Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled ( www.theverge.com )
I see your Outlook (new) and I raise you Microsoft Teams classic (work or school) ( beehaw.org )
Consumer first; Citizen second ( hertig.blog )
From housing, to media, to printers, to everything else. Get ready to own nothing; pay rent on everything....
Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools ( www.404media.co )
this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint) ( arxiv.org )
Abstract:...
Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox ( arstechnica.com )
Free to be Weird: Lowering barriers to Open Source contributions ( blog.mkhoury.org )
Public code repositories like Github are currently being beset by a flood of LLM-generated contributions. It’s becoming a bit of a problem and is one of the facets of the Great Flood the web is currently experiencing....
‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 ( www.techradar.com )
Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX ( www.spacebar.news )
‘Significant security loophole’ found in Google software container system ( therecord.media )
The issue affected Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), a system used to deploy, scale and manage how applications are “containerized.” GKE — the tech giant’s implementation of the open-source Kubernetes project — is used widely in healthcare, education, retail and financial services for data processing as well as...
Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 ( arstechnica.com )
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8149733...
Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter ( www.theguardian.com )
You probably don't need a VPN ( www.spacebar.news )
New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion ( medium.com )
Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9762996
Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse ( www.theverge.com )
Chat GPT Did NOT Like My Memory Test ( beehaw.org )
I was trying to do a memory test to see how far back 3.5 could recall information from previous prompts, but it really doesn't seem to like making pseudorandom seeds. 😆
Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers ( www.engadget.com )
From the article: “In some ways, the current situation has spurred an arms race. YouTube has inadvertently improved ad blockers, as the new knowledge and techniques gained from innovating within the YouTube platform are also applicable to other ad and tracking systems.”
'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for four straight months ( theprogressplaybook.com )
The cult of Obsidian: Why people are obsessed with the note-taking app ( www.fastcompany.com )
Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service ( jitsi.org )
While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si, for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a "Know Your Customer" policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account....
YouTube will now show a blank homepage if you don’t have watch history on ( www.theverge.com )
YouTube is changing the homepage experience for users who have their watch history turned off. They will now see an almost blank homepage with just a search bar and buttons for Shorts, Subscriptions and Library. This is intended to make it clear that personalized recommendations rely on watch history data. The new design aims to...
What Does The Norwegian Meta Behavioral Ads Ban Really Mean? ( www.searchenginejournal.com )
The order on July 14 by the Norwegian Data Protection Authority imposes a country-wide three-month ban on personalized and behavioral ad targeting against Meta, starting August 2023. This means advertisers may see higher costs and lower relevance....
The Fall of Stack Overflow ( observablehq.com )
Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive....