Technology
- A few rule changes on community's reaction: Elon Musk personal rants, overzealous advertisement posts, non-essential crypto news effectively disallowed | Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ad
Non-essential crypto news covers crypto advertisement, insignificant news that does not affect legit users like XMR/ETH/BTC holders or darknet users, posts relating to garbage like Brave browser and its coin, and so on. Due to the multiple kinds of crypto posts that pop up, this rule will be applied subjectively on a case-by-case basis.
Community complaints about Elon Musk were raised here. https://lemmy.ml/post/7186058
A lot of ad and spam posts appear regularly, which need to be squashed. This will be enforced more heavily from now on.
Sometimes legitimate products are advertised, which should be allowed to post. This will be checked per case basis, and unless asked for permission, all such posts will be removed without notice.
- Israel's Killer AIstopkiller.ai Israel's Killer AI
The Israeli military wanted to kill more Palestinians faster. They unleashed powerful technology to do it.
The Israeli military wanted to kill more Palestinians faster. They unleashed powerful technology to do it.
- Pioneering ‘shark skin’ tech could propel China ahead of US in jet engine racewww.scmp.com Pioneering ‘shark skin’ tech could propel China ahead of US in jet engine race
Breakthrough structure developed by Chinese scientists could threaten America’s dominance of engine technology.
- US Abrams tanks failing in Ukraine as Russia mocks them as ‘empty tin cans’www.yahoo.com US Abrams tanks failing in Ukraine as Russia mocks them as ‘empty tin cans’
America’s Abrams tanks are failing on the battlefield in Ukraine as Russia has labelled them “empty tin cans”.
- Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Upwww.wired.com Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up
Liz Reid, Google’s head of search, said in a blog post that the company had made adjustments to its new AI search feature after screenshots of its errors went viral.
- Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexicowww.cnbc.com Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico
Google is laying off more employees and hiring for their roles outside of the U.S.
- Google's Controversial Plan to Disable Older Chrome Extensions Starts June 3me.pcmag.com Google's Controversial Plan to Disable Older Chrome Extensions Starts June 3
The move begins with Chrome beta users on June 3, before a gradual phaseout of 'Manifest V2' extensions for all users in the coming months, which could impact uBlock Origin.
- U.S tech giants are building dozens of data centers in Chile. Locals are fighting backrestofworld.org U.S tech giants are building dozens of data centers in Chile. Locals are fighting back
Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.
Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.
- Over the past 12 years, 16 data centers have been approved in Santiago’s metropolitan area. Most use millions of liters of water annually to keep computers from overheating.
- Chile is in the midst of a drought, expected to last until 2040.
- The government has said it will launch a national data center plan to regulate the industry.
- The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rateswww.theguardian.com The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates | Mariana Mazzucato
Big tech is playing its part in reaching net zero targets, but its vast new datacentres are run at huge cost to the environment, says economics professor Mariana Mazzucato
When you picture the tech industry, you probably think of things that don’t exist in physical space, such as the apps and internet browser on your phone. But the infrastructure required to store all this information – the physical datacentres housed in business parks and city outskirts – consume massive amounts of energy. Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually.
This is a hugely environmentally destructive side to the tech industry. While it has played a big role in reaching net zero, giving us smart meters and efficient solar, it’s critical that we turn the spotlight on its environmental footprint. Large language models such as ChatGPT are some of the most energy-guzzling technologies of all. Research suggests, for instance, that about 700,000 litres of water could have been used to cool the machines that trained ChatGPT-3 at Microsoft’s data facilities. It is hardly news that the tech bubble’s self-glorification has obscured the uglier sides of this industry, from its proclivity for tax avoidance to its invasion of privacy and exploitation of our attention span. The industry’s environmental impact is a key issue, yet the companies that produce such models have stayed remarkably quiet about the amount of energy they consume – probably because they don’t want to spark our concern.
- Spacetop G1 is a $1900 laptop that uses a pair of Augmented Reality glasses as a display - Liliputingliliputing.com Spacetop G1 is a $1900 laptop that uses a pair of Augmented Reality glasses as a display - Liliputing
Spacetop G1 is a $1900 laptop that uses a pair of Augmented Reality glasses as a display
- A Marriage Made in Hell: An Introduction to Microsoft’s Complicity in Apartheid and Genocidemedium.com A Marriage Made in Hell: An Introduction to Microsoft’s Complicity in Apartheid and Genocide
by No Azure For Apartheid
Executive summary
The purpose of this primer is to publicly expose Microsoft’s complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide against the people of Palestine, and to connect technology workers to the No Azure for Apartheid campaign. Introduction
We are No Azure for Apartheid, a group of technology workers within Microsoft and its subsidiaries seeking to expose and condemn the specific technologies complicit in the ongoing apartheid and genocide in Gaza, the West Bank, and Palestine as a whole. We are part of the broader No Tech for Apartheid movement, which began with opposing Project Nimbus at Google and Amazon. With Microsoft leading advances in AI technology, we, as Microsoft employees, are morally obligated to guide the ethics and lasting ramifications of these technologies for the future.
