Google Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Photo Software to Create Gaza “Hit List” (theintercept.com)
The Israeli military has reportedly implemented a facial recognition dragnet across the Gaza Strip, scanning ordinary Palestinians as they move throughout the ravaged territory, attempting to flee the ongoing bombardment and seeking sustenance for their families....
Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more (www.theregister.com)
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov (pluralistic.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14100831...
Here's the column Meta doesn't want you to see: Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy (www.thehandbasket.co)
Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification (pluralistic.net)
Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
StoreDot’s EV battery cells achieve 2,000+ consecutive XFC cycles (electrek.co)
Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains (arstechnica.com)
A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....
An Exercise Program for the Fat Web (blog.codinghorror.com)
This is a screenshot from an NPR article discussing the rising use of ad blockers. The page is 12 megabytes in size in a stock web browser. The same article with basic ad blocking turned on is 1 megabyte.
Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop (www.businessinsider.com)
Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window
Often find myself getting frustrated editing yaml, and it seems to be used everywhere for some reason I cannot fathom...
Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs (www.theregister.com)
[Mental Outlaw] AT&T Tried To Deny This Massive Data Breach (odysee.com)
Google sues two crypto scammers over allegedly vast “pig butchering” scheme (arstechnica.com)
As much as I hate Google I think this lawsuit from them sets a good precedence against scammer and spammers...
Israel is using artificial intelligence to help pick bombing targets in Gaza, report says (www.cnn.com)
Apple finally has a way to defeat ChatGPT | Digital Trends (www.digitaltrends.com)
A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC’s Attention. Do His Claims Add Up? (www.wired.com)
Facebook removed every post linking to Kansas Reflector’s website, apparently in response to an op-ed about Facebook's censorship of climate-related ads (kansasreflector.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/8351513...
Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first (www.theregister.com)
Bubble Trouble (www.wheresyoured.at)
Google’s expanded Find My Device network might arrive in a few days (www.theverge.com)
Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads (www.lowpass.cc)
Roku is exploring ways to show consumers ads on its TVs even when they are not using its streaming platform: The company has been looking into injecting ads into the video feeds of third-party devices connected to its TVs, according to a recent patent filing....