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…
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.
Assistência caldeiras ARISTON Porto Gaia Maia Matosinhos (ampliseason.com) Portuguese
ARISTON Serviços de assistência técnica a caldeiras e equipamentos da marca, técnicos especialistas.
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.
Famed tech journalist (Walt Mossberg) deletes X account with epic rant at Elon Musk (www.independent.co.uk)
Veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg announced on Tuesday he was deactivating his X (formerly known as Twitter) account, saying Elon Musk’s takeover of the site turned it into a “cesspool.”...
U.S., FBI Hoovering Up DNA at a Pace That Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and Counting (theintercept.com)
In an April 2023 statement submitted to the U.S. Congress to explain the budget request, FBI Director Christopher Wray cited several factors that had “significantly expanded the DNA processing requirements of the FBI.” He said the FBI collected around 90,000 samples a month — “over 10 times the historical sample...
An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on) (www.staygrounded.online)
PS- The "real" (non-joke) full guide for the Masto-curious is here.
X sets its sights on LinkedIn with a job listing feature | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
The social network X plans to compete with LinkedIn by offering job listings and more, CEO Elon Musk said in a new post.
Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X (unseen-japan.com)
Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.
Now you can block OpenAI’s web crawler (www.theverge.com)
Now websites can opt out of training ChatGPT.
We Need Smart Intellectual Property Laws for Artificial Intelligence (www.scientificamerican.com)
“One-size-fits-all” regulation will sideline medical and research benefits promised by the advent of artificial intelligence
RIP Bram Moolenaar, the author of vim text editor (groups.google.com)
Here is a message from his family
[Elon Musk] Flashing X sign - yet another example of a billionaire flouting the rules and doing whatever he wants (imgur.com)
Musk put a giant X sign on top of the building and it is incredibly brightly flashing, even nights. Hope it gets down, this is stupid. Imagine someone gets a seizure of it or crashes car because it blinded the person.
Scientists Invented an Entirely New Process For Refrigerating Things (www.sciencealert.com)
Say hello to ionocaloric cooling.
OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation (www.businessinsider.com)
Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.
Not just @x: Elon Musk also took @xAI from its original user for his AI company (mashable.com)
A pattern is emerging.
The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)
Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive. The charts below show the usage represented by a moving average of...
