OpenAI CEO Altman says at Davos future AI depends on energy breakthrough (www.reuters.com)
DeepMind AI rivals the world’s smartest high schoolers at geometry (arstechnica.com)
Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies - Consumer Reports (www.consumerreports.org)
Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies - Consumer Reports::A Consumer Reports investigation found that Facebook collected data on each user from an average of 2,230 companies.
Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’ (7news.com.au)
Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’::‘Was annoyed that the amount due on my Woolies purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’
Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax (www.theverge.com)
Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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Google lays off 100 at YouTube; CEO says more layoffs are coming (arstechnica.com)
Google lays off 100 at YouTube; CEO says more layoffs are coming::undefined
How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity (www.wired.com)
“This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing financial system.”
European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)
European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying::undefined
Microsoft sets 16GB default for RAM for AI PCs – machines will also need 40 TOPS of AI compute: Report (www.tomshardware.com)
JPMorgan Chase fights off 45 billion hacking attempts each day (edition.cnn.com)
JPMorgan Chase fights off 45 billion hacking attempts each day::JPMorgan Chase says it has seen a sizable increase in attempts by hackers each day to infiltrate its systems over the last year, highlighting the escalating cybersecurity challenges the bank and other Wall Street titans are facing.
Memory chip production at risk as North Korea ramps up threats against South Korea, which produces 71% of global memory supply, 51% of NAND for SSDs | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click (www.wired.com)
Coinbase tells judge that buying crypto is just like collecting Beanie Babies (finance.yahoo.com)
Coinbase tells judge that buying crypto is just like collecting Beanie Babies::The SEC argued that unlike collectibles, when a crypto token is purchased, the owner is invested in the network or enterprise behind the token.
ChatGPT's new AI store is struggling to keep a lid on all the AI girlfriends (www.techradar.com)
ChatGPT’s new AI store is struggling to keep a lid on all the AI girlfriends::OpenAI: ‘We also don’t allow GPTs dedicated to fostering romantic companionship’
Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage (arstechnica.com)
Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere? (www.vox.com)
Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?::Can special lightbulbs end the next pandemic before it starts?
AI fraud act could outlaw parodies, political cartoons, and more (reason.com)
Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms (www.theguardian.com)
YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix (www.bloomberg.com)
Users of those services will be steered toward the web...
"AI made us do it" is Big Tech's new layoff rationale (www.axios.com)
“AI made us do it” is Big Tech’s new layoff rationale::undefined
Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. (lemmy.world)
People often ask why I contribute to open source projects or otherwise work on building automated tooling. They see me spending hours to automate a task or fix a bug that take seconds to do or avoid manually, in a way that the original XKCD comic says won’t pay off. The disconnect seems to be that the comic and those people...
Former NASA administrator hates Artemis, wants to party like it’s 2008 (arstechnica.com)
Google boss warns staff to expect further job cuts this year (www.theguardian.com)
Google boss warns staff to expect further job cuts this year::Sundar Pichai’s memo acknowledges redundancies would come on top of round of layoffs reported last week
