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1dts78s

Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years

Comment#1. yeah if they are supposed to go down... but actually going up, that means a definite shift of priorities for them. And money. More than likely money. In that, it's more cost effective to fuck the planet (and us on it) and pay fines, instead of actually saving it. Comment#2. So which pipe’s valve needs to be shut off to stop this? The green one? Comment#3. An AI is only making their consumption even worse Comment#4. That’s the AI for you. GPT models burn electricity Comment#5. Holy shit guys, these colors were the layers in my Plant 3D model, you didn't have to paint all the pipes to match! Comment#6. Yay paper straws amirite Comment#7. “Don’t be evil” Nah, we can cut that bit out. Comment#8. But WE need to drive less and eat less meat... Okay. Comment#9. Yet they manipulate the search algorithm to prioritize articles that promote anything climate change and CO2 reduction. Believe actions, not words. Comment#10. This is why Google search engine removed "sustainable since 2008" from search engine web site Comment#11. Google infrastructure grew more than 48% in the last 5 years, so this is a success. Emissions per GFlop of processing is way down. Comment#12. Takes a lot of energy to store all the dirt they have on us Comment#13. In the same period, their search engine results have gotten about 48% worse. Amazing watching a company totally fuck itself. Comment#14. That's alot of emissions to make search worse every year. Comment#15. It was nice knowing everyone and I’m Glad I was born in 84. I don’t think we have many years left.. Comment#16. Meanwhile their search results have turned to ass Comment#17. But remember, it's all you and your car's fault. Comment#18. Considering how much larger Google has gotten in just 5 years, if anything is a surprise it's that it's only 48%. Comment#19. But remember to recycle those plastic cups. It’s on you, common consumer. Comment#20. Those ads aren't going to serve themselves Comment#21. Google is also making investments in renewable energy across the globe. Still an issue but it’s not one Google is ignoring Comment#22. You can’t grow as a company and increase revenue without causing harm to the planet. Prove me wrong. Comment#23. What do I even do with this news? Just be sadder with the world and hope something good finally happens Comment#24. “Do No Evil”. LOL. More $ is “Good”. Always. Comment#25. Human beings cannot survive without using energy, and we can't generate enough energy without causing emissions. We need to find solutions to live with this reality. Comment#26. seems like they are evil and just doesn't care. It's all about the $$$ Comment#27. Google: Do All Evil Comment#28. I knew that AI was going to be an environment killer, but I don't think it's as bad as bitcoin mining Comment#29. What's worse for the environment? Crypto mining or AI? Comment#30. We're gonna need another Dyson Sphere just to power Google's quantum computers. Comment#31. I don’t use google - safari is much better Comment#32. That actually seems reasonable. What is the carbon footprint of NASCAR? Edit: Outrage porn helps no one. A company using 8% more energy a year does not seem news worthy. Especially when they don't even give you a way to compare to other things. Random percentages floating in space is not a good way to make informed decisions.

1dts997

The NATO Washington Summit and Disinformation

Comment#1. Data from the Laundromat reveals that accounts on YouTube and Reddit facilitate the spread of content from RT, the Kremlin's primary mouthpiece target foreign audiences, even though the platforms have banned and blocked the outlet. These accounts provide links to mirror or content re-poster sites, or use automated text-to-speech tools that create audio versions of RT articles. Search engines that list the links among top results, and platforms that fail to label proxy accounts that spread Russian state media as official state media sources, exacerbate the problem. Indeed, the obfuscation of the provenance of RT “news content” means that citizens in NATO nations often have no idea which articles they read are, in fact, Kremlin propaganda.

1dtsb6x

Reddit's upcoming changes attempt to safeguard the platform against AI crawlers

Comment#1. Of course cause they already sold this data to the highest bidder Comment#2. Good luck. “Robots.txt is not a legal framework.” “Move fast and break things.” WCGW? Comment#3. ...so they can SELL the data for AI Training. Comment#4. …Except crawlers that pay up. Comment#5. Let’s get rid of the bots first Comment#6. in 3 months: reddit now offering commercial API subscriptions to train your AI on reddit posts its not about your privacy or security, it has and always will be about making money off of you. Comment#7. They’re not safeguarding US. They’re just making sure crawlers are paying. Gives me such a dirty feeling, to be used like this. I love reddit, but I would opt out in a moment if I could. Comment#8. Good to know that reddit's shareholders will profit off my comments and posts. Comment#9. Translation: You can crawl our content all you want but you damn well better pay us. Comment#10. So no changes to users. Unless you want to go to www.Reddit.com/robots.txt /# Welcome to Reddit's robots.txt /# Reddit believes in an open internet, but not the misuse of public content. /# See https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/26410290525844-Public-Content-Policy Reddit's Public Content Policy for access and use restrictions to Reddit content. /# See https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit4researchers/ for details on how Reddit continues to support research and non-commercial use. # policy: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/26410290525844-Public-Content-Policy User-agent: * Disallow: / Comment#11. We can't share for free to third parties what we want to sell first hand for a profit. Comment#12. The call is coming from inside the house Comment#13. > Along with the updated robots.txt file Most bots ignore this file already > Reddit will continue rate-limiting and blocking unknown bots and crawlers from accessing its platform Lol, any well built bot net is distributed, faking all of its headers and undetectable. I have built many bots in my day to scrape sites and have never been defeated by any anti-scraping measures. Comment#14. Lol you already sold our data bitch what are you trying to pull Comment#15. I like to think I make AI a bit spicier than it would have otherwise been. Comment#16. Wouldn't a big enough player in the AI space simply purchase equipment directly on the backbone of the internet to circumvent whatever IP based rate limits there are?

1dtsku1

Tesla Beats Estimates With Less-Drastic Drop in EV Sales

Comment#1. The estimates seem very bad and very dramatic to begin with. Last time it was a much greater drop than expected. This time a much less bigger drop than expected. At least they got the direction right this time, still a drop, but almost anyone could've told you that. Comment#2. Weird twist on the company shrinking Comment#3. *Only* a 5% drop in deliveries year over year, and that’s with massive price cuts. I can totally see why Tesla is worth 2x Toyota despite having half the profit margins and 5x fewer cars shipped. Comment#4. Sells less cars but is somehow more valuable lol Comment#5. Estimates that were hastily revised down by over 100k vehicles, lol. There's about a 20k gap between deliveries and registrations, I smell a sneaky fleet sale on the down-low for cheap to make the numbers look better. Comment#6. Musk needs to take his 200 billion dollars, go off to an island somewhere and just shut his fucking mouth. He can go live a literal dream life for fucks sake Comment#7. I wonder how much this will cause the stock to increase. Comment#8. beating low expectations is meaningless. also, this is purely an investor-focused article. the big picture on the auto industry is that Tesla is screwed and is going to have an awful year while every other automaker grows. Comment#9. Yeah! We didn't suck as much as we expected to suck! Comment#10. Amazing. They failed, but *not as much as expected*, so people are celebrating. We live in a strange world. Comment#11. Estimates dropped all quarter long, then they beat them, but are still down YoY while other automakers are UP YoY for the 2nd quarter (and EVs even moreso). The only way Tesla is worth its valuation TODAY is if it manages to *massively* monetize the fleet in the next few years. They need real robotaxis that pass regulatory muster, hundreds of thousands of them each giving multiple rides per day. The very real Elon issue aside, the company does a lot of great stuff and goes fast, but the valuation is fantasyland. Comment#12. Very glad they gave Musk 50 billion dollars of company money so that he could usher in a glorious age of "less-drastic drops in sales". I'll never touch a single thing made by that greasy fucking lunatic. He's already made massive cuts to his staff and shown no interest in pulling himself out of the PR doom spiral. His recent cars are dismal, the Cybertruck is littered with issues. Tesla isn't pulling itself out of this long-term unless it has some major help. Comment#13. That’s because Tesla (and so called lounge) subreddit blocks people from posting if you talk crap about them on the Real Tesla subreddit. Comment#14. How did they do against the estimated recalls? Comment#15. They cut prices, sal3s STILL fell and thats... a great job by Elmo give him more money! Comment#16. How many different headlines for the same story?! "Less-Dramatic drop" is more accurate that TSLA BEAT ESTIMATES Just shows the goal of those articles. Comment#17. MAYBE... because douchebag Elon hasnt opened his mouth in the last few weeks? Comment#18. School me. Can’t they just lie about sales?

1dtudac

Judge blocks Mississippi law that required age verification on social media

Comment#1. There's enough problems with accounts hacked and data leaks, don't need any reason to give more fuel to the fire. Fix the security and privacy, then we'll talk. Comment#2. It’s interesting the Mississippi AG claims he’s somehow railing against big-tech profits with this. Wouldn’t attaching a verified identity to every user be ideal for tech companies & advertisers? Comment#3. Now do it with porn sites. Comment#4. Mississippi should just ban electricity to cover more ground with fewer bans /s Comment#5. im sure that will be fine. Comment#6. I’m 12. Really. Now go fact check it. What? You can’t? Awww you were cute trying to make it a law.

1dtuki2

Over 14M servers may be vulnerable to OpenSSH's regreSSHion RCE flaw. Here's what you need to do

Comment#1. Patch. Saved you a click

1dtv5kq

Google’s carbon footprint balloons in its Gemini AI era.

Comment#1. Yeah that "green" shit is going to go out the window immediately. Apple is using third parties for theirs though, so they can still claim to be a "green" company, even though the users are using a feature Apple built into an Apple device for Apple users. What a joke. Comment#2. Tech companies that pledged to be green never gave a crap about it. It's just that their goal of making money aligned with it. Now it doesn't. At least, not nearly as much. Comment#3. lol we’re gonna cook the planet to stuff AI into a bunch of shit no one asked for and so we can make shitty shrimp Jesus jpegs for boomers to like on Facebook. Fucking brilliant. Comment#4. Which is why the serfs must reduce their footprint.

1dtvjfg

47% Plugin Vehicle Market Share In China — EV Sales Report

Comment#1. Plugin vehicles are all the rage in the Chinese auto market, with plugins scoring 816,000 sales (in a 1.7-million-unit overall market). That’s up 33% year over year (YoY). Looking deeper at the numbers, BEVs were up 22% while PHEVs did even better, jumping 55% in May. Breaking down plugin sales by powertrain, BEVs had 63% of sales, below this year’s average of 64%, proving the rising popularity of plugin hybrids in this market. Comment#2. reason for it is that electric cars are cheaper. the distance they can cover on one charge is pretty great. and most importantly, charging is fast and cheap. granted, it takes 40min compared to 2min to get a full charge vs full tank. but it costs 10usd for the charging compared to 30-40usd for a full tank of gas

1dtwtr6

Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results

Comment#1. Which makes them more money? When you click once, or when you have to click 2 or 3 times? Maybe it wasn't intentional, but you can bet they won't be in a hurry to fix it. Comment#2. I'm seeing AI spam all the time in Google... Comment#3. Thanks for sharing our piece! Here's a snippet for our readers: By Reece Rogers While searching for the latest information on Adobe’s artificial intelligence policies, I typed “adobe train ai content” into Google and switched over to the News tab. I had already seen [WIRED’s coverage](https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-says-it-wont-train-ai-using-artists-work-creatives-arent-convinced/) that appeared on the results page in the second position: “Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced.” And although I didn’t recognize the name of the publication whose story sat at the very top of the results, Syrus #Blog, the headline on the article hit me with a wave of déjà vu. Clicking on the top hyperlink, I found myself on a spammy website brimming with plagiarized articles that were repackaged, many of them using [AI-generated illustrations](https://www.wired.com/story/picture-limitless-creativity-ai-image-generators/) at the top. In this spam article, the entire WIRED piece was copied with only slight changes to the phrasing. Even the original quotes were lifted. Read the full story: [https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-ai-spam-original-reporting-news-results/](https://www.wired.com/story/google-search-ai-spam-original-reporting-news-results/) Comment#4. I strongly suspect that article was financially incentivized by the SEO companies linked to in the article. The words surrounding the outbound anchor text is too perfect to have occurred naturally. You’re probably right I’m just another random person on the internet and there’s no reason you should believe me, and my correct use of in-industry specific terminology was just a random weird coincidence…

1dty1q9

What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?

Comment#1. Our current AI summer might in hindsight be viewed as excitement over the ability of new large language models to create a 'plausibility layer' the systems we're creating now do communicate extremely plausibly which is a wild new frontier for us all but probing beneath the surface of any communication with an AI shows you they're extremely shallow and fickle. As you work with them and play with them you can feel their intelligence 'run out' as they compete a response. I've found that much of the wow factor it generates peaks when using generalised examples and the closer you get to trying to implement it the more the potential value escapes as it becomes apparent that the depth of thought implied by the way it communicates is just a haze that evaporates as you try to make it actually deliver. Having said that, they're far from an 'extended autocomplete' system and can be excitingly useful for discovery and for finding gaps in thinking and potentially most of all for cross-communicating understanding, they're brilliant at metaphors, a deeply unusual gift, we've never had that before. However, these are not easily monetisable gifts and my personal suspicion is that much tech role culling going on is not about AI revolution but more due to feral companies and corporate leaders, spooked by global instability, seeking to extract all the possible capital from the system, not AI replacing people's jobs, that's easy PR to cover the money-grubbing which is all going to bite those responsible, very hard. Though it is undoubtedly true that AI mulitplies the amount of work you can do as a coder by delivering lots of suggestions a coder can correct to speed up their work, they don't design and they don't adapt their thinking. The biggest cuts in jobs I've seen appear to have been to jobs that were more about all the work that would create long-term value for a company, design, strategy, safety, hr, management, boring-sounding, easy-to-dump-on and dismiss because they don't 'do' anything much that's visible, except that companies that invest in that infrastructure keep winning people, they build winning teams and they keep winning. Companies that don't become paper-thin facades that are shredded by a breeze or semi-fascist precarious towers of ego that collapse constantly. The current 'revolution' as far as working in tech goes, appears to me to be about immediate capital gains and dropping people employed as an investment or even to keep the competition from employing them. The leadership that is abandoning the approach of building value are cutting their own throats to try to keep their heads safe. It'd be funny if it didn't ruin so many people's lives. Still at least I don't hear quite as much bullshit about crypto as I did two years ago. Comment#2. It was dumb. Comment#3. Give it time. At some point, global level economy decisions as well as assistance for foreign affairs will rely on it, then we may see tables turning. Not sentient robots, just fucked up overcharged capitalism, a new era of oligarchy. The technology will make it easier to enslave people disguised as daily solutions for problems that weren't therebbefore, easier to profit. Comment#4. My heavens people are impatient. It's only been about a year since this all really became available to the masses. Settle down. Our new AI overlords will assume control soon enough. Comment#5. There’s no economic impact because companies are still working on their own iterations. Apple being one the first to incorporate GPT into iPhones later this year. Doesn’t happen overnight. Comment#6. When they first started talking about the computer revolution, and the internet revolution, it took decades to realize. From sunrise to galaxy rise. Comment#7. With all the energy that AI queries suck up, it’s not a revolution it’s a de-evolution. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-energy-demands-water-impact-internet-hyper-consumption-era/ Comment#8. Social media algorithms are deep learning neural nets. Facebook first started using AI to sort their feed in 2012. They partnered with Cambridge Analytica to polarize politics and get Trump elected. Trump did such a horrendous job that he lost by the widest margin in the history of presidential races. Now, despite knowledge of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the lived experience of Trump's presidency, for \~\*\~some reason\~\*\~ (***cough*** **social media** ***cough***), this country is actually giving Trump a second thought. The AI revolution has been happening for over a decade. Articles like this are the AI equivalent of [walking onto the House floor with a snowball and claiming that that's proof that the climate isn't warming.](https://youtu.be/3E0a_60PMR8) Comment#9. If they can’t apply AI (aka creative programming) to everyday life then it’s relatively useless. Here is a good place to start - Stop Lights 🚦 Comment#10. Just like crypto, just like NFTs, it's a scam. There may be some very limited applications, but it's not going to change the world they way the hype men promise. Comment#11. It’s only been a few months Comment#12. Ongoing. Am already using it as a medical scribe and it writes great, detailed encounter notes from a 40+ minute encounter with multiple orders/discussions/physical exam findings etc , before would have taken maybe 30+ minutes to document everything to the same degree, now 2-3 minutes of mandatory proofreading and I’m done. No PHI goes into the note so its HIPAA compliant. It has its limitations but it’s already provided me with hours of time that I otherwise would’ve spent mindlessly scribing, even with prior shortcuts such as autotexts etc

