The KOSA Internet Censorship Bill Just Passed The Senate—It's Our Last Chance To Stop It (www.eff.org)
Mysterious family of malware hid in Google Play for years (arstechnica.com)
The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe (www.wired.com)
The AI Search War Has Begun (www.theatlantic.com)
12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/…/679294/
Covid-era whiz kid is back, and he brought a Friend — a wearable, always listening, $99 AI companion (www.geekwire.com)
This isn’t a joke, though it almost seems like one. It uses Llama 3.1, and supposedly the conversation data stays on the device and gets forgotten over time (through what the founder calls a rolling “context window”)....
Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion to settle lawsuit alleging it illegally captured users’ faces (therecord.media)
UK antitrust body probes Google's ties with AI rival Anthropic | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
White House says no need to restrict 'open-source' artificial intelligence — at least for now (www.kob.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/18121623
Digital Apartheid in Gaza: Unjust Content Moderation at the Request of Israel’s Cyber Unit (www.eff.org)
Outsourcing emotion: The horror of Google’s “Dear Sydney” AI ad | The company suggests using AI to write a child’s fan letter and the ad is so bad that Google turned off comments for it on YouTube (arstechnica.com)
If you’ve watched any Olympics coverage this week, you’ve likely been confronted with an ad for Google’s Gemini AI called “Dear Sydney.” In it, a proud father seeks help writing a letter on behalf of his daughter, who is an aspiring runner and superfan of world-record-holding hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone....
Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription (arstechnica.com)
YouTube's server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users (www.ghacks.net)
Mashable reports that users ran into a black screen on YouTube, and that it stayed for about 6 seconds before the video began playing. The reports indicate it affected several browsers including Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi....
Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox (arstechnica.com)
Losing access to Authy leads to another reckoning with Google's security model.
Meta to pay $1.4 billion settlement with Texas over facial recognition and photo tags - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
A massive settlement between Meta and Texas has been reached over the ‘Tag Suggestions’ feature Facebook added for photos more than a decade ago.
Bangladesh social media censorship leads to over 7000% increase in VPN usage (www.techradar.com)
People in Bangladesh have turned en masse to the VPN apps to bypass ongoing internet restrictions in the aftermath of widespread anti-government protests....
Logitech CEO Wants to Sell You a Subscription-Based 'Forever Mouse' (gizmodo.com)
During a recent episode of The Verge’s Decoder podcast, Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber shed some possible insight into the company’s view on one of its most important products. Saying that “the mouse built this house,” Faber shares the planning behind a Forever Mouse, a premium product that the company hopes will be the last...
Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion for using facial recognition technology without users’ permission. (www.texastribune.org)
Tesla recalls 1.8 million cars because their hoods can open while driving (arstechnica.com)
The electric car manufacturer Tesla had to issue a massive recall this month to fix faulty hood latches that can open while its cars are driving. The problem affects more than 1.8 million cars, which means it’s slightly smaller than the recall in December that applied to more than 2 million Teslas....
Dasung’s latest color E ink monitor is portable (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/38365250
How LG and Samsung Are Making TV Screens Disappear (spectrum.ieee.org)
I'm looking at Bromite as a privacy browser solution on Android. I'm not looking to go crazy, but I don't feel brave or Firefox is my best choice. What should I be doing? (www.bromite.org)
Wind and solar energy overtake fossil fuels to provide 30% of EU electricity (www.theguardian.com)
Wind turbines and solar panels have overtaken fossil fuels to generate 30% of the European Union’s electricity in the first half of the year, a report has found....
The New Internet (tailscale.com)
Has the AOSP project failed consumers? (www.xda-developers.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/17508868...