Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for more than $128 million in severance (www.npr.org)
Twitter’s former CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde and General Counsel Sean Edgett claim in the lawsuit filed Monday that they were fired without a reason on the day in 2022 that Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, which he later rebranded X....
Challenges in Deciphering the Secrets of Large Language Models (archive.is)
https://archive.is/6X8MM/ba28860cc9b52befad2256b26b6a14fa283aa469.webp...
Max Password Sharing Crackdown Is Coming (www.thewrap.com)
Max’s paid sharing initiative will launch later this year, with a broader rollout in 2025. Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max will join competitors Netflix and Disney+ in cracking down on password sharing....
Lies of P Game (medium.com)
UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content (www.wired.com)
A trial program conducted by Pornhub in collaboration with UK-based child protection organizations aimed to deter users from searching for child abuse material (CSAM) on its website. Whenever CSAM-related terms were searched, a warning message and a chatbot appeared, directing users to support services. The trial reported a...
European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)
A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech (www.wired.com)
A student investigation at the University of Waterloo uncovered a system that scanned countless undergrads without consent.
Settlement for the Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator also resulted in takedown of the Citra 3DS emulator created by the same developers. (overkill.wtf)
The Citra website has been replaced with the same statement made on the Yuzu website, and the GitHub repository is now gone as well....
Signal's Meredith Whittaker scorns anti-encryption efforts as 'parochial, magical thinking' | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Robot, repair thyself: laying the foundations for self-healing machines (www.nature.com)
X walks back its misgendering policy after right-wing complaints (www.engadget.com)
Claude 3 launched by Anthropic — new AI model leaves OpenAI's GPT-4 in the dust (www.tomsguide.com)
Title is a bit dramatic, but yes, Claude 3 claims to be better than GPT 4 in most ways.
Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]". (www.theverge.com)
This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code....
PSA: You can't delete photos uploaded to Lemmy. So don't (accidentally) upload a nude (tech.michaelaltfield.net)
Apple hit with $2 billion EU antitrust fine in Spotify case (www.theguardian.com)
Apple has been fined €1.8bn ($2bn) by the EU after an investigation found it had limited competition from music streaming services such as Spotify....
French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL (heathermeeker.com)
I worked exclusively in Vision Pro for a week—here’s how it went (arstechnica.com)
The Discussion Forums Dominating 10,000 Product Review Search Results - Reddit's dominance and the downsides of that (detailed.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12715607...
EU Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers (ec.europa.eu)
The European Commission has fined Apple over €1.8 billion for abusing its dominant position on the market for the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users (‘iOS users’) through its App Store. In particular, the Commission found that Apple applied restrictions on app developers preventing them from...
India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images (www.bbc.com)
Faked images of black voters with Trump are a growing disinformation trend in the US election, the BBC finds.
An Overview of the Cross-Platform Technology to Develop Mobile Applications (www.acadereality.com)
Mobile applications, which offer effectiveness, engagement, and comfort, have gotten to be a fundamental portion of our regular lives within the current advanced period. Developers are confronted with the challenge of making mobile applications that work faultlessly over a run of gadgets, and working frameworks....
Telcos are barely done rolling out 5G networks — and they're already talking about '5.5G' (www.cnbc.com)
Film Companies Seek 'Torrenting History' Related to Redditor * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)
I didn’t know reddit gave out the personal details of their users, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.