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[Wired] This Disinformation Is Just for You; Generative AI Makes Disinformation More Targeted and Effective (web.archive.org)

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UK's first drone mail service begins in Orkney (www.bbc.com)

A Request for This Fruit Caused a Bomb Scare in Portugal (thetakeout.com)

Apparently the word “pomegranate” gets lost in translation....

Tesla wins first U.S. Autopilot trial involving fatal crash (www.cnbc.com)

Tesla wins first U.S. Autopilot trial involving fatal crash::Tesla won the first U.S. trial over allegations that its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to a death, a major victory as it faces several other lawsuits.

Hikvision Violates Pledge, Ethnic Minority Analytics In Latest Platform (ipvm.com)

Google might breathe new life into old Chromebooks with ChromeOS Flex (www.techradar.com)

Don’t throw away your out-of-date Chromebook just yet as newly found evidence suggests Google may expand the availability of ChromeOS Flex to the old laptops.

Meta launches consumer AI chatbots with celebrity avatars in its social apps (arstechnica.com)

Purism Launches New Secure Librem 11 Tablet (puri.sm)

Unlike tablets supported by the Android OS, Apple iOS, or Microsoft Windows, the Librem 11 tablet runs PureBoot and PureOS offering the best security, privacy, and freedom respecting features that include:...

Call of Duty to Begin Using AI to Assess Voice Chat for Toxicity (www.extremetech.com)

Call of Duty to Begin Using AI to Assess Voice Chat for Toxicity::undefined

Cybersecurity experts are warning about a new type of AI attack (www.popsci.com)

Article on popular science: prompt injection attacks are a new risk associated with the interation if llms into other services. •prompt injection attacks imply the use of a prompt that bypass safety restrictions of a given ai / llm, which cannot differentiate between illicit instructions and inputs. •a proper prompt...

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted, federal judge rules, with potential consequences for Hollywood studios (www.businessinsider.com)

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted, federal judge rules, with potential consequences for Hollywood studios::A federal judge ruled against an attempt to have an AI-generated artwork copyrighted, saying “human authorship is a bedrock requirement.”

Are there foundations similar to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, but with more international focus? (www.eff.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/1819391...

Retractable Sail Could Give Bikes A Boost Of Wind Power (newatlas.com)

Bay Area innovator stops shoplifting, gives shoppers power to open padlocked shelves (www.nbcbayarea.com)

Bay Area innovator stops shoplifting, gives shoppers power to open padlocked shelves::New technology coming to stores could stop theft and ease customer access.

Discord is switching to temporary links to stop malware | TechRadar (www.techradar.com)

EY and IBM team up on AI to automate HR processes (venturebeat.com)

LinkedIn to lay off hundreds of people amid broader restructuring (www.axios.com)

LinkedIn to lay off hundreds of people amid broader restructuring::undefined

Treating age-related disease: designing organic molecules that cause aging cells to self-destruct, without harming normal healthy cells (news.unist.ac.kr)

Samsung is adding cloud gaming to your Galaxy phone, and it could arrive this week (9to5google.com)

cross-posted from !android...

Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure,’ WSJ reports (www.sfgate.com)

Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure,’ WSJ reports::Apple’s “spectacular failure” to build a modem chip for its new iPhones was the topic of a Wall Street Journal expose Wednesday.

Hackers who breached casino giants MGM, Caesars also hit 3 other firms, Okta says (www.reuters.com)

Hackers who breached casino giants MGM, Caesars also hit 3 other firms, Okta says::Hackers who breached casino giants MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment in recent weeks also broke into the systems of three other companies in the manufacturing, retail, and technology space, a security executive familiar with the...

DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI. (www.technologyreview.com)

DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI.::DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lot more than chat. In a recent conversation I had with him, he told me that generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI: bots that can carry...

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