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Giving Windows total recall is a privacy minefield (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft's Windows Recall feature is attracting controversy before even venturing out of preview....
Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell (www.wired.com)
ICQ messenger shuts down after almost 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)
Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.
Google’s AI Overviews are out of control (stackdiary.com)
Would you like a spicy spaghetti dish? Just use some gasoline.
Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza (www.theverge.com)
On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers (arstechnica.com)
Humane AI Pin is a disaster: Founders already want to sell the company (arstechnica.com)
Despite seemingly having nothing else in the pipeline and the AI Pin being dead on arrival, Bloomberg reports the company is "seeking a price of between $750 million and $1 billion in a sale."
Semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion. (www.bloomberg.com)
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" (www.eff.org)
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them (arstechnica.com)
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion (www.arktrek.shop)
Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED (www.wired.com)
Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.
Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. (www.nytimes.com)
TikTok sues the US government over ban (www.theverge.com)
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men (techcrunch.com)
Israeli Weapons Firms Required to Buy Cloud Services From Google and Amazon (theintercept.com)
Google and Amazon are both loath to discuss security aspects of the cloud services they provide through their joint contract with the Israeli government, known as Project Nimbus. Though both the Ministry of Defense and Israel Defense Forces are Nimbus customers, Google routinely downplays the military elements while Amazon says...
Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership was born from Google envy (www.engadget.com)
For 'Cheap' Labour, Google Fires Its Entire Python Team: Report (www.freepressjournal.in)
Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days (www.arenaev.com)
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V (www.theregister.com)
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
Edward Zitron has been reading all of google's internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ's antitrust case against google....
Tesla slashes vehicle and self-driving-ish software prices as shares plummet (www.theregister.com)
'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad
I've enjoyed Mark Rober's videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn't sitting right with me...
Meta says you can’t turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram (globalnews.ca)
STATEMENT from Google workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign on Google’s mass, retaliatory… (web.archive.org)
Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible (arstechnica.com)
Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling (arstechnica.com)
[Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites (retrododo.com)
I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community....
AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead (developers.slashdot.org)
Apple Spent More Than $10 Billion on Apple Car Before Canceling Project (www.macrumors.com)
Apple Spent More Than $10 Billion on Apple Car Before Canceling Project::Apple spent more than $10 billion working on the Apple Car over the last decade, according to a report from The New York Times that details the...
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Nvidia's AI customers are scared to be seen courting other AI chipmakers for fear of retaliatory shipment delays, says rival firm (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/9700996...
Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative... (www.bloomberg.com)
Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative...::The Boring Company’s tiny Las Vegas Loop is all that’s come of Musk’s promises to build superfast mass-transit...
A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology (www.businessinsider.com)
A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.
Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)
Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.
Reddit's licensing deal means Google's AI can soon be trained on the best humanity has to offer — completely unhinged posts (www.businessinsider.com)
‘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
Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court (arstechnica.com)
Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court::IVF often produces more embryos than are needed or used.