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Using your phone to pay is convenient, but it can also mean you spend more (www.npr.org)

Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple (www.theverge.com)

"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI (arstechnica.com)

On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt “sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License,” and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.

Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton (proton.me)

Big Tech has implemented passkeys in a way that locks users into their platforms rather than providing universal security...

Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)

A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....

More and more people are ditching carrier roaming in favor of travel eSIMs (www.androidauthority.com)

The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island (www.wired.com)

Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO (www.theregister.com)

Study: Social media don't displace in-person hangouts for teens (reason.com)

The Hated One - "Ai Will Wage Wars Over Water" (piped.video)

The Hated One has been pretty solid in the past regarding privacy/security, imho. I found this video of his rather enlightening and concerning....

Asking for your opinion on decentralized applications' usability (questionnaire.ink)

Hi all! I’m working on my cyber security bachelor’s thesis and am reaching out to gather insights from users who use decentralized messaging applications....

On a huge election year for the world, Meta will shut down CrowdTangle, it's tool for election integrity observers without replacement (foundation.mozilla.org)

This is quite concerning

Best Way to Fix Wyze Camera Setup (smartgadgetssupport.blogspot.com)

For optimal Wyze camera setup, start by ensuring a stable Wi-Fi connection. Place the camera within range of your router. Use the Wyze app to scan the QR code on the camera’s base and follow on-screen prompts for setup. Position the camera for the desired view. If issues persist, reset the camera and try again. Contact Wyze...

OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps (www.xda-developers.com)

A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress (www.wired.com)

Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect (www.techradar.com)

Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5" (abc7news.com)

What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part) (www.theatlantic.com)

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL, which had the same ultimate root cause as recent XZUtils backdoor incident (optimizedbyotto.com)

The XZ Utils backdoor, discovered last week, and the Heartbleed security vulnerability ten years ago, share the same ultimate root cause. Both of them, and in fact all critical infrastructure open source projects, should be fixed with the same solution: ensure baseline funding for proper open source maintenance.

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