Saving Vivaldi Social from doom: A Sysadmin adventure (vivaldi.com)
"Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday" (www.theverge.com)
Any Open-Source RCS apps yet?
Are there any apps that support RCS that aren’t made by Google or a crappy cellular provider (ie: bloatware Verizon apps)?...
Global fashion firms block Korean consumers' access to their IP addresses (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
The biggest benefit of direct purchases is that fashion items are cheaper in the brands’ country of origin. This has become an obstacle for international fashion companies that try to sell goods on their Korean-language websites. The prices of Ralph Lauren’s steady-seller men’s Oxford shirts are set from 153,000 won...
Google Messages just flicked the switch on end-to-end encryption for all RCS and group chats (chromeunboxed.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.projectsegfau.lt/m/[email protected]/t/26889...
GM confirms $130,000 Cadillac Escalade IQ won’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto | GM said it was going to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all vehicles, and now, that includes Cadillac’s l... (www.theverge.com)
GM confirms $130,000 Cadillac Escalade IQ won’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto | GM said it was going to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all vehicles, and now, that includes Cadillac’s l…::Cadillac confirms its new Google built-in infotainment leaves no room for Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. Instead, Google...
Supermarket AI Offers Mom's Famous Mustard Gas Recipe (gizmodo.com)
Once Again, Dirty Energy is not in the Public Interest (www.nrdc.org)
Once Again, Dirty Energy is not in the Public Interest::It’s time for a New Mexico utility to invest in clean energy over dirty coal and gas.
NASA’s Juno Is Getting Ever Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io (www.nasa.gov)
AI Is Building Highly Effective Antibodies That Humans Can’t Even Imagine (www.wired.com)
machine learning algorithm designs antibodies to target specific diseases, then automated robotic systems build and grow them in lab, run tests, and feed data back into algorithm, all with limited human supervision.
A.I. can identify keystrokes by just the sound of your typing and steal information with 95% accuracy, new research shows. Researchers had artificial intelligence listen to the sounds of typing thr... (fortune.com)
A.I. can identify keystrokes by just the sound of your typing and steal information with 95% accuracy, new research shows. Researchers had artificial intelligence listen to the sounds of typing thr…::Researchers had artificial intelligence listen to the sounds of typing through a phone and over Zoom, with eerie results.
Critical thinking education trumps banning and censorship in battle against disinformation, study suggests (www.psypost.org)
Critical thinking education trumps banning and censorship in battle against disinformation, study suggests::A new study conducted by researchers from Michigan State University suggests that the battle against online disinformation cannot be won by mere content moderation or banning those who spread fake news. Instead, the key...
Veilid Framework - A New Decentralized Application Framework by cDC members (Cult of the Dead Cow) (veilid.com)
Presented by Christien ‘DilDog’ Rioux and Katelyn ‘Medus4’ Bowden at DefCon 31...
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (www.independent.co.uk)
Open Steno Project (Plover): Typing At 300 WPM? (www.openstenoproject.org)
Court reporters have used stenography for over a century to write at over 200 words per minute, faster than most people speak...
Zoom says it won't use your calls to train AI 'without your consent' after its terms of service sparked backlash and prompted people to talk about ditching the service (www.businessinsider.com)
Zoom says it won’t use your calls to train AI ‘without your consent’ after its terms of service sparked backlash and prompted people to talk about ditching the service::The company updated its terms of service to say that users must consent to the content of their calls being used to train its AI amid privacy concerns.
Writing with AI help can shift your opinions (news.cornell.edu)
Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level (vpncentral.com)
Artificial Influence: An Analysis Of AI-Driven Persuasion (arxiv.org)
The emergence of prompt engineers: The next in-demand role in AI - DataScienceCentral.com (www.datasciencecentral.com)
BBC News and BBC Sounds launched a Discord server in late June for the Newscast podcast, letting the audience influence the news; the server has 3,700 members (pressgazette.co.uk)
Nvidia reveals new A.I. chip, says costs of running LLMs will ‘drop significantly’ (www.cnbc.com)
Nvidia reveals new A.I. chip, says costs of running LLMs will ‘drop significantly’::Currently, Nvidia dominates the market for AI chips, with over 80% market share, according to some estimates.
Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm (newsroom.ucla.edu)
Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm::A UCLA-led study of NASA’s DART mission determined that the strategy presents previously unanticipated risks.
The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. (citizenlab.ca)
Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
US Supreme Court refuses Epic bid to let App Store order take effect in Apple case. (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a setback to Epic Games, maker of the popular video game “Fortnite,” in its legal battle against Apple (AAPL.O), declining to let a federal judge’s injunction take effect that could force the iPhone maker to change payment practices in its lucrative App Store.
