Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation (www.bbc.com)
Threads backtracks flagging right-wing users for spreading disinformation (mashable.com)
What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (www.theatlantic.com)
Recently started using a LightPhone II when out of the house, and I found the article captured my current experience pretty well. It’s not so bad to be bored sometimes.
Explore academic papersin a visual graph (www.connectedpapers.com)
Supercomputer makes calculations in blink of an eye that take rivals 47 years (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement (www.engadget.com)
A Canadian judge has ruled that the popular “thumbs-up” emoji not only can be used as a contract agreement, but is just as valid as an actual signature. The Saskatchewan-based judge made the ruling on the grounds that the courts must adapt to the “new reality” of how people communicate, as originally reported by The...
Android spyware with over 1.5 million downloads sends your data to China (www.yahoo.com)
Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware that quietly sends user data to servers in China.
2 authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT. Now they're suing, and a 'wave' of similar court cases may follow. (www.businessinsider.com)
Two authors sued OpenAI, accusing the company of violating copyright law. They say OpenAI used their work to train ChatGPT without their consent.
Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals (www.theverge.com)
What Have We Learned from the PDP-11? | Dave Cheney (dave.cheney.net)
GitHub - m1guelpf/threads-re: Reverse-engineering Instagram's Threads private APIs. (github.com)
ChatGPT users drop for the first time as people turn to uncensored chatbots (arstechnica.com)
Data shows ChatGPT use decreased by nearly 10 percent from May to June.
The USAF's New THOR Energy Weapon Demonstrates Its Effectiveness Against Drones (taskandpurpose.com)
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In – or out? Wimbledon considers replacing line judges with AI (www.theguardian.com)
Tournament director says tennis club needs to balance preserving traditions with technological innovation
US could block Chinese customers from using AI cloud services: report (www.computerworld.com)
The US Department of Commerce could ban Amazon, Microsoft and Google from selling AI-related cloud computing services to Chinese companies, a new report said.
A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along (www.washingtonpost.com)
For months, the Erica Marsh account had raised suspicions among online misinformation experts due to her lack of a real-world footprint and her devotion to attention-grabbing viewpoints one called “cartoonishly liberal.”
Top Suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison Hack Committed Suicide in 2014 (krebsonsecurity.com)
When the marital infidelity website AshleyMadison.com learned in July 2015 that hackers were threatening to publish data stolen from 37 million users, the company’s then-CEO Noel Biderman was quick to point the finger at an unnamed former contractor. But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [SPOILER ALERT!], there was...
A viral left-wing Twitter account may have been fake all along (www.washingtonpost.com)
For months, the Erica Marsh account had raised suspicions among online misinformation experts due to her lack of a real-world footprint and her devotion to attention-grabbing viewpoints one called “cartoonishly liberal.”
F.B.I. Searched the Home of Crypto Exchange Founder (www.nytimes.com)
Federal agents were investigating Jesse Powell, the founder of the crypto exchange Kraken, over claims that he hacked and cyber-stalked a nonprofit arts group.
Gizmodo’s staff isn’t happy about G/O Media’s AI-generated content (www.theverge.com)
Robot assisted surgery: four arms are better than two (actu.epfl.ch)
French government wants the power to block social media and to tap into cellphones (www.businessinsider.com)
As protests spread across France over the police killing of a 17-year-old, its government is seeking more control.
BotDefense is leaving Reddit (arstechnica.com)
Title says it all. If you think Reddit’s been trending down lately, just wait.
What is Ryan Reynolds doing on LinkedIn? — Celebrities are taking their place alongside the site’s humblebraggers and ‘thought leaders’ (www.ft.com)
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