1dtzgql

Redbox owner Chicken Soup for the Soul files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Comment#1. From their [wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Soup_for_the_Soul): > On May 11, 2022, Chicken Soup for the Soul announced its intention to acquire Redbox for $357 million ($36 million in stock and $321 million in assumed debt). I can't believe they thought acquiring a DVD vending machine company in 2022 was a good idea. Hmm, I'm beginning to think corporate executives don't actually know what they're doing most of the time and have been unjustifiably put on a pedestal by society for far too long. Comment#2. I honestly didn’t realize CSFTS was the actual name of the company, or even that they still existed. Comment#3. TIL Chicken soup for the soul owned RedBox. Comment#4. That is a truly wild sentence Comment#5. They should rewatch The Secret and get back to manifesting their fortune. Comment#6. Chapter 11 is chicken soup for the financial portfolio. Comment#7. The self help book people bought the dvd rental kiosk people? Lololol what a world 🌎 Comment#8. r/brandnewsentence Comment#9. Isn’t Chicken Soup for the Soul a Christian-based brand/themed series? Makes me wonder if that influences the content selection for distribution. Comment#10. I always hated it when I'd go to one to rent a dvd and soup came out. Comment#11. Chicken Soup for the Soul was late 1990’s, good run tho Comment#12. Redbox vs Netflix TLDR; MBA Case study? * Both started as physical renters of movies/video * Netflix moved digital at the inflexion point * Rest is history Comment#13. Isn't that the name of a book? Comment#14. Surprised it managed to last this long. The writing was already on the wall a decade ago. See for example, this 2016 Variety article: [The Slow Death of Redbox: Why the Kiosk Colossus Is the Next Blockbuster](https://variety.com/2016/digital/features/redbox-business-model-doomed-1201706612/) Comment#15. They should sell their book in the machine Comment#16. If you invested your hard earned money into a business called "chicken soup for the soul " then you absolutely deserve to be wiped out Comment#17. This title gave me an aneurism. Comment#18. I saw the writing on the wall a few months ago, the last movie change in my local Redbox units was Barbie Comment#19. Sad times. I'm one of the dozen people who used Redbox fairly frequently. 2$ for new releases and some weird movies I didn't see on other streaming platforms. Pretty frequent coupons for 1.25 off and gained points to get a free rental. Late last year they disabled their point system. Customer service went from talking to a real person to automated, to a recording saying send us an email that we'll never get back to. Comment#20. What are grandmothers going to get from the Hallmark store now? Comment#21. Is chicken soup for the soul the next Berkshire Hathaway? Comment#22. You’re laughing now but everyone was stopping physical media then lol Comment#23. Redbox would have been too expensive even at $1 million No one uses Redbox

1du0mfh

On heels of $5B announcement with VW, Rivian reveals new production figures

Comment#1. Every Amazon delivery van I see now is a rivian Comment#2. Wow, they made 9,600 cars in a two month period, that's an impressive number for a relatively new car maker. Although I know a lot of their leadership team is former employees of major car makers. Hopefully this output leads to lower prices down the line. Comment#3. No plans to produce vehicles with VW https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/rivian-denies-media-report-production-talks-with-vw-2024-07-02/

1du0myz

Scientist develop a method to convert microplastics and into luminescent particles similar to quantum dots

Comment#1. Will that make my dick and balls glow now? Comment#2. Here is the abstract from the paper: "C–H bond activation enables the facile synthesis of new chemicals. While C–H activation in short-chain alkanes has been widely investigated, it remains largely unexplored for long-chain organic molecules. Here, we report light-driven C–H activation in complex organic materials mediated by 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and the resultant solid-state synthesis of luminescent carbon dots in a spatially-resolved fashion. We unravel the efficient H adsorption and a lowered energy barrier of C–C coupling mediated by 2D TMDCs to promote C–H activation and carbon dots synthesis. Our results shed light on 2D materials for C–H activation in organic compounds for applications in organic chemistry, environmental remediation, and photonic materials." Comment#3. The author provides a short TLDR: "Organic waste materials, such as plastics and other long-chain hydrocarbons, are difficult to break down due to stable carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds. We discovered a new way to tackle them by converting them into luminescent carbon dots using light and 2D materials. Check our work published in Nature Communications (free to download!): [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49783-z](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49783-z) "

1du1kst

A bold plan takes shape to build the world's largest subsea energy interconnector | It would link Europe and North America with 2,000 miles of cables.

Comment#1. Guys it's a 3D render of a cylinder under water. Proposed by "A group of entrepreneurs" Lead by a company that present itself as doing: "INNOVATIVE INVESTMENTS" Comment#2. Yup. This is why people in the know just shake their heads when some poor soul mindlessly shouts 'but the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow!' Point of fact, the sun is ALWAYS shining and the wind is ALWAYS blowing SOMEWHERE. The problem is connecting the supply to the demand. Put another way, It's not a supply problem, it's a distribution issue. An issue that HVDC solves neatly. The knock on implications of this are dramatic. Take transoceanic shipping that people are racking their brains about how to decarbonize... now consider that something like half of all the big freighters out there are transporting fossil fuels that get dug up in one place to be burned somewhere else. All that ocean traffic doesn't need to be decarbonized because it's simply going away. All because we no longer need to float millions of tons of oil, coal and natural gas when we can transmit the energy directly. Comment#3. I wonder what the power loss and voltage drop would be over such long distances. Comment#4. I feel like power grids should move towards further decentralisation (much easier these days with things like solar panels and battery packs), not closer integration, but hey, if it lowers people's energy bills... Comment#5. I wonder if fish will be able sense the current going threw it Comment#6. Good riddance European dependence on Russian oil and gas! Comment#7. And how much will my electric bill be? Comment#8. Political issues aside it'd be really cool to network Europe, Russia, thru Siberia then cross the bearing strait into North America with hvdc lines and a few big converter stations. Comment#9. I'd have to imagine this is decades from a reality. Just connecting England to countries like Denmark and Norway is still a pretty big engineering feat. Comment#10. Think again my starry-eyed techno friends. This will be another magnet for russian, and probably chinese, sabotage vessels. If the Ukraine war has shown anything, it is that we have to move away from centralised energy generation. And why would we need a cable between two continents? The sun shines on both continents. Please, invest in local energy storage facilities. Comment#11. Why? Small nuclear reactors solve this.

1du1ni3

Google’s greenhouse gas emissions climbed nearly 50 percent in five years due to AI | The company's 2024 Environmental Report showed how energy-guzzling data centers used to power AI are complicating the company’s path to carbon neutrality.

Comment#1. On a random note: If Google cares so much about the environment and being "green", wouldn't they immediately stop this nonsense where I am obliged to 3.50USD per month just to turn my screen off when listening to music? How many countless phone batteries have been greatly diminished because we aren't allowed to turn off our screens without paying? Seems like they don't care so long as their palms are greased

1du228l

AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings | Even unlisted YouTube videos are used to train AI, watchdog warns.

Comment#1. Just remember, your child is "freeware" to our tech overlords. Thank 'em. Comment#2. Meanwhile they're also making Youtube a worser experience, jumping through hoops to break ad blockers whilst trying to get people to pay an ever increasing fee for Premium. Comment#3. >"Tech company does evil, bad thing with zero consequences" Is anyone really surprised anymore? If you care about privacy, the best bet is just not to let them use it at all Comment#4. In a normal world we'd have proper privacy policies to protect our data being sold. Instead the Supreme Court has allowed corporations to be people, and to be able to bribe the Supreme Court. They also allow unlimited donations to election campaigns. We need corporations out of politics, they aren't people. We need to get donations down to modest levels. We also need to limit campaign time. Right now it feels like two whole years of money raising instead of doing. Comment#5. At this point, you should expect anything you post online to be used to train AI Comment#6. If you're not already aware of "if it's free, you're the product", then I'll happily victim blame here. The corporations exploiting this ignorance are primarily responsible, of course, and they're horrible for doing so, but there's some responsibility that individuals need to take here as well, especially in regards to posting images of your own children on the internet. In my mind, not protecting yourself and your loved ones on the internet because "you're not good with technology" is basically the same as regularly driving a car without knowing how to change a tire, or cooking with oil without knowing how to put out a grease fire. You're personally responsible for knowing the basics. Comment#7. Yes, the photos you put out in public that aren’t copyrighted can be used to enhance our technology. I feel like the only people upset about this are people who have no self control and want everything they post publicly to also be private, which is unrealistic. Comment#8. This must be the most pathetic attempt at "think of the children" fearmongering I've seen in a while now. Comment#9. If kids are 'body curious', the AI will scrape that too. Their privacy should be respected but they should also be made aware of digital safety. Comment#10. You wouldn't download a car?!

1du44th

This electric car battery takes less than 5 minutes to charge

Comment#1. Back o' the napkin math... Max capacity is 35kWh. Going from 10% to 80% charge should mean 70% of max capacity, or 24.5kWh. In five minutes. That means the charger needs to have a charge rate of 295kW per hour. At 480V, that's about 615 amps, or more than six times the power required by a typical fast charger. A service station with 8 chargers would need nearly 5000 amps of current at 480V. And there would need to be service stations all over the place if everyone is driving an EV. Why are the utility companies not scrambling to upgrade the power transmission infrastructure to handle this, and where is all of that power going to come from? Comment#2. Cool now mass produce or shut up, iv been watching “amazing breakthrough” in battery tech for over 12years now. It’s simply boring as nothing matters if you can’t scale it and manufacture it. Ignoring if an oil company buys this patient and shelf’s it. Comment#3. yawn call me when someones got it on a dealer lot. Comment#4. it's 35kwh while a tesla model3 is 75 kwh size matters Comment#5. On reading the headline I thought, "oh so it's a small battery then". >Nybolt, based in Cambridge, has developed a new **35kWh** lithium-ion battery that was charged from 10% to 80% in just over four and a half minutes in its first live demonstration last week. Yeah, fine. Of course you can charge a 35kWh battery from 10-80% in five minutes. That's about **294 kW**, not far off the charge rate of a standard Tesla today (v3/4 chargers hit 250kW) and 350kW chargers are coming. Comment#6. Call me when… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium–air_battery Comment#7. EV owners, is fast charging really a decision maker for you at this point? For me I rarely need fast charging and the 20 minute (once every two months, most of my charging is overnight) vs 5 minutes (every two weeks at the gas station) seems like a wash to me. What I want is charging while I’m at work. Comment#8. Yeah with a 350kW charger its easy to charge fast ffs. Comment#9. None of this tech is real unless it’s out in the wild and tested Comment#10. In a Laboratory. Comment#11. I dunno man. On a long journey, I can drive 3-4 hours between charges. I need something to eat, a wee, and deal with the mole at the counter. That's a lot to do in 5 minutes. Comment#12. People overvalue fast charging in my opinion. It seems to always be one of the top selling points for new EVs, but as an EV owner, it’s one of the last things i worry about in my daily life. Even during long road trips (that maybe happen 1-2 times a year), i have no issues stopping for 20-30 minutes for a coffee break every 3 hours. Comment#13. Very curious what sort of Li-ion battery is hitting 12C, even LTO will have trouble with that. Is this a Li-po variant? Comment#14. OK, how many cycles does it have? Comment#15. 35 kWh? That’s one tiny battery that looks like it could fit in a golf cart 🤣🤣🤣 Comment#16. But what is its durability? will it last for 20 years? Comment#17. I never spent only two minutes at the gas station first you fill up then you go in the shop even without a queue you’re still there for total of 4 to 5 minutes at least Comment#18. Yeah and their batteries are 1/3 the capacity of EV batteries used in America. Of course they charge faster. Comment#19. Blatant ripoff of the Porsche Cayman.

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Apple Poised to Get OpenAI Board Observer Role as Part of AI Pact

Comment#1. The take away folks: it doesn’t matter if you’re late to the party if your pockets are deep enough, you can always scalp a ticket Comment#2. > The board observer role will put Apple on par with Microsoft Corp., OpenAI’s biggest backer and its main AI technology provider. Kind of hilarious that Microsoft had to invest $13 billion to get "on par" with Apple, which [didn't have to pay OpenAI anything](https://fortune.com/2024/06/13/apple-not-paying-openai-chatgpt-millions-users-iphones-devices/).

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Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand

Comment#1. Don’t worry, AI will save us all… if it doesn’t destroy us first. Comment#2. Two questions: how much has Google’s water usage for cooling gone up in the last 5 years? And does that emissions figure include their CEO’s private jet and three yachts? Comment#3. AI will save us by figuring out how to reduce energy consumption. Hey ChatGPT - how can we reduce energy consumption? “Stop using so much AI” Comment#4. Google went all the way from "Don't be evil" to IDGAF. Comment#5. Oh how far they’ve fallen since the “Don’t Be Evil” days. Comment#6. Whoa... the internet really *is* just a series of tubes :o Comment#7. They will be indoor ai’s Comment#8. But let's all buy electric cars and solve the problems of the world... 🤦‍♂️ Comment#9. Stop reposting this shit. There are already two posts about the same thing on the front page.

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Arkansas AG warns Temu isn't like Amazon or Walmart: 'It's a theft business'

