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Senator says NSA is buying up Americans’ browser habits::If you could just not harvest our info unlawfully and without a warrant, that would be great

In other news, URLs are now delimited by a space rather than a comma when updating manifests. Komac uses a very small amount amount of memory and has been heavily optimised to minimise memory usage (especially heap allocations). Updating Android Studio (a 1GB+ binary) consistently took just ~3.5mb memory. Komac now has a...

There's also an alternate script if you want to talk with a Republican senator, and you don't feel they'll be swayed by the language in the linked site.

Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO::Reddit Inc. is weighing feedback from early meetings with potential investors in its initial public offering that it should consider a valuation of at least $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, even as it is estimated below that figure in the...

iFixit has petitioned the FTC to write standardized rules for right to repair. A federal ruling on what companies must do to respect your stuff. Your chance to inform policy is here....

In the market for a car? Soon you’ll be able to buy a Hyundai on Amazon, and only a Hyundai::This is the year you can finally buy a car on Amazon. Well, one kind. Eventually.

The horrible Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is once again moving forward in Congress, so now’s a key time to contact your Senators and Representative. stopkosa.com has a summary of why this bill is so bad, including its harmfulness on LGBTQ+ youth, as well as a form to contact your Senators. But Republicans are just fine with...

X blocks some search terms for ‘Taylor Swift’ as a ‘temporary action to prioritize safety’ after distribution of explicit AI fakes::X, aka Twitter, has finally taken a rudimentary step to try slow the spread of fake graphic images of Taylor Swift.

Is Data Annotation Tech Legit, often abbreviated as DAT, refers to the process of labeling and tagging data to train machine learning models. This technology plays a pivotal role in enhancing the capabilities of artificial intelligence systems by providing annotated datasets. Legitimacy in Data Annotation Tech is crucial for...

In the ever-evolving landscape of education technology, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) has become a pivotal point of discussion. This article aims to Can Blackboard Detect Chat GPT?, a widely used learning management system, and Chat GPT, a sophisticated AI language model. Let’s embark on a journey to explore...

GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyright::undefined

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Japan’s moon landing picture might be the space photo of the decade::undefined

RSS readers allow you to collect the articles of specific sources in one app, making it a lot easier to find the content you’re interested in without crawling through a lot of noise. RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or one of several other possibilities — nobody seems sure) has been...

Google’s new video generation AI model Lumiere uses a new diffusion model called Space-Time-U-Net, or STUNet, that figures out where things are in a video (space) and how they simultaneously move and change (time). Ars Technica reports this method lets Lumiere create the video in one process instead of putting smaller still...

Biden Expected to Announce Billions in Chip Subsidies, WSJ Says::The Biden administration is expected to soon announce billions of dollars in new subsidies to chipmakers including Intel Corp. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing as part efforts to reshore production, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Ventoy now supports to boot image files (.iso/.wim/.img …) in local disk so that:...

In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges — How does a legacy test account grant access to read every Office 365 account?::undefined