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Microsoft’s AI obsession is jeopardizing its climate ambitions (www.theverge.com)

Its carbon pollution has ballooned since making a big climate pledge.

Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments (www.techdirt.com)

Tired of being underserved and overbilled by shitty regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA — (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency). The inter-local agency collaborative venture then set about building an “open access” fiber network that allows any...

Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach (arstechnica.com)

Ebury backdoors SSH servers in hosting providers, giving the malware extraordinary reach.

Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora (arstechnica.com)

Google’s video synthesis model creates minute-long 1080p videos from written prompts.

Android 15’s second beta release lets users lock down access to private apps (www.theverge.com)

Android 15 beta 2 is great for those who’d like to hide apps.

AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says (arstechnica.com)

Payments helped AT&T obtain key legislative wins in Illinois, prosecutors say.

Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year (www.theverge.com)

Unless you work at Meta.

Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button (www.theverge.com)

Want 10 blue links back? This is the best we’re likely to get.

AWS confirms European 'sovereign cloud' to launch in Germany by 2025, plans €7.8B investment over 15 years (techcrunch.com)

AWS has confirmed its European “sovereign cloud” will go live by the end of 2025, enabling greater data residency for the region.

Downranking won’t stop Google’s deepfake porn problem, victims say (arstechnica.com)

Delisting non-consensual deepfake porn on Google is “draining,” victim says.

AI in Gmail will sift through emails, provide search summaries, send emails (arstechnica.com)

Gmail will soon be able to summarize recent emails from a contact.

Android apps will soon let you use your face to control your cursor (www.theverge.com)

The face-driven gaming ‘mouse’ may no longer be just for gamers.

Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away (arstechnica.com)

"It’s easier to manage a team that’s happy.”

Bumble apologizes for its anti-celibacy ad fumble (www.theverge.com)

Bumble is pulling the billboard ads and says they were a “mistake.”

Google mentioned 'AI' 120+ times during its I/O keynote (techcrunch.com)

It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during Google I/O 2024 (by its own count). CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap up the presentation, cheekily stating that the company was doing the “hard work” of counting for us

Low-tech tactics still top the IT security risk chart (www.csoonline.com)

USB-based attacks, QR codes for phishing and social engineering continue to be some of the most effective, now more dangerous with the help of AI.

Feds probe Waymo driverless cars hitting parked cars, drifting into traffic (arstechnica.com)

Auto-safety regulator is investigating 22 reports of Waymo cars malfunctioning.

Android’s AI era includes eavesdropping on phone calls, warning you about scams (arstechnica.com)

A scammer says “transfer the money in your bank account,” but Android is listening.

Google’s Gemini video search makes factual error in demo (www.theverge.com)

Google even highlighted the wrong answer in the video!

The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media (link.springer.com)

The authors introduce and evaluate an open-source software package and methodological framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media, namely the Coordination Network Toolkit, utilising weighted, directed multigraphs to capture intricate coordination dynamics....

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