Comment#1. It's worth a reminder that Temu is considered a bad actor by *other Chinese companies* and is being sued over it. This isn't Walmart, nor Amazon, nor AliExpress. Temu is on a whole different level. Comment#2. > What Temu is doing is selling goods at a rock bottom price, not to make a profit off of those, but as a way to get into your phone, your device, and to collect your data **For the best experience, we recommend reading this story in our free app!** Comment#3. Recently I worked with a logistics employee whose biggest partner is Temu. They do last mile delivery and warehouse Temu products in Florida. I’ve been told that Temu does not have a returns center in the US, so all returned items are sent back to the last mile delivery company, who then must destroy it and dispose of it. Comment#4. If there's evidence of these things, why don't Apple and Google ban Temu from their app stores? Comment#5. I see a lot of completely uninformed comments here. Has no one read the article? The article is specifically talking about Temu's app. Grizzly Research got [security researchers to look into the app](https://grizzlyreports.com/we-believe-pdd-is-a-dying-fraudulent-company-and-its-shopping-app-temu-is-cleverly-hidden-spyware-that-poses-an-urgent-security-threat-to-u-s-national-interests/) and found that it _literally_ exhibits the behaviours of spyware. Not in a figurative sense like _"oh it tracks your shopping habits"_, but in the actual _"it can receive, locally compile, and run arbitrary code on your device"_ way. I'm gonna copy and paste a quote from the researcher: > _“I have been into mobile development, and then mobile reverse engineering and in my long expertise in the domain, I have never seen an apk with 50 million + downloads holding such an amount of user privacy red flags. The application looks like a clear data miner to me, aka a :Spyware, and a dangerous one.”_ > _“There could be a well-hidden function that may trigger the assault, it could even not be present at the code for the moment, not until the next dynamic update.”_ > ... > _“It looks like they are doing things like trying to hide from an analyst what they are doing. They’re checking for a debugger running … you know they’re getting the running processes … but there’s the indication that they are looking for an analyst and which is the sort of thing that spyware would do so I think you’ve got something there.”_ > _“I intercepted http traffic sent by the app, the first anomaly I noticed was the amount of data being sent as soon as you launch the app. This system information should not be disclosed, this is a clear violation of the user’s privacy. And I really don’t see what a ‘shopping’ app would do with the user’s operating processes… let alone his phone’s serial number.”_ > _…”the file upload functionality, which was based on a command server connected to their API ‘xxxx.yyyyyy.zzzzzz.com’. This basically means that if a user grants file storage permission to the TEMU app — even by accident–, TEMU will be able to collect any file from the user’s device to their own servers, any file, including photos, private documents and more.”_ Comment#6. Walmart IS the AG of Arkansas Comment#7. Wasnt walmart caught putting life insurance on their workers and cashing them out for themselves? Comment#8. I downloaded the app once on a recommendation, opened it, got a million pop ups and gamification cues, and promptly deleted it. You know it’s bad when they make Amazon look good. Comment#9. I've been getting spam messages from bot accounts on Xbox of all things asking me to download Temu in exchange for them giving me $15. I'll be glad if this company dies the death it deserves. Comment#10. Temu is total shit and spyware, but let's not pretend that Walmart isn't 100% the reason that it's the Arkansas AG, going after them. Comment#11. Amazon is also a theft business tho. They copy successful small business products and add them to their basics line. Also Walmart pinches small businesses and puts them out. fuck both Comment#12. I work for a credit processing company that handles dispute and fraud cases for numerous financial institutions, and I had a case yesterday involving Temu. An older woman would find things she likes and add them to her cart as a way of saving it for later when she feels like buying it. Not the best choice, but whatever. It turns out Temu will buy things in your cart using your saved card info if it stays in the cart for a year. They will send you emails saying “you only have 3 days left before it’s purchased” and you have to go in and remove it from your cart or Temu will send it to you, even if you contact them and tell them not to. This lady had hundreds of dollars of random merchandise sent to her address by Temu when she never actually purchased any of it, and didn’t even tell them to save her card info. They just used the last card she had used, saved it without the cardholder being aware. Comment#13. How I read this "Walmart warns US that competition is bad for business " Comment#14. This article about the Android app is remarkable. I understand that the newest versions of android make these exploits harder, but damn, its wild that its even possible to put this garbage into the app stores. [believe PDD is a Dying Fraudulent Company and its Shopping App TEMU is Cleverly Hidden Spyware that Poses an Urgent Security Threat to U.S. National Interests – Grizzly Research LLC (grizzlyreports.com)](https://grizzlyreports.com/we-believe-pdd-is-a-dying-fraudulent-company-and-its-shopping-app-temu-is-cleverly-hidden-spyware-that-poses-an-urgent-security-threat-to-u-s-national-interests/) Comment#15. At least they give me cheap shit for stealing my info. Every month I get a new “your information has been compromised, here’s a month of credit monitoring. Thanks” from American companies. Comment#16. Temu is basically the Wish version of Wish Comment#17. Temu aside, I'm not believing anything coming from an Arkansas politician's mouth. Comment#18. Funny cause Amazon gets a bunch of their shit from temu Comment#19. As a consumer the majority of items I’ve bought from Temu is on par with Walmart quality. Comment#20. Love to take security and life advice from Sarah Huckabee Sanders cabinet Comment#21. Pot meet kettle. walmart can eat shit and die. *Arkansas* saying this just confirms walmart is hurting. Good. We need more small business and less mega corporations. Rest in Piss walmart Comment#22. This article may have some truths to it. I also want to point out - Walmart is headquartered in Arkansas and pretty much owns that state. So of-course this AG happens to be the one that sues them. Comment#23. Walmart has done a brilliant job harassing it’s international suppliers, not picking up stock, not compensating for violating contracts, and China is the bad guy. Comment#24. Sooo is aliexpress on the same level because that’s the one i actually used??? Comment#25. Yea, its totally ok if Amazon and Walmart destroy American manufacturing with China made goods, but if TEMU does it, then goddammit that's the last straw!!!! Comment#26. Walmart and Amazon are also theft businesses. Comment#27. Jian Yang made a new Pied Piper. Comment#28. i have a strong feeling Temu items are made with Prison / Uyghur labor. Comment#29. They use my product photos with a photoshopped brand name. It's egregious. Comment#30. In this economy I don’t see why anyone would care. Comment#31. If the allegations are true, then that must be doing well for them. They spent billions in ads during the super bowl. Who do they sell the data to, or how do they use it to make so much? Comment#32. So Amazon, but Chinese Comment#33. It’s crazy that they were allowed to advertise literally every other commercial during the Super Bowl Comment#34. Arkansas AG also wants jesus in every school and shoved up everyone's ass. I'll take a pass on anything arkansas. Comment#35. How many businesses has Amazon put out of business? how much wage theft between Amazon and Walmart? They're all in the business of theft. Comment#36. and yet amazon delivers temu sold products… profits are profits no matter who’s getting screwed over. Comment#37. Totally not a conflict of interest or anything for the Arkansas AG to stick up for Walmart... Comment#38. Arkansas is where Walmart is headquartered. The AG wouldn’t not be focusing on this without the political pressure of Walmart.. close the duty loophole that Temu uses and give consumers privacy protections like the EU gives its citizens. Otherwise pipe tf down Comment#39. Temu rose to household fame after spending nearly $3 billion on multiple Super Bowl ads in February, which cost roughly $7 million each – the going rate for 30-second ads during this year’s big game. I know Americans are bad at math but do they really believe temu ran 214 mins of AD during the Superbowl? Comment#40. 'It's a theft business' Well, so are the others, but this is more so Comment#41. Stop supporting Chinese junk. People won’t. Comment#42. OK but Google and Adobe have both basically said they own what I do at this point, so 🤷 Comment#43. Yall buy things from Temu or Shein? Comment#44. I remember getting onto Temu and trying to get their initial Free Stuff and always just barely managing to make it to the level of points needed, and I thought, okay, these motherfuckers are stringing me along. Comment#45. Rare aligning of stars between me and Arkansas Comment#46. Walmart and Amazon are also theft businesses, just in more elaborate ways, and sinister for different reasons Comment#47. lol. As if Amazon, Target and almost every other Us company aren’t buying and selling you the same shit from China. GTFO Comment#48. Genuine question - is there any *actual evidence* of the app doing this crap? I know about the Pinduoduo app vulnerability (and also that it was only found in a sideloaded version of that app), but while I've seen a ton of articles talking about how dangerous and insecure the Temu app is, what I haven't seen is any demonstrable, verified proof of it. Not playing devil's advocate btw, genuinely curious. I won't install it regardless, I never install apps if there's a website that can do the same thing, but I hear this claim a lot without ever seeing real evidence to prove it. Comment#49. [Is that where they bought that $19,000 lectern for their Governor's office?](https://apnews.com/article/arkansas-huckabee-sanders-lectern-audit-19000-eb69927a5df693ac3e131b3c80f34b37) Comment#50. The idea that Amazon and Walmart somehow *aren’t* “theft businesses” is laughable. That’s what capitalism is. Comment#51. I keep hearing this, but without proof. I have the Temu app installed (although I’ve never purchased from them), and I do not see any unusual dns requests or suspicious outbound traffic from my phone on my home network. Show me some packet captures or anything that supports this claim. If it’s all already on my phone, there’s no risk in “revealing our sources” as any tech savvy sleuth should be able to demonstrate this behavior. To say it’s “so sophisticated it’s nearly impossible to detect” is just boogeyman stuff. With that logic, I can’t prove it is NOT happening, so someone needs to show me that it IS. That should not be too difficult to do. And then I will uninstall the app. Comment#52. Temu - "shop like a billionaire." The motto alone is stupid and reprehensible, as billionaires don't shop on Temu, and most are outright thieves. Comment#53. You can find the same crap on Amazon for a few dollars more with 2 day shipping. I stopped using Temu after I realized that. Plus all the stuff I got was crap. Comment#54. I mean, Arkansas is a theft state. Comment#55. I’m not saying Temu is completely above board, but maybe Amazon and Walmart, companies who have done serious damage to aren’t the bastions of good faith and corporate fairness that should be used as an example. Comment#56. “Temu isn’t like Walmart or Amazon… it props up non-American capitalists.” Uh huh… tell me more. Comment#57. The Arkansas AG is likely a Walmart hand puppet, right? Even the mere existence of Temu must be the nightmare that wakes them up screaming, right? Comment#58. Ah so they're more like Wells Fargo Comment#59. The Temu ad just above this post, in my feed... Comment#60. Sadly my mom who’s in her 60’s won’t stop using temu and wish no matter how many times I tell her she’s putting herself at major risk of fraud. Comment#61. I am just surprised a republican politician over 55 is saying something correct about technology. Comment#62. As if Amazon and Walmart aren't theft businesses. [https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/walmart](https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/parent/walmart) [https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/2/22262294/amazon-flex-wage-theft-allegations-ftc-fine-drivers-gig-tips](https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/2/22262294/amazon-flex-wage-theft-allegations-ftc-fine-drivers-gig-tips) [https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2022/11/17/amazon-settles-oregon-wage-theft-lawsuit/](https://www.wweek.com/news/business/2022/11/17/amazon-settles-oregon-wage-theft-lawsuit/) Comment#63. Well, that’s funny considering Amazon and Walmart are equally trash in their practices. Glad to see yet another hick state being close, but ultimately missing, in favor of sucking off big US businesses. I wonder how much money Amazon and Walmart gave the AG to grease those skids. Comment#64. I'd assume the governor or Arkansas is fully behind them then. Where's the podium, Sarah!? Comment#65. Can someone explain why companies having my data is a bad thing vs just an annoying marketing thing? National or international? Why does it matter if they know what colors I like or porn I prefer? Comment#66. Always assume any app is spyware on your phone at a base. Because a lot of them are. Comment#67. Temu sucks and is doing shady shit for sure. Ban them, whatever. But playing whack a mole with Chinese companies that pop up to do shitty privacy stuff isn't a replacement for just passing actual fucking internet privacy protections. Comment#68. Something intelligent came out of Arkansas? Comment#69. This is probably true. Also true is that the Arkansas AG, much like the Washington AG is in no way an unbiased authority on this topic. It’s like the Nevada AG casting accusations at Macau. Comment#70. So this is Fox News citing a report by Grizzly? Yeah I'm not buying th-- --wait, did you say it's bashing the Chinese? I'm accepting all of this uncritically! Comment#71. It's wild, not too long ago our office was getting a crazy amount of TEMU packages to deliver. Now it's barely anything. Comment#72. Worst person you know: "(Makes a good and valid point)" Me: "..." Comment#73. 100% thievery Comment#74. I just ordered through Temu today and several other times except I don't use the app. You can order from them using their website. Comment#75. Arkansas AG just figured this out? It was obvious from the beginning but folks couldn’t resist the cheap crap merch. The Feds should be on them. Comment#76. 🤣🤣🤣 aren’t they all. Comment#77. Gee, I'm shocked! I thought they would be an outstanding company. Comment#78. I don't understand how anyone doesn't know that already. It's obvious. Comment#79. Ok so if you’ve bought from Temu before… how do we fix it? Delete the app but what else Comment#80. Jealous? Comment#81. The temu operation from app to physical delivery is sketchy as hell. Big news this week in my town about all the drivers not being paid, and how the logistics system is a chaotic mess. From end to end it seems built on exploitation. Comment#82. My $13 Benchmade knife makes me not give a shit. And no it turns out it isn’t a knockoff. Comment#83. There no business I need to do that I'll use an app and n my phone for. If the business can't be used via web page, that doesn't need access and permissions to my device, I just don't. No business needs permissions to my device, ever. Comment#84. Temu is bootleg everything. It's the dollar general of Amazon. Even if you hate Amazon, Temu is worse. Comment#85. Temu's parent company is PDD/Pinduoduo known for malware/surveillance/trojan level data theft. [Their apps are malware level](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinduoduo#Malware_concerns) > Six cybersecurity teams interviewed by CNN – including Finnish, Russian, US, and Israeli firms – as well as Chinese cybersecurity firm DarkNavy, all labeled Pinduoduo as malware or potential malware. In a report by Bloomberg News, a researcher ... stated the following: "Some versions of the Pinduoduo app contained malicious code, which exploited known Android vulnerabilities to escalate privileges, download and execute additional malicious modules, some of which also gained access to users' notifications and files" Shein and Temu loopholes need to close. The "de minimis" loophole needs to exclude countries that are actively autocratic and belligerent like China is today after taking the Russian "deal" which is a leverage trap. The same items shipped from US or Western retailers are not getting the loophole because they ship to distribution centers and not directly to the consumer. That made sense early on in the internet and for countries that we aren't actively in trade wars with. On top of that, they are using Temu/Shein to essentially launder money into their fronts in other countries including the US, their apps are surveillance, use WTO banned labor for production, and they are not good partners. Temu and Shein are exploiting a loophole in trade to undercut. [Key trade loophole keeps cheap Chinese products flowing to US](https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/key-trade-loophole-keeps-cheap-chinese-products-flowing-us-2023-08-04/) > The meteoric rise of shopping platforms selling Chinese-made goods, including Shein and Temu, has been fueled by a decades-old loophole that allows cheap products like $10 dresses to land in U.S. mailboxes tariff-free. > This happens thanks to a "de minimis" rule exempting packages valued at $800 or less from tariffs as long as they're addressed and shipped to individuals. The exemption is open to all retailers but is most heavily used by Shein and PDD Holdings' Temu, and potentially by TikTok's new e-commerce business. [Temu parent company is just a front as well](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinduoduo#History). The company that China based company is a *massive* money laundering operation. The ads are there to make it look popular and they pump it on their socials like TikTok and Lemon8. Many fashion / stores in China (Shein and Temu are "clean" fronts) are used to funnel money into the West or to clean but they need volume. Investigations are underway but is difficult because of China's foreign fronts lying about revenues and funding. They buy lots of products that are cheaper in massive volume so it is hard to investigate. They see the wagons circling so they are recently trying to look legit. [PDD's Temu seeks U.S.-based compliance help amid scrutiny of China goods](https://www.reuters.com/technology/pdds-temu-seeks-us-based-compliance-help-amid-scrutiny-china-goods-2023-06-27/) > Temu is seeking a U.S.-based compliance officer to develop policies and procedures relating to its financial operations, such as anti-money laundering, licensing requirements and reporting obligations Here's some recent events that are tells, specifically counterfeit products (#4 in organized crime laundering after drugs, sex working and identity theft): > On January 20, 2019, Pinduoduo reported to the police theft by hackers that exploited a loophole in his system and stole tens of millions of Yuan worth of vouchers. > On July 5, 2022, a Shanghai court dismissed a local resident's lawsuit accusing Pinduoduo of cheating in a promotional event. > **In 2022, Pinduoduo was named in the Office of the United States Trade Representative's list of Notorious Markets for Counterfeit Products and Piracy.** > In 2023, Google removed Pinduoduo's app from the Play Store due to security concerns after finding malware in the app. Six cybersecurity teams interviewed by CNN – including Finnish, Russian, US, and Israeli firms – as well as Chinese cybersecurity firm DarkNavy, all labeled Pinduoduo as malware or potential malware They are also breaking trade agreements and being deceptive about it > In June 2023, Bloomberg News reported that an Israeli consulting firm identified items sold by Temu that are made or sold by businesses in Xinjiang in what its CEO termed a "systematic violation of US trade policies." The same month, the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party stated that Temu does not maintain "even the façade of a meaningful compliance program" with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act to keep goods made by forced labor off its platform Both Shein and Temu are being used for counterfeiting, breaking trade agreements and potentially involved in shipping scams, they also have all sorts of Temu voucher/launder scams look up "[xbox temu scam](/r/xbox/comments/12eouas/new_messaging_scam_to_watch_out_for/)" where they use things like this to make users actually trigger the launder operations so it looks legit. [Is Temu legit? Customers are fearful of online scams](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-temu-legit-safe-bad-reviews-fears-over-online-scams/) [They treat their employees like they own them, a modern serfdom really](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinduoduo#Surveillance_of_former_employees). > In 2024, the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal reported that Pinduoduo uses surveillance and non-compete lawsuits against former employees who leave to work for rivals. Temu appeared in 2015 when AML laws hardened and again in 2021. So these types of fronts went into overdrive because others were cut down. It is also a way that China can fudge their numbers and look more popular than they are. China internally has a legal setup where if you are selling goods for export or attracting investment, you can legally lie about revenues/reporting and most are 10x'ing their numbers. It is illegal to lie internally to China but to the rest of the world they are fake numbers. Super hard to take down because of these types of games China plays. They are not a trustworthy trade partner. They are undercutting on pricing because they need massive volume of real sales to hide the scams. Comment#86. He's right, but Walmart is 100% behind him saying it. Comment#87. Shouldn't Apple and Google remove the app from their stores? Comment#88. Doesn't majority of resellers on Amazon and Walmart's marketplace (aside from name brands items) source their products from Temu, Aliexpress, etc to sell for a profit? Comment#89. But yet every time I call customer service... Harpreet answers and I have to give them my social, address, mother's maiden name, bday, .... You can't have it both ways. Either you're going to protect all data or no data. Temu has furnished a lot of the home I just purchased. Couldn't afford it any other way because America is fucked and refuses to hire, train, and support their own...so doesn't matter where I shop...everything comes from China. Comment#90. >Temu is not an online marketplace like Amazon or Walmart. It's a data theft business that sells goods as a means to an end. So it is common for an online marketplace like Amazon, like Walmart, to collect certain consumer data as part of the normal course of business. I think we all know that that's not what's going on here." American politicians in a nutshell. Will do everything to protect whoever lining their pockets. No issue when Amazon or Walmart does it just normal business but when Temu does it, suddenly its data theft. Comment#91. So it is like Amazon and Walmart. Comment#92. You can make the argument that Temu is below Walmart and Amazon in terms of decency but you can’t argue any of them are above at least an average amount of morality. Temu is like corruption in overdrive sure, but the stage has been set. Imagine it like internet influencers, Walmart and Amazon are the Logan Paul type of evil, and Temu is like the shady crypto bro that sends you links to hacked websites type. Yes, one is objectively worse, but none have shown they’re in good moral standing. That’s why you’re getting the comparisons in the comment section. Temu has gamed the system in a way that the competition hate, but don’t expect Amazon and WalMart to fight back for the good of society.

