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- Strengthening Community Bonds: business@lemmy.world
Greetings everyone,
We wanted to take a moment and let everyone know about the !business@lemmy.world community on Lemmy.World which hasn't gained much traction. Additionally, we've noticed occasional complaints about Business-related news being posted in the Technology community. To address this, we want to encourage our community members to engage with the Business community.
While we'll still permit Technology-related business news here, unless it becomes overly repetitive, we kindly ask that you consider cross-posting such content to the Business community. This will help foster a more focused discussion environment in both communities.
We've interacted with the mod team of the Business community, and they seem like a dedicated and welcoming group, much like the rest of us here on Lemmy. If you're interested, we encourage you to check out their community and show them some support!
Let's continue to build a thriving and inclusive ecosystem across all our communities on Lemmy.World!
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- Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trumpwww.theverge.com Celebrity jet-tracking accounts have vanished from Threads and Instagram
It's a bad week for the creator of @ElonJet.
>Jack Sweeney, who gained notoriety for his @ElonJet account on X and maintained many of the suspended accounts, said on Threads that the development is “reminiscent of all my accounts getting suspended on Twitter.” The shuttered accounts, which used publicly available data to show the flight paths of private jets, initially displayed a message on Monday that read, “The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.”
>Meta provided no direct warning or explanation for the suspensions, according to Sweeney, who says the accounts appear “blacked out with no options to interact or receive information.” In a statement to TechCrunch, however, an unnamed Meta spokesperson said “Given the risk of physical harm to individuals, and in keeping with the independent Oversight Board’s recommendation, we’ve disabled these accounts for violating our privacy policy.”
- Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Piecesfuturism.com Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces
A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.
A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.
- Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risktherecord.media Kroger’s facial recognition plans draw increasing concern from lawmakers
Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition tools at its grocery stores is attracting increased criticism from lawmakers, who warn that it could be exploited to increase the prices certain individuals pay for food and put customers’ personal data at risk.
>In a letter Friday to Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) said the plans — which involve using facial recognition tools in digital displays to target advertising to customers and collect information on them — potentially pave the way for biased pricing discrimination. > >“Studies have shown that facial recognition technology is flawed and can lead to discrimination in predominantly Black and Brown neighborhoods,” Tlaib wrote in the letter, which was posted on social media Tuesday. “The racial biases of facial recognition technology are well documented and should not be extended into our grocery stores.” > >Kroger is the largest grocery store chain in the country with nearly 3,000 stores and $3.1 billion in profits in 2023. Kroger and other retailers already use electronic shelving labels instead of paper labels to rapidly adjust prices based on a variety of factors, including time of purchase, where a grocery store is located and other data. > >The plan to use facial recognition technology could allow the retailer to build individual profiles on customers, based on data like their gender and shopping habits. > >In an August letter sent to McMullen about the same plans, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bob Casey (D-PA) said they were concerned about the chain building “personalized profiles of each customer, and then use those profiles ‘to determine how much price hiking each of us can tolerate,’ quickly updating and displaying the customer’s maximum willingness to pay on the digital price tag.” > >The use of facial recognition tools in Kroger stores also raises concerns about how Kroger intends to “adequately” safeguard customer data, the Warren and Casey letter said.
- Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlandswww.independent.ie Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands
Reddit has told the Irish media regulator that it is not covered by the new Online Safety Code as its jurisdiction is in the Netherlands.
- Tesla, Warner Bros sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery, despite the producers having previously rejected any association between their iconic sci-fi movie and Musk or his companiesarstechnica.com Tesla, Warner Bros. sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery
“That movie sucks,” Elon Musk said in response to the lawsuit.
>Elon Musk may have personally used AI to rip off a Blade Runner 2049 image for a Tesla cybercab event after producers rejected any association between their iconic sci-fi movie and Musk or any of his companies. > >In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, lawyers for Alcon Entertainment—exclusive rightsholder of the 2017 Blade Runner 2049 movie—accused Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) of conspiring with Musk and Tesla to steal the image and infringe Alcon's copyright to benefit financially off the brand association.
>Alcon said it would never allow Tesla to exploit its Blade Runner film, so "although the information given was sparse, Alcon learned enough information for Alcon’s co-CEOs to consider the proposal and firmly reject it, which they did." Specifically, Alcon denied any affiliation—express or implied—between Tesla's cybercab and Blade Runner 2049. > >"Musk has become an increasingly vocal, overtly political, highly polarizing figure globally, and especially in Hollywood," Alcon's complaint said. If Hollywood perceived an affiliation with Musk and Tesla, the complaint said, the company risked alienating not just other car brands currently weighing partnerships on the Blade Runner 2099 TV series Alcon has in the works, but also potentially losing access to top Hollywood talent for their films. > >The "Hollywood talent pool market generally is less likely to deal with Alcon, or parts of the market may be, if they believe or are confused as to whether, Alcon has an affiliation with Tesla or Musk," the complaint said. > >Musk, the lawsuit said, is "problematic," and "any prudent brand considering any Tesla partnership has to take Musk’s massively amplified, highly politicized, capricious and arbitrary behavior, which sometimes veers into hate speech, into account."
