Japan rivals Nissan and Honda will share EV components and AI research as they play catch up (techxplore.com)
Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’ (www.theverge.com)
So they got all that money from Uncle Sam’s CHIPS Act only to lay off 10,000 employees and make themselves “lean”. Govt funded unemployment.
Here are the best Google Maps alternatives for finding your way: With a number of community-driven, open-source mapping projects, picking a navigation app without ads or tracking has never been easier (tuta.com)
repeated media reports of Google’s disregard for the privacy of the general public led to a push for open source, community driven alternatives to Google Maps. The biggest contender, now used by Google’s direct competitors and open source projects alike is OpenStreetMap....
Announcing Flux by Black Forest Labs: The Next Leap in Text-to-Image Models (blog.fal.ai)
Watch ChatGPT’s new voice mode mimic accents and correct pronunciation (www.theverge.com)
Google ads push fake Google Authenticator site installing malware | The ad displays "google.com" and "https://www.google.com" as the click URL, and the advertiser's identity is verified by Google (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Google has fallen victim to its own ad platform, allowing threat actors to create fake Google Authenticator ads that push the DeerStealer information-stealing malware....
Now that decent Arm-powered PCs exist, Qualcomm’s CEO wants to make them cheaper (arstechnica.com)
Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites (arstechnica.com)
KOSA is dead! (US) (www.fightforthefuture.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/20332183...
Blocking AI bots from Microsoft, others has been “pain in the a**”: Reddit CEO | Huffman says companies must pay to scrape Reddit data even though Reddit itself relies on free, user-generated content
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is standing by Reddit’s decision to block companies from scraping the site without an AI agreement....
Intel class action lawsuit investigation begins for the company's CPU crashing and instability issues (www.tomshardware.com)
Roses are red, Meta is blue, Reality Labs lost $4.5 billion during Q2 (www.gamedeveloper.com)
What the hell are they even spending all this money on when they don’t have much to show for it?
Nigeria’s economic crisis is fueling a stunt philanthropy boom. (restofworld.org)
Several Nigerian content creators are mimicking American superstar YouTuber MrBeast by publishing charitable deeds as content online.
Data Centers Demand a Massive Amount of Energy. Here’s How Some States Are Tackling the Industry’s Impact. (www.propublica.org)
CrowdStrike shareholders sue over global outage, say company concealed info - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Artificial intelligence is taking the consulting industry by storm – should we be concerned? (theconversation.com)
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI (futurism.com)
Intel allegedly plans imminent lay off of thousands of employees to fuel turnaround (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/38509017
China is restricting export of drones that can be used for military purposes and some drone features (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/38508922
As Its CPU Scandal Deepens, Intel Plans to Cut Thousands of Jobs (gizmodo.com)
Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧 (gs.statcounter.com)
SEC Charges Founder of Social Media Company “IRL” with $170 Million Fraud. (www.sec.gov)
Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Gone Too Far (www.theatlantic.com)
Non-paywall link: 12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/…/679302/
Meta Has Run Hundreds of Ads for Cocaine, Opioids and Other Drugs (www.wsj.com)
Google Cracks Down on Explicit Deepfakes (www.wired.com)
