Multinational firm’s Hong Kong office loses HK$200 million after scammers stage deepfake video meeting (www.scmp.com)
Multinational firm’s Hong Kong office loses HK$200 million after scammers stage deepfake video meeting::undefined
More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices (www.tomshardware.com)
Facebook at 20: Four ways the app changed the world (www.bbc.com)
New Study Says Artificial Intelligence Still Too Costly To Replace Most Human Jobs (mitechnews.com)
New Study Says Artificial Intelligence Still Too Costly To Replace Most Human Jobs::Artificial intelligence is still costly to replace most human jobs, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The MIT Beyond AI Exposure study said, “Machines will steal our jobs” is a sentiment frequently expressed...
Both Samsung and TSMC will be keeping 2nm chip manufacturing in their home countries (www.gsmarena.com)
Scientists Develop New Dirt-Powered Fuel Cell That Runs Forever (scitechdaily.com)
Northwestern University researchers have introduced a soil-microbe-powered fuel cell, significantly outperforming similar technologies and providing a sustainable solution for powering low-energy devices.
Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?” (www.theverge.com)
Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”::During a recent TGIF all-hands meeting, Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed what sources describe as a growing morale crisis inside the company.
How Quora Died (slate.com)
“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most...
Misinformation spreads in China on ‘civil war’ in Texas (www.bbc.co.uk)
Misinformation spreads in China on ‘civil war’ in Texas::Chinese social media cheers intensifying standoff between Texas and the White House over illegal migrants.
'Betrayed' SAP workers rebel against forced office return (www.euronews.com)
‘Betrayed’ SAP workers rebel against forced office return::The German software giant has changed direction, and more than 5,000 employees have signed an internal petition saying they feel ‘betrayed’.
Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco's Union Square (www.sfgate.com)
Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco’s Union Square::Apple’s new Vision Pro headset drew a sparse but eager crowd to San Francisco’s Union Square on Friday, for pickups and demos.
AnyDesk confirms production systems were breached. (www.thestack.technology)
'Yellowstone' star Lainey Wilson testifies AI using her voice was 'gut punch': 'It is a personal violation' (www.foxnews.com)
‘Yellowstone’ star Lainey Wilson testifies AI using her voice was ‘gut punch’: ‘It is a personal violation’::Lainey Wilson spoke in front of the House Judiciary Committee Republicans on Friday asking for artists to have a “choice” when it comes to AI platforms using musicians’ voices.
The first Americans have already been seen wearing the new augmented and virtual reality glasses Apple Vision Pro • (ua-stena.info)
The first Americans have already started wearing the new augmented and virtual reality glasses, Apple Vision Pro....
Ethiopia set to become first country to ban internal combustion cars (electrek.co)
Advertisers slashed spending on X by more than 55% ahead of this year’s Super Bowl (www.businessinsider.com)
Advertisers slashed spending on X by more than 55% ahead of this year’s Super Bowl::Top advertisers including NFL Enterprises, McDonald’s, and YouTube, spent $48.4 million on X ads in 2022 — last year, they spent just $21.1 million.
‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec. (www.theverge.com)
‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec.::Samsung’s head of product is now saying that every photo is fake. Samsung’s new Galaxy S24 phones increase the ways that the company uses AI to produce pictures.
Misinformation spreads in China on ‘civil war’ in Texas (lemmy.world)
Popular Chinese outlets have been suggesting that events in Texas have led to deep divisions in the US widening to a point where unrest has become a stark reality....
Mark Zuckerberg made $29 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge (www.cnn.com)
Mark Zuckerberg made $29 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge::Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth increased by more than $28 billion between your morning coffee and your lunch break.
TU/e coordinates EU project to push next-generation private and secure online payments (www.tue.nl)
A new online payment system that is socially, ecologically, and fiscally responsible, to make finance easy for common people. That’s the aim of the Next Generation Internet pilot named NGI TALER. This project, coordinated by the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), is operated by a consortium of eleven partners from...
3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet. (jezebel.com)
3 Huge Tech Companies Endorse Bill That Could Wipe Abortion Info From the Internet.::The misleadingly-named Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) just got a boost from Silicon Valley.
YouTube now suggests new content *by colour* (szmer.info)
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. (arstechnica.com)
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.::Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.
Ex-CIA programmer gets 40 years for passing spy secrets to WikiLeaks (fortune.com)
Ex-CIA programmer gets 40 years for passing spy secrets to WikiLeaks::In ‘most damaging disclosures of classified information in American history’.