Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users (www.techspot.com)
Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” (au.news.yahoo.com)
Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’”::A Taylor Swift fan believed her VIP ticket was ‘stolen’ from her account by Ticketek after an apparent system ‘glitch’.
How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)
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Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It (www.techdirt.com)
Politicians Are Using Kids As Props To Pass Terrible, Harmful Legislation. Don’t Let Them Get Away With It::Amidst all of the attention paid to last week’s Senate hearing on child safety online, it remains stunning just how little time was actually spent on how to help children online. Instead, we saw pure theatrical...
Chinese consumers unimpressed by Samsung phones powered by Baidu AI (www.scmp.com)
Social media algorithms ‘amplifying misogynistic content’ (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say extreme content being pushed on young people and becoming normalised
Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials (www.freethink.com)
Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials::undefined
Republicans in Congress try to kill FCC’s broadband discrimination rules (arstechnica.com)
Republicans in Congress try to kill FCC’s broadband discrimination rules::Over 65 Republicans file resolution of disapproval, while lobby groups sue FCC.
Meta cuts off third-party access to Facebook Groups, leaving developers and customers in disarray (techcrunch.com)
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist (arstechnica.com)
Deepfake scammer walks off with $25 million in first-of-its-kind AI heist::Hong Kong firm tricked by simulation of multiple real people in video chat, including voices.
Apple vision pro (futurology.today)
TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out (gizmodo.com)
Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu... (www.theverge.com)
Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu…::Parisians have voted to increase parking charges for out-of-town SUV drivers as part of the city’s efforts to address road...
Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules (arstechnica.com)
MIT PhD Student Hacks Apple Vision Pro Days After Release, Reveals Potential Jailbreaks And Malware Threats (in.mashable.com)
MIT PhD Student Hacks Apple Vision Pro Days After Release, Reveals Potential Jailbreaks And Malware Threats::Student Hacks Apple Vision Pro
Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling. (www.vice.com)
Tech Used to Be Bleeding Edge, Now it’s Just Bleeding | After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.::After a decade of scandals and half-assed product launches, people are no longer buying the future Big Tech is selling.
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses (www.techspot.com)
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined
Inside the Underground Site Where ‘Neural Networks’ Churn Out Fake IDs (www.404media.co)
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Sam Altman says ChatGPT should be 'much less lazy now' (www.businessinsider.com)
Sam Altman says ChatGPT should be ‘much less lazy now’::ChatGPT users previously complained that the chatbot was slacking off and refusing to complete some tasks.
Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users (www.forbes.com)
Mozilla has issued a warning about Microsoft’s design practices, claiming that the company uses harmful design tactics to influence users to switch to its Edge browser....
Vivaldi explains why they will not embed LLM functionality in their browser (vivaldi.com)
Creating images from text. Google launches new ImageFX tool powered by artificial intelligence • Technology (ua-stena.info)
Creating images from text Google is launching a new tool called ImageFX to create images from text, powered by artificial intelligence....
Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback (finance.yahoo.com)
Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback::(Bloomberg) – Boeing Co. found more mistakes with holes drilled in the fuselage of its 737 Max jet, a setback that could further slow deliveries on a critical program already restricted by regulators over quality lapses. Most Read from BloombergWhy NYC Apartment...
Is Intel gatekeeping WiFi 7? A very quick look at the Intel BE200. (lemmy.world)
It seems that Intel is gatekeeping WiFi 7 and I analyzed the options that we currently have.
First functional human brain tissue produced through 3D printing (interestingengineering.com)
First functional human brain tissue produced through 3D printing::undefined
