Tesla claims it has 2 Optimus humanoid robots working autonomously in factory ( electrek.co )
Why data is being stored in glass and holograms ( www.bbc.com )
In a former wallpaper factory in Chiswick, west London, a start-up firm has been developing a long-term storage system that uses lasers to burn tiny holograms into a light-sensitive polymer....
Elon Musk drops claims that OpenAI abandoned mission ( arstechnica.com )
Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' ( www.404media.co )
Raspberry Pi is now a public company ( techcrunch.com )
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....
The world's only coal-to-nuclear reactor plant just broke ground in Wyoming ( electrek.co )
A New Study Investigates 'The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter' To Mastodon ( arxiv.org )
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This Is How the 3D Pipes Windows Screensaver Was Created ( www.howtogeek.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 🏴☠️
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 )
Change to Adobe terms & conditions outrages many professionals - 9to5Mac ( 9to5mac.com )
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.
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....
TikTok fails ‘disinformation test’ before EU vote with failures posing a risk to electoral processes, study shows ( www.euractiv.com )
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Talking Tiananmen with a Chinese chatbot: Chinese developers hope to build the AI of the future. What, if anything, will it have to say about the past? ( chinamediaproject.org )
As China strives to surpass the United States with cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence, the leadership is keen to ensure technologies reach the public with the right political blind spots pre-engineered. Can Chinese AI hold its tongue on the issues most sensitive to the Chinese Communist Party?...
China turns to private hackers as it cracks down on online activists on Tiananmen Square anniversary ( theconversation.com )
By Christopher K. Tong, Associate Professor of Asian Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County....
OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity ( futurism.com )
Instagram is training AI on your data. It’s nearly impossible to opt out ( www.fastcompany.com )
The problem with GIMP ( www.spacebar.news )
Democracies can learn lessons from Taiwan to counter cognitive influence operations, according to a new research ( ipdefenseforum.com )
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