$5,000 Google Jamboard dies in 2024—cloud-based apps will stop working, too (arstechnica.com)
Amazon Reverses Course on ‘Garbage Books’ After Public Uproar - Decrypt (decrypt.co)
Despite initially refusing, Amazon eventually removed several books believed to be written using AI and listed under a real author’s name.
CalyxOS will support the Fairphone 5, Android 13 at first and Android 14 later (calyxos.org)
Track progress at gitlab.com/CalyxOS/calyxos/-/issues/1817...
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5! (www.raspberrypi.com)
Announcing Raspberry Pi 5, coming in late October: over 2x faster than Raspberry Pi 4, featuring silicon designed in-house at Raspberry Pi.
ChatGPT can now access up to date information (www.bbc.co.uk)
The chatbot's knowledge previously only included data up to September 2021, but not any more.
I’m Staying on AMD! (www.youtube.com)
Back in March Luke, Jake, and myself all switched over to AMD to test our resolve after renouncing Nvidia. So are we sticking with AMD, or did we going crawling back to the 40 series?
An Analysis of DeepMind's 'Language Modeling Is Compression' Paper (codeconfessions.substack.com)
A detailed analysis of the DeepMind/Meta study: how large language models achieve unprecedented compression rates on text, image, and audio data - and the implications of these results
Musk's X disabled feature for reporting electoral misinformation, researcher says (www.reuters.com)
After introducing a feature in 2022 for users to report a post they considered misleading about politics, X in the past week removed the “politics” category from its drop-down menu in every jurisdiction but the European Union, said the researcher Reset.Tech Australia....
India's Right to Know under threat as social media giants bend to censorship (www.indexoncensorship.org)
The big platforms like X, WhatsApp or Facebook are kowtowing to Indian government pressure to censor dissent while hateful content is promoted’...
Meta’s $499.99 Quest 3 headset is all about mixed reality and video games (www.theverge.com)
It looks like a big upgrade on the Quest 2 — and a mixed reality headset to take on Apple’s Vision Pro.
Rooftop Solar Power Has a Dark Side (time.com)
The companies that own many leased solar systems on Americans' rooftops are going out of business, leaving homeowners in a lurch.
‘Snatch’ Ransom Group Exposes Visitor IP Addresses, 'Krebs on Security' has reports (krebsonsecurity.com)
Leaked data suggest that Snatch is one of several ransomware groups using paid ads on Google.com to trick people into installing malware disguised as popular free software, such as Microsoft Teams, Adobe Reader, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Discord....
Tree-hugging AI to the rescue of Brazilian Amazon (phys.org)
Small, artificially intelligent boxes tied to tree trunks in the Brazilian Amazon are the latest weapon in the arsenal of scientists and environmentalists battling destructive jungle invaders.
GNU 40th anniversary (www.gnu.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5592397...
LLMs are surprisingly great at compressing images and audio, DeepMind researchers find (venturebeat.com)
U.S. FTC files a massive antitrust lawsuit against Amazon (www.theverge.com)
Getty made an AI generator that only trained on its licensed images (www.theverge.com)
Netflix Prepares to Send Its Final Red Envelope (archive.ph)
It’s the end of an era! I still have a few that I never returned and just paid for, I bet one day they’ll be a novelty nostalgia item.
The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech (www.404media.co)
The 90,000 follower-strong account typically picks targets who appeared in other viral videos, or people suggested to the account in the comments. Many of the account’s videos show the process: screenshotting the video of the target, cropping images of the face, running those photos through facial recognition software, and...
How to Hide a $2 Trillion (Google) Antitrust Trial (www.thebignewsletter.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5486771...
‘A tool of political control’: for the past five years India has shut down the internet more times than any other country affecting over 120 million people (www.theguardian.com)
According to reports by Access Now, a non-profit that tracks state-imposed blackouts, for the past five years, India has shut down the internet 84 times just last year alone. In the troubled region of Kashmir, after stripping the state of various independent rights, the government imposed an 18 month shutdown from August 2019...
The NYPD is deploying a 420-pound robocop to roam Times Square's subway station (gothamist.com)
A 420-pound, 5-foot-2 robocop with a giant camera for a face will begin patrolling the Times Square subway station overnight, the NYPD has announced.
DOD Exercises Option on Second Micro Nuclear Reactor Design (www.defense.gov)
As part of the Strategic Capabilities Office initiative Project Pele, the DOD awarded a contract option to X-energy, LLC of Rockville, Md., to develop an enhanced engineering design for a
DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification - Cory Doctorow (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5431344...
The Internet Is About to Get Much Worse (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5400607...
