Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin....
The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas (www.theverge.com)
Snowden: OpenAI just went full mask off (x.com)
I personally don’t trust Snowden. Lookin at the difference between how he was treated and how Assange was treated. One guy gets to rot in prison, other guy gets movies made about him from Hollywood. Snowden is very much controlled opposition in my mind....
Researchers claim GPT-4 passed the Turing test (bgr.com)
Meta says European regulators are ruining its AI bot (www.theverge.com)
Meta is putting plans for its AI assistant on hold in Europe after receiving objections from Ireland’s privacy regulator, the company announced on Friday....
Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)
One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down (arstechnica.com)
The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap (www.nextplatform.com)
How Elon Musk Went from Innovative Car Maker to Racist Demagogue Just Like Henry Ford (medium.com)
Gamers Nexus | Confronting ASUS Face-to-Face (youtu.be)
Man sues Apple for accidentally exposing his infidelity (appleinsider.com)
A British man is ridiculously attempting to sue Apple following a divorce, caused by his wife finding messages to a prostitute he deleted from his iPhone that were still accessible on an iMac....
Desk read error occurred.
What’s going on here? A week or so ago this showed up and haven’t been able to turn on my laptop since. Some hardware issue?
I made a tool to measure the battery impact of different Android web browsers - here's what I learned!
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/9716781...
The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords (arstechnica.com)
What Do Neural Networks Really Learn? Exploring the Brain of an AI Model (youtu.be)
Neural networks have become increasingly impressive in recent years, but there’s a big catch: we don’t really know what they are doing. We give them data and ways to get feedback, and somehow, they learn all kinds of tasks. It would be really useful, especially for safety purposes, to understand what they have learned and...
Why the pope has the ears of G7 leaders on the ethics of AI (www.theguardian.com)
Mozilla restores Firefox add-ons banned in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated previously banned Firefox add-ons in Russia that were designed to circumvent state censorship, such as a VPN and a tool to access Tor websites....
The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery (www.bbc.com)
LuckFox Pico Ultra is a micro dev board with PoE and a Rockchip RV1106 ARM/RISC-V chip - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
Leaked Memo Claims New York Times Fired Artists to Replace Them With AI (futurism.com)
Meta to pause plans to use personal data to train AI models (www.rte.ie)
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, is to pause plans to use personal data to train artificial intelligence (AI) models after concerns were raised by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)
The key problem is that copyright infringement by a private individual is regarded by the court as something so serious that it negates the right to privacy. It’s a sign of the twisted values that copyright has succeeded on imposing on many legal systems. It equates the mere copying of a digital file with serious crimes that...
Former head of the NSA joins OpenAI board of directors (engineering.vanderbilt.edu)
The Outsider's Guide to Payments Censorship - Brett Scott (www.asomo.co)
Microsoft postpones Windows Recall after major backlash — will launch Copilot+ PCs without headlining AI feature (www.windowscentral.com)
