Apparently deleting one's thread account will also delete ones Instagram account. (www.androidauthority.com)
Very sly of meta in deed
Mastodon's official stance on Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)
Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site (lapcatsoftware.com)
You cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymore
Why Car Repairs Have Become So Expensive (www.nytimes.com)
More technology and creature comforts, as well as a parade of new electric vehicles, have complicated the job after accidents.
New Metallic Gel Adds a Fourth Dimension to 3D Printing (www.technologynetworks.com)
Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse | Siva Vaidhyanathan (www.theguardian.com)
Honeybees make rapid, accurate decisions and could inspire future of AI, study suggests (www.sheffield.ac.uk)
New research revealing how honeybees can make fast and accurate decisions, which could help to design more efficient robots and autonomous machines, has been published by scientists at the University of Sheffield.
Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
Based Odysee
Happy to see him get the recognition he deserves
Game trying to break an AI's security with a few levels of difficulty (gandalf.lakera.ai)
It’s pretty well made even if it’s designed to promote a security company
AI can pick top-performing private equity funds better than many institutional investors, Oxford study finds (www.businessinsider.com)
The top quartile of funds selected by the AI model generated 2.1x the original investment versus an industry average of 1.85x.
Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases (www.popsci.com)
Twelve of the largest drug stores in the U.S. sent shoppers’ sensitive health information to Facebook or other platforms.
The typical OpenAI engineer makes $925,000/year (www.bizjournals.com)
Facebook faces legal setback in EU court decision on data privacy and ads (www.thederrick.com)
Facebook has lost a legal challenge at the European Union’s top court over a groundbreaking German antitrust decision that limited the way the company uses data for advertising...
Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)
This should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to Google, but it’s a reminder to get off of their services if you’re concerned about your data privacy. A Slashdot commenter wondered whether this also applies to the contents of emails on gmail. I’m going to assume it does.
Toyota says solid-state battery breakthrough can halve cost and size (archive.is)
Sol Reader E-Ink Glasses puts bookworms right inside their ebooks (newatlas.com)
Breaking: NHTSA Petition Claims Tesla Sudden Unintended Acceleration Is Real (but Fixable) (www.autoevolution.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1030687...
Meta is set to take on Twitter with a rival app called Threads (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
'Don't use AI detectors for anything important,' says the author of the definitive 'AI Weirdness' blog. Her own book failed the test (fortune.com)
Pornhub blocks access in Mississippi and Virginia over age verification laws (www.theverge.com)
Pornhub has shut off access in Mississippi and Virginia to protest age verification laws that can involve checking government IDs. It previously blocked access in Utah.
Smartwatches can detect Parkinson’s years before diagnosis (english.elpais.com)
Accelerometers record subtle changes in movement and sleep patterns, and this information could anticipate the disease long before it becomes evident.