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How Microsoft and Nvidia bet correctly to leapfrog Apple

Comment#1. Yes and no. Yes, that Apple should have known AI was going to mature into an active technology and invested like Satya Nadella did - hell Apple should have paid more attention to Siri who is the weakest of the voice activated assistants. But Apple's designed its new line of hardware with custom CPU-level neural engine enhancements to take advantage of AI in unique ways. They're a little bit behind but they'll be fine as their "Apple Intelligence" ramps up they offer AI as a service, just as MS is pulling in revenue for its Copilot services. Nvidia is the rocket ship here. Between crypto and AI, who knew a graphics card maker was going to soar as it has? But that success invites other entrants. I wonder how they'll sustain that position.

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Mississippi law restricting children's social media use blocked

Comment#1. Mississippi's education system will fuck them up more than social media. Comment#2. Congress protects tech companies from lawsuits. If facebook tells a kid to drink bleach and they die, the parents can't sue facebook. The problem is right there. Banning kids is a bad government solution to a bad government policy. Comment#3. We're blocking adults from viewing porn but allowing children unfettered access to social media? Our country is run by fucking idiots. Comment#4. >July 1 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday blocked Mississippi from enforcing a new law that requires users of social media platforms to verify their ages and restricts access by minors to their sites if they lack parental consent, saying it was likely unconstitutional Why is this a bad thing? Children shouldn't be on social networks. Comment#5. Good. A real education is online, not in school Comment#6. So Facebook being technically 13+ is unconstitutional? Porn sites are unconstitutional? Anything with an age blocker is now unconstitutional? What is this country

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Britain’s Brewing Battle Over Data Centers

Comment#1. Thanks for sharing this piece. Here's a snippet for our new readers: If they win the election, the Labour Party is planning to treat data center projects as “nationally significant infrastructure” like wind farms or airports, says Neil Ross, associate policy director at industry group TechUK, who has been involved in talks with the party. That would give ministers the ability to overrule local officials who attempt to block data centers from being built. According to Ross, this would only be applied to a handful of very large projects. “They definitely will not be overruling councils for the majority of cases.” Still, Labour faces a battle ahead. The data center market is about to see its biggest growth in history to meet AI companies’ “stratospheric” demand, according to Kevin Restivo, head of data center research at real estate consultancy CBRE, which projects data center capacity in London alone will jump 17 percent this year. Yet people still don’t really understand why we need data centers for “the cloud” to function. Read the full story: [https://www.wired.com/story/data-centres-uk-boom-elections/](https://www.wired.com/story/data-centres-uk-boom-elections/)

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FDA approves new Alzheimer's treatment, donanemab from Eli Lilly

Comment#1. This drug name is giving me a Freudian response to wanna eat some Döner kebab Comment#2. This seems like great news!!! Comment#3. And only $32,000 for 12 months for 22% slowing of progression. What a steal. Comment#4. Get some to the white house, stat! Comment#5. We need suicide pills. Comment#6. Legit thought this was the coffee company “illy” at a quick glance. 😂 Comment#7. [removed]

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Bird flu vaccine development funds awarded to Moderna amid multistate outbreak

Comment#1. Bird flu has pretty much jumped to US cattle for quite a while now. So much so that a fifth of US milk contains fragments of bird flu virus. > Remnants of the bird flu virus (H5N1) have been found in 20% of pasteurised milk samples in the US. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240510-bird-flu-in-cows-has-caused-concern-amongst-milk-drinkers-experts-say-its-still-safe-to-drink Comment#2. mRNA vaccines have the potential to be produced faster than the traditional egg method I would assume. The biggest issue with a bird flu outbreak would be the months in between it starting and us producing and distributing the vaccine. Comment#3. Why don't they use their own money, they practically extorted everyone into buying their vaccine Comment#4. I can wait the required period before human trials. 4.5 years.

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SpaceX wants to launch up to 120 times a year from Florida — and competitors aren’t happy about it

Comment#1. I currently live in Vandenberg, as far as I know we are the main Spacex launch point We get just shy of 100 rockets a year. Like one every 4 days or so When they launch, the entire town shakes a bit, and most people go outside to watch it for the 2-3 minutes you can see from the ground Sometimes depending on the fuel and atmosphere conditions, it's shockingly beautiful. I remember once years ago a rocket lighting the whole night sky up with a kinda ghostly pale blue aura like what you would expect of a comet As loud as they seem, they're shockingly unobtrusive even when launched at night. I've never heard someone in my town complain about them. Comment#2. Nobody else has the capacity to send 120 rockets a year. Comment#3. They are upset because they don’t have a solution that can compete. SpaceX are in their own league in terms of sending mass to orbit. Comment#4. Bezos hasn't figured out that his competition isn't SpaceX but ULA. ULA is corrupt and incompetent and extremely over budget on everything despite being granted massive budgets much larger than the per launch SpaceX pricing. Everyone is ready to boot ULA as soon as there is a different viable 2nd launch service. Blue Origin really needs to kick it into gear and spend the money to really get into the game. Comment#5. Haters gonna hate Comment#6. well, space x competitors can stop bitching and build their own space port...... Comment#7. https://youtu.be/Cg4zhAQh1_4?si=0DpLiReJjZgqN4YE Comment#8. A big problem with that is SpaceX isn't the cleanest rocket competitor... All of SpaceX rockets don't use liquid hydrogen (LH2/H2/hydrolox) for upper stage as does most other rockets. Falcon 9 uses rocket-grade kerosene (RP-1) as fuel, which releases soot like black carbon—a known major contributing factor to climate change causing negative health effects in humans—upon combustion Starship uses liquid methane (LM/CH4/methalox) for all stages and will be emitting tons of that with the 39 engines and big rocket style it needs that is very Soviet/N1 style. NASA/ULA/Blue Origin and others use liquid methane for first stage (except New Shepard) and ALL use liquid hydrogen for upper stage that takes place in the atmosphere. Space Launch System (SLS) uses super-cooled liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to fuel its RS-25 engines. Liquid hydrogen dissipates just water vapor. Liquid methane fueled rockets produce less soot than kerosene fueled ones, though it is not as clean as liquid hydrogen that is just water vapor emission. The big rocket/many engine build of Starship, that is reminiscent of Soviet/N1 style builds, is completely unnecessary for most LEO/GEO launches and most rockets use only a few engines and emit far less. In most cases Starship is completely overkill for anything but long hauls or really heavy hauls. One flight of Starship will emit the amount of a dozen or two other rockets that aren't SpaceX rockets. This will be a major competitive problem for SpaceX down the line as more and more launches take place and people start getting concerned about emissions from those. All their competitors that are gaining more and more use cleaner fuels and less big rocket/many engine designs. Comment#9. Good get fucked. Keep up or get out of the way. ACCELERATE Comment#10. That’s almost one launch every three days. The emissions levels from those launches will be insane! Comment#11. How many simultaneous rocket launches need to happen in order to sink the entire USA? Comment#12. sure, let's compete who will block out the sun with space crap first...let's make it 120 a day, why not..btw, elon is *the biggest* douche alive...

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Google blames AI as its emissions grow instead of heading to net zero

Comment#1. when google blames the thing they made Comment#2. Saving the environment isn’t trendy anymore. AI is trendy. So all corporations will shift away from the environment and towards AI. Anything they can do to stay hip and relevant. It was never about doing the right thing. Comment#3. The thing is it's not even the AI, they're using that as a cop out. They're emissions have drastically grown over the last *FIVE* years, where as they've only had public facing AI for the last 18-24 months. The reality is they've been growing their data centers aggressively and haven't put their mouth where there money is RE net neutrality, and now AI is a convient scapegoat "oh were *trying* to reach net zero as a company but who *could* have seen all this *unforseen* ai growth!" Comment#4. "Oh the reason I'm using so much is because I'm a greedy fucker. What can you do?" Comment#5. yeah i blame milk shake too delicious to keep myself in shape Comment#6. Oh boy, that *super* useful AI crap they built did it! Comment#7. Cool so stop the whole AI thing, it’s not worth the environmental costs. Comment#8. They a blaming the thing they CHOSE to do? They feel that's a valid reason? Am I taking crazy pills?!?! Comment#9. Use AI to solve it then, dipshits Comment#10. "AI, how to decrease carbon emissions?" "Shut me down" Comment#11. Definitely not management’s decisions… Comment#12. I, for one, an totally cool with them killing their AI product and instead just refocusing their efforts onto making their search product useful again. Also bring back google reader. Comment#13. Only one seems to be profiting from this Ai crap is Nvidia. Comment#14. "I keep getting fatter but it really is all the foods fault" Comment#15. The insulting audacity of Google of trying to give the impression of the opposite, by pushing their misleading propaganda in their search engine (at the bottom), about their “third decade of climate action”: [https://sustainability.google/intl/es-419/?utm\_source=googlehpfooter&utm\_medium=housepromos&utm\_campaign=bottom-footer&utm\_content=](https://sustainability.google/intl/es-419/?utm_source=googlehpfooter&utm_medium=housepromos&utm_campaign=bottom-footer&utm_content=) Comment#16. Yeah. I blame the gas I use in my car as well. Comment#17. Tax the ever living fuck out of all these tech corpos, please. Comment#18. “Don’t be evil” Comment#19. Yet they manipulate the search algorithm to prioritize articles that promote anything climate change and CO2 reduction. Believe actions, not words. Comment#20. What could Google do about that? Does anyone have any ideas? Comment#21. Did AI become sentient and force Google to continue to work on AI? Really? Some AI threatened Sundar Pichai? OMG. Comment#22. AI? They mean chatbots, voice synthesizers and image recognition and those have all been around for decades. None of the consumer-facing products they're calling "AI" can possibly explain their use of resources. They're willing to destroy the environment for a bunch of products that don't seem to do anything but write phishing e-mails and run fake fan accounts. That doesn't make sense. Comment#23. Google is a private company that is solely concerned with share price and profits. Emissions targets and net neutrality are nothing but hinderences to this and will always be treated as such by the company. They will tell the public what we want to hear, and invest the bear minimum to keep the facade going. But ultimately they would drop these targets in a heartbeat if profits or share price took a dent. Corporate social responsibility is a dying ideology in a world of rising interest rates, inflation and geopolitical tensions. Comment#24. Google has become everything it set out not to be. Comment#25. AI is the answer and problem for everything according to these technocratic cultists Comment#26. Google: "our emissions went up due to AI's power demands" Everyone: "nobody asked for or likes what you're doing with AI. Just turn it off and watch your emissions go back down" Google: "why can't anyone figure out a way to solve this problem?" Comment#27. I don't even want AI in my Google. It isn't even correct information Comment#28. Because big tech isn't really "green". Do you know how much draw a data center has? Comment#29. “How could we have done this?” Comment#30. Blaming AI for things is so hot right now Comment#31. Peasants kneel to your AI overlord Comment#32. "See that can? Let's kick it down the road." Comment#33. AI will tell them to be more efficient by not using AI and they won't listen to AI Comment#34. Okay so what are you going to do about it? Comment#35. Neat… climate protesters can start painting data centers orange now. Comment#36. Have you ever felt like AI? When you are not doing anything and everyone blames you for everything. Comment#37. Google really isn’t at fault here. Google (and Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, etc) are the largest pushers of renewable energy for data centers; however, they’re hands are tied when the state government takes years to accept permits for new transmission lines and solar/wind power plants for these data centers. Comment#38. We don’t even want it Comment#39. Do you want SkyNet? That’s how you get SkyNet. Comment#40. I haven’t read too many article regarding the benefits of AI. Comment#41. Open AI is silently destroying the world climate and blaming global warming Comment#42. “It’s not our fault AI knows what it’s doing.” Comment#43. And what are they gonna do about it? Comment#44. IIUC, the matrix multiplications being done by the relevant chips (GPUs, TPUs, NPUs, etc.) are the culprit. Comment#45. Google: " Do More Evil" Comment#46. but we have to stop producing solar energy because…it’s too cheap and easy to produce to be profitable. Comment#47. The dog ate it. The goal of net 0 is worthy, but computers will always be very energy hungry. Like our brain that is one of the most energy hungry organs computer chips will require a lot of energy, in fact I think it will be the limiting factor on how powerful the calculations could be, it already is. Comment#48. the dragracer blamed himself when he crashed. Comment#49. "It's not my fault! It's because of the thing I did on purpose!" Comment#50. It's their AI though. No one forced them to make a shitty AI that's telling people to glue cheese to pizza. Google chose that. Comment#51. Well then maybe they should stop using it and forcing it on the users! Comment#52. ”the money made us!!” Comment#53. I don’t know who’s a bigger sucker. Google for making empty promises, or the people who believed them. Comment#54. How many articles are we going to have on this? This sub has long since turned to shit but JFC there's 4 different articles on the FP of the sub right now Comment#55. https://www.usa.gov/register-to-vote https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/publications/insights-on-law-and-society/volume-20/issue-1/learning-gateways--right-to-petition/ You can start change on any issue. Your voice matters. Our history proves it. Comment#56. Ban the use of GenAI. It's that simple. There is no actual advantage to it at all and so many laughable downsides. It's only a thing because people think it's "neat" and perverts can use graphical GenAI programs to make ugly-ass uncanny valley porn. Comment#57. r/wearesofucked

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Changing a Single Gene Gave Mice Supercharged Hearing

Comment#1. Question: would this result in supercharged tinnitus? Comment#2. >Instead, the synapse density seems to alter the ability to distinguish between sounds, changing what is known as the gap detection threshold – the shortest duration of silence between two sounds that is still wide enough for them to be heard as two sounds rather than one. They don't "hear more" or whatever nonsense people are thinking. Rather, the improvement allows mice to distinguish between two sounds more effectively. Comment#3. please see A Quiet Place Comment#4. Huh? Comment#5. Would love to see how this would affect ability to hear and understand new languages more effectively

1duc1r1

Philippines eyes Japan to build 5G network amid China’s dominance, cyber fears

Comment#1. Presumably stand alone?

