Finally a useful feature (no) (jlai.lu)
Are you embracing AI? (viewber.co.uk)
There’s something of a misunderstanding in the UK property industry that agents are luddites, clinging to fax machines and Rolodexes, but quite the opposite is true. Sales and letting agents like nothing more than finding new efficiencies – whether through careful outsourcing, digital signatures or virtual tours, begging the...
STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus (www.wired.com)
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Electric Aviation is already better than you think - Volts with David Roberts (www.volts.wtf)
Electric vehicles that can take off and land vertically, but then fly like a plane, are already being sold and used by hospitals and shipping companies. These vehicles have 5 batteries that give it a range of over 350 miles using current battery technology, though the batteries are intended to be swapped over the life of the...
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit in the U.S. by giving plaintiffs a share of the company’s potential value, rather than a traditional payout, over lack of liqudity (apnews.com)
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights, a deal that attorneys estimate could be worth more than $50 million....
[NightHawkInLight] DIY Supermaterial Could Save You From Heatstroke: Salt based PCMs (www.youtube.com)
“We Can Still Contact Technical Support in the West”: Russian weapons are being manufactured on foreign machinery — but why are they still running? (istories.media)
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Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (www.wired.com)
Experts aren’t unanimous about whether the AI-powered search startup’s practices could expose it to legal claims ranging from infringement to defamation—but some say plaintiffs would have strong cases.
TikTok confirms it offered US government a 'kill switch' (www.bbc.com)
TikTok says it offered the US government the power to shut the platform down in an attempt to address lawmakers’ data protection and national security concerns....
'Russian spy agency forgot to pay its bill’: Did a delinquent ChatGPT account expose a pro-Trump Russian bot campaign? (www.dailydot.com)
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Pro-Kremlin Doppelganger campaign continued its copycatting and reality-distorting activities during the European Parliament elections, report says (euvsdisinfo.eu)
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The DJI Drone Ban: A Uniquely American Clusterfuck (www.404media.co)
NATO Member Sweden Says Russia Disrupting Its Satellite Networks (www.swissinfo.ch)
Swedish authorities say Russia is behind “harmful interference” deliberately targeting the Nordic country’s satellite networks that it first noted days after joining NATO earlier this year....
Concurrency models of Rust and Golang (kerkour.com)
A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)
Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....
Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws (www.engadget.com)
Pumpkins, markets, and one bad Apple (www.fsf.org)
Nvidia becomes the most valuable public company - GSMArena.com news (m.gsmarena.com)
[Framework News] Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing (frame.work)
Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI (arstechnica.com)
[TechHut] my favorite app (Neofetch) is dead (www.youtube.com)
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Apple Decides to Block Open-Source Emulator App for iOS (news.itsfoss.com)
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Tuta Mail's Google Ranking Mysteriously Restored After Announcement to Take Legal Actions -- [Tuta blog] (tuta.com)
On March 7, 2024, Google inexplicably downranked the website of Tuta Mail in its search results. While Tuta Mail is a prominent provider of encrypted email services, focusing on security and privacy, our website was deranked for terms like “secure email” and “encrypted email” completely. The search results for our...
YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes (www.youtube.com)
Top 10 Generative AI Models Mimic Russian Disinformation Claims A Third of the Time, Citing Moscow-Created Fake Local News Sites as Authoritative Sources (www.newsguardtech.com)
NewsGuard audit finds that 32% of the time, leading AI chatbots spread Russian disinformation narratives created by John Mark Dougan, an American fugitive now operating from Moscow, citing his fake local news sites and fabricated claims on YouTube as reliable sources....