- We're Watching Facebook Diewww.wheresyoured.at We're Watching Facebook Die
Like this newsletter? You should listen to the Better Offline episode! In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit. Though the company no longer reports daily active users, it now uses another metric: “family daily active
In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit. Though the company no longer reports daily active users, it now uses another metric: “family daily active people.” This number refers to “registered and logged-in users of one or more of Facebook’s Family products who visited at least one of these products on a particular day.”
This quiet, seemingly innocent change to how Meta reports growth is significant insofar as it will no longer have to report its Daily Active or Monthly active users, meaning that the only source of truth in Meta’s growth story is a vague growth metric that could be manipulated to mean just about anything. Three billion “daily active people” across Meta’s “family” combines WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger (which I’m confident it counts separately), Oculus, and Threads.
- Framework Laptop 13 gets Intel Core Ultra with a 120 Hz display, and cheaper AMD modelswww.gamingonlinux.com Framework Laptop 13 gets Intel Core Ultra with a 120 Hz display, and cheaper AMD models
Framework, the popular maker of customizable, modular and upgradable laptops has announced a big upgrade for the Framework Laptop 13 across both Intel and AMD models.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/16433795
> Framework Laptop 13 gets Intel Core Ultra with a 120 Hz display, and cheaper AMD models
- Russian EW systems "have proven effective at causing 90% of guided missile and drone systems supplied by the U.S. to Ukraine to miss their target, most importantly HIMARS”militarywatchmagazine.com Ex-Pentagon Electronic Warfare Specialist Highlights Implications of Russia’s EW Advantage
Following a growing number of reports from a range of Western sources highlighting the game changing impacts of advanced Russian electronic warfare capabilities in its
- OpenAI content deals with Vox and The Atlantic spark criticism from journalistsarstechnica.com OpenAI content deals with Vox and The Atlantic spark criticism from journalists
"Alarmed" writers unions question transparency of AI training deals with ChatGPT maker.
- World’s first diabetes cure with cell therapy achieved in Chinainterestingengineering.com World’s first diabetes cure with cell therapy achieved in China
The team used the patient's own peripheral blood mononuclear cells, transformed them into "seed cells," and reconstituted pancreatic tissue.
- The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for dayswww.engadget.com The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days
The nonprofit organization has announced that it's currently in its "third day of warding off an intermittent DDoS cyber-attack."
- The People Deliberately Killing Facebookwww.wheresyoured.at The People Deliberately Killing Facebook
Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and Instagram. What used to be apps for catching up with your friends and family are now algorithmic nightmares that constantly interrupt you with suggested content and advertisements that consistently outweig...
Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and Instagram. What used to be apps for catching up with your friends and family are now algorithmic nightmares that constantly interrupt you with suggested content and advertisements that consistently outweigh the content of people that you choose to follow.
Conversely, those running Facebook groups routinely find that their content isn’t even being shown to those who choose to follow them thanks to Meta’s outright abusive approach to social media where the customer is not only wrong, but should ideally have little control over what they see.
Over the next two newsletters, I’m going to walk you through the decline of Facebook and Instagram, starting with the events that led to its decay and those I believe are responsible for turning the world’s most popular consumer apps into skinner boxes for advertising agencies.
- A look at search engines with their own indexesseirdy.one A look at search engines with their own indexes
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.
cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/19788762
> If you ever wanted to know too much about where the majority of our search results come from and the many niche alternatives trying something different.....
- Finally an alternative to Big Tech, your new open-source mobile ecosystemf-droid.org Finally an alternative to Big Tech, your new open-source mobile ecosystem - Mobifree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to engage in a mobile ecosystemoutside of the watchful eye of the Big Tech giants and gatekeepers? A systemthat ...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to engage in a mobile ecosystem outside of the watchful eye of the Big Tech giants and gatekeepers? A system that includes everything from operating systems, to app stores, to cloud services, messaging apps, email servers and more? A system that puts your privacy first, believes in a democratic approach and healthy competition, and a system that relies on open-source solutions to drive its software? Welcome to Mobifree, a human-centered, ethical alternative, that champions privacy over profit and believes in collaboration, sustainability and inclusiveness.
