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VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits (spectrum.ieee.org)
Cory Doctorow gets scammed (pluralistic.net)
I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.
The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. (lemmy.world)
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/13/brave-browser-rise-installs-ios-14-7-eu/
Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits (arstechnica.com)
is this the moment spez became Heisenberg? Reddit CEO warns users: "We know your dark secrets' (www.mirror.co.uk)
I also want a garden gnome new. (lemmygrad.ml)
What do you think about Abstract Wikipedia?
Wikifunctions is a new site that has been added to the list of sites operated by WMF. I definitely see uses for it in automating updates on Wikipedia and bots (and also for programmers to reference), but their goal is to translate Wikipedia articles to more languages by writing them in code that has a lot of linguistic...
Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft, doing it's part to make the world a better place.
Generative AI Tools Now Advanced Enough to Mislead Voters, Researchers Show (www.extremetech.com)
Not much to add here, given the opening dependent clause.
Nintendo Switch emulator, Yuzu, developers settling lawsuit from Nintendo with $2.4M payout, handing over its domains, and agreeing "Yuzu [is] primarily designed to circumvent [DRM]". (www.theverge.com)
This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code....
The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle (www.humblebundle.com)
Lose yourself in the visionary fiction of Cory Doctorow, the celebrated author and digital rights activist known for his masterful explorations of the intersection of tech and society. And help support the Electronic Frontier Foundation with your purchase.
Such an interesting idea! (sembr.org)
A.I. Is Making the Sexual Exploitation of Girls Even Worse (www.nytimes.com)
A.I. Is Making the Sexual Exploitation of Girls Even Worse::Parents, schools and our laws need to catch up to technology, fast.
AI deepfakes are cheap, easy, and coming for the 2024 election (www.theverge.com)
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint) (arxiv.org)
Abstract:...
AI Determines Sex of Person From Brain Scans - Neuroscience News (neurosciencenews.com)
This article describes a new study using AI to identify sex differences in the brain with over 90% accuracy....
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Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3 (www.techradar.com)
Leaks for Windows 11 laptop with Snapdragon X Elite show a CPU that’s a serious threat to Apple’s M3::Is Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite the laptop processor to watch for 2024?
Police shut more than 14,000 accounts on Mega, Tutanota and Protonmail (therecord.media)
Large Language Models Are Drunk at the Wheel (matt.si)
Bluesky federation goes live (bsky.social)
Apple Officially Warns Users to Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice | The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone." (gizmodo.com)
Apple Officially Warns Users to Stop Putting Wet iPhones in Rice | The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone."::The company said the popular remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone."
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (archive.ph)
"An open source project that let people view tweets without going to Twitter.com has shut down, as Elon Musk's changes seem to have closed off all possible ways to access the Twitter network without a user account....
Rakuten launches cloud storage with unlimited file transfers, targets businesses and individuals, with free 10GB storage (www.techradar.com)
Highlights:...
Meta tells Instagram, Facebook users how to avoid Apple’s fees (au.pcmag.com)
Meta tells Instagram, Facebook users how to avoid Apple’s fees::Meta is adding the infamous Apple tax to its paid Instagram and Facebook boosts later this month, but is also telling buyers how to avoid those pesky App Store fees.
DeepMind’s New AI Beats Billion Dollar Systems - For Free! (youtu.be)
Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready (www.politico.eu)
Feds Have Warned Medicare Insurers That ‘AI’ Can’t Be Used To (Incompetently And Cruelly) Deny Patient Care (www.techdirt.com)
NVIDIA’s new AI chatbot runs locally on your PC (www.engadget.com)
• NVIDIA released a demo version of a chatbot that runs locally on your PC, giving it access to your files and documents....
AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV (twit.tv)
This episode of Security Now covered Google's plan to deprecate third party cookies and the reaction from advertising organizations and websites....
Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? (www.engadget.com)
Because AI and Crypto use so much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?
Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong...