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ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later ( arstechnica.com )

Researchers create 30 fake student accounts to submit model-generated responses to real exams. Professors grade the 200 or 1500 word responses from the AI undergrads and gave them better grades than real students 84% of the time. 6% of the bot respondents did get caught, though... for being too good. Meanwhile, AI detection...

RISC-V NAS: BPI-F3 & OpenMediaVault ( www.youtube.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17489101

TeamViewer links corporate cyberattack to Russian state hackers ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )

Framework Laptop 16, six months later ( www.theverge.com )

Revealed: the tech entrepreneur behind a pro-Israel hate network ( www.theguardian.com )

Redbox’s owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll ( www.theverge.com )

informed employees of the filing late Friday [...] that it had filed for a debtor-in-possession loan — a way for companies that are reorganizing after filing for bankruptcy to secure additional working capital to meet payroll. [...] employees have been waiting for paychecks since June 21st [...] it’s not certain that the...

Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media ( www.commondreams.org )

Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died ( www.theverge.com )

Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs ( www.xda-developers.com )

FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days ( www.theregister.com )

Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock cellphones from their networks 60 days after activation....

Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete ( adguard.com )

Netflix, once a pioneer of ad-free viewing that offered a break from traditional TV norms, is now contemplating launching free ad-supported versions of its service in markets like Europe and Asia, Bloomberg reported....

Manifesto for a Humane Web ( humanewebmanifesto.com )

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand ( www.wired.com )

Largest Croatian hospital under cyberattack by pro-Russian hacker group ( www.helpnetsecurity.com )

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/259710...

Memes live in your brain ( youtu.be )

A video titled "This Video Will Make You Angry", by CGP Grey, about how memes evolve in the same manner as living organisms, though in this case those most successful tend to be the ones that engender anger in their target audience.

AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risk ( theconversation.com )

Milk-V Jupiter is a mini ITX board with a SpacemiT K1/M1 RISC-V processor - Liliputing ( liliputing.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17417754

Remote IT management provider TeamViewer says it has been hacked, allegedly by Russian state hackers from APT29 ( www.teamviewer.com )

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Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission ( www.neowin.net )

Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan ( youtu.be )

If you are curious whether Ubiquiti ditched the fan on the new U7 Pro Max, well, I have some bad news for you. I opened the device and this is the teardown video.

Are we <INSERT_TECHNOLOGY_NAME> yet? ( github.com )

Are we Wayland yet? Are we JPEG XL yet? Are we Rust yet? Are we ActivityPub yet?...

Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws ( www.eff.org )

We’ve said it before: online age verification is incompatible with privacy. Companies responsible for storing or processing sensitive documents like drivers’ licenses are likely to encounter data breaches, potentially exposing not only personal data like users’ government-issued ID, but also information about the sites...