technology

Another example of how big tech is just corrupted to the core....

Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix::Toyota plans to make electric car bodies in the same style as Tesla’s “gigacasting.” But the resulting EVs might be too hard to repair.

Facebook’s new AI stickers can generate child soldiers, Elmo with a knife::Instagram, Messenger AI feature goes viral for potentially offensive user-created stickers.

Amazon employees are outraged by a new warning about individual office attendance: ‘Is this supposed to scare people?’::undefined

Back in 2021, Google Fiber got a new logo after using just a wordmark for the past decade. The latest branding change has Google Fiber increasingly leverage “GFiber.”

Amazon’s Alexa has been claiming the 2020 election was stolen::undefined

Innovative Saliva-Based Glucose Sensor to Revolutionize Diabetes Monitoring::An innovative device could pave the way for more convenient diabetes monitoring. A prototype sensor that measures glucose levels in saliva could eventually offer a simple, rapid, and painless way for people to monitor their diabetes, according to the...

FBI operation tricked thousands of computers infected by Qakbot into uninstalling the malware::The U.S. government dismantled the infrastructure of the notorious Qakbot malware, which caused millions of dollars of damage.

Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK::Some tech giants feel they might have reached a “tipping point” due to new legislation.

Veilid is “an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first networked application framework, with a flagship secure messaging application named VeilidChat.” Application frameworks of this sort are flexible software packages that can be iterated on and changed by infusing new code into them. Developers who want to create new...

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2614204 (!aistuff)

Nestle, Volvo among 130 companies urging COP28 agreement to ditch fossil fuels::Companies including Nestle , Unilever , Mahindra Group and Volvo Cars are urging political leaders to agree a timeline at the upcoming U.N. climate summit to phase out fossil fuels.

The paper shows some significant evidence that human coin flips are not as fair as I would have expected (plus probably a bunch of people would agree with me). There’s always some probability that this happened by chance, but this is pretty low....

Meta is paying the celebrity faces behind its AI chatbots as much as $5 million for 6 hours of work, report says::Meta has enlisted 28 celebrities to play AI chatbots with different personalities. One top creator was paid $5 million, per The Information.

China shares ambitious plans to double its space station as the ISS approaches the end of its life cycle::undefined

The company’s DVD subscription service is ending this month, bringing to a close an origin story that ultimately upended the entertainment industry....

Exxon will mine lithium for electric vehicle batteries in Arkansas::With EV incentives tied to domestic battery content, US lithium mines are needed.