This dev conference organizer seems addicted to making up women (www.theverge.com)
Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating (arstechnica.com)
Meet the Company Fighting to Make AI Ethical for Voice Actors (www.ign.com)
There's a ton of trepidation surrounding AI in the creative industry, but one start-up is trying to give voice actors a way to use the technology ethically - and have control over the way their voices are used.
The smart home tech inside your home is less secure than you think, new Northeastern research finds. (news.northeastern.edu)
The smart home tech inside your home is less secure than you think, new Northeastern research finds.::A team of researchers discovered vulnerabilities in smart home devices made by big technology companies like Google.
A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI—and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month (fortune.com)
Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license (www.theregister.com)
The ‘Azure RTOS’ used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS
Google says bumpy Pixel 8 screens are nothing to worry about — Display ‘bumps’ are components pushing into the OLED panel (arstechnica.com)
Google says bumpy Pixel 8 screens are nothing to worry about — Display ‘bumps’ are components pushing into the OLED panel::undefined
UNESCO and Interpol Collaborate to Build a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts (artcentron.com)
UNESCO and Interpol Collaborate to Build a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Artifacts (artcentron.com)
5000-Year-Old Tablets Can Now Be Decoded by Artificial Intelligence, New Research Reveals (thedebrief.org)
5000-Year-Old Tablets Can Now Be Decoded by Artificial Intelligence, New Research Reveals::Researchers in Germany have unveiled an AI system capable of deciphering ancient cuneiform texts with excellent accuracy.
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers (futurism.com)
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.
Firefox Monitor question (monitor.firefox.com)
poking around mozilla/firefox account. What does ‘resolved’ mean? It asked if I wanted to resolve using an alias firefox.com email address. okay. not even sure what that meant. …mozilla.org/…/resolve-breaches-firefox-monitor
Job losses likely at VW as the people’s car brand becomes uncompetitive (arstechnica.com)
Telstra: Telecommunications company fined $300k for customer safety and privacy breaches (www.9news.com.au)
Palestinians Are Locked Out of Google’s Online Economy (www.wired.com)
Tata ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial (www.theregister.com)
A Controversial US Surveillance Program May Get Slipped Into a ‘Must-Pass’ Defense Bill. (www.wired.com)
A Controversial US Surveillance Program May Get Slipped Into a ‘Must-Pass’ Defense Bill.::Congressional leaders are discussing ways to reauthorize Section 702 surveillance, including by attaching it to the National Defense Authorization Act, Capitol Hill sources tell WIRED.
New GitHub user and extension developer claims Twitch’s website has malware (github.com)
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184#issuecomment-1829172308...
Marginalia Search - browse:random (search.marginalia.nu)
Browse random websites found using alternative search engine marginalia.nu - personally gave me a pleasant flashback to stumbleupon. The search engine itself is fully open source and improving all the time.
The technology behind ChatGPT is evolving insanely fast (www.axios.com)
It's been only a year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, but the technology has evolved at such a rapid pace that the original now seems almost quaint....
Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company (www.businessinsider.com)
Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company::Job losses follow Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of VMware.
Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected (arstechnica.com)
DOS_deck offers free, all-timer DOS games in a browser, with controller support (arstechnica.com)
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files (www.theregister.com)
Google Drive misplaces months’ worth of customer files::The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished