A New Study Investigates 'The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter' To Mastodon ( arxiv.org )
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Tesla claims it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in factory ( electrek.co )
Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' ( www.404media.co )
This Is How the 3D Pipes Windows Screensaver Was Created ( www.howtogeek.com )
[TechHut] my favorite app (Neofetch) is dead ( www.youtube.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...
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....
BusKill Warrant Canary for 2024 H2 🕵️ ( www.buskill.in )
This post contains a canary message that's cryptographically signed by the official BusKill PGP release key...
China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says ( arstechnica.com )
- Hackers working for the Chinese government gained access to more than 20,000 VPN appliances sold by Fortinet using a critical vulnerability that the company failed to disclose for two weeks after fixing it, Netherlands government officials said....
Raspberry Pi is now a public company ( techcrunch.com )
Court Allows K-Pop Group to Subpoena YouTuber's Identity from Google ( www.404media.co )
NewJeans filed an ex parte application in late March in the Northern District of California, where Google is headquartered, for an “order authorizing limited discovery” of the user’s data from the company “for use in a criminal matter in Korea,” the order granting the application states. The group alleges that the...
Shop on the Temu app? Why class-action lawsuits in Canada and the U.S. have been proposed over privacy ( globalnews.ca )
Temu, a popular marketplace where consumers can buy direct from factories overseas at cheap prices, is drawing concerns from lawyers and privacy experts in North America who allege the shopping app can be “invasive” for unwitting users....
Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature ( www.dailydot.com )
Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas 🏴☠️
Adobe Announces That They Can Use Your Content for AI ( www.youtube.com )
Even though there are already a couple of other threads about this Schweinerei, there wasn't a good place to insert this into the discussion, and for those unfamiliar, this video's a good starting point.
OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity ( futurism.com )
The world's only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming ( electrek.co )
Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important ( www.techdirt.com )
US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI ( arstechnica.com )
UK election: TikTok users being fed misleading election news, investigation finds ( www.bbc.com )
Young voters in key election battlegrounds are being recommended fake AI-generated videos featuring party leaders, misinformation, and clips littered with abusive comments, the BBC has found....
Change to Adobe terms & conditions outrages many professionals - 9to5Mac ( 9to5mac.com )
