No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill (www.cbc.ca)
No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill::A Senate bill might cause the owners of Pornhub to block access to the site in Canada, its owners say.
Alleged Chinese-Contract-Company's Dump of the "Chinese Government Spyware" I-S00N (github.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/14747387...
China's latest stealth tech promises invisible fighter jets, says report (interestingengineering.com)
New plasma stealth device targets specific areas, not entire aircraft....
Possible leak of sensitive Chinese cyber security documents (cybernews.com)
Link to dump: github.com/I-S00N/I-S00N/
Biden admin providing $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to make computer chips in New York and Vermont (apnews.com)
Biden admin providing $1.5 billion to GlobalFoundries to make computer chips in New York and Vermont::The Biden administration says that the government would provide $1.5 billion to the computer chip company GlobalFoundries to expand its domestic production in New York and Vermont.
Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars (www.nytimes.com)
Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars::The change to planned rules was an election-year concession to labor unions and auto executives, according to people familiar with the plan.
Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches (www.theregister.com)
Someone had to say it: Scientists propose AI apocalypse kill switches::Better visibility and performance caps would be good for regulation too
Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO (arstechnica.com)
Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring (www.itpro.com)
Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes companies are still readjusting to pandemic-era hiring tactics amid a flurry of layoffs across the industry.
Threat Actors Exploring Large Language Models for Cyberattacks, Microsoft and OpenAI Report (www.microsoft.com)
Summary...
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)
an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded....
This Raspberry Pi volumetric display is a new spin on LED 3D animations (www.tomshardware.com)
Some serious engineering makes for a pretty compelling voxel display. Plus the whole build saga is on Mastodon! Go Fediverse!
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
If you can, use Firefox.
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (archive.ph)
“An open source project that let people view tweets without going to Twitter.com has shut down, as Elon Musk’s changes seem to have closed off all possible ways to access the Twitter network without a user account....
OpenAI Reaches $80 Billion Valuation In Venture Firm Deal, Report Says (www.forbes.com)
OpenAI Reaches $80 Billion Valuation In Venture Firm Deal, Report Says::The AI company has raised billions of dollars from companies including Microsoft.
Subprime Intelligence (www.wheresyoured.at)
US considering more than $10 billion in subsidies for Intel, Bloomberg reports (www.reuters.com)
US considering more than $10 billion in subsidies for Intel, Bloomberg reports::The Biden administration is in talks to award more than $10 billion in subsidies to Intel Corp , Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The EU opens a wide-ranging probe into TikTok (www.engadget.com)
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbot (arstechnica.com)
Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes (www.theverge.com)
Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal (9to5mac.com)
Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal::It’s being reported that a deal has been struck to allow an unnamed large AI company to use Reddit user…
All you need to know about the Digital Services Act (blog.cloudflare.com)
February 17, 2024 marks the entry into force of a landmark piece of European Union (EU) legislation, affecting European users who create and disseminate online content as well as tech companies who act as “intermediaries” on the Internet.