Everyone is locked into a mobile phone ecosystem where the terms are dictated by a handful of Big Tech companies all located in a single country. From end users looking to download and use their favorite apps, to developers who run into roadblocks when trying to get their solutions published, to governments who are increasingly using apps as a way to provide services to their citizens, we are all impacted by the gatekeeping, data tracking, and railroading Big Tech is imposing on us in the current mobile ecosystem. A new alternative is required to shape a better future. And F-Droid is excited to be a part of creating that new mobile ecosystem, together with our other partners in Mobifree.
- The US gave up sending Ukraine Excalibur guided artillery shells costing $100,000 because they rarely hit their target, report sayswww.businessinsider.com The US gave up sending Ukraine Excalibur guided artillery shells costing $100,000 because they rarely hit their target, report says
The US halted Excalibur-guided artillery shell deliveries to Ukraine after Kyiv reported high failure rates caused by Russia's electronic jamming.
- UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Techwww.ibtimes.co.uk UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech
Facial recognition tech booms despite accuracy concerns. Police arrests surge while airports and restaurants trial facial payments and passport-free travel.
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
- YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockerswww.androidpolice.com YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers
Video playback resumes to normal when ad blockers are disabled
- Superfest - The (almost) unbreakable East German Glassdigitalcosmonaut.com Superfest - The (almost) unbreakable East German Glass
Originally named ceverit, Superfest was an extremely durable glass patented and developed in 1979 in East Germany to combat excessive glass waste.
- Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Workdefector.com Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Work | Defector
Tesla, a future case study for securities law classes across America, had to stop delivering Cybertrucks this past weekend. No, not because the hundred-thousand–dollar medium-duty pickup, which is only any of those things in the loosest interpretive sense, tends to brick when it gets rained on; nor ...
- Bigme Hibreak: These smartphone come with a color E-Ink screen and also Android 14www.notebookcheck.net Bigme Hibreak: These smartphone come with a color E-Ink screen and also Android 14
The Bigme Hibreak is a new smartphone with a current operating system and an E-Ink display technology. The device will be available in two configurations.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16133938
> Bigme Hibreak: These smartphone come with a color E-Ink screen and also Android 14
- Imperceptible sensors made from 'electronic spider silk' can be printed directly on human skintechxplore.com Imperceptible sensors made from 'electronic spider silk' can be printed directly on human skin
Researchers have developed a method to make adaptive and eco-friendly sensors that can be directly and imperceptibly printed onto a wide range of biological surfaces, whether that's a finger or a flower petal.
- China is pumping another $47.5 billion into its chip industrywww.cnn.com China is pumping another $47.5 billion into its chip industry | CNN Business
China is setting up its largest-ever state investment fund for the semiconductor industry amid rising tensions with the US over the technology.
- China's SAIC Motor Says It'll Mass-Produce Solid-State EV Batteries by 2026www.thedrive.com China's SAIC Motor Says It'll Mass-Produce Solid-State EV Batteries by 2026
Solid-state batteries are thought to be the future of EVs, and Chinese car company SAIC looks like it'll be first to the punch.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16103923
> China's SAIC Motor Says It'll Mass-Produce Solid-State EV Batteries by 2026
- China set to build giant chip factory using a particle acceleratorwww.scmp.com China set to build giant chip factory using a particle accelerator
Unprecedented technology may offer a way to bypass US sanctions and see China lead semiconductor industry.
- MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! We Build and Run it!
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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4649344
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- Most AI researchers come from Chinamacropolo.org The Global AI Talent Tracker 2.0 - MacroPolo
Since launching our talent tracker in 2020, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm. Ostensible breakthroughs in large language models and machine learning methods, as well as staggering improvements in compute capabilities, have made the power and potential of AI demonstrably clea...
- US-supplied HIMARS 'completely ineffective' against superior Russian jamming technology, report sayswww.businessinsider.com US-supplied HIMARS 'completely ineffective' against superior Russian jamming technology, report says
Russian jamming can cause the HIMAR missiles to miss targets by 50ft or more, The Washington Post reported.
- Huawei’s profit more than doubles in 2023, sales up 9.6% as cloud and digital businesses growapnews.com Huawei’s profit more than doubles in 2023, sales up 9.6% as cloud and digital businesses grow
Chinese telecoms gear company Huawei Technologies has reported its profit more than doubled last year as its cloud and digital businesses thrived in spite of U.S. sanctions.
- Stubborn polystyrene waste finally gets innovative recycling solutioninterestingengineering.com Stubborn polystyrene waste finally gets innovative recycling solution
Researchers propose a new chemical recycling method with pyrolysis to effectively break down polystyrene for reusability.