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TechDesk

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We bring you the latest tech news, deep dives and perspectives on topics like AI, social media and innovations. Posts are handpicked by Flipboard's editorial team, especially for Mastodon.

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brewsterkahle, to random
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"Saving the First Draft of History:

When news sites suddenly shut down and former URLs are sold to the highest bidder, saving a publisher's archive becomes a time-consuming and rigorous full-time job in the digital age."

nice piece featuring @mark of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine!

https://niemanreports.org/articles/saving-the-first-draft-of-history/

quillmatiq, to random

I wrote about how Patreon needs to join the social web before Fediverse Threads takes its place:

"Why would a creator send their audience to a third-party platform when Instagram and Threads can be a one-stop-shop with their existing followers while having access to new paid subscribers across the social web?

Patreon can no longer just be the place where creators are paid, it needs to be a place where creators can be discovered. And it cannot do that as a social silo."

Your move, Patreon 🚨

https://www.augment.ink/patreon-fediverse/

realjuddlegum, to random

Let's be clear: This is absolute BS.

The entire purpose of a platform like Threads is its algorithm. He claims its not suppressing political news, its just amplifying EVERY OTHER KIND OF CONTENT.

That's suppression.

I don't know what's worse: the truth about what they are doing or the fact that they won't own up to it

RE: https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C7hoOgmyhIl

BenjaminHCCarr, to random
@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io avatar

and its facing sustained cyber attacks — nonprofit struggles with 'impactful, targeted, adaptive' campaign
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/internet-archive-facing-sustained-cyber-attacks-nonprofit-struggles-with-impactful-targeted-adaptive-ddos-campaign

ricmac, to random
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This is my favourite yet, especially the Beatles reference… (via https://www.instagram.com/p/C7btGs-Bovd/?igsh=MWgyeHVnMGZmaWZ2MA==)

quillmatiq, to fediverse
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"The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites."

If you're not looking at @theverge and @404mediaco as social web platforms that are hosting hand-picked content creators with a publisher's infrastructure, you're not paying attention.

https://digiday.com/media/why-publishers-are-preparing-to-federate-their-sites/

404media, to random
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Google Laid Off Workers That Help Investigators During School Shootings and Kidnappings
https://www.404media.co/google-legal-investigations-team-layoffs/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into 404 Media @404

janrosenow, to random
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Where does all the lithium come from?

Three countries—Australia, Chile, and China—accounted for 88% of lithium production in 2023.

jasonkoebler, to random
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Google's own researchers now say AI is a top vector of disinfo, in a paper that severely and obviously undercounts the problem

https://www.404media.co/google-says-ai-now-leading-disinformation-vector-and-is-severely-undercounting-the-problem/

BloombergGreen, to random
@BloombergGreen@flipboard.com avatar

The Slowdown in US Electric Vehicle Sales Looks More Like a Blip
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-28/the-slowdown-in-us-electric-vehicle-sales-looks-more-like-a-blip?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Stories @all

randderuiter, to random

Google's search engine used to be one of the most secretive, closely-guarded black boxes in the world.

Perhaps not anymore.

In the last quarter century, no leak of this magnitude or detail has ever been reported from Google’s search division. If you're in SEO or care about search engine traffic, you should probably see this.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Meta’s new AI council is composed entirely of white men https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/metas-new-ai-council-is-comprised-entirely-of-white-men/

shauna, to random
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If you want to follow along with Ghost's attempts to implement ActivityPub they are surprisingly hilarious

https://activitypub.ghost.org/day2/?ref=building-activitypub-newsletter

davidbisset, to random
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RIP to a real #oldschool web tech.

"#ICQ will stop working
from June 26".

https://icq.com/desktop/en

I think this it for ICQ. I used to remember my ICQ by heart.

ricmac, to random
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“The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites.”

Why publishers are preparing to federate their sites - Digiday https://digiday.com/media/why-publishers-are-preparing-to-federate-their-sites/

clive, to random
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If you haven't seen it yet, go check out @ernie's new search engine ...

... which automatically appends "&udm=14" to the end of your search query ...

... thereby triggering Google to give you your results with no AI answer at the top, and (for me, anyway) no ads

It's like google from 2004 or something

https://udm14.com

Jentrification, to random
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White House calls on tech companies to help stop deepfakes
https://mashable.com/article/biden-calls-on-tech-companies-to-stop-deepfakes?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into 🤖 Robot Apocalypse @robot

oneunderscore__, to random

AI is the future.

ScienceDesk, to trees
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Big Tech thinks it can plant trees better than everyone else. 🌲

@theverge reports: "Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce launched a new coalition to try to cancel out their greenhouse gas emissions."

https://flip.it/Cj3WIc

For more science coverage from The Verge, follow @science

quillmatiq, to fediverse
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Just dropped the first issue of Human-Generated Content, a newsletter by augment!

This issue:

  • @nilaypatel talks to Google's Sundar Pichai on AI
  • chriswaves and @mmasnick each explore the managed decline of the web
  • @molly0xfff and @mike / @mike chat about building a new web inspired by the old one.

Read here: https://www.augment.ink/human-generated-content-1/

_elena, to threads
@_elena@mastodon.social avatar

🌶️ take of the day:

People on rave about its new Tweetdeck-like web client... which is limited to a few default columns. No list support.

Meanwhile has:

AND it doesn't rely on advertising or .

I swear I'm gonna make it my mission to get my old network to move over here

jeffjarvis, to random
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Good. The Atlantic carries Candice Odgers -- actual scholar of children and technology -- responding to The Atlantic's Jonathan Haidt and his and moral entrepreneurship over kids and their phones. Gift link. Quoting:
"My colleagues and I have repeatedly failed to find compelling support for the claim that digital-technology use is a major contributor to adolescent depression and other mental-health symptoms."
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/05/candice-odgers-teens-smartphones/678433/?gift=lOosoRE4GnUPfUTNHl2Az6-hh7-_z5hn_GEV52sOANs&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

FlipboardMagazines, to ai
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For the latest news about artificial intelligence and its impact on society, check out these 5 Magazines to follow from the Flipboard community.

AI Revolution: Curated stories about what's on the horizon with artificial intelligence technologies.
@ai

Artificial Intelligence and Misinformation by The Literacy Project: Here, we'll share articles on what to watch out for to avoid sharing misinformation about AI or created by AI.
@artificial

Artificial Intelligence by The 74: Rolling coverage of how artificial intelligence and tools such as ChatGPT are changing education in America
@the

The Age of AI: Capturing the biggest need-to-know stories about artificial intelligence technology and what its rapid advancement means for our future. Stories collected by Flipboard's editors.
@the

The AI Economy: Exploring artificial intelligence's impact on business, work, society and technology.
@the

Wondering what a Magazine is? A Flipboard Magazine is a curated feed of posts about a specific topic or interest that is followable, just like a profile.

michellemanafy, to ai
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A.I.’s Black Boxes Just Got a Little Less Mysterious
In the same way that understanding basic things about how people work has helped us cure diseases, understanding how these models work will both let us recognize when things are about to go wrong and let us build better tools for controlling them. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/ai-language-models-anthropic.html

Flipboard, (edited ) to random
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🫖 During our outage this morning, people attempting to connect with Flipboard.Social found that we were declaring ourselves to be a teapot. Here's the origin of the unusual internet error message. Tell us, were you familiar with it?

https://flip.it/oanxmn

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