>If Tesla and WBD are found to have violated copyright and false representation laws, that potentially puts both companies on the hook for damages that cover not just copyright fines but also Alcon's lost profits and reputation damage after the alleged "massive economic theft."
- FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effectabcnews.go.com FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect
A federal rule banning fake online reviews is now in effect
A federal rule banning fake online reviews is now in effect
- The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governancehai.stanford.edu The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance
In The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley, Marietje Schaake, a Stanford HAI Policy Fellow, reveals how tech companies are encroaching on governmental roles, posing a threat to the democratic rule of law.
- Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble burstswww.tomshardware.com Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts
The tech mogul claims it will take 10 to 30 years before AI displaces human jobs.
- Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve itwww.zdnet.com Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it
Microsoft has a serious problem on its hands, thanks to competition from ... itself?
- This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poopwww.pcgamer.com This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop
If you're keen on logging your logs, then the Throne might be just up your alley.
- T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for usersarstechnica.com T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users
Carriers fight plan to require unlocking of phones 60 days after activation.
- Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studiowww.engadget.com Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio
Netflix is reportedly shutting down its AAA studio known as Team Blue.
- Excel enters its 40th yearwww.theregister.com Excel enters its 40th year
More senior than Windows itself, and still runs the world
- Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Policewww.404media.co Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
After federal police came to an employee’s house to ask questions, encrypted messaging company Session has decided to leave Australia and switch to a foundation model based in Switzerland.
- Microsoft and OpenAI ‘bromance’ begins to fraywww.seattletimes.com Microsoft and OpenAI ‘bromance’ begins to fray
OpenAI has tried to change its deal with Microsoft; Microsoft has tried hedging its bet on OpenAI. The “best bromance in tech” may be unraveling.
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18286017
- Comic Sans Got the Last Laughwww.theatlantic.com Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh
The backlash against the world’s most hated font may finally be ending.
https://12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/comic-sans-debate/680319/
- What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?www.techspot.com What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger?
It was the late 90s, social media platforms like Facebook didn't yet exist, texting was in its infancy, email was very popular, instant messaging was up for...
The bottom of the article links to the history (individual features) of other IM programs from that era as well like ICQ and Yahoo Messenger.
- The Death of the Junior Developersourcegraph.com The Death of the Junior Developer
LLMs are putting pressure on junior tech jobs. Learn how to stay ahead.
Despite the title, this article chronicles how GPT is threatening nearly all junior jobs, using legal work as an example. Written by Sourcegraph, which makes a FOSS version of GitHub Copilot.
- New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineersherwood.news New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer
New prime just dropped. The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), a group of volunteers who search for prime numbers that are (2 to the...
According to GIMPS, this is the first time a prime number was not found by an ordinary PC, but rather a “‘cloud supercomputer’ spanning 17 countries” that utilized an Nvidia A100 GPU chip to make the initial diagnosis. The primary architect of this find is Luke Durant, who worked at Nvidia as a software engineer for 11 years
- WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contactswww.theverge.com WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contacts
Now, just save a contact inside of WhatsApp.
- Intuit possibly succumbs to the Streisand effectwww.theverge.com Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode
Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi claims it’s not accurate the company lobbies against free tax filing.
The CEO of Intuit (who make financial software) did an interview, and it seems a pretty normal interview. But some senior guy at the company asked for part of the interview to be deleted, after it took place.
By putting in that unusual request (rather angrily), more attention is being drawn to the interview.
Thoughts?
- OpenAI and Microsoft are funding $10 million in grants for AI-powered journalismwww.engadget.com OpenAI and Microsoft are funding $10 million in grants for AI-powered journalism
OpenAI and Microsoft are funding projects to bring more AI tools into the newsroom.
- Internet fiber optic cables successfully detect shock waves from a rockslidephys.org Internet fiber optic cables successfully detect shock waves from a rockslide
On the night of 16 June 2023, about 1.2 million cubic meters of rock rumbled down into the valley near Brienz (GR). A team from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL and ETH Zurich tracked the event using an unusual method: they detected the shock waves on undergrou...
- Intel & Samsung Are Reportedly Inking A "Foundry Alliance", Sharing Production Facilities Along With Process Techwccftech.com Intel & Samsung Are Reportedly Inking A "Foundry Alliance", Sharing Production Facilities Along With Process Tech
Intel Foundry has reportedly approached Samsung for a "foundry alliance" in an attempt to form a collaborative strategy to counter TSMC.
