Weekend poll: When do you charge your smartphone? (www.androidpolice.com)
Extremist-friendly tech company closes after fine for securities fraud (www.theguardian.com)
Extremist-friendly tech company closes after fine for securities fraud::Experts say LBRY’s failure casts shadow on future of other ‘alt-tech’ sites as Twitter becomes more receptive to far right
The state of AI and social media shows capitalism is unlikely to end with a robot rebellion | Jeff Sparrow (www.theguardian.com)
We tend to think about media disruption as driven by technological innovation. But the ‘enshittification’ of our socials shows that the tech itself plays a relatively minor role
UN warns against implanting AI chips in your brain because it could threaten your mental privacy (www.businessinsider.com)
UN warns against implanting AI chips in your brain because it could threaten your mental privacy::Officials from the United Nations warned that there needs to be a “common ethical framework at the international level” for neurotechnology.
Microsoft And Sony Reach Deal To Keep Call Of Duty On PlayStation (www.gamespot.com)
Microsoft And Sony Reach Deal To Keep Call Of Duty On PlayStation::The deal comes after Microsoft’s successful legal bout with the FTC.
Quantum Computing Qubit Entanglement Record Broken at 51 (www.tomshardware.com)
Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI (arstechnica.com)
How addictive, endless scrolling is bad for your mental health (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Using Google Bard to plot the downfall of Google (imgur.com)
A fun little chat with google’s Bard AI.
If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now (www.fastcompany.com)
With the number of people concerned about privacy, it is a wonder why chrome is even popular.
Israel Quietly Embeds AI Systems in Deadly Military Operations (www.bloomberg.com)
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Finland introduces world’s first phone-free tourist island (out.reddit.com)
AI learned from their work. Now they want compensation. (infosec.pub)
A rising movement of artists and authors are suing tech companies for training AI on their work without credit or payment
WormGPT Is a ChatGPT Alternative With 'No Ethical Boundaries or Limitations' (www.pcmag.com)
WormGPT Is a ChatGPT Alternative With ‘No Ethical Boundaries or Limitations’::undefined
What it takes for a successful phone launch in North America (www.androidcentral.com)
Woman’s iPhone photo of son rejected from Sydney competition after judges ruled it could be AI | Suzi Dougherty’s photograph of 18-year-old Caspar deemed ‘suspicious’ by judges, even though it was ... (www.theguardian.com)
Woman’s iPhone photo of son rejected from Sydney competition after judges ruled it could be AI | Suzi Dougherty’s photograph of 18-year-old Caspar deemed ‘suspicious’ by judges, even though it was …::Suzi Dougherty’s photograph of 18-year-old Caspar deemed ‘suspicious’ by judges, even though it was taken on her...
This week in robotics: Amazon’s iRobot deal hits an EU snag as new funding keeps hot drone summer rolling (techcrunch.com)
This week brought in good news for the robotics space in the form of new investment for nascent companies, but two established players within the space hit a snag. Amazon’s potential $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot, which had previously been approved by the U.K.’s antitrust regulators, is now getting an extensive review...
Assassin's Creed haptic feedback shirt will let players feel every punch, stab, and fall (www.techspot.com)
The partnership lets players experience the world as the game’s protagonist, Basim
Meta’s Threads sent another app named Threads to the top of the App Store charts (www.engadget.com)
It’s confusing, I know.
AppSec, Devs Clash Flags Need for Paradigm Shift in Software Industry (www.technewsworld.com)
According to a recent software industry security report, there is a notable increase in tension between application security (AppSec) workers and application developers over consensus on cloud-native needs. Additionally, there is a growing concern about retaining developer talent in this context.
TIL there is an fediverse alternative to Discord (matrix.org)
About Matrix Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications....
Light-based “LiFi” is stunningly fast, notably fragile—and now standardized (arstechnica.com)
224GB/s, killer security, no radio interference—but you can’t block the beam.
'Unintended' radiation from Starlink satellites may disturb radio astronomy observations (www.space.com)
‘Unintended’ radiation from Starlink satellites may disturb radio astronomy observations::Hum from onboard electronics that power SpaceX’s internet-beaming Starlink satellites may disturb radio astronomy observations, a new study has found.
