How Chinese surveillance methods are going global [Tutanota blog] (tutanota.com)
Authoritarian countries - but also democracies - use surveillance technology from China.
Asian MIT grad asks AI to make her photo more ‘professional,’ gets turned into white woman (nextshark.com)
The student ended up with a fairer complexion, dark blonde hair and blue eyes after her Playground AI request
MIT engineers create an energy-storing supercapacitor from cement, water, and carbon black (news.mit.edu)
MIT engineers created a carbon-cement supercapacitor that can store large amounts of energy. Made of just cement, water, and carbon black, the device could form the basis for inexpensive systems that store intermittently renewable energy, such as solar or wind energy.
ChatGPT Can Be Broken by Entering These Strange Words, And Nobody Is Sure Why (www.vice.com)
Reddit usernames like ‘SolidGoldMagikarp’ are somehow causing the chatbot to give bizarre responses.
A privacy analysis of Meta’s new Threads app | Proton (proton.me)
Threads collects reams of personal data, and its lack of privacy protections appears to be illegal in Europe. Here’s what we know so far.
Facebook, Instagram face Norwegian ban from tracking users for ads (www.politico.eu)
Meta’s social media platforms will be barred from behavioral advertising in August.
Free VPN App with 5 Million Downloads Acts as DDoS Botnet (restoreprivacy.com)
Researcher claims that Swing VPN is a DDoS botnet that uses people’s devices to launch debilitating attacks on websites and online services.
Twitter sues four unknown entities for 'unlawful data scraping' | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Elon Musk blamed scraping by these unknown entities for Twitter's decision to put a cap on how many tweets a user can see per day.
Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos (www.theverge.com)
It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.
Discord bans AI-generated child sex abuse material and teen dating servers (www.nbcnews.com)
The policy changes come after an NBC News investigation last month into child safety on the platform.
Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users (www.theverge.com)
Musk sues law firm because he’s mad that Twitter paid $90 million bill (arstechnica.com)
Musk tries to claw back $90M from firm that forced him to complete Twitter deal.
State Dept. cancels election meetings with Facebook after “free speech” ruling (arstechnica.com)
The Biden administration is appealing a federal judge's ruling that ordered the government to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies. President Biden and the other federal defendants in the case "hereby appeal" the ruling to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, according to a notice filed in US...
Gizmodo’s io9 Published an AI-Generated Star Wars Article That Was Filled With Errors (variety.com)
A new byline showed up Wednesday on the site of io9, the genre-entertainment section of Gizmodo tech website: “Gizmodo Bot.” And the site’s editorial staff appears to have not had…
Meta to launch its new Threads app this week as Twitter falls apart (9to5mac.com)
Twitter users have been facing a lot of issues over the past few months, but things got even worse last...
Twitter stiffs Google (www.platformer.news)
Musk won't pay his Google Cloud bill — and the company's trust and safety systems are hanging in the balance
Texas Legislature Passes Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (www.natlawreview.com)
Texas passed a Dara privacy and security Act (the TSDPA). It doesn't go into effect until March 1st, 2024...
Criticising the Irish Data Protection Commission and Big Tech to become illegal in Ireland if this bill passes (evil.social)
https://noyb.eu/en/irish-gov-makes-critizising-big-tech-and-irish-dpc-crime
23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Genetic testing company 23andMe revealed that its data breach was much worse than previously reported, hitting about half of its total customers.
The Association of Internet Researchers ramping down use of Twitter over hate speech concerns, shifting to Mastodon (aoir.org)
“Twitter (or ‘X’) isn’t just unfriendly but actually unsafe for many more people,” the association says on its website.
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.
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Assistência técnica caldeiras ARISTON Porto Gaia Matosinhos Maia (ampliseason.com) Portuguese
Assistência técnica caldeiras Ariston, serviços de reparação e manutenção.
Starlink quietly lost over $250,000,000 in burned satellites this summer. (tiblur.com)
Not one major news outlet is covering the destruction of Starlink this summer. Though Lemmy might enjoy Elon losing more money.
Google hid evidence by training workers to avoid words monopolists use, DOJ says (arstechnica.com)
The Department of Justice kicked off its antitrust trial against Google this week by presenting evidence that Google allegedly hid monopolistic behaviors not just by auto-deleting four years of chats, but also by training employees to avoid using certain words in office communications.
