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Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair (gizmodo.com)
The Android phone maker says go ahead, fix your own phone....
Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair (gizmodo.com)
The Android phone maker says go ahead, fix your own phone....
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement (www.theverge.com)
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the two companies built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the publication’s articles and now “directly compete” with its content as a result....
How Big is YouTube? (ethanzuckerman.com)
I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”. A great deal of social media research focuses on finding unwanted behavior – mis/disinformation, hate speech – on platforms. This isn’t that hard to do: search for “white genocide” or “ivermectin” and...
How Big is YouTube? (ethanzuckerman.com)
I got interested in this question a few years ago, when I started writing about the “denominator problem”. A great deal of social media research focuses on finding unwanted behavior – mis/disinformation, hate speech – on platforms. This isn’t that hard to do: search for “white genocide” or “ivermectin” and...
New York sues SiriusXM, accusing company of making it deliberately hard to cancel subscriptions (apnews.com)
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general filed suit Wednesday against SiriusXM, accusing the satellite radio and streaming service of making it intentionally difficult for its customers to cancel their subscriptions....
More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 (www.nature.com)
The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two...
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...
Debian Bug report logs: #1057843 - linux: ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1 (bugs.debian.org)
https://micronews.debian.org/2023/1702150551.html...
Wikimedia Foundation calls on US Supreme Court to strike laws that threaten Wikipedia (wikimediafoundation.org)
The Foundation supports challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that jeopardize Wikipedia's community-led governance model and the right to freedom of expression....
Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers (www.sciencealert.com)
A newly discovered trade-off in the way time-keeping devices operate on a fundamental level could set a hard limit on the performance of large-scale quantum computers, according to researchers from the Vienna University of Technology.
Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers (www.sciencealert.com)
A newly discovered trade-off in the way time-keeping devices operate on a fundamental level could set a hard limit on the performance of large-scale quantum computers, according to researchers from the Vienna University of Technology.
Security flaws in court record systems used in five US states exposed sensitive legal documents (techcrunch.com)
The vulnerabilities allowed public access to restricted, sealed and confidential court filings using only a web browser...
GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in. (github.com)
Response from Martin Woodward, GitHub's VP of Developer Relations:...
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers (futurism.com)
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters....
This color picker on Flathub got rated 12+
https://i.imgur.com/ZLtTL1e.png...
OpenAI announces leadership transition Sam Altman departs the company (openai.com)
Chief technology officer Mira Murati appointed interim CEO to lead OpenAI; Sam Altman departs the company. Search process underway to identify permanent successor.
The FCC can now punish telecom providers for charging customers more for less (www.theverge.com)
The Federal Communications Commission has approved a new set of rules aiming to prevent “digital discrimination.” It means the agency can hold telecom companies accountable for digitally discriminating against customers — or giving certain communities poorer service (or none at all) based on income level, race, or...