1ducac0

Proton just launched a privacy-focused alternative to Google Docs

Comment#1. I've always been blown away by the value and quality of their service for every single one of their products—it's worth every penny. I'm even considering upgrading to the family plan. The lack of a separate password for the password manager and the inability to use only a security key for login are some drawbacks, but I hear that these issues are being addressed. I plan on switching from Google Docs to this. Comment#2. Proton is amazing. I've been using ProtonMail and VPN for years and I'm happy to pay a few dollars a month for the services since they work so well. Will absolutely be giving this a try. Comment#3. Once I can either afford to pay the higher price for equivalent cloud storage or the pricing gets cheaper, gonna move over to the proton ecosystem full time. Their email service is solid and much more customizeable and clear than google Comment#4. Im 99% sure Valve and Proton have inside men in other tech companies to push CEOs into greed just so everyone geos to an actual good alternative. All in all they are genuenly good and deserve success. Comment#5. Oh neat, as a proton subscriber it's kinda weird I hear about this from reddit and not proton. Though maybe this is a side effect of not subscribing to their newsletter. Anyway, this is a really nice addition and saves me from having to selfhosting Nextcloud Office which never seems to work as advertised. Comment#6. Might not be the correct thread to ask this but how do I best switch mail services from outlook to proton? Is the only option to forward my mail and then change the address on all the sites I wanna stay registered on? Maybe that's for the better anyway and I can change from dashlane to proton in the same process. Comment#7. All these comments here sound like fake customer review ads lmao Comment#8. They should fix the shitty iOS Drive app and the shitty iOS Mail app first

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Internet Archive Creates Searchable MTV News Database After Paramount Deletes Entire Site

Comment#1. Video killed the radio star… but internet killed video TV and then got it back Comment#2. It kinda blows my mind that MTV, Nick, and Disney don’t release throwback channels of their old content. I was recently watching a TRL Top 50 music videos rerun on YT. The video had fucking millions of views. They could make a killing. Nick kinda does it but since I don’t have cable anymore I can’t use that channel. I forget what it was called. Edit: the funny thing is people want the old commercials in there as well. Just make deals with the companies that are still around. Boom now you got profit and ad revenue. Comment#3. Let's see here, The Learning Channel turns into reality TV, The History Channel turns into a Jesus and Nazi documentary channel with reality TV, the Discovery Channel turns into scientific disinformation and reality TV and now MTV has their news archive deleted. It's almost like someone is trying to erase something. Comment#4. Better headline: Paramount just proved why the Internet Archive needs to exist Comment#5. "Streamlined" has become a word that I fucking despise. Comment#6. Freedom Rocks. I wonder where I learned that... Comment#7. It’s only a matter of time until we lose Internet Archives, if you find something you like I’d recommend keeping a copy. Comment#8. MTV died the day they premiered The Real World. In fact that was the death of quality TV programming as we knew it, and the beginning of endless reality TV. Comment#9. Someone tell me, why didn’t they just leave it hosted, un-updated but there, and collect the Google Adsense revenue? Comment#10. What is MTV news now? Justin Bieber has a new tattoo?

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DoodStream’s Traffic Takes a Battering as Hollywood Lawsuit Takes Its Toll.

Comment#1. Doodiestream, heh

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Smart highway pilot construction completed in Michigan

Comment#1. The most disappointing part of this article to me seems to be that it's just cameras with AI doing analysis on the traffic in the short-term. The longer-term vision for making intelligent and interactive traffic management is far more exciting but seemingly distant into the future. Comment#2. >For now, the tech is providing real-time data and insights about traffic, weather, potholes, obstacles and other road conditions to Michigan's Department of Transportation (MDOT). Lol they should install these on the Lodge or Southfield freeways. The information gathered will be useful for routing traffic in a future mad max style dystopia. Though obviously the sensors would need to be made bullet proof. Comment#3. This will be abandoned within 5 years like most other smart city projects.

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Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan

