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Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs (mastodon.sdf.org)

They offer a thing they’re calling an “opt-out.”...

Twitter is fully X.com now. (www.wired.com)

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OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing (www.techradar.com)

EU Commission opens formal proceedings against Meta under the Digital Services Act related to the protection of minors on Facebook and Instagram (ec.europa.eu)

The Commission is concerned that the systems of both Facebook and Instagram, including their algorithms, may stimulate behavioural addictions in children, as well as create so-called ‘rabbit-hole effects’. In addition, the Commission is also concerned about age-assurance and verification methods put in place by Meta....

Threads starts testing a TweetDeck-like feed of real-time posts (www.theverge.com)

World’s largest compressed air energy storage project comes online in China (www.pv-magazine.com)

Entering a New Phase of the Web, with Citation Needed’s Molly White (flipboard.video)

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Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)

cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075

Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data (blog.mozilla.org)

Google's play on Search, Ads and AI feels obvious to me.

cross-posted from: hachyderm.io/users/maegul/…/112442514504667645...

Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings (berthub.eu)

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BBC World Service - lite (mastodon.social)

My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on “lite” versions of their news articles (other page types to follow). They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS. Page sizes drop significantly:...

First sodium-ion battery storage station at grid level opens with cells that can be charged in 12 minutes (www.notebookcheck.net)

Introducing GPT-4o (openai.com)

We’re announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.

Choosing the Right Technology Stack for React Native Development (jlai.lu)

React Native is becoming a very strong and flexible platform for creating mobile apps. Many businesses consider it to be a top choice due to its ability to construct cross-platform applications efficiently and with performance close to native. However, to guarantee the success and scalability of your app, choosing the...

Full scan of 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue took 1.4 petabytes of data, equivalent to 14,000 4K movies — Google's AI experts assist researchers (www.tomshardware.com)

ASUS Scammed Us (Gamers Nexus) (www.youtube.com)

Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)

A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too...

Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile (www.youtube.com)

Banana Pi BPI-F3: Single-board computer and RISV-V alternative to the Raspberry Pi now available (www.notebookcheck.net)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15454966...

A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries (www.popularmechanics.com)

Benefits of resolutions beyond 1080p

This is a genuine question, so please don’t do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...

Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook (arstechnica.com)

The tool is nearly ready to be released, Zuckerman told Ars, but the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor is afraid that Facebook owner Meta might threaten legal action if he goes ahead. And his fears appear well-founded. In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow...

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