HMD's Nokia Lumia remake with 108 MP PureView camera and Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 processor is in development (www.notebookcheck.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15854044...
All-perovskite tandem PV cell based on carboranes hits 27.2% efficiency (www.pv-magazine.com)
TCL demonstrates 4K gaming monitor with a 1,000 Hz refresh rate (www.tomshardware.com)
I lost my job to AI this week... (www.youtube.com)
Google declares the end of the World Wide Web (unherd.com)
Advan X-Play launches with a similar design to Asus ROG Ally but with slightly better specs (www.notebookcheck.net)
French Tiktok ban makes VPN usage soar in New Caledonia (www.techradar.com)
Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25166889
Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs (mastodon.sdf.org)
They offer a thing they’re calling an “opt-out.”...
Why Piracy Fears are Keeping Some Researchers from Accessing the Games They Need (www.ign.com)
Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices (www.theregister.com)
lmao imagine that
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts (www.theverge.com)
Twitter is fully X.com now. (www.wired.com)
archive.is link
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)
flipboard.social/@mike/112452374982317735
Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075
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)
fosstodon.org/
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:...
Firefox to collect your (anonymized) search data (blog.mozilla.org)
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.