- A Flourishing Internet Depends on Competitionwww.eff.org A Flourishing Internet Depends on Competition
Antitrust law has long recognized that monopolies stifle innovation and gouge consumers on price. When it comes to Big Tech, harm to innovation—in the form of “kill zones,” where major corporations buy up new entrants to a market before they can compete with them—has been easy to find. Consumer...
>Antitrust law has long recognized that monopolies stifle innovation and gouge consumers on price. When it comes to Big Tech, harm to innovation—in the form of “kill zones,” where major corporations buy up new entrants to a market before they can compete with them—has been easy to find. Consumer harms have been harder to quantify, since a lot of services the Big Tech companies offer are “free.” This is why we must move beyond price as the major determinator of consumer harm. And once that’s done, it’s easier to see even greater benefits competition brings to the greater internet ecosystem. > >In the decades since the internet entered our lives, it has changed from a wholly new and untested environment to one where a few major players dominate everyone's experience. Policymakers have been slow to adapt and have equated what's good for the whole internet with what is good for those companies. Instead of a balanced ecosystem, we have a monoculture. We need to eliminate the build up of power around the giants and instead have fertile soil for new growth.
- Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Poststheintercept.com Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts
Jordana Cutler, Meta’s policy chief for Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, repeatedly flagged for censorship posts by Students for Justice in Palestine.
Cutler joined Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, in 2016 after years of high-level work in the Israeli government. Her resumé includes several years at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., where she worked in public affairs and as its chief of staff from 2013 to 2016, as well as a stint as a campaign adviser for the right-wing Likud party and nearly five years as an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Upon her hiring in 2016, Gilad Erdan, then minister of public security, strategic affairs and information, celebrated the move, saying it marked “an advance in dialogue between the State of Israel and Facebook.”
In interviews about her job, Cutler has stated explicitly that she acts as a liaison between Meta and the Israeli government, whose perspectives she represents inside the company.
In 2017, Cutler told the Israeli business outlet Calcalist that Facebook works “very closely with the cyber departments of the Ministry of Justice and the police and with other elements in the army and Shin Bet,” Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, on matters of content removal. “We are not the experts, they are in the field, this is their field.”
- Clevo reseller wants get coreboot ported, ends up throwing a temper tantrum and banning Germany, Poland, Texas and AMD over unsatisfactory experiencewww.malibal.com Don’t Support the Coreboot Project : MALIBAL
Why do so few companies offer coreboot on laptops? After a 15-month journey to port our own, we discovered firsthand the challenges—and it wasn’t what we expected.
While the whole exchange must've sucked for them, I've found their reaction extremely amusing at times, especially the carpet banning for life of everyone within a country/state to the offending party. But hey, that'll definitely show AMD how to hire those coreboot developers
- Marissa Mayer's Yahoo Journey: She Confess What Went Wrong, and The Lessons She Learnt
When Mayer arrived at Yahoo she was tasked with reviving a company that had already begun to lose its footing in the digital landscape. Fresh from her successful stint at Google where she had been one of the first employees, and risen to become a key executive, Mayer seemed like the perfect candidate to breathe new life into Yahoo. However she learnt a lesson every tech company must know.
- Exposed United Nations Database Left Sensitive Information Accessible Onlinewww.wired.com Exposed United Nations Database Left Sensitive Information Accessible Online
The 115,000-plus files related to UN Women included detailed financial disclosures from organizations around the world—and personal details and testimonials from vulnerable individuals.
- Companies are finding new ways to monetize personal data, too often without proper notice or consent. ICYMI, three current examples that you may want to act on to opt out: PayPal, LinkedIn and 23andMefirewallsdontstopdragons.com Just Say No (and Do It Soon) - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons
Companies are getting very aggressive at exploiting our existing personal data, opting us in without proper notice or consent. Here are some recent examples.
- PayPal to Share Shopping Details
- LinkedIn Opts You In for AI Data Sharing
- 23andMe May Sell Your DNA Data
- Italy's "Piracy Shield" causes massive Google Drive outage for millionstorrentfreak.com Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder * TorrentFreak
On Saturday evening Google Drive went dark for millions of Italian users after the service's domain name was added to Piracy Shield.
- Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model."
This is an update to a post that was previously shared in the community: Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source
- All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communicationphys.org All-optical switch device paves way for faster fiber-optic communication
Modern high-speed internet uses light to quickly and reliably transmit large amounts of data through fiber-optic cables, but currently, light signals hit a bottleneck when data processing is necessary. For that, they must convert into electrical signals for processing before further transmission.