Comment#1. From the article: The streaming giant has reportedly begun notifying users via on-screen messages about the last day they can access the service unless they upgrade. One Reddit user shared a notification they had received from the Netflix app, saying: "Your last day to watch Netflix is July 13th. Choose a new plan to keep watching." Customers are being prompted to instead choose the cheaper Standard with ads, or the more expensive Standard or Premium 4K plans. In the UK, users are being informed that their £7.99 per month Basic plan has been discontinued and that they can sign up to the Standard with adverts plan for £4.99 or pay £10.99 for the Standard plan. The £10.99 plan includes access to 1080p streams, viewing on two devices simultaneously, and downloads on up to two devices. Meanwhile, the Standard with adverts tier still offers 1080p video quality but of course injects ads into streams. Canadian subscribers are also receiving notifications about the last viewing day for their Basic plan. In Canada, the price increase is more significant, rising from $9.99 for the Basic plan to $16.49 for the Standard plan. Alternatively, users can save $4 by going with the Standard with Ads plan ($5.99). The Basic plan, which costs $11.99 per month in the United States, has not been available to new subscribers since last year. In its early 2024 earnings call, Netflix announced its intention to retire its Basic plan in some countries where the ads plan has been introduced, starting with Canada and the UK in the second quarter, and then "taking it from there." Netflix said in May that its ad-supported streaming tier has 40 million global monthly active users, up 35 million from a year ago. Comment#2. Why is everything becoming so shitty and hostile these days? Comment#3. These companies are getting so arrogant. As if Netflix had amazing content lol Comment#4. No thanks I’ll just pirate Comment#5. I honestly think everyone should drop netflix and other streaming services that keep raising prices and inserting ads into a product we pay for. If everyone sucked it up and went without streaming for like a year they would suffer such losses they’d have to change their models. But since no one does, they won’t.. Comment#6. Fuck netflix Comment#7. One thing they don’t mention as well is that the lowest ad-supported tier also does not allow chromecast or screen mirroring. I used to occasionally watch a movie in bed late at night using my iPad to cast to the TV, but not any more. Thanks Netflix. Comment#8. Bro what the fuck is this "Pay more + have ads" horseshit they're getting away with now? If there's ads, it's free. If there's no ads, I'll pay. Simple as that. Fuck double dipping and fuck people who let them do it. Comment#9. I canceled my plan a while back. Haven't looked back - there wasn't enough valuable content on Netflix anyway. Too many platforms, too many subscriptions... Comment#10. I’m one of these people. They took my sub payment for July and say I have till the end of the month to keep watching. But, when I log in there’s a forced screen that demands I choose a new plan. There’s no way to close this and it locks me out of accessing the content. I cancelled my sub outright to get around this and it didn’t change anything. Super anti consumer. Comment#11. It is infuriating to me the number of people who just accept these price hikes and ads. If people actually canceled their accounts we could fight this crap but of course most people won't. Yo ho ho I guess. Comment#12. So...why do people bother sticking around to Pay for Ads? Can we please have more entertainment of our interests to go with these payments, and cut back on the diet of ads? Comment#13. this world is starting to annoy me Comment#14. Changed my debit card which caused my subscription to lapse. I think I’ve had an active Netflix subscription for 13 years now. Won’t be renewing. Comment#15. Isn't that tier barely more than a year old? Comment#16. No thanks, they were dead to me the day they killed password sharing. Don't regret it one bit. Comment#17. Between Kanopy (free with a public library card), Tubi, Pluto, Vudu, and a digital antenna, "premium" streaming services and cable aren't looking too appealing anymore. Free with a couple commercials is starting to win out for me. There's so much out there as it is. Comment#18. Yep. Dropped them after that attempt at extortion. Comment#19. I will not watch adds, and I will aggressive unsubscribe any service that tries to force them on me. As for prices increasing, that only results in me starting to service hop instead of simply staying subscribed to a few constant ones. My guess is that Netflix will lose subscribers (but maybe not money) over this. Personally I have no problem subscribing to a service for 1 month, binge watch everything I want, and then replace that service with something else next month. The only service that is a bitch to unsubscribe from is Amazon Prime, and if Netflix and friends tries to make cancellation harder, I’ll lean back and watch the EU have a go at them. Comment#20. I used to be subscribed to 5 services, now I’m doing 1 a month then switching to the next. I’m sure soon the price of a month to month plan will skyrocket trying to get you stick around longer for big discounts for 6 and 12 month plans Comment#21. I want to thank Netflix for reminding me how much fun piracy is! Comment#22. Folks, it's time for The Great Tune Out. Go outside and read some books. Eat your vegetables, sleep well and stay hydrated. Comment#23. I’m so pissed with these subscription services taking advantage of their users. Recently Peacock started showing ads too. Until a couple months ago I could watch shows at my access level without ads. Prime had ads too now, because you know Amazon is not big enough. This concept of increasing shareholder profits is wrecking everything. Including safe travels on Boeings. It’s annoying that the middle class is getting squeezed. Comment#24. Fuck Netflix, got their cheap ad plan and on top of the ads some content was locked. When selected it said that my plan did not cover said content. FUCK NETFLIX. Canceled instantly. Comment#25. My wife and I were discussing which streaming platform(s) to unsubscribe. Somehow we ended up with Netflix/Prime/Crave/Disney, plus the add-ons for Starz and HBO, and there are others I can’t even remember, it’s like when you used to pay for 300 channels and there was only crap on TV, but you have to have this package and these add-ons to watch any three shows you like and maybe a hockey game…but I digress - Netflix sent me a couple emails to pick a new subscription, I didn’t reply, they booted me. Thank you Netflix for making my decision for me. Comment#26. Elaine reaches the concessions stand and has to deal with the perky clerk. Elaine: Uh, could I have a medium Diet Coke? Clerk: Do you want the Medium size or the middle size? Elaine: What's the difference? Clerk: Well, we have three sizes. Medium, Large, and Jumbo. Elaine: \[momentarily perplexed\] What happened to the small? Clerk: There is no small. Small is Medium. Elaine: What's... medium? Clerk: Medium is Large, and large is Jumbo. Elaine: Oh-kay. Gimme the large. Clerk: That's medium. Elaine: Right. Yeah. \[fearing the answer\] Could I have a small popcorn? Clerk: There is no small. \[flash of perky inspiration\] Child-size is small. Elaine: What's \`medium'? Clerk: Adult. Elaine: Do adults ever order the child-size? Clerk: \[chuckling\] Not usually. Elaine: \[laughs appreciably\] Okay, gimme the \`adult'. Clerk: Do you want butter? Elaine: Is it \*real\* butter? Clerk: \[perkily\] It's butter-\*flavored\*! Elaine: \[exasperated\] What is it made of? Clerk: \[perkily\] It's yellow! Comment#27. I can't wait for the r/technology business experts to tell us how *this* move will be the downfall of netflix... And then three months later read about increasing subscription numbers and profits. Comment#28. The proliferation of the term “ads-free” makes me want to pull out what little hair I have left. The abbreviation of “advertisement free” doesn’t need to be pluralized. Comment#29. Imagine being punished for paying. Comment#30. Streaming is becoming cable: pay money and still have ads or pay a lot of money for no ads. Comment#31. So basically Netflix is just cable tv again lol. Its becoming what it was meant to replace. Comment#32. And for that reason, I'm out Comment#33. Man, puts on Netflix? Comment#34. Haven't had Netflix since 2022. I remember the golden age of Netflix where you would have multiple unique, interesting, and willing to take risks TV series that I would truly enjoy and was happy to pay for the highest tier. Even when the shows weren't great or even good, you would appreciate what they were trying to do. But now those are so few and far between, and now it's often the same awful strategies and low-risk content that drove me away from network TV. Add to that the constant cost increases, the "sharing" ban, and no sign they will ever improve even after a couple of years.. It's just sad. Ultimately they chose the direction to maximize profits and appease shareholders that was likely inevitable rather than the previous "quality over quantity" perspective they took to original content. Comment#35. It’s pretty amazing how fast Netflix went from the one subscription I thought I’d never cancel to one I’ll probably never have again. Comment#36. Time to start booting Netflix from your bank account Comment#37. I would be fine with the increase if they actually released quality original content. I enjoyed Stranger Things, and The Witcher, but some of the other stuff is just… oof. I’ve seen made for TV movies in the 90s with better everything. Now they’re also opening “experience” venues, and I’m just like, “for what?” Comment#38. Time to get the old pirate ship ready. I've been meaning to take another cruise in the high seas. Comment#39. Well Netflix You’ll never get another dollar from me, no matter what you do. You could charge a penny and I’d rather pirate content than ever support you again Hopefully there are many others like me, I assume there are Comment#40. Oh nice, time to save some money and bail! Comment#41. P-p-p-p-piracy baby Comment#42. Aw gee, another price hike. Almost 2 years Netflix free and not missing it Comment#43. I quit when they wanted me to pay an extra £5 a month to watch shows with my LDR partner. Comment#44. Sounds like it’s time to cancel my subscription entirely Comment#45. It’s never enough for these fuckers Comment#46. The second Netflix starts pushing ads on me, I am done with Netflix. No joke. No lie. I can barely be bothered to keep Netflix as it stands, no less with asinine advertisements. Comment#47. What a coincidence. I booted myself off their most expensive plan 2 years ago. Comment#48. Canceled my US 4K plan 2 days ago, Netflix is no longer a good option and getting greedier by the day. Unfortunately, there are not many good alternatives around. Comment#49. 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ 🏴‍☠️ Comment#50. Just cancel. Comment#51. Gotta dRivE GroWtH and provide ROI for the investors! Only shareholders matter. Comment#52. I’m sailing the seas again for a few years already. No ragrets. Comment#53. Half-price books has gotten a ton of my money recently. I don’t judge pirating btw. I just like going old school with physical media Comment#54. Remember when streaming sites were ad free and we all ditched cable because of that.. Comment#55. The only reason I have netflix now is because it comes with my Tmobile plan. Comment#56. I’ll just keep sailing them seas, thank you very much Comment#57. You cannot reward a company for making shitty decisions and then expect them to stop there. If you keep paying for crap, people will be happy to serve you the next pile of steaming crap Comment#58. Cancelling subscription plans is as old as the invention of subscription plans. Comment#59. If consumers are to ever win we need to actually got those services off. Reality is that a Netflix subscription is still less than the cost of going 1 time to the cinema. If all of us would cancel, Netflix wouldn’t be doing that. But none of us are. Comment#60. the alternative has been easier again for a while, ahoyhoy Comment#61. That's fine. The moment they do that to me they will lose me as a customer. I will never pay for ads. And I have no desire to pay more for Netflix than I do now. I can live without it. There are several channels available free with ads. And of course there are always torrents. Comment#62. Streaming has become such a dumpster fire lately that I’ve gone back to physical media for almost everything. No ads, no content getting pulled unexpectedly, no creeping prices. DVDs work when the internet is down. I can loan them to a friend without them shutting down because of sharing. The quality of a 4K disc is way better than streaming at 4k. In fact I’d say most of the time a regular Blu-ray is better than a typical 4K stream. Comment#63. I’d rather pay the money for electricity and a VPN to download movies than to sub to Netflix. Used to watch so much but the catalogue is shit and barely any updates to the horror category. My home server with 10TB is getting used more and more 🤭 Comment#64. Imagine all the people who forgot that they are even subscribed to netflix, and will now save some extra money. Good on them. Comment#65. Cancel that shit and head to the high seas mateys 🏴‍☠️ Comment#66. It is time for subscribers to start booting off Netflix. Comment#67. Yesterday I said to my wife, “oh maybe we should check Netflix?” She said we hadn’t subscribed in about half a year. I didn’t even notice lol 🏴‍☠️⏰👍 Comment#68. I guess I will just have to go back to downloading the content ilegally rather than at least giving them some money. Comment#69. Streaming is what cable was 15-20 years ago , something for old people , just piarate everything like we did when streaming was not there and move on ,streaming is shit now, have to change apps all the time to watch diferent things , inconvenient af Comment#70. Isn’t it kind of wild that a company can force you out of an agreement you made with them and into a new agreement? There should be protections against this stuff. Comment#71. I moved down to basic after they kicked my parents off last year. This will be enough to make me quit. At best I will subscribe for a month a year and binge the 2-3 shows I want to see. Comment#72. I have always thought that Netflix was overrated.They sprinkle in some good stuff with a lot of mediocre programming. Comment#73. God damn Netflix to hell so glad I dropped it and never looked back. I paid for your extreme premium plan so I wouldn't deal with this and then you fucked it up. And again and again just can't get over themselves. Your service sucks and your mom's a fuck stain. Good riddance Comment#74. What’s the best alternative/competition to Netflix currently? Comment#75. So the cable model Comment#76. I'm Canadian and when I got word of this increase, I canceled the service after a 10+ years. I am tired of these companies continually raising the prices of services while still offering the same old crappy selections. They keep changing the terms and raising prices to appease shareholders. They have no respect for their customers, so screw it, there are many other choices. Enough of their greed! Comment#77. Idk why yall are hoenstly keeping this shit. Canceled mine two months ago and haven't missed it once. If there's a really good show I want to watch, I'll re buy it, but that's few and far between on Netflix anyways. Comment#78. honestly I prefer to pay for cable tv with ads at this point, have plenty of choice with over 100 channels. Did not watch the last trending series? Don't care, just wait some weeks and I will get it on a free streaming site anyway Comment#79. The whole ads thing is going to kill the streaming services. I started using Netflix because it didn’t had ads and it had quite a lot of movies and shows. I am watching quite a lot stuff on Netflix so I chose to go for premium version - which is basically me paying more for same service. My bank is giving me a disney+ subscription and recently they moved me to basic with ads plan - it is the worst thing ever. I think you get use to no ads that is really hard to see all the irrelevant ads. It is so bad that I will probably try to watch less on it even if it is “free” for me. Comment#80. Well, it's back to being Jack Sparrow for me, I guess. I tried to play their game and paid for the services, started with prime, I just get the shows I want from other sources like Fallout and such. Now they are actively push me and thousands of others to sing "yo ho, yo a PÏrates life for me." Comment#81. Not saying I’m a pirate but I am saying I purchased a raspberry pi to start my boating adventures. With the money I’ve paid Netflix, it’s finally time to get my own source of videos. Comment#82. So is July 13th an arbitrary date or is that the end of that one user’s current billing cycle? Because if I get kicked off my plan in the middle of a Billy cycle I’m disputing that charge, and I urge everyone else to as well since the credit card companies will negatively impact Netflix as a result. Comment#83. Huh? I just started having the cheap one last june. Comment#84. Just use stremio with torrentio and rd. It takes like 10 minutes to setup, costs almost nothing and puts all the streamers in one app. I will never pay a single streaming service again. Comment#85. it sucks living in the age of late stage capitalism. as a millennial, seeing so many of these just developing companies offer great products at affordable prices with sensible services and evolving into companies that charge more and more and remove so much functionality-- it's heartbreaking. These companies tricked us into believing they cared about us more than just how much $$ we were giving them but fuck us I guess. I remember that old internet adage: if you're not paying , youre the product. These companies have evolved to the point of taking our dollars and data and giving us a subpar product while theyre selling our data all over the place Comment#86. I downloaded Plex. What's everyone's favorite site for getting free content, these days? Comment#87. It always reverts back to garbage. The point of cable was no ads, then limited ads, then lots of ads. I get ads when it is free. Otherwise, it's time to nope out of this nonsense. Comment#88. What a scam they have stumbled upon: getting people to pay to watch commercials. The entire point of watching commercials when TV was free over the air was exactly that - it was free. Advertisers paid the networks to have their ads broadcast. Cable, or Pay TV, allowed you to watch content commercial free by paying for the subscription. Brilliant. Comment#89. As a publicly traded “platform” type of company, Netflix is stuck in the cycle of “Enshitification”. There is no escape and the quality and value of their service will continually decline to the lowest absolute level people are willing to tolerate. Comment#90. Had it go through in Canada. They kept giving me notices that June 3rd would be my last day, then June 3rd came around and nothing for a month until today they finally cut it. I'm surprised they were fine losing on all their dead users that don't use netflix but still kept the sub going. Oh well. Was alright while it lasted. Won't bother going back for the foreseeable future. Comment#91. Also can’t forget how even though you pay for the 4K/HDR, some of these providers will change the quality if they’re having server issues. Comment#92. I booted them out the door a year ago due to seemingly never ending price increases. I have Amazon prime mostly for free shipping and have an outdoor antenna that I receive 18 channels on. Granted I’m not a couch potato kind of guy but I don’t miss the garbage that was being served up by Netflix or the cable company Comment#93. Step one last a long time with good will by destroying the establishment. Step two Wait until everybody is nice and comfortable and you're the only good thing around. Step three absolutely crank your fucking prices up as quickly as possible so that no one notices you make more money with less work. Step four show record profits for at least 4 years step down just before ( or during) the fall in the stock price with your golden parachute and move to next company to repeat again ad- infanim Comment#94. Whelp, apparently that was the last straw. Just cancelled my Netflix, and I've been with them since the mail DVD days. What a waste. Comment#95. Yar har fiddle de dee Comment#96. Netflix is being sabotaged, there's no way these decisions are being made in good faith Comment#97. That NAS is looking a lot more affordable now Comment#98. Yo ho ho, netflix will cause people to pirate more! Comment#99. I’m Netflix free since last year and I haven’t missed it. Comment#100. I booted Netflix off my platform years ago! Thanks for continuing to remind me why I did so. Comment#101. To all of the people that said this wouldn't happen a year ago... got anything to say for yourselves now? Wake the fuck up and realize that the rent-seeking behavior only ever gets worse under capitalism. Comment#102. You really don’t miss it after awhile. We only have prime now and if I really want to watch something we rent it or buy it. 1 season of the shows we always watch (Bluey, Office) is like $11-16 bucks. And I’m always rewatching the same crap anyway. We prolly spend $20-30/month which is sooooo much cheaper than streaming now a days. Also, you “own” it. If I calculate the # of times I’ve watched the Office vs the purchase price…I’m averaging down baby! Comment#103. Next financial quarter: Netflix sees huge increase in subscribers and biggest profits ever. The public doesn't care they'll pay anything. Comment#104. It seems that their end goal is to make Piracy look enticing all over again Comment#105. Hey just shhhhhhhhhhhut up and let it happen. We kicked and screamed when we saw video games tank with the iPad generations that followed and we will do the same with this. Why stress and fight the inevitable? We all know that we won’t do anything until it’s too late! So log off Reddit and go enjoy yourself. 😭🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Comment#106. I looked the other day and between all of the streaming services we have I’m paying almost $100. That doesn’t include my internet (which is fortunately good / well priced). I’m canceling Netflix this month after 14 years, several price hikes, and dwindling catalogs. Comment#107. I cancelled when they announced the crackdown on password sharing. Seeing news like this always makes me appreciate how they get 0 money from me. Comment#108. If you don't like it, stop paying for it. Yes, that'll mean "doing without". Learn how to deal with that. Comment#109. So when Netflix announced they were cracking down on password sharing, I got one on-screen warning about the fact that my "family" was using it at multiple addresses. Then...nothing. I just [googled](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2023/10/25/the-netflix-password-sharing-crackdown-is-working-and-others-will-certainly-follow/) and learned that they did implement the crackdown and that they claim it is "working"; They saw a spike in new subscribers. But...they never cracked down on me. I still have 5 users sharing my account in 4 households across 2 states. All have actively used the account in the past year, but our collective usage is low. I would estimate the most active user on my account probably watches no more than the equivalent of four seasons of a show over the course of a year. My theory is that they have a bean-counter algorithm that has determined that hassling me and my "family" is not worth it based on my usage. That they make money off me at the current rate and it isn't worth it to risk losing my monthly subcription fee since my "family" is clearly not dependent on Netflix for our entertainment. Can anyonoe else attest to inconsistent/selective enforcement of the Netflix rules? Comment#110. as soon as i got the prompt, i canceled my subscription for good - pirate days are coming back! Comment#111. MAX is the only decent platform left. Comment#112. Disney just did the same on our subscription We immediately came to the consensus to unsubscribe Comment#113. Holy sh!t! I actually forgot streaming sites existed. Comment#114. Last month, youtube on apple tv gave me an offer for a month free trial of youtube premium. I took it, thinking I will cancel it within a month. It was tied to my apple subscription. After 3 weeks, I went to cancel the subscription and I checked my apple card tied with my subscription. Imagine my surprise when I saw they charged me within 2 weeks. I had to chat with the customer representative to remove that charge after I had to prove that it was a free trial for a month. Companies are trying a lot of scummy practices to squeeze out money. Comment#115. Yarrr me mateys Comment#116. Didn’t know this was coming down the pipeline. I will be cancelling. Comment#117. My VPN price hasn’t gone up in 8 years Comment#118. Man. Too bad you had to sign a life long contract that says you have to keep paying whenever they change prices or remove tiers. Oh wait. People can just unsubscribe at anytime. Don't see why this is such a big deal, just cancel and watching a different service or sail the high seas. The only reason they raise prices is because the people crying about it still pay for it. Comment#119. Well it’s gonna be a big bye bye on my end Comment#120. Jesus, companies are REALLY trying to get people to watch ads anywhere and everywhere they can cram them down our throats. I guarantee that within a few years people who buy new cars not only will have to buy a subscription to use parts of their own vehicle (It's already been happening) but the dash screens are going to start playing ads every time you encounter a stoplight, or before you're able to put your vehicle into any gear... Gotta wait 30 seconds for those ads to run before you can take it out of park! And it's going to get much worse than that in the not-so-distant future. Comment#121. Netflix? Oh that thing I used to have? Haven't missed it. Comment#122. I saw the writing on the wall about 5 years ago and started collecting tv shows and movies on DVD and Blu-ray. I own 400 different tv shows now and I’m not subscribed to any more streaming services as of two months ago. I have a Sony 5-disc DVD player so I can load up an entire season at a time. I have an LG C3 as well and it does a fantastic job upscaling DVDs. I’m even contemplating canceling my internet altogether because I really only use it now to watch YouTube Comment#123. Next thing you know there ad plan will also have a set schedule for programming with ad breaks. Comment#124. As a person who works in tech, the whole disruption strategy of business that's taken over the industry makes me literally ashamed. (Luckily my current project is for a famously moral entity, a major bank /s) Comment#125. Why pay for anything if it has ads? I have tv. That’s what regular tv is. I’m not paying to watch your shows with ads. They should have a free subscription if you have to watch ads. That’s ridiculous. Comment#126. Haven’t had netflix since they introduced that household only bs. Will never get it either. Arrogant idiots, but the customers are even more idiots when they willingly pay for new accounts at a record rate Comment#127. I wish the Arizona Iced Tea guy would buy Netflix Comment#128. As a loyal basic subscription user, I think I won't be upgrading to standard and instead be sailing the 7 seas of the internet. A good VPN goes for 6$/month and get everything Netflix + content from other streaming services. To add to misery the new netflix content sucks ass lately Comment#129. I left them a long long fucking time ago. Comment#130. Sooner or later people are just going to drop their plan and just stream shows off of a jailbreak fire stick. Comment#131. I wonder how this affects people with specific sky or virgin or other media providers that have a bundle deal with Netflix? Do you just get 'upgraded' to the new standard but it doesn't change your contracted costs because its not directly with netflix, do they try and alter your contract (and pray they don't alter it any further), do they bump you down to the 'with ads' option which will no doubt cause a stink when you ring up your provider to complain about breach of contract. So many ways to basically dunk on netflix through various consumer rights protections. Comment#132. I discontinued Netflix years ago. Garbage content. Arrrr matey! Comment#133. This is my breaking point. I can find anything I want for free, Netflix was just convenient. It's not going to stop here so I'm done. So fucking done. Should have stopped long ago but now it's done. Comment#134. Not reading the article, but I can’t use my Free Netflix subscription because my tv will not accept ads. The only way I can get it is by Paying for ad free subscription. Something here must be illegal! Comment#135. Yeah I don’t give a shit Comment#136. Honestly that’s why I canceled them all I use kodi exclusively now. They all try to gouge us and I’m sick of it Comment#137. What happened to “there’s a cheaper plan if it’s too expensive…herp derp herrrp” nonsense? F that man. I’ll never go back. I don’t even care what happens in stranger things anymore. Comment#138. explain to me how this is any different now than cable tv? cancelled two or three years ago Comment#139. Enshittification never takes a break. This is why many have returned to flying the Jolly Roger. Comment#140. Hey just so everyone is aware, you can go on Amazon and buy this thing called an Android TV, and side load apps that are basically streaming services. They look like little squares, and just don’t forget to buy a wireless mouse with them Comment#141. Australian prices (as at 4-Jul-2024): Standard with ads: $8.....(USD$5.40, £4.20) Standard: $19.....(USD$12.75, £10) Premium: $26.....(USD$17.50, £13.70) Comment#142. I'm at the point where I'm just going to cut all my streaming services and watch free television channels on PlutoTV. Done with the streaming services dicking us around. Comment#143. A year from now the will be complaining about pirating again. Or soon. Comment#144. and this is why pirating will continue to grow. Comment#145. Fu*k Netflix Comment#146. In Canada, happened to me. Wouldn't let me bypass the screen without choosing a plan. Fck netflix been a subscriber for 10+years Comment#147. I hope streaming collapses just so i can once again goto stores to rent stuff on a friday night Comment#148. People pay for streaming services for the convenience not to be nickle and dimed the whole way through. I feel like these companies are just allergic to making money. Comment#149. I booted off Netflix when they globally rolled out end of password sharing. Netflix alone costs more than what Disney, Prime, SonyLiv, YouTube costs combined in my country (India). Comment#150. I cancelled mine like 4 months ago, haven't missed it. Any series I've actually enjoyed on there in the last who knows how long was cancelled after a season or was made insanely worse after a good first showing (Witcher). Tired of getting nickel and dimed by EVERYTHING lately. Comment#151. Ah yes. Pay more for all the Indian, Malaysian, Chinese, crap stuff from 7 years ago...no new release worth a shit. Anything they actually make that we like is killed off after 2 seasons..unless it has LGBT crap in it...just go away already Netflix... Comment#152. Netflix isn’t worth the cheapest monthly fee anymore. Comment#153. It's high summer, I let the plan lapse when they tried to jack my rate. I hope others did also. May it reflect in those quarterly earnings statements. Comment#154. Stremio be praised Comment#155. 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ Comment#156. No one will do anything. I thought people would have canceled when they cracked down on password sharing. Instead they got more subscribers. People are too lazy and the companies will keep making you pay more for less and it’s all their fault. Don’t complain if you are the problem Comment#157. Streaming fees may become cheaper if AI writes the script and acts in videos and movies. However, I think the world of cheap AI content is far more all-advertising than ad-supported plans. Comment#158. I got booted to ad free in Canada to discover I can no longer cast!! So I booted Netflix and hoisted my sails. Comment#159. Yar har fiddledeedee. Comment#160. 10.99 a month is well worth it imo. Going to see one movie can cost 15-30. And that only yields 2 hours of entertainment. I can watch 10x that in a month on Netflix for a fraction of the price. Comment#161. All part of the plan from the beginning. This must be phase 3. Comment#162. Eventually Netflix will be a super luxury brand that only celebrities use. When the subscription hits $5,000 the audience doesn't have to be very big. Comment#163. They are relying on people’s laziness to switch providers. Cancel subscription thats the only way you can have an effect on their decisions.

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Microsoft AI CEO: Content on the open web is "freeware" for AI training

Comment#1. “The use of copyrighted material to train AI has become a hot-button issue, with experts divided on whether it constitutes theft or a legitimate form of study akin to artistic training. Microsoft's AI top executive thought it would be a good idea to add fuel to the fire by making some bold claims about what companies can legally do with online content when training their AI systems. Mustafa Suleyman, who's been heading Microsoft's AI efforts since March, told CNBC in an interview that material published openly on the web essentially becomes "freeware" that anyone can copy and use as they please.” Comment#2. Cool! Does this mean all Microsoft products are considered freeware for everyone to use now? Comment#3. Someone needs to teach him the difference between "publicly available" and "public domain." Comment#4. "Rules for thee but not for me." All these big corporations nickel and dime us for every scrap of content and litigate anyone who dare break their precious copyright law, but when they can play a reverse Uno card and benefit from the same practices, suddenly it's fine. I hope more people are waking up to the fact that these big corporations are soulless, endlessly greedy entities that are actively preying on their own customers. They all need to be put in check and cut down to size. Our lives would all be endlessly better off for it. Comment#5. Oh is it that time of the day to repost this again? Comment#6. Microsoft content on the open web is "freeware" for human training. From this moment on, all schools at all levels that use any kind of Microsoft program of any kind can get it for free from anywhere on the internet they can find it. It's all used to train future adults, so it's a worthy cause. thanks Microsoft! Comment#7. Microsoft suddenly demands “open” web. Comment#8. Software piracy is legal to Microsoft, so here I go getting myself a bootleg version of Windows 11! Oh, wait, Windows 11 is crap software, nevermind. Comment#9. Well then, Microsoft products are Freeware for MY training. Comment#10. Google tried the same thing when I came to digitizing books many years ago, they did not go well Comment#11. That’s how we closed the internet and put everything behind a login and paywall. Protecting children from porn was catching on, but now we’re scaring people their tweets will train AI and they won’t be paid for it. Comment#12. This kind of comment would make me suggest that people pirate Microsoft's products, but then that'd mean suggesting that people even use their shit in the first place, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Instead I recommend buying something cool like a Steam Deck instead. And if you like computers then give desktop Linux a try too. Comment#13. So wrong for someone in such a high position in Microsoft. He should know better. And I bet the legal department had a little chat with him shortly after this was released. Comment#14. Microsoft's lawyers: "Get us in a room alone with this man and lock the door" Comment#15. As a copyright holder I will chime in and say no it fucking isn’t, you shill. Comment#16. He's intentionally moving the Overton on where the controversy is further out so they can keep scraping data from users when the "compromise" is finally reached thats still a massive overreach. Comment#17. Technically yes, legally no. Comment#18. You heard it boys time to scrape all the manuals and docs. MS says it's okay Comment#19. An evil Sam Smith has entered. Comment#20. Anyone reading this old enough to remember Richard Stallman and “information wants to be free”? Comment#21. The backdrop is dead giveaway. Comment#22. AkA : It's free because we are a big corporation and we want it to be free. Comment#23. I think AI companies should respect robot.txt files like search engines, but apart from that, I agree that if your average Joe could access something online, AI model training sets should be able to as well. Comment#24. I don’t think this douchebag knows how Freeware works Comment#25. He is not wrong. Downvote me if you want. Comment#26. Time to spin up a couple websites referencing each other's completely fake facts about how our god is real, and he made the earth in his image, flat. Comment#27. He's 100% right. If you release something to the public, it is no longer in your control how people use it. Too bad.

