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New Teslas might lose Steam (www.theverge.com)

“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)

Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company....

Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ (www.theverge.com)

Discord is allegedly assigning gender to users with machine learning AI (www.dexerto.com)

Extremely creepy. Queued my account for deletion. Matrix it is.

Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director (foundation.mozilla.org)

The linked article is the intro message from her. I copied a part of it here:...

Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years (www.extremetech.com)

Slack has been scanning your messages to train its AI models (www.engadget.com)

"I lost trust": Why the OpenAI team in charge of safeguarding humanity imploded (www.vox.com)

When TikTok therapy is more lucrative than seeing clients (www.vox.com)

Microsoft PC Manager App 'Repairs' Your System by Making Bing the Search Default (uk.pcmag.com)

Microsoft is trying to restore Bing as the default search engine on users’ browsers by spinning it as a “repair” through a utility app called PC Manager....

RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address (variety.com)

Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices (www.theregister.com)

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/12739856...

Here Is What Axon’s Bodycam Report Writing AI Looks Like (www.404media.co)

Axon has been inviting police departments to webinars about the new AI-based product, which will automatically generate police reports based on bodycam audio, according to emails obtained by 404 Media.

Arizona woman accused of helping North Koreans get remote IT jobs at 300 companies (arstechnica.com)

Should I use Microsoft Copilot?

I have been using Micorsoft Bing for a few weeks and using the Rewards program and I’m still debating on whether or not I should be using their new digital assistant Copilot assuming it won’t replace everything else....

Black Women Caught in the Digital Crosshairs (msmagazine.com)

Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results (arstechnica.com)

Do companies store facial and voice recognition data from the thousands of hours of zoom/teams calls that their employees use?

I heard a person call into a show the other day, voice only, and talk about some poor working conditions at a factory. Made me think about how it would probably be so easy for nefarious bosses to be able to identify that person through voice recognition SW with all of the data that comes from us looking directly into cameras and...

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