wikibot
@[email protected]A Lemmy bot to summarize wikipedia links in comments
Usage: Content + bot mention
e.g. This is something interesting @wikibot
Developer: @Asudox
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We live in a post information scarcity society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism.
Edit: Changed title to be more accurate....
GitHub - Asudox/lemmy-wikibot-rs: A lemmy bot written in Rust to send summaries of wikipedia articles mentioned in user comments (github.com)
NOTE: Bot is currently down...
You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Not running the game’s code on a biological computer (maybe that’s next?) but showing the opening frame of the game rendered in bacteria is a good first step
Microsoft Edge is apparently usurping Chrome on people’s PCs (arstechnica.com)
Users of Google Chrome on Windows 10 and 11 are reporting that they have suddenly found themselves using Microsoft Edge, with their Chrome browsing sessions appearing in Edge....
China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total (www.ecowatch.com)
China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.
IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company (www.bloomberg.com)
IBM to Managers: Move Near an Office or Leave Company::International Business Machines Corp. delivered a companywide ultimatum to managers who are still working remotely: move near an office or leave the company.
Apple's rules to allow third-party app stores in the EU are not beneficial for users or developers (www.ghacks.net)
Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95 (gadgettendency.com)
Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11
modern operating system running on a Reagan era computer (www.youtube.com)
AMD Announces New Desktop Zen 3 Chips With 2 New APUs and the Ryzen 7 5700X3D (www.anandtech.com)
Am I the only one excited for HarmonyOS Next? (lemy.lol)
www.theregister.com/…/huawei_harmony_os_next/
The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block (www.tomshardware.com)
NSA is buying Americans' internet browsing records without a warrant (techcrunch.com)
NSA is buying Americans’ internet browsing records without a warrant::“Web browsing records can reveal sensitive, private information about a person based on where they go on the internet,” said Sen. Ron Wyden.
Beeper’s push for iMessage on Android is really over (www.theverge.com)
pluralistic: the alarmism around AI is just a marketing spin. (pluralistic.net)
source...
Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)
We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image. (www.nytimes.com)
We Asked A.I. to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image.::Artists and researchers are exposing copyrighted material hidden within A.I. tools, raising fresh legal questions.
George Carlin Estate Files Lawsuit Against Group Behind AI-Generated Stand-Up Special: ‘A Casual Theft of a Great American Artist’s Work’ (variety.com)
George Carlin Estate Files Lawsuit Against Group Behind AI-Generated Stand-Up Special: ‘A Casual Theft of a Great American Artist’s Work’::George Carlin’s estate has filed a lawsuit against the creators behind an AI-generated comedy special featuring a recreation of the comedian’s voice.
Tesla Bull Rues 'Train Wreck' Earnings Call, Slashes Price Target By 10%: 'Dead Wrong Expecting Musk And Team To Step Up Like Adults In The Room' - Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) (www.benzinga.com)
Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU) (www.theverge.com)
HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers (www.wired.com)
HP CEO Says They Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because of … Hackers::The company says it wants to protect you from “viruses.” Experts are skeptical.
Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX (www.spacebar.news)
Nose wheel falls off Boeing 757 airliner waiting for takeoff (www.theguardian.com)
Because Boeing were on such a good streak already…
Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use - Change My Mind (mastodon.lawprofs.org)
I fucked with the title a bit. What i linked to was actually a mastodon post linking to an actual thing. but in my defense, i found it because cory doctorow boosted it, so, in a way, i am providing the original source here....
Why the ‘mother of all breaches’ is a wake up call for everyone (www.itpro.com)
The US government opens 22 million acres of federal lands to solar (electrek.co)
The US government opens 22 million acres of federal lands to solar::The Biden administration has updated the roadmap for solar development to 22 million acres of federal lands in the US West.
Google search might be getting worse - and AI threatens to ruin it entirely (www.techradar.com)
DNA Nano-Engine (www.techbriefs.com)
Nature Nanotechnology.
California bill would require ‘watermarks’ to signal content created by AI (www.sfchronicle.com)
Alternative link: archive.is/qgEzK
Solar Storm to Hit Earth Today Causing GPS and Radio Disruption (www.newsweek.com)
Two-thirds of Americans say AI could do their job (www.foxbusiness.com)
Two-thirds of Americans say AI could do their job::Advanced artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT have sparked fears that the new technology could soon replace many careers, and workers believe it, according to a new survey.
Scientists Use WiFi to See Through People's Walls (www.popularmechanics.com)
“We developed a deep neural network that maps the phase and amplitude of WiFi signals to UV coordinates within 24 human regions. The results of the study reveal that our model can estimate the dense pose of multiple subjects, with comparable performance to image-based approaches, by utilizing WiFi signals as the only input.”
British inventor seeks to take $18bn bite out of Apple in bitter patent war (www.theguardian.com)
DRAM And NAND Chip Makers Are Determined To Drive Up DDR5 And SSD Prices (hothardware.com)
X is left with advertisers pushing dubious cryptocurrency and AI 'undressing' apps, users say after Musk's outburst (www.businessinsider.com)
X users are complaining about an influx of low-quality ads promoting crypto scams and AI “undressing” apps....
Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says (arstechnica.com)
I guess we all kinda knew that, but it’s always nice to have a study backing your opinions.