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Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair ( gizmodo.com )
The Android phone maker says go ahead, fix your own phone....
Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair ( gizmodo.com )
The Android phone maker says go ahead, fix your own phone....
Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair ( gizmodo.com )
The Android phone maker says go ahead, fix your own phone....
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement ( www.theverge.com )
The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the two companies built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the publication’s articles and now “directly compete” with its content as a result....
Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers ( wedistribute.org )
A controversial developer circumvented one of Mastodon's primary tools for blocking bad actors, all so that his servers could connect to Threads....
New York sues SiriusXM, accusing company of making it deliberately hard to cancel subscriptions ( apnews.com )
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general filed suit Wednesday against SiriusXM, accusing the satellite radio and streaming service of making it intentionally difficult for its customers to cancel their subscriptions....
New York sues SiriusXM, accusing company of making it deliberately hard to cancel subscriptions ( apnews.com )
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general filed suit Wednesday against SiriusXM, accusing the satellite radio and streaming service of making it intentionally difficult for its customers to cancel their subscriptions....
More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 ( www.nature.com )
The number of retractions issued for research articles in 2023 has passed 10,000 — smashing annual records — as publishers struggle to clean up a slew of sham papers and peer-review fraud. Among large research-producing nations, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia and China have the highest retraction rates over the past two...
Without a Trace: How to Keep Your Phone Off the Grid ( themarkup.org )
We answer the questions readers asked in response to our guide to anonymizing your phone...
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them ( www.404media.co )
In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...
Your Smart TV Knows What You’re Watching ( themarkup.org )
These TVs can capture and identify 7,200 images per hour, or approximately two every second. The data is then used for content recommendations and ad targeting, which is a huge business; advertisers spent an estimated $18.6 billion on smart TV ads in 2022, according to market research firm eMarketer.
Wikimedia Foundation calls on US Supreme Court to strike laws that threaten Wikipedia ( wikimediafoundation.org )
The Foundation supports challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that jeopardize Wikipedia's community-led governance model and the right to freedom of expression....
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data ( www.404media.co )
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more....
This color picker on Flathub got rated 12+
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Scientist, after decades of study, concludes: We don't have free will ( phys.org )
Before epilepsy was understood to be a neurological condition, people believed it was caused by the moon, or by phlegm in the brain. They condemned seizures as evidence of witchcraft or demonic possession, and killed or castrated sufferers to prevent them from passing tainted blood to a new generation.