Concerns over addicted kids spur probe into Meta and its use of dark patterns (arstechnica.com)
Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows (about.winamp.com)
Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards (www.cnet.com)
Google I/O was an AI evolution, not a revolution | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)
Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch (www.theverge.com)
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Tesla must face fraud suit for claiming its cars could fully drive themselves (arstechnica.com)
Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn (techcrunch.com)
A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...
Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft offers to relocate nearly 10% of China-based staffers to the US or allied nations — AI and cloud engineering exodus from China begins (www.tomshardware.com)
I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
Ebook writing services (futurology.today)
The Ebook Writing Service is a professional and affordable ebook writing services that operates in the USA. We are experts in creating customized and intriguing content that readers enthusiastically read which assists authors to materialize their dreams of becoming bestselling writers. By utilizing the skills of our professional...
Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower (hub.jhu.edu)
X rolls out a revamped version of its Communities feature, which lets users network around topics of interest, including improved discovery tools and search (techcrunch.com)
Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” (www.theverge.com)
Arizona's Attorney General, Kris Mayes, filed two lawsuits against Amazon on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in deceptive business practices and maintaining monopoly status. The first lawsuit accuses the company of using dark patterns to keep users from canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions, violating Arizona's Consumer...
Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm (www.theverge.com)
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Waveshare's Latest Sensor Adds a Thermal Camera to Your Raspberry Pi — or Any Device with a USB Port - Hackster.io (www.hackster.io)
Here's a $120usd FLIR - how does it compare with a cheap plug in USB phone module?...
Mobilizon flies out of Framasoft's nest (joinmobilizon.org)
Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)
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MIT Students Stole $25 Million In Seconds By Exploiting ETH Blockchain Bug, DOJ Says (slashdot.org)
Quantum Internet Draws Near Thanks To Entangled Memory Breakthroughs (tech.slashdot.org)
Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI (www.nature.com)
NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code (mastodon.sdf.org)
New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD....
Apple, Android, IETF, Launch New Network Around The World. (lemmy.world)
I revised the title many times. Am I giving the impact breadth of what it could be without veering into click-bait?...
Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots (www.wired.com)
