Microsoft is trying to restore Bing as the default search engine on users’ browsers by spinning it as a “repair” through a utility app called PC Manager....
A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...
Still a bad idea. I didn’t say they didn’t work what I said is that it is a major security risk. There are people who still run Windows XP and it works for them. However, it is also a security risk.
“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)
Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company....
Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ (www.theverge.com)
The FBI is Playing Politics with Your Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org)
Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director (foundation.mozilla.org)
The linked article is the intro message from her. I copied a part of it here:...
Microsoft PC Manager App 'Repairs' Your System by Making Bing the Search Default (uk.pcmag.com)
Microsoft is trying to restore Bing as the default search engine on users’ browsers by spinning it as a “repair” through a utility app called PC Manager....
Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs (mastodon.sdf.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15741608...
Not a Coincidence (lemm.ee)
We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem (www.theverge.com)
TikTok wants to be YouTube now, tests 60-minute video uploads (www.gsmarena.com)
Are all Linux vendor kernels insecure? A new study says yes, but there's a fix (www.zdnet.com)
Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn (techcrunch.com)
A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...
I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
Tappin' that ass through the looking glass (lemmy.world)
s3e19 “Through the Looking Glass”
Hey does anyone know how to get microsoft suite apps on linux?
I want to get word, excel, powerpoint, onedrive and copilot on ubuntu, anyone know how?
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)