Raising awareness of Ransomware Part 3— Fixing (medium.com)
Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive (www.nytimes.com)
Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive::The move capped a chaotic five days at the artificial intelligence company.
DDoS attack takes down Blender.org servers. (www.theverge.com)
European Parliament Just Approved Fair Parts Pricing and a Ban on Parts Pairing (ifixit.com)
Some Microsoft employees fume over the company's open offer to hire hundreds of OpenAI staff (www.businessinsider.com)
Some Microsoft employees fume over the company’s open offer to hire hundreds of OpenAI staff::Current employees point to layoffs and a salary freeze this year at Microsoft and wonder why it’s promising to match the pay of OpenAI staff.
Open source software on Lets, Time Banks and Food Donation - Wikibooks, open books for an open world (en.m.wikibooks.org)
Lenovo sues Asus for patent infringement, seeks US ZenBook ban (www.theregister.com)
Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect (www.reuters.com)
A Florida judge found "reasonable evidence" that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk and other managers knew the automaker's vehicles had a defective Autopilot system but still allowed the cars to be driven unsafely, according to a ruling.
OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board (ground.news)
The Piss Rule (lemmy.sdf.org)
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Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help. (www.forbes.com)
Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.::Pedestrian automatic emergency braking (AEB), which may become mandatory on U.S. cars in the future, tends to not perform well in the dark.
ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis (www.nature.com)
Researchers say that the model behind the chatbot fabricated a convincing bogus database, but a forensic examination shows it doesn’t pass for authentic.
Many Popular Censorship Circumvention Tools Deleted or Archived since November 2, 2023 (lemmy.nz)
github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/303
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 (arstechnica.com)
Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024::The “Manifest V3” rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year.
Microsoft offers to match pay of all OpenAI staff (www.bbc.com)
Microsoft offers to match pay of all OpenAI staff::The tech giant offers jobs to any workers who want to leave over Sam Altman’s sacking.
Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI, Microsoft hit with new author copyright lawsuit over AI training (www.reuters.com)
Patient privacy fears as US spy tech firm Palantir wins £330m NHS contract (www.theguardian.com)
Sony facing $7.9 bln mass lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft exec says OpenAI employees can join with same compensation (www.cnbc.com)
Microsoft exec says OpenAI employees can join with same compensation::Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott offered to match the compensation of OpenAI employees considering a departure from the company.
USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI Employees Say Firm's Chief Scientist Has Been Making Strange Spiritual Claims (futurism.com)
OpenAI chief scientist and board member Ilya Sutskever reportedly likes to burn effigies and lead ritualistic chants at the company.
YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don’t turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to “suboptimal viewing.”
How to pick a stylus to play a 78-rpm record (www.vjm.biz)
Insights into the kind of crap 78-rpm records were made of, and other scarce technical infos....