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ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t ( www.vox.com )

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads ( www.techradar.com )

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

Online Content Is Disappearing ( www.pewresearch.org )

OpenAI announces GPT-4o, new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time. ( openai.com )

The decline of Intel.. ( www.arktrek.shop )

The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. ( www.theatlantic.com )

How are Microchips Made? | Branch Education ( youtube.com )

The channel has excellent visuals for the different steps

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 )

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

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 )

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: https://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 )

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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