Do You Trust Your Cheap Fuses? (hackaday.com)
Researchers Develop Horrifying Face-Mimicking Robot (gizmodo.com)
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds (www.theregister.com)
Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....
Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon (www.pcworld.com)
What Would God Say About File-Sharing? * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
My opinion on Bone conduction earphones (sh.itjust.works)
(Sorry if it’s a miss, this community looked the most fitting)...
Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets (arstechnica.com)
But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don’t do this not because they can’t but because they don’t want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.
Humane AI Pin review: not even close (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military (theintercept.com)
Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s mega-popular image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the Department of Defense build software to execute military operations, according to internal presentation materials reviewed by The Intercept. The revelation comes just months after OpenAI silently ended its prohibition against...
Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors (www.theverge.com)
Critical 'BatBadBut' Rust Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Attacks (thehackernews.com)
5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 (arstechnica.com)
This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born (www.wired.com)
The Hacking Lawsuit Looming Over Truth Social (www.wired.com)
Drones from American startups have been deemed glitchy and expensive, prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China (archive.ph)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14307737...
Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers (krebsonsecurity.com)
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America Is Sick of Swiping (www.theatlantic.com)
Global PC shipments return to growth and pre-pandemic volumes in 1Q24, says IDC (www.digitimes.com)
A new bill wants to reveal what’s really inside AI training data (www.theverge.com)
Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft Build will detail “next generation” of Windows on Arm and new AI features (www.theverge.com)
Beeper Took On Apple’s iMessage Dominance. Now It’s Been Acquired | WIRED (www.wired.com)
Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed (www.technologyreview.com)
Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via Synthetic Memories, a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, to bring people’s memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has...
Speed of AI development is outpacing risk assessment (arstechnica.com)
The increasing power of the latest artificial intelligence systems is stretching traditional evaluation methods to breaking point, posing a challenge to businesses and public bodies over how best to work with the fast-evolving technology....
