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T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents (wccftech.com)

New technical framework for the European Digital Identity Wallet (eIDAS) reveals severe shortcomings, threatening user privacy and contradicting the regulation's intent, rights group says (epicenter.works)

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Codeintegrity-ai/mutahunter: Open Source Language Agnostic LLM-based mutation testing tool (github.com)

Check out our open-source, language-agnostic mutation testing tool using LLM agents here: github.com/codeintegrity-ai/mutahunter...

We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop (nadim.computer)

NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks (www.engadget.com)

RISC-V NAS: BPI-F3 & OpenMediaVault (www.youtube.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17489101

Redbox’s owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll (www.theverge.com)

informed employees of the filing late Friday […] that it had filed for a debtor-in-possession loan — a way for companies that are reorganizing after filing for bankruptcy to secure additional working capital to meet payroll. […] employees have been waiting for paychecks since June 21st […] it’s not certain that the...

Manifesto for a Humane Web (humanewebmanifesto.com)

Revealed: the tech entrepreneur behind a pro-Israel hate network (www.theguardian.com)

Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. (mainichi.jp)

Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more (www.theverge.com)

The downfall of Chevron deference could completely change the ways courts review net neutrality, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Matt Schettenhelm. “The FCC’s 2024 effort to reinstitute federal broadband regulation is the latest chapter in a long-running regulatory saga, yet we think the demise of deference will...

Framework Laptop 16, six months later (www.theverge.com)

Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws (www.eff.org)

We’ve said it before: online age verification is incompatible with privacy. Companies responsible for storing or processing sensitive documents like drivers’ licenses are likely to encounter data breaches, potentially exposing not only personal data like users’ government-issued ID, but also information about the sites...

Flying cars they said

This is a genuine first hand experience to DHL’s shoddy AI virtual assistant

We analyzed 54,177 collection pages on OpenSea and found that 76% of the top pages are spam (guerrillabuzz.com)

Google, Snap, Meta and many others are "quietly" changing privacy policies to allow for AI training | It is sneaky and possibly illegal, according to the FTC (www.techspot.com)

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand (www.wired.com)

ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later (arstechnica.com)

Researchers create 30 fake student accounts to submit model-generated responses to real exams. Professors grade the 200 or 1500 word responses from the AI undergrads and gave them better grades than real students 84% of the time. 6% of the bot respondents did get caught, though… for being too good. Meanwhile, AI detection...

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