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Korean Air cuts cabin services by 40 minutes to prevent turbulence related accidents, after Monday’s incident injured about 40 Air Europa passengers — ‘Turbulence is becoming more frequent, due to large temperature differences between altitudes’

Comment#1. If that’s what they need to do to keep passengers and crew safe it’s a no brainer. I’ve flown around Asia for the past 15 years and on many flights been concerned about the conditions cabin crew were serving meals in. On more than one occasion I’ve seen meals tossed over passengers in moderate turbulence Comment#2. *Since July 1, 2024, the South Korean flag carrier has wrapped up its in-flight services 40 minutes prior to landing on all medium to long-haul flights, 20 minutes earlier than the previous service policy.* *Korean Air believes that the 20-minute change will allow in-flight services to end before the airplane begins its descent to land, thereby minimizing the risk of turbulence to passengers and crew members.* *“Turbulence has become a persistent and growing problem in recent years with the number of incidents doubling in Q1 2024 compared to Q1 2019,” the airline said in a statement.* *“Turbulence is becoming more frequent, especially as the aircraft descends, due to large temperature differences between altitudes,” the airline said, adding that this is why it made the decision to shorten its cabin service procedure.* *The months of May and June 2024 saw a number of incidents where flights encountered severe turbulence, resulting in injuries, and in one tragic instance, the death of one passenger.* *According to a June 2023 study conducted by researchers from the University of Reading in England, flight turbulence is bound to get stronger due to climate change.* *[[Prosser et al. in Geophysical Research Letters](https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103814)] found that warmer air from CO2 emissions is increasing windshear in the jet streams, strengthening clear-air turbulence in flight routes over the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the South Atlantic.* [NATAL, Brazil, July 2, Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/passengers-diverted-air-europa-flight-recount-turbulence-ordeal-2024-07-02/): *Passengers from an Air Europa flight diverted to northeastern Brazil due to severe turbulence on Monday said they feared for their lives during the incident which injured around 40 people, four of whom were taken to intensive care units.* Comment#3. I fly a lot for work, I have for about a decade, I have definitely had more bad turbulence this year and last than I have in any year previous. I thought it was my imagination but then I started seeing studies about how much worse it has been and will become. It's bad. Comment#4. If you’ve flown on Korean Air, -20/40 minutes of service still puts them at having way better service than most airlines. The contrast between Asian airlines and western airlines is embarrassingly noticeable Comment#5. drilldrilldrill Comment#6. Imagine a world where you can’t fly anymore because of climate change Comment#7. If anyone cared about solving climate change… you would be supporting clean nuclear power over other forms of green energy. But time and time again I hear of nuclear plants being shut down and tons of money being funneled into wind and solar. Comment#8. cabin service speed run Comment#9. A proper translation would be "We're still charging you full price but giving you less services (and saving ourselves money) under the thin guise of "safety", because fuck you our profits are what matters most"

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The Jiggle Is Up: Bosses Bust Workers Who Fake Computer Activity

Comment#1. business article made for a business executive audience. That executive audience has crap productivity, but they take other peoples' work as their own. If the work assigned to people is being completed on time, it really doesn't matter if they have idle time left over, this bullshit idea that people are only productive if you know their computer is in use is stupid in a world even remotely fair, executives that are focused on stupid metrics like this would be weeded out as they apparently contribute little to the overall productivity of the company. They certainly aren't "earning" that "compensation" package. Comment#2. I wish all of these articles would explain how these small groups of people were caught. I have to guess using copy paste scripts that got spotted instantly. I used a stapler propped on CTRL for three years during my downtime and never got a problem. Comment#3. Lol -- any boss who needs software to tell whether the people under them are getting their work done should be fired for being completely useless. Honestly, any department or company that has to physically track the movements of people sitting at a desk to determine whether they are working, rather than looking at their productive output, probably shouldn't exist because it literally isn't doing anything. There is no virtue in working if you don't produce anything. Just pay people and let them do whatever they want if you don't have actual, useful work for them to do. Comment#4. If your company really needs tattleware to find out who's not doing their job, your company is already lost. Comment#5. I always hated pretending like I was working, I wanted to work! Just give me something to do so this day goes by faster! Comment#6. I would still ask every one of those bosses if they sent real goals and KPIs on their employees. When I see a manager basically measuring activity and not looking at conversion or achievement or any of that kind of metric, then it shows me they are clearly a terrible manager. They really want productivity on something that perhaps isn't easily measured in a goal or a KPI, then set a number of how much someone must do their work action, make it a number that can be completed moderately in 8 hours, or in less time if they really focus, and then reward them by saying if they finish early they can quit early. So yeah, you might see a lot of your workers suddenly be done with their work day 2 or even 3 hours early, but you can look at your numbers and say that things are getting done.

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Geologists raise concerns over possible censorship and bias in Chinese chatbot

Comment#1. Evil, heavily-reliant on censorship regime commits censorship, color me not surprised. Comment#2. What kind of censorship or bias is there going to be in a chatbot for geology? Do the Chinese have lots of idiots who think the Earth is a couple of thousands years old like we do in America? Given the number of idiots in America who believe in the Young Earth Creationism crap, I have less confidence in an American LLM than a Chinese one.

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Gov. Landry vetoes bill banning “deepfakes” in Louisiana. Here’s why

Comment#1. > The governor says in a letter explaining the veto that he believes the legislation could have infringed on the free speech rights of artificial intelligence companies. Some deception is protected speech, but not all. The law was specifically about using deepfakes to deceive voters (not deepfakes in general) and deceiving voters seems like exactly the sort of thing that is *not* protected speech. Comment#2. Sounds like people need to start spreading some good Governor Landry deepfakes. Comment#3. the "free speech rights of artificial intelligence companies" for fuck sake... Comment#4. Quick! Someone post a myriad of deepfakes of Governor Landry explicitly stating he’s going to commit acts of violence against any constituents that vote against him during his election. Because that is EXACTLY the kind of “freedom of speech” that this asshat is trying to protect. So let it bite him in the ass super fucking hard Comment#5. Of course you don't want laws blocking tools that can be used for political disinformation... when your party is the one constantly benefiting from Russian and Chinese disinformation campaigns. Comment#6. To be clear, he didn't veto a bill banning deepfakes. He vetoed a bill >> that would have made it illegal to **deceive voters** with “deepfakes,” or false impersonations or depictions of a political candidate through audio or video manipulation techniques A politician being against a law that makes it illegal to deceive voters. Wow. Just wow. And this was the governor that won by a landslide. His closest Democratic challenger only won 25% of the votes in Louisiana. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/14/jeff-landry-wins-louisiana-governor-00121598 What the fuck is wrong with Louisiana? Comment#7. Because Landry is a NatC dipshit? Is that why? Comment#8. So, he's considering using deepfakes in the next election. Got it. Comment#9. Please someone create videos of him getting gangbanged by men and endorsing abortion. Comment#10. Because they want to be able to lie cuz that's their only path to power. I mean what other reason could there really be? Comment#11. …because he intends to use them in attack ads Comment#12. Sounds like he has a host of deep fakes of his political opponents that he paid damn good money for and would hate to have to delete before he got his money's worth Comment#13. It’s so when people see the pictures of him at a beach ogling teenagers or at motorcycle rallies with strippers he can say they’re deep fake… Comment#14. Republicans: dedicated to protecting the rich, corporations, White men (as long as they are rich), and now professional liars. Comment#15. Corporations are not people. They do not have rights. Fuck Citizens United. Comment#16. Those sweet “campaign donations” Comment#17. I honestly don't know if there is a bigger shithole in the Union. Comment#18. Because they marry their cousins in Louisiana and deep fakes hit too close to home? Comment#19. Time for people to make a boatload of deep fakes of Landry doing disgusting things and flooding all social media with it. Punish him and his blatant partisan plans to use deepfakes to smear opponents by doing it en masse to him. Comment#20. I wish there was an easy way to know whether the reason a politician gives is legit reason or just fud... Comment#21. Oh gee..vetoes legislation for * potential whataboutism favoring AI business vs protection of people. As “traditional” as he espouses to be - the reality is he’s been ruling * based on his own beliefs and priorities. Comment#22. How can MAGA spread its bullshit propaganda if they can't lie? Comment#23. Can we start putting his tiny dick deep “fakes” all over the place now? Comment#24. Sounds like people need to start making deepfakes of Governor Landry. Comment#25. Because he got paaaaaid. Comment#26. After the election it will become against the law because.... Comment#27. It would be a shame if some deepfakes of Landry doing something obscene with a Bible or another man were circulating. Just shameful I tell ya. Comment#28. There's about to be a bunch of videos show the governor fucking a labradoodle posted all over the internet. Free speech! Comment#29. Yeah good luck with that Comment#30. When you have seen deepfakes that represented political propaganda, what kind of ideology was driving them? Comment#31. Unrelated question for someone in Louisiana with a little bit of free time, are any voice AI fake tools easy to learn? Comment#32. >the free speech rights of artificial intelligence companies. And where does it say that companies have free speech rights? I mean, aside from the terrible Citizens United legislation? Comment#33. AI is going to become more powerful than a nuclear bomb! If you don’t repeal it immediately if not sooner there’s no turning back.PLEASE heed my warning Comment#34. AI is going to become more powerful than a nuclear bomb! If you don’t repeal it immediately if not sooner there’s no turning back.PLEASE heed my warning Comment#35. Jabari Jones and Scared Ketchup need use their talent to team up on this meathead. Comment#36. The people who voted for him are stupid enough to believe deepfakes, that's why. Comment#37. I see a lot of opinions and gnashing or teeth, with no one quoting a statement made in the 2025 policy agenda, nor anyone posting a link to the actual paper, so here it is; https://www.project2025.org/ Read it for yourself before allowing others to tell you what it says and means. Comment#38. banning deepfakes is so unpractical and a slippery slope Comment#39. It's a slippery slope banning deep fakes. Because yes deep fakes can be very bad I don't deny that. But let's say you have a video of a politician doing something horrible. And you post it they claim it's a deep fake and get it taken down. If you repeat it you get banned and punished etc. That's the challenge with banning deep fakes. It's basically like that fake copyright strikes that a lot of YouTubers face. Comment#40. Would it tat least be a federal crime to create a deep fake with intent to deceive voters? Comment#41. [removed] Comment#42. Yea totally time to fire up some misinfo about him using deepfakes. See how his tune changes. Comment#43. Deepfakes without explicit consent should carry the harshest penalties. This could start wars

1duhlyd

Sony won't phase out Blu-ray movie and game discs, only ceasing production on consumer BD-R

Comment#1. Does anyone know if Verbatim will keep making BD-Rs? Is this exclusively just saying Sony will no longer be manufacturing BD-Rs? Comment#2. I hope physical media never goes away. I am wondering how far optical discs will go though. So far we have ultra hd Blu-ray and there’s been development for an 8k version as well it seems. Comment#3. Out of curiosity, does anyone reading this thread even have a blu ray recorder drive in their PC? Comment#4. PS3 Bluray Gang rejoice worldwide Comment#5. What exactly is it being replaced with? All modern digital storage devices degrade at a faster rate than a blu-ray disk. Comment#6. Considering how much data fits on a blu ray disk and their relative low cost, hard drives are still a long ways away from being able to obviate them. Comment#7. Eventually the internet is gonna get shut off and people will need physical media again. Cannot wait Comment#8. One more way they're trying to phase out physical ownership of media entirely.

1duj388

Commission approves €10.82 billion French State aid scheme to support offshore wind energy to foster the transition to a net-zero economy

Comment#1. The European Commission has approved a €10.82 billion French scheme to support the deployment of offshore wind energy, which will help foster the transition towards a net-zero economy. The scheme was approved under the State aid Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework (‘TCTF') adopted by the Commission on 9 March 2023 and amended on 20 November 2023 and on 2 May 2024. The French measure France notified to the Commission, under the TCTF, a €10.82 billion scheme to support renewable offshore wind energy to foster the transition towards a net-zero economy. The scheme will run for 20 years. In particular, the measure will support the construction and operation of two bottom-fixed offshore wind farms: one in the South Atlantic zone and another in the Centre Manche 2 zone in Normandy. The South Atlantic wind farm is expected to have a capacity of 1000 to 1200 MW and to generate at least 3,9 TWh of renewable electricity per year. The Normandy wind farm is expected to have a capacity of 1400 to 1600 MW and to generate at least 6,1 TWh of renewable electricity per year.

1dukbiz

Twilio hack leaves Authy users exposed to text-messaging scams.

