GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/9771976...
Leap year software glitch closes fuel pumps across New Zealand (www.straitstimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12545090
Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans’ personal data abroad (www.theverge.com)
Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans’ personal data abroad::President Biden’s latest executive order directs several government departments to establish regulations to keep data from being sent to countries like China and Russia.
Screens in the palm of the hand and tamagotchi assistants: The race to imagine devices beyond the cell phone (english.elpais.com)
Alibaba Cloud slashes prices by as much as 55% to fuel AI growth in China (www.cnbc.com)
Optimizing Chat GPT Content for Enhanced SEO Performance and Visibility (seovendor.co)
Discover how SEO Vendor elevates your brand with Chat GPT Prompts for SEO. Tailored, strategic content enhances visibility and engagement, driving digital success seamlessly.
Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning (techcrunch.com)
Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning::Bumble is the latest dating app to report disappointing quarterly growth in an increasingly tough market.
Anycubic 3D printers hacked worldwide to expose security flaw (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
IBM says their latest AI-enhanced storage platform can identify ransomware in under a minute (www.techspot.com)
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Maker Rockstar Games Asks Workers to Return to Office Five Days a Week (www.bloomberg.com)
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Maker Rockstar Games Asks Workers to Return to Office Five Days a Week::Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., will ask employees to return to the office five days a week beginning in April as the video-game maker enters the final stages of development on its next game, the hotly...
Cutout.Pro, an AI-powered visual design platform, leaked 20M records, including email and IP addresses, names and salted MD5 password hashes, which have then been broadly distributed. (haveibeenpwned.com)
Haha, brand new company with MD5 password hashes. Maybe they oughta consult about securities with their/other AIs more often. Hopefully, nobody did anything naughty on the site....
Arizona attorney general sues software company RealPage, residential landlords; accuses them of conspiring to illegally raise rents (www.azfamily.com)
Arizona attorney general sues software company RealPage, residential landlords; accuses them of conspiring to illegally raise rents::The suit alleges that landlords conspired with RealPage and used that information to conduct a price-fixing conspiracy.
Late Actor Matthew Perry's Twitter Hacked: Fake Charity Plea Targets Fans with Cryptocurrency Scam (www.bitdefender.com)
Scammers hacked the late actor Matthew Perry’s Twitter account and posted a fake plea for cryptocurrency donations in the name of his foundation. The foundation confirmed the post was a scam and urged people not to donate....
Google sued for $2.3bn by European media groups over digital ad losses (www.theguardian.com)
EA to Lay Off Around 670 Workers, Sunsetting Games, 'Moving Away From Licensed IPs' (www.ign.com)
EA to Lay Off Around 670 Workers, Sunsetting Games, ‘Moving Away From Licensed IPs’::Electronic Arts has announced that it, too, is undergoing mass layoffs, with plans to let go 5% of its total global staff, or roughly 670 individuals.
Up to 30% of Apple Vision Pro Returns Are Because Users Don't Get It, Analyst Says (gizmodo.com)
Up to 30% of Apple Vision Pro Returns Are Because Users Don’t Get It, Analyst Says::While Vision Pro returns were uncommon, many came down to owners not figuring out its spatial computing.
My take on AI is obvious, but I have not seen it anywhere.
First of all, the take that LLM are just Parrots without being able to think for themself is dumb. They do in a limited way! And they are an impressive step compared to what we had before them....
EMO: Emote Portrait Alive - Generating Expressive Portrait Videos with Audio2Video Diffusion Model (humanaigc.github.io)
Honda built a powered chair to zoom around theme parks while wearing an AR headset. (www.engadget.com)
At the upcoming SXSW Conference… Honda will give attendees a chance to try out a new mobility device… specifically designed for mixed reality entertainment experiences....
Google CEO says Gemini AI diversity errors are ‘completely unacceptable’ (www.theverge.com)
Google CEO says Gemini AI diversity errors are ‘completely unacceptable’::In an internal memo, Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that the historically inaccurate photos generated by the company’s Gemini AI were ‘completely unacceptable.’
EU regulations are likely to force WhatsApp is to open their servers to Matrix soon (www.youtube.com)
During Matrix FOSDEM talk it was mentioned that there is already working bridge that preserves E2EE....
The AI feedback loop: Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content (venturebeat.com)
Newsmast brings curated 'communities' to the open source Twitter/X alternative Mastodon | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
AI-Generated Kara Swisher Biographies Flood Amazon (www.404media.co)
Why Read Swisher’s Burn Book when you can read KARA SWISHER : The Heroic Biography of a defining force in Tech Journalism (The Silicon Valley’s most powerful tech journalist).
Fanfiction Community Rocked By Etsy Sellers Turning Their Work Into Bound Books (www.404media.co)
Etsy sellers are turning free fanfiction into printed and bound physical books, and listing them for sale on online marketplaces for more than $100 per book. It’s a problem that’s rattling the authors of those fanfics, as well as their fans and readers....
