'Personality-driven' influencer esports league revealed, immediately implodes over NFT controversy (www.pcgamer.com)
AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action (arstechnica.com)
AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action::“A race against time to protect the children of our country from the dangers of AI.”
Robot dog shares Mick Jagger's moves (www.bbc.com)
Robot dogs are tech, right?
Disney creates task force to explore AI and cut costs - Reuters News Agency (www.reutersagency.com)
FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023. Messages Will be Sent to All TVs, Radios and Cell Phones (www.fema.gov)
FEMA and FCC Plan Nationwide Emergency Alert Test for Oct. 4, 2023. Messages Will be Sent to All TVs, Radios and Cell Phones::FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this fall.
Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning 'sprite' exposes one of nature's least understood phenomena (www.livescience.com)
Eerie, ultra-detailed photo of a lightning ‘sprite’ exposes one of nature’s least understood phenomena::An astronomer in Slovakia captured the rare luminous phenomenon as it briefly flashed in Earth’s upper atmosphere during a thunderstorm.
All of Japan's Toyota Assembly Plants Shut Down for a Day Because Their Server Ran Out of Disk Space (www.reuters.com)
The $53,000 Connection: The High Cost of High-Speed Internet for Everyone (www.wsj.com)
The $53,000 Connection: The High Cost of High-Speed Internet for Everyone::Officials doling out billions of dollars for broadband in rural America are struggling to decide when a new hookup costs too much
What OpenAI Really Wants (www.wired.com)
“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator::Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
‘Modern cars are a privacy nightmare,’ the worst Mozilla’s seen (www.theverge.com)
UK government to back down on controversial end-to-end encryption provisions in Online Safety Bill (techmonitor.ai)
Almost like it was a non-starter. Who could have possibly foreseen that?
Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator::Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
WSJ: China Bans iPhone Use for Government Officials at Work (www.wsj.com)
Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare" (foundation.mozilla.org)
Bloom Filters and Beyond: An Illustrated Introduction and Implementation (codeconfessions.substack.com)
An illustrated introduction to bloom filters—learn their implementation, and applications. Also, explore the Counting Bloom Filter extension!
Airbnb bookings dry up in New York as new short-stay rules are introduced | Under the new restrictions, short-term renters will need to register with the city and must be present in the home for th... (www.theguardian.com)
Airbnb bookings dry up in New York as new short-stay rules are introduced | Under the new restrictions, short-term renters will need to register with the city and must be present in the home for th…::Under the new restrictions, short-term renters will need to register with the city and must be present in the home for the...
Contra Chrome – a webcomic – How Google's browser became a threat to privacy and democracy (contrachrome.com)
Since I haven’t seen a post about this, I decided to post this. Sorry in advance if this is a duplicate
Spread Your Wings: Falcon 180B is here (huggingface.co)
Context: Falcon is a popular free LLM, this is their biggest model yet and they claim it’s now the best open model in the market right now.
Digital Markets Act: Commission designates six gatekeepers (ec.europa.eu)
The European Commission has today designated, for the first time, six gatekeepers - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft - under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). In total, 22 core platform services provided by gatekeepers have been designated. The six gatekeepers will now have six months to ensure full compliance...
China Decides iPhones Pose a National Security Risk (www.pcmag.com)
Employees at some Chinese ministries must stop using iPhones before the end of September.
Carmakers are failing the privacy test. Owners have little to no control of the data they hand over (www.ctvnews.ca)
Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web (spectrum.ieee.org)
How to free users from Big Tech’s walled gardens...
Chinese mock US sanctions after large Chinese chip manufacturer achieves major performance and manufacturing breakthrough (www.tomshardware.com)
Chinese mock US sanctions after large Chinese chip manufacturer achieves major performance and manufacturing breakthrough::US sanctions and unintended consequences – China mocks sanctions as Huawei technology looks stronger than ever.
Round-the-Clock WordPress Support: Your 24x7 Solution to Technical Challenges (www.thewpninjas.com)
Experience uninterrupted website performance with our 24x7 WP support service. The WP Ninjas are your dedicated 24x7 WP support agency, providing proactive solutions to all your technical problems. Trust us to keep your WordPress website running smoothly, day and night.
