Finally a useful feature (no) ( jlai.lu )
'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement ( www.theatlantic.com )
As soon as Apple announced its plans to inject generative AI into the iPhone, it was as good as official: The technology is now all but unavoidable. Large language models will soon lurk on most of the world’s smartphones, generating images and text in messaging and email apps. AI has already colonized web search, appearing in...
The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones ( x.com )
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Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission ( www.neowin.net )
STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus ( www.wired.com )
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Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week ( arstechnica.com )
Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register ( www.theregister.com )
The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled: U.S. Republicans attacked the lab’s reports on misinformation and election integrity — and now the institution is pulling the plug ( www.platformer.news )
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'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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Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app ( www.bbc.com )
German parliament will stop using fax machines ( www.npr.org )
US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel ( www.theverge.com )
EU to charge Apple under Digital Markets Act, impose a fine of up to $50 million per day - GSMArena.com news ( m.gsmarena.com )
Cop busted for unauthorized use of Clearview AI facial recognition resigns ( arstechnica.com )
"So the cop was tracking random people off social media using this incredibly invasive technology, on a pretty regular basis."...
ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself ( www.techradar.com )
Microsoft Chose Profit Over Security and Left U.S. Government Vulnerable to Russian Hack, Whistleblower Says ( www.propublica.org )
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Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia ( www.theregister.com )
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin....
Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims ( arstechnica.com )
Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is "dangerous malware" that's secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....
Mysterious cyberattack took down more than 600,000 routers in the U.S. ( thehackernews.com )
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Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI ( arstechnica.com )
AI Ruined My Year - Robert Miles ( www.youtube.com )
You might know Robert Miles from his appearances in Computerphile. When it comes to AI safety, his videos are the best explainers out there. In this video, he talks about the developments of the past year (since his last video) and how AI safety plays into it....
The problem with GIMP ( www.spacebar.news )
New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds ( bgr.com )
What if charging your phone took less time than brushing your teeth? A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could very well hold the key to a next-gen charger capable of recharging your phone in just 60 seconds....
Instagram is training AI on your data. It’s nearly impossible to opt out ( www.fastcompany.com )
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents ( www.404media.co )
Google has accidentally collected childrens’ voice data, leaked the trips and home addresses of car pool users, and made YouTube recommendations based on users’ deleted watch history, among thousands of other employee-reported privacy incidents, according to a copy of an internal Google database which tracks six years worth...
