Did Reddit year-end recaps expose Russian interference in Alberta? (www.stalbertgazette.com)
Did Reddit year-end recaps expose Russian interference in Alberta?::Online anti-LGBTQ+ harassment and engaging with small communities are documented foreign interference tactics, but they have so far not been observed in Canada.
AI-generated content and other unfavorable practices have put longtime staple CNET on Wikipedia's blacklisted sources (www.tomshardware.com)
In the wave of AI controversies and lawsuits, CNET has been publicly admonished since it first started posting thinly-veiled AI-generated content on its site in late 2022— a scandal that has culminated in the site being demoted from Trusted to Untrusted Sources on Wikipedia....
Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Meta will delete all non-migrated Oculus accounts in March - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Canadian Surpreme Court Rules Police Now Need a Warrant to Get a Person's IP (www.cbc.ca)
Canadian Surpreme Court Rules Police Now Need a Warrant to Get a Person’s IP::undefined
Older Computer Programmers & Engineers
Lately, I was going through the blog of a math professor I took at a community college back when I was in high school. Having gone the path I did in life, I took a look at what his credentials were, and found that he completed a computer science degree back sometime in the 1970s. He had a curmudgeonly and standoffish...
Google is the new IBM (www.businessinsider.com)
Google is the new IBM::Years of being one-upped on AI and cracking down on innovation turned the poster child for Silicon Valley cool into a dinosaur.
In the Amazon, a new way to live off nature (wapo.st)
But now a smattering of solar panels across 12 villages in a couple of Ecuador’s deeply forested eastern provinces are making Canelos’s vision materialize. Every morning, before dawn, his people pass around a bowl of wayusa, a traditional drink made from a local plant that helps bring their dreams into focus. In them, they...
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI | Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)
Here lies the internet, murdered by generative AI | Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube’s kids content::Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube’s kids content
"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America (www.cbsnews.com)
“A dream. It’s perfect”: Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America::For a century, the U.S. Government-owned the largest helium reserve in the country, but the biggest exporters now are in Russia, Qatar and Tanzania. With this new discovery, Minnesota could be joining that list.
Reddit keeps testing desktop UI changes ahead of its IPO (www.androidpolice.com)
Reddit keeps testing desktop UI changes ahead of its IPO::Are the developments related? We don’t know yet
AI WARFARE IS ALREADY HERE (www.bloomberg.com)
Tesla must face racism class action from 6,000 Black workers, judge rules | Black factory workers can sue Tesla collectively; trial set for October 2024. (arstechnica.com)
Tesla must face racism class action from 6,000 Black workers, judge rules | Black factory workers can sue Tesla collectively; trial set for October 2024.::Black factory workers can sue Tesla collectively; trial set for October 2024.
X revives policy targeting deadnaming, misgendering (thehill.com)
Google cuts team of contractors who went on strike (www.theverge.com)
Google cuts team of contractors who went on strike::Google previously said the team of YouTube Music contractors were not employees since they were hired by Cognizant.
GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code. (www.pcgamer.com)
GitHub is under automated attack by millions of cloned repositories filled with malicious code.::Thanks to a combination of sophisticated methodology and social engineering, this particular attack seems to be very difficult to stop.
Hands up if you want to volunteer for layoffs, IBM tells staff (www.theregister.com)
How to Make Money Online with 6 Best Apps for Android Phones That Will Pay You Real Money in 2024 (central24.online)
Today on HMMO (How to Make Money Online) We want Introduce to you Six Verified App for Android Phones that will pay you real money in 2024 for doing tasks and…
Yelp says going all in on remote work boosted job applications by 43% and led to a more satisfied workforce (fortune.com)
Yelp says going all in on remote work boosted job applications by 43% and led to a more satisfied workforce::The company’s WFH strategy boosted job applications and worker fulfillment.
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Here Come the AI Worms (www.wired.com)
Judge mocks X for “vapid” argument in Musk’s hate speech lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Judge mocks X for “vapid” argument in Musk’s hate speech lawsuit::Judge to X lawyer: “I’m trying to figure out in my mind how that’s possibly true."