Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no (www.techspot.com)
Companies are going all-in on artificial intelligence right now, investing millions or even billions into the area while slapping the AI initialism on their products, even when doing so seems strange and pointless....
Appeals court halts return of net neutrality | The Sixth Circuit’s temporary stay comes only weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, weakening the FCC (www.theverge.com)
A federal appeals court has agreed to halt the reinstatement of net neutrality rules until August 5th, while the court considers whether more permanent action is justified....
Security researchers criticize Microsoft over handling of bug reports (www.zerodayinitiative.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/899847...
Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR (www.axios.com)
Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from “social” media?...
An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her. (www.nytimes.com)
FUTO Keyboard: The Discussion Behind A Cool Product (tedium.co)
A pretty interesting take, and an interesting discussion about what it means to be open source. Is there room for a trusted space between open source and closed corporate software?
How Apple’s India gamble paid off. (restofworld.org)
Anna's Archive Loses .GS Domain Name But Remains Resilient. (torrentfreak.com)
Webflow says 2TB of bandwidth is worth $1,250 per month (stackdiary.com)
Webflow got caught with its hand in the cookie jar and wants to settle disputes quietly.
Performance testing metrics (www.testingxperts.com)
During performance testing, certain key performance indicators (KPIs), also known as performance testing metrics, are used to measure the effectiveness of this testing method. These KPIs define the effectiveness of the performance tests for businesses.
Optus giving away 20,000 phones to vulnerable customers ahead of Australia’s 3G shutdown | 7NEWS (7news.com.au)
Telecommunications ombudsman calls for change to make mobile phones an essential service - ABC News (www.abc.net.au)
Chinese firm ByteDance, which owns TikTok, has lost its appeal against a European Union decision to designate the company a digital "gatekeeper" (www.dw.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/889819...
Meta won't offer future multimodal AI models in EU (www.axios.com)
Meta’s issue isn’t with the still-being-finalized AI Act, but rather with how it can train models using data from European customers while complying with GDPR — the EU’s existing data protection law....
The ‘godmother of AI’ has a new startup already worth $1 billion (www.theverge.com)
Tinder® Unveils 'Photo Selector' AI: Feature to Make Choosing Profile Pictures Easier (www.tinderpressroom.com)
Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless. (themarkup.org)
AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare. (theconversation.com)
Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)
TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/14914636
Fmovies Has Gone Offline, the End of a Pirate Streaming Giant? (torrentfreak.com)
Google is close to making its biggest acquisition ever | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Google owner Alphabet is in advanced discussions to buy fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN....
Apple Watch 2024 Lineup Might Undergo Rework: What to Expect? (www.techtimes.com)
Apple might be considering reworking the 2024 Apple Watch lineup. Rumors suggest that these models will have bigger displays.