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Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)
Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is "dangerous malware" that's secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....
Nvidia becomes the most valuable public company - GSMArena.com news (m.gsmarena.com)
YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes (www.youtube.com)
AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent (arstechnica.com)
Change to Adobe terms & conditions outrages many professionals - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
TikTok fails ‘disinformation test’ before EU vote with failures posing a risk to electoral processes, study shows (www.euractiv.com)
Archived link...
The problem with GIMP (www.spacebar.news)
New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds (bgr.com)
What if charging your phone took less time than brushing your teeth? A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences could very well hold the key to a next-gen charger capable of recharging your phone in just 60 seconds....
German parliament will stop using fax machines (www.npr.org)
Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same (www.bbc.com)
ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan (www.bloomberg.com)
ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have ways to disable the world’s most sophisticated chipmaking machines in the event that China invades Taiwan, according to people familiar with the matter....
Car makers BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by supplier with links to Chinese forced labour, U.S. probe says (www.bbc.com)
BMW, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and Volkswagen (VW) used parts made by a supplier on a list of firms banned over alleged links to Chinese forced labour, a US congressional report has said....
Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15691030...
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking (arstechnica.com)
Surely the clearest path to retaining only the best.
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)
Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps (www.404media.co)
Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...
What do you personally use AI for?
I really want to use AI like llama, ChatGTP, midjourney etc. for something productive. But over the last year the only thing I found use for it was to propose places to go as a family on our Hokaido Japan journey. There were great proposals for places to go....
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
NewPipe/PipePipe-like app for Linux?
Any YouTube client that doesn't track me that works on Linux or in Firefox?
The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store (www.theverge.com)
Caveat: It isn't available in the app store in the EU, and is instead only available via the developer's marketplace, AltStore¹. As far as I can tell, this genuinely isn't because of greed, but because of a little detail in Apple's EU rules (possibly wrong):...
All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics - YouTube (youtube.com)
Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions (mbin.grits.dev)
Credit to @bontchev
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)
Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
It’s time for a hard reset on notifications (www.theverge.com)
Windows users don't want copilot on their taskbar (windowscopilot.news)
[ANSWERED]libreoffice or onlyoffice?
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What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?
For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...
House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate (www.nbcnews.com)
Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” (arstechnica.com)