Retiring the Mozilla Location Service (web.archive.org)
Patent infringement threat(Skyhook Holdings, Inc), lack of further investment seems to have been the reason of killing the service around 2021. It seems google location service seems to be the only player in town(other than OpenCellID, which I do not have experience with).
OpenAI aims to make its own AI processors — chip venture in talks with Abu Dhabi investment firm: report (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing (www.theverge.com)
The software giant first introduced malware-like pop-up ads last year with a prompt that appeared over the top of other apps and windows. After pausing that notification to address “unintended behavior,” the pop-ups have returned again on Windows 10 and 11....
How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can) (www.eff.org)
Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often unclear what’s being collected, and what’s being shared and with whom. A recent New York Times article highlighted how data is shared by G.M. with insurance companies, sometimes without clear knowledge from...
Sam Bankman-Fried deserves 40-50 years in prison for FTX fraud, prosecutors say (www.reuters.com)
NEW YORK, March 15 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried should spend between 40 and 50 years in prison after being convicted for stealing $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors said on Friday. … “Even now Bankman-Fried refuses to admit what he did was wrong,” prosecutors wrote in a...
Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform (alternativeto.net)
After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 (www.theregister.com)
Radical New Discovery Could Double The Speed of Existing Computers - simultaneous and heterogeneous multithreading (www.msn.com)
Does anyone know more about this? Sounds like distributing tasks to other processors that are not really designed for the job? Articles are making it out to be a miracle and not sure whether to believe it
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IMF Discloses Microsoft 365 Email Account Hacking Incident (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Summary:...
Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing (futurism.com)
The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals (www.engadget.com)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/7669534...
McDonald’s stores hit by global IT failure (www.cnn.com)
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How the House revived the TikTok ban bill before most of us noticed (www.theverge.com)
Interesting to note here: getting preteens to confusedly call Congress with threats of self harm and questions like “what is Congress” with a push notification is not the best plan
Brazil is fighting dengue with bacteria-infected mosquitos (www.technologyreview.com)
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Introducing Devin, the first AI software engineer (www.cognition-labs.com)
PS: accusations of overselling & sloppy shilling on reddit (libreddit/redlib mirror: SafeReddit)
ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots (arstechnica.com)
Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit (mashable.com)
From the article: “Unsurprisingly, this skyrocketed searches for the best VPNs. According to a SlashGear report sent to Mashable, searches for “Texas VPN” jumped by 1,750 percent in the past day. It also spotted a 1,600 percent increase for the phrase “How to access Pornhub.””
Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI’s GPT Is a Recruiter’s Dream Tool. Tests Show There’s Racial Bias (www.bloomberg.com)
Code used in the analysis is here