Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it (walledculture.org)
Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan (www.macrumors.com)
Intimidation for Cash – Pro-Israel Disinformation Network Behind Anti-Palestinian Propaganda
World’s first grid-scale, semi-solid-state energy storage project goes online - Energy Storage (www.ess-news.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17653797
Hackers of Indonesian government apologize and give key (www.theregister.com)
“Citizens of Indonesia, we apologize for the fact that it affected everyone,” the team wrote in a statement shared by Singapore-based dark web intelligence outfit Stealth Mole....
OpenAI was hacked, revealing internal secrets and raising national security concerns — year-old breach wasn't reported to the public (www.tomshardware.com)
A hacker breached OpenAI’s internal messaging systems early last year, stealing details of how OpenAI’s technologies work from employees. Although the hacker did not access the systems housing key AI technologies, the incident raised significant security concerns within the company. Furthermore, it even raised concerns about...
Ramjet Store (lemmy.world)
As fellow Mac enthusiasts, we noticed a dearth of reliable upgrade products that meet or exceed Apple’s standards of quality and service. That’s why in 1996, we launched Ramjet, a family-run company out of Champaign, Illinois, dedicated to helping do-it-yourself Mac lovers like us get the most performance and life out of...
“We must cultivate a society that can critically think, resist disinformation, and not succumb to fear”: Czech report warns against Russian tactics across Europe to undermine support for Ukraine (www.euractiv.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/490647...
Canvas is coming Back! (July 12th) (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16717737...
Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next (arstechnica.com)
But just as Glaze’s userbase is spiking, a bigger priority for the Glaze Project has emerged: protecting users from attacks disabling Glaze’s protections—including attack methods exposed in June by online security researchers in Zurich, Switzerland. In a paper published on Arxiv.org without peer review, the Zurich...
Russia has escalated its information war against Moldova joining the European Union (www.usip.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/488027...
X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn't want to emulate Reddit (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI seeks NYT source material for copyright defense (stackdiary.com)
OpenAI, which is co-defendant with Microsoft, is seeking an informal discovery conference to compel the Times to produce documents demonstrating the originality and ownership of the copyrighted works in question. According to OpenAI’s court filing, the information is critical to their defense against claims of copyright...
Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers (www.newscientist.com)
In case of paywall: archive.is/kZAgI
Most Precise Atomic Clock Ever Built Will Only Lose a Second Every 30 Billion Years (gizmodo.com)
Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen (appleinsider.com)
Threads hits 175 million users on first anniversary (www.rawstory.com)
A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too (www.nytimes.com)
Sony won't phase out Blu-ray movie and game discs, only ceasing production on consumer BD-R (www.tweaktown.com)
Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven and grill. (www.autoblog.com)
I wish I got to do fun little projects like this at my job. Anyway, this proof of concept shows that hydrogen would be a great alternative to propane and natural gas for cooking. Hat tip to @hypx.
noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (techcrunch.com)
As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts (www.cbsnews.com)
After all, the privacy of our mind may be the only privacy we have left.
Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe (novayagazeta.eu)
Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app (www.theverge.com)
Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet (futurism.com)
Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.
