Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM (9to5mac.com)
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu (www.theverge.com)
The software maker will use the Recommended section of the Start menu, which usually shows file recommendations, to suggest apps from the Microsoft Store.
The internet is dying - here's why. (yt.drgnz.club)
Why big tech companies suck right now. Looking at you Amazon, Netflix, Uber, Spotify, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube… (sponsor was here)...
Making the Ideal 3d Printer Montioring Live-Stream (reticulated.net)
Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry (time.com)
Google provides cloud computing services to the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the tech giant has negotiated deepening its partnership during Israel’s war in Gaza, a company document viewed by TIME shows....
Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images (www.bloomberg.com)
When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software last year, the company said the artificial intelligence model was trained mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of hundreds of millions of licensed images. Firefly, Adobe said, was a “commercially safe” alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned by...
More Canadians dive into streaming, pushing traditional TV aside (www.vernonmorningstar.com)
Couch Potato Report predicts half of Canada will be without traditional TV by 2026
Elon Musk Doubles Down on Mars Dreams and Details What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship (singularityhub.com)
OpenAI Issues GPT-4 Turbo, a More Conversational Assistant with Improved Capabilities (iblnews.org)
Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. (www.brookings.edu)
Google removing links to California news websites as part of test in response to pending legislation (www.cnbc.com)
Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly (arstechnica.com)
A Judge Can Break Up Google Right Now. Will He? (www.thebignewsletter.com)
Where there's a will, there's Huawei to develop one's own chipmaking kit (www.theregister.com)
Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Jesus, again already?
Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger (www.pcmag.com)
The encounter between a Rivian driver and uninformed Tesla owner highlights 'a need for better education and communication within the EV community,' the Rivian driver says.
Roku suffered another data breach, this time affecting 576,000 accounts (www.engadget.com)
TSAC: Very Low Bitrate Audio Compression (bellard.org)
from fabrice bellard.
Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt (infosec.exchange)
Mozilla Pushes Feds to Embrace Truly Open, Transparent AI Models (www.pcmag.com)
Mozilla and a host of other researchers are urging US officials to see value in open-source AI models when considering future regulation....
Who Wrote That? Evaluating Tools to Detect AI-Generated Text (foundation.mozilla.org)
Mozilla research found that detection tools aren’t always as reliable as they say. Further, researchers found that large language models like ChatGPT can be successfully prompted to create more ‘human-sounding’ text...
Why I Lost Faith in Kagi (d-shoot.net)
via www.osnews.com/story/139270/do-not-use-kagi/
Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS firewall zero-day used in attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Sev 10!
An Only Slightly Modest Proposal: If AI Companies Want More Content, They Should Fund Reporters, And Lots Of Them (www.techdirt.com)
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)
