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X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making (www.abc.net.au)
X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making::The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".
Google isn’t done trying to demonstrate Gemini’s genius and is working on integrating it directly into Android devices (www.techradar.com)
Underwater internet cables in Red Sea reportedly damaged (www.theregister.com)
10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox. (www.howtogeek.com)
10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.
Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers (www.tomshardware.com)
Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers::Roni Bandini is using a Raspberry Pi to power his AI-driven assault against his neighbor's regular 9am reggaeton music.
No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on (www.cnn.com)
No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on::Tesla has been slashing prices. Ford just cut the price of its Mustang Mach-E, too, plus it cut back production of its electric pickup. And General Motors is thinking about bringing back plug-in hybrids, arguably a step back from EVs.
You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes (gizmodo.com)
Conservative MP Says He Trusts Porn Companies Won’t Leak Digital IDs of Canadians Who Visit Porn Websites (pressprogress.ca)
Conservative MP Says He Trusts Porn Companies Won’t Leak Digital IDs of Canadians Who Visit Porn Websites::Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives voted to introduce digital IDs for porn users
Reddit says it's made $203M so far licensing its data (techcrunch.com)
College student put on academic probation for using Grammarly: ‘AI violation’ (nypost.com)
College student put on academic probation for using Grammarly: ‘AI violation’::Marley Stevens, a junior at the University of North Georgia, says she was wrongly accused of cheating.
‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral (www.geekwire.com)
‘I’m proud of being a job hopper’: Seattle engineer’s post about company loyalty goes viral::undefined
Twitter security staff kept firm in compliance by disobeying Musk, FTC says (arstechnica.com)
Reddit plans to reserve shares for its big users in IPO, WSJ reports (www.reuters.com)
Server software recommendations
Inspired by "What's a good piece of hardware to run a jellyfin server?" I wanted to get the communities thoughts on how to set up my home media server....
Big Tech is extremely unimpressed by Apple’s EU App Store changes (arstechnica.com)
ChatGPT has meltdown and starts sending alarming messages to users (www.independent.co.uk)
ChatGPT has meltdown and starts sending alarming messages to users::AI system has started speaking nonsense, talking Spanglish without prompting, and worrying users by suggesting it is in the room with them
Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring (www.itpro.com)
Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes companies are still readjusting to pandemic-era hiring tactics amid a flurry of layoffs across the industry.
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)
an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded....
EU to hit Apple with €500m fine over antitrust music streaming complaint from Spotify (www.imore.com)
OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI boss Sam Altman wants $7tn. For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it::The man behind ChatGPT is wooing the UAE to invest in energy-hungry AI. But if it turns out his tech can’t fix the world, he’s got his escape plan
OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora AI video generator | If trusting video from anonymous sources on social media was a bad idea before, it's an even worse idea now (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora AI video generator | If trusting video from anonymous sources on social media was a bad idea before, it's an even worse idea now::Hello, cultural singularity—soon, every video you see online could be completely fake.
AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (OpenAI Sora) (youtu.be)
‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded (www.404media.co)
An in-depth police report obtained by 404 Media shows how a school, and then the police, investigated a wave of AI-powered “nudify” apps in a high school.
Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Apple being Apple again. Just why does anyone actually like that company?
Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (arstechnica.com)
Is there a term for being right and then your opposition getting taught a lesson proving you were right? EPA calls off cyber regulations for water sector. (cyberscoop.com)
On July 25, 2023, the states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Iowa, along with intervenors American Water Works Association and National Rural Water Association, petitioned the Eighth Circuit to review the EPA’s new rule. This rule requires states to review and report cybersecurity threats to their public water systems (PWS)....