Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service (www.itpro.com)
Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service::Claims that Google plans to sunset Gmail were a hoax, so there’s no need to panic
Meta Staff Found Instagram Tool Enabled Child Exploitation. The Company Pressed Ahead Anyway. (www.wsj.com)
Employees offered suggestions to reduce risks of misuse of subscription accounts featuring minors. Meta took another approach and says its programs are well monitored.
Gemini is racist
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We made "ding" sounds in Microsoft Teams when people join a call (programming.dev)
Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost” (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion On Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”::Tyler Perry is raising the alarm about the impact of OpenAI’s Sora on Hollywood.
Government to issue notice to Google over ‘illegal’ response to question on Prime Minister by its AI (indianexpress.com)
Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)
Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.
[US] [EFF] NSA Spying Shirts Are Back Just In Time to Tell Congress to Reform Section 702 (www.eff.org)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging people to take action against the renewal of Section 702, a law that allows the NSA to conduct mass surveillance on US citizens....
Two Wi-Fi flaws expose Android, Linux devices to attacks (thehackernews.com)
Vulnerabilities:...
Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was 'woke' (www.businessinsider.com)
Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people after a backlash complaining it was ‘woke’::After users complained Google’s Gemini had gone “woke,” the company said it will pause the image-generating feature of people while working on fixes.
YouTube Makes Over $13 million off Climate Change Denial (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control (www.wired.com)
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control::Tech companies are famous for coddling their workers but after mass layoffs the industry’s culture has shifted. Engineers say that getting hired can require days of work on unpaid assignments.
Vice Will Cease Publishing on Vice.com and Lay Off ‘Several Hundred’ Staffers, CEO Says (variety.com)
Vice Will Cease Publishing on Vice.com and Lay Off ‘Several Hundred’ Staffers, CEO Says::Vice Media Group CEO Bruce Dixon said the company will stop publishing on Vice.com and lay off “several hundred” staffers in the next week.
Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested After Packages of Meth-Laced Adderall Repeatedly Returned to Sender (www.404media.co)
Police arrested three men accused of selling thousands of pills of meth-laced “Adderall” on various darknet marketplaces and mailing them through the United States Postal Service through a fictitious business called “Professional Paper Filing Inc.” that listed a real return address of an uninvolved business. That...
Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)
Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...
Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)
Remember when Spez said it was “It’s time we grow up and behave like an adult company”? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit’s profitability right b…::undefined
Disturbing AI Images of Children Found for Sale on Shutterstock (petapixel.com)
Someone used Shutterstock's AI image generator to create them.
Reddit says it's made $203M so far licensing its data (techcrunch.com)
Reddit Files to Go Public, Reveals That It Paid CEO $193 Million Last Year (www.thedailybeast.com)
Reddit Files to Go Public, Reveals That It Paid CEO $193 Million Last Year::Nineteen years since its founding, the social media site is finally going public.
3D Physically Based Rendering with Flutter - Slides from Singapore Flutter meetup (docs.google.com)
I gave a talk about my flutter_filament package, which integrates the Filament PBR renderer so you can display 3D content in Flutter applications....
Google tests removing the News tab from search results | The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won’t help publishers sleep any easier. (www.niemanlab.org)
Privately built lunar lander makes history with successful moon touchdown (www.nbcnews.com)
College student put on academic probation for using Grammarly: ‘AI violation’ (nypost.com)
College student put on academic probation for using Grammarly: ‘AI violation’::Marley Stevens, a junior at the University of North Georgia, says she was wrongly accused of cheating.