Is AI Going to Replace Software Engineers? (www.proofnews.org)
X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun (www.theverge.com)
“Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a...
Philosopher tries to convince ChatGPT that it's conscious (youtu.be)
Disney argues it was legal to kill a doctor because she had a Disney+ trial once (wdwnt.com)
Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11 (www.theverge.com)
Amazon Is Investing in AI-Assisted Apartheid in Palestine (jacobin.com)
How ‘Deepfake Elon Musk’ Became the Internet’s Biggest Scammer (www.nytimes.com)
Meta shutters tool used to fight disinformation, despite outcry (www.npr.org)
Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them. (theconversation.com)
Tesla Cybertruck Proves Doubters Wrong, Flexes Power On The Farm: 'Feels Like A Good Fit For Work' (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A farmer proves the Tesla Cybertruck is a workhorse, defying critics with a video showcasing impressive features.
Rivers of Phish: Sophisticated Phishing Targets Russia’s Perceived Enemies Around the Globe. (citizenlab.ca)
‘A battle of experts’: Karen Read case spotlights murky realities of digital forensics (www.bostonglobe.com)
Inconsistencies in phone call records; a confusing time stamp on a Google search to learn how long it would take for a person to die in the cold; health data that showed a person descending a stairway — or maybe in a car....
