Technology - Mbin

NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks ( www.engadget.com )

Redbox’s owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll ( www.theverge.com )

informed employees of the filing late Friday [...] that it had filed for a debtor-in-possession loan — a way for companies that are reorganizing after filing for bankruptcy to secure additional working capital to meet payroll. [...] employees have been waiting for paychecks since June 21st [...] it’s not certain that the...

Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws ( www.eff.org )

We’ve said it before: online age verification is incompatible with privacy. Companies responsible for storing or processing sensitive documents like drivers’ licenses are likely to encounter data breaches, potentially exposing not only personal data like users’ government-issued ID, but also information about the sites...

We analyzed 54,177 collection pages on OpenSea and found that 76% of the top pages are spam ( guerrillabuzz.com )

Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. ( mainichi.jp )

Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more ( www.theverge.com )

The downfall of Chevron deference could completely change the ways courts review net neutrality, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Matt Schettenhelm. “The FCC’s 2024 effort to reinstitute federal broadband regulation is the latest chapter in a long-running regulatory saga, yet we think the demise of deference will...

Google, Snap, Meta and many others are "quietly" changing privacy policies to allow for AI training | It is sneaky and possibly illegal, according to the FTC ( www.techspot.com )

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This is a genuine first hand experience to DHL's shoddy AI virtual assistant

Framework Laptop 16, six months later ( www.theverge.com )

[Mental Outlaw] Korean ISP Hacks Customers Using Torrent Software ( odysee.com )

Are we <INSERT_TECHNOLOGY_NAME> yet? ( github.com )

Are we Wayland yet? Are we JPEG XL yet? Are we Rust yet? Are we ActivityPub yet?...

Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand ( www.wired.com )

Milk-V Jupiter is a mini ITX board with a SpacemiT K1/M1 RISC-V processor - Liliputing ( liliputing.com )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17417754

ChatGPT and the movie ‘Her’ are just the latest example of the ‘sci-fi feedback loop’ ( theconversation.com )

ChatGPT outperforms undergrads in intro-level courses, falls short later ( arstechnica.com )

Researchers create 30 fake student accounts to submit model-generated responses to real exams. Professors grade the 200 or 1500 word responses from the AI undergrads and gave them better grades than real students 84% of the time. 6% of the bot respondents did get caught, though... for being too good. Meanwhile, AI detection...

Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web ( www.theverge.com )

TeamViewer links corporate cyberattack to Russian state hackers ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )

EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software ( www.theverge.com )

Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw ( www.theregister.com )

FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days ( www.theregister.com )

Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock cellphones from their networks 60 days after activation....

Beijing intervenes in China’s solar industry as overcapacity dries up profit in the country's domestic market

China’s energy regulator said it will limit “low-end” solar panel manufacturing after industry leaders called for more government intervention earlier this month. The move is an acknowledgement by Beijing that solar panel overcapacity is a problem, one that has pushed Chinese solar firms into a price war and shriveled...

Microsoft reveals even more emails to customers were accessed by Russia-based hackers ( www.neowin.net )

Earlier this year, Microsoft revealed that a Russia-based cybercriminal group labeled as Midnight Blizzard got access to the email accounts of its top executives in late 2023. Today, the company has confirmed that it is informing more of its customers that emails sent to those executives were seen by that hacker group....