Comment#1. The fact that they had an Internet-facing endpoint in their production environment without authentication is a HUGE lapse of judgment and should never have been allowed. I get that individuals can make mistakes but there should be a blanket policy against anonymous endpoints and automatic controls that make it impossible to deploy one. Comment#2. That's the end for Authy for me. They killed off the desktop app, now this. Just spend a few hours changing all my shit just in case. Comment#3. Sad... Very sad. No accountability Comment#4. So this sucks, do I just switch over to another app, if so which one and is it easy to migrate ? Comment#5. Well that explains me being inundated with "your delivery has failed" messages, thanks for the heads up Twilio! Way to give a shit about the security of your users Comment#6. I only use this dumb app because discord suggested it for 2FA. Is there a better alternative that discord approves? Comment#7. Ahh, is this why I suddenly started getting a bunch of scam USPS texts? Comment#8. Welp, I’ve been thinking of switching to apple’s stuff so yeah, gonna be doing that this weekend. Fuckin hell, I would’ve thought authy was a good one. Comment#9. I was wondering why I was suddenly receiving 2-3 daily messages from African countries about my packages being returned to sender unless I logged into the "Post" website to choose another location. Fuck the cloud, I'm migrating everything back to spinning rust. Comment#10. If anyone is looking for alternatives, you should look at [2FAS](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twofasapp). Edit: fixed the language, you can stop sending me to the basement now. Comment#11. You are all welcome over to Ente authenticator! Comment#12. Meh. So there was an API or endpoint that allowed enumeration of phone numbers of users... A big deal sure but not that big of a deal. I bet there are 19 ways to enumerate numbers as an authenticated user and get the same information. Meh

1dulk4s

Russia-based disinformation network linked to fake story about Zelenska's Bugatti purchase, BBC says

Comment#1. The internet is a double-edged sword. Comment#2. Honestly, if you saw the fake purchase, it's kinda sad. Imagine paying a professional spy to spread disinformation about a political rival, and they can't do basic due diligence of getting commas vs dots, or French vs English words. No wonder they are losing the war. They got vodka brains for intelligence... Comment#3. Bugatti should "give" one to Zelensky to sell off for charity like Lamborghini does with the Pope Comment#4. Zelensky will forever live rent free in Russian heads. That's unhealthy Comment#5. A network of Russia-based websites posing as U.S. newspapers are behind a campaign of AI-assisted fake news stories aimed at the upcoming American presidential election, the BBC reported on July 3. One recent high-profile example was a fake story claiming that Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska had purchased a $4.8 million Bugatti luxury car with U.S. taxpayer money. The story was filled with errors and used an apparently AI-generated video of an alleged Bugatti salesman who purportedly confirmed that Zelenska had bought the vehicle. While the story was quickly debunked by the BBC and others, and denied by Bugatti, which threatened legal action against those who spread it, the story reached at least 12 million users on X. The BBC said that it was just one of many similar stories spread on fake "news" websites designed to look like legitimate U.S. newspapers. Some of the fake news websites in question even used the names of defunct U.S. newspapers, such as the Chicago Chronicle, which ceased publication in 1907. Comment#6. How surprising. Next you’ll be telling me Fox News isn’t actually news! Comment#7. The dude has Bradley’s( needs more). Who needs a Bugatti ? Comment#8. Ukrainian here. Honestly, i’m not a big fan of Zelenskyy and his government BUT this news is complete s**t because the guy was rich before he became president. Like even if it were true (and it’s not), he earned enough money to live a few lifetimes from dozens of tv projects. Also…. wife? The russians are so stupid that they can’t even pick the right person. there’s probably 10 other people that they could use instead, which would make more sense. Comment#9. I wouldnt be mad if he bought a Bugatti. Armed with machine guns and a laser beam, it is the ultimate Ukrainian weapon. Comment#10. GOP MAGA tiktokers were foaming at the mouth and eatting it up as 100% fact Comment#11. Everyone in Ukraine who is standing up to Putin deserves a Bugatti or two Comment#12. Creating a narrative were everything can be blamed on Russian people. Comment#13. Yea I can imagine.. I live in Greece in a tourist village and it’s full of Ukrainian rich people with fancy cars, they arrogant too.. Comment#14. Could Bugatti sue Hinkle over this? Comment#15. Can someone show me the Link to the fake article? Comment#16. Wasn't he in the Panama Papers doing way worse things than buying a Bugatti? Comment#17. What about the [millions Zelensky stole](https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle) as documented in the Panama papers? Or are we just pretending everything before 2020 didn’t happen… Comment#18. Russia Russia Russia

1dulm5i

Nintendo Has No Plans to Use Generative AI in Its Games, Company President Says

Comment#1. That’s good. Nintendo is all kinds of weird and irritating but they do stand for quality. Comment#2. I'm so sick of the AI craze it's unreal Comment#3. Oh, look, an editor who doesn’t take its client for stupid cash cows. Comment#4. Glad to hear at least one company isn't buying into this bullshit Comment#5. *for now, probably. I doubt the animation or graphics are a huge part of the Nintendo overhead but could totally imagine uses once ai-tools could be polished. Even just a mario wonder sequel with more generative transformation seeds could be interesting if done well Comment#6. Good. Who needs it? Comment#7. They said they'd never make mobile games either. Then they bathed in money Scrooge McDuck-style after releasing Mario Run. I give them 5 years before they announce they're reversing course. Comment#8. This means nothing. What does it mean there are no "plans" to use AI? This is just corpo bullshit. Every game company and their dog is going to be using generative AI eventually, Nintendo included. Comment#9. I assume this is their way of quieting the people who are concerned they might go the way of Square Enix, which has been consistently falling for every new tech scam that happens, from NFTs to AI. Nintendo might be dinosaurs in some fashions but they’ve certainly performed better long term than almost everyone else in their field as far as retaining their employees. Comment#10. Why is this news Comment#11. It's probably because they don't know or care what it is, but I'm still glad to hear it. Comment#12. Remember when Nintendo said they were against microtransaction ridden mobile-type games and then a few years later started releasing crappy manipulative microtransaction ridden mobile games? Comment#13. I wouldn’t expect that they would considering the biggest reason games take so long much longer than before are the high fidelity assets which Nintendo didn’t get involved with. Not only that but if you look at the other areas generative AI can help such as voice over and scripts, they don’t exactly fill their games with that either in comparison to Xbox and PlayStation. I expect that if they tried to chase more high fidelity games like the other two with the Switch successor (I doubt it), they may start to use it at some point. Comment#14. Of course not. It took nintendo just now started to make even slightly decent online features for their games after everyone else had been doing it for 15 years. Nintendo has always been behind the ball when it comes to modernizing. Even if AI was something people were happy and accepting of, they wouldn't start to use it until 5 years from now. Comment#15. Understandable how much of a gold rush AI is, but as tools are forged I hope Nintendo doesn't become luddites on principal. Generative AI has amazing potential, but like nearly all new tech, it takes time for its potential to become reality. Comment#16. Makes it easier to C&D. Comment#17. Fucking liars, give it 5 years and we'll see Comment#18. That makes sense for today's generative AI. And I'm sure some companies will swear it off always, kind of like people who sew all their own clothes rather than rely on automation in the textile industry. But eventually? It could be great. Games that would be genuinely impossible without it, will be widely available and fun to play. Comment#19. What about code? Comment#20. You don’t see a lot of smart business moves like that. I’ve seen so many business’ and restaurants that make small changes they think people won’t care about. It leads to inferior products and services. It’s not a big deal at first, but it begins a process. People aren’t as loyal and spend a little less money with them. They eventually notice profits are dipping slightly and lean more heavily into their “money saving” efforts. People see the problem getting worse and spend even less money with them. It turns into an accelerating downward spiral till the place develops a horrible reputation and they just shut down or sell out. Comment#21. The next version of Pokemon Snap should definitely use generative AI for its photo grading Comment#22. Sounds like a missed opportunity to me. I’d like to see a video game company incorporate generative AI. I’m imagining Minecraft where you can use natural language to generate a dungeon. Comment#23. Well considering their devices can barely run graphically demanding games as it is, this is no surprise. Comment#24. That's the answer to the question I saw ina headline - why isn't Nintendo downsizing studios and cutting jobs while the rest of the game development works is? Western publishers are anxiously cutting in order to ramp up ai production pipelines. Comment#25. They are busy suing everyone else. Maybe they will use AI to get more creative with those lawsuits Comment#26. Uh huh, sure. I think Nintendo will do whatever it needs to do to stay profitable. If everyone else in the industry is using it to shave off 30% of development time, you can most certainly bet Nintendo will eventually backtrack. Comment#27. AI doesn't have to mean cutting corners and bringing down quality in games. It could be used to create something new and crazy. Comment#28. The *one* thing future generative AI could do that would compliment Nintendo tremendously is AI world generation. Imagine Breath of the Wild as infinite as Minecraft, that'd be insane Comment#29. I see a good use for it. One example is car paint jobs in racing games. You could use AI to generate unique/livery artwork on some cars as the race is loading. What actually got me thinking about it was while playing PC Builder Simulator. I thought about how they could use AI to generate art for some of the computer cases, that'd be a pretty cool, unique and surprising experience. Comment#30. 2026. In other news. Nintendo's RPG games seem scripted, flat and boring compared to ones with AI powered NPCs. Comment#31. No. Give me the game they made for Ender. Comment#32. I don’t get why is it good or bad, it seems like a purely PR statement. In the end, it’s about quality of the results, no matter what tools are used. I would absolutely expect AI used to automate mundane and non-critical tasks like help with animating background stuff etc I would absolutely expect AI to help with at least some aspects of level design. After all, games with generative levels are known for ages and are called (usually) rogue-like, this technology culminates in absolutely amazing things like ‘No Man Sky’. I’m sure it can be improved even further with GenAI and why not? I don’t understand this stance therefore. Nothing bad in using GenAI, it’s all about _how_ you use it. Comment#33. Meanwhile there artists are probably already using it in some way Comment#34. Could’ve ended it with “Nintendo has no plans” Comment#35. In other news, Nintendo still makes a ton of money with very little tech advancement and shoddy everything. Got I hate it gets the revenues it does for the shitty platform they put out. Comment#36. * reads comments Boy, humans really hate being replaced Comment#37. Well, no wonder. Nintendo is probably one of the most conservative gaming companies. They hardly go out of their way or change formula, and that is reflected in their games. Like all the different iterations of the same games, like Super Mario Bros. Not saying it's necessarily a bad thing at times, just pointing it out that it's obvious they'll never use it. Comment#38. Weren't people all excited about AI generated content just a couple years ago? Wasn't that a main selling point of No Man's Sky? Comment#39. What's up with r/technology being anti AI and bitching about future technology and hand waving all the good AI can bring to us? Wtf is this? Is there any subreddit that isn't terminally experiencing a pathetic negativity bias? Comment#40. Then this is where they fall behind. Cya Nintendo. When I have my AI generating an open world builder survival with Pokemon elements I'll be laughing as you keep trying to draw new sprites and stay relevant. Goodbye old world Comment#41. Tbf I think games can take advantage of AI in some sense, like an NPC that has a prompt "Say: 'Hello' in a creative way". We all know that after visiting a merchant or something in a game we all know his voice lines after a while, just going back and forth between "hello", "howdy", "greeting traveler" Comment#42. Plans change. Comment#43. Both Mario and Zelda seem AI-generated to me for years and years. Comment#44. Nintendo don't know how to use proper GenAI in games ***fify***

1dulw3e

FTC warns three PC tech companies of potential warranty violations

Comment#1. ASRock, Gigabyte, and Zotac Comment#2. not asus? Comment#3. The FTC like other regulatory bodies are powerless now thanks to a recent supreme court ruling. Comment#4. DOJ DOJ DOJ DOJ DOJ FUCK EM UP Comment#5. What happens when the FTC can't enforce anything due to the recent Supreme Court Ruling Comment#6. The real problem with the supreme court is that they are kicking it back to Congress to make specific legislation on what exactly powers the federal agencies have. Combine that with the very real and very true fact that they want to "simplify" government laws and reduce regulations. That essentially means the Supreme court said "congress you define the scope 100%" and congress said "we want to burn all definitions to make the law simple again" This is obviously bullshit because they love complexity because it creates loopholes for businesses to walk through. Comment#7. Here is your two hundred dollar fine… Carry on… Comment#8. According to the supreme court, they're toothless now. Give as many stern warnings as you want, nothing will be done. Comment#9. Didn't the Supreme Court just recently strip the FTC and all the other TLA agencies out there of any kind of administrative rule enforcement? Say goodbye to consumer protections! Comment#10. All shady, low quality Taiwanese companies. Comment#11. You mean, EVERY. SINGLE. ONE? I still find “warranty void if opened” stickers everywhere. Comment#12. If its not EVGA or ASUS , its subpar. Comment#13. Love the people here crying about chevron who have no idea what it means now that it’s gone. Comment#14. With Chevron being overturned, this means nothing.

1dumabp

Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch

Comment#1. This is just for the business ones. If you have one for home it’s still supported. Comment#2. > Amazon spokesperson Courtney Ramirez confirms that the business bot can’t be converted into one for the home Let's be honest: Sure it can. It's as simple as flashing the firmware. You just don't want to. Comment#3. Glad I didn't get one. Comment#4. Not the first time Amazon has dropped a product shortly after launch. Comment#5. I really hate it when companies do this. Just make it open source instead of bricking it. Comment#6. First I've even heard of it. Comment#7. Any fool knew this was crap Comment#8. Are you kidding me Comment#9. $300 credit at retail prices, and they get to purchase with their massive wholesale ~~strongarm~~ discount.

1dumkjl

The hunt for the most efficient heat pump in the world

Comment#1. What’s super cool is when you combine an air source heat pump with a ground sourced heat pump to use both of their most efficient ranges. Comment#2. Heat pumps need to be cheaper in the US. It's not so much the units themselves (though they're pricier than in most SEA countries) but the labor which is outrageously expensive for HVAC work here. Comment#3. And why is it so damned expensive? It’s an air conditioner with an extra valve that allows it to work in both directions

1dumrk4

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Mac app was storing conversations in plain text

Comment#1. This is a problem why? It's a local file, of course it's in plaintext All of your iMessages are stored plaintext in the messages SQLite db edit: grammar Comment#2. Not great but I think you have bigger issues if someone is accessing your local drive without permission Comment#3. Not great, but if you're the type of person who tells random AI personal information, your identity is probably already stolen Comment#4. Apple drives are encrypted by default since ages so even if someone steals your Mac, they still won‘t be able to access anything. If you let someone get physical access to your unlocked computer, I guess you have way more problems than just your ChatGPT history since most people stay logged in to all kinds of web services like reddit, other social media, and also probably the web version of ChatGPT. Not to mention all other local files with sensitive content, access to your mail and calendar etc. This is a completely made up issue. Comment#5. This literally does not matter , sounds like a Microsoft ploy of going see we are good. Anything you handed or said to closedAI is fundamentally public so having it as plain text shouldn’t matter. If it does you truly need to reevaluate how your using ai and who your trusting. Comment#6. This “ship it now, QC/QA later” mentality needs to stop. Feels like every new product or software has some underlying flaw until early adopters prove otherwise. Comment#7. How else do you think they were going to send the data to the FBI?

1duncmt

Think you’re funny? ChatGPT might be funnier

Comment#1. The fact that this article doesn't contain any examples is weirdly frustrating. I want to read some of the funny jokes damn it. Comment#2. Correct headline: Think you're funny? This LLM will spit out jokes written by other people with no regard for authenticity. Comment#3. “Awkwaaaaaaaaard” Comment#4. I’m unconvinced, I just tried to get gpt 4 and 4o to try to be funny, but it’s variations of very very old jokes. Comment#5. Oh shit, now it's coming for the comedians Comment#6. Suffice it to say, Comics are safe for another generation or two. Comment#7. I just asked Chat GPT to write me a stand up comedy bit, and its pretty fucking god damn funny 😂 🤣 😂 Sure, here's a short stand-up comedy bit: --- **(Walks on stage, waves to the audience)** Hey, how's everyone doing tonight? Yeah, me too, me too. So, I recently decided to get in shape. I joined a gym, which I think was my first mistake. My second mistake was actually going. **(Pauses for laughter)** Have you ever been in a gym and seen those people who just look like they belong there? You know, the ones who are lifting weights like they're picking up groceries, no sweat, just calm? And then there's me, struggling with the treadmill, looking like I'm auditioning for a disaster movie. **(Mimics running on a treadmill, out of breath)** I swear, the treadmill's more in shape than I am. It's been running for miles, and I've barely done a kilometer. And those machines! The ones that look like medieval torture devices. I got on one, and I couldn't tell if I was supposed to work out or confess to crimes. **(Pauses for laughter)** Then there's the personal trainers. These people are amazing. They're so positive, so full of energy. "You can do it! Just one more rep!" I'm like, "Lady, I don't even know what a rep is, but I'm pretty sure I've exceeded my lifetime quota." **(Pauses for laughter)** You ever notice how gyms are always full of mirrors? I think it's to remind you why you came in the first place. But for me, it's just a reminder of how far I have to go. I caught my reflection the other day and thought, "Wow, who's that sweaty mess?" Oh right, that's me. **(Pauses for laughter)** And then, after all that torture, you get to the locker room. That's where the real fun begins. You're all sweaty, trying to change clothes without looking like a total fool. Meanwhile, there's always that one guy who's way too comfortable being naked. Just strutting around like he's on a catwalk. I'm over here trying to put on socks without falling over. **(Mimics awkwardly putting on socks)** Anyway, I’ve decided to stick with it, though. Maybe one day, I'll be one of those people who look like they belong there. Or at least, I'll learn how to use the machines without needing an instruction manual. Baby steps, right? **(Pauses for laughter and applause)** Thanks, everyone! You've been great! --- Hope you enjoyed it! Feel free to tweak it to match your style and delivery.

1dundmk

Watch: Figure’s 01 humanoids now working at BMW’s car plant in US

Comment#1. iRobot come to life Comment#2. I remember "robots" stealing jobs from union workers when I toured an auto assembly plant for Chevy S10 trucks in 1982. I've had a few decades to try to acclimate. I can't say I like seeing them in human form. I thought they were creepy then and still feel they are more creepy now. Comment#3. Instead of Men who stare at Goats, we will have Robots that stare at Complex Car Parts Comment#4. The one job humans are still able to do, is the first job they will take. Just like they came for art, music, and writing first. Our legal framework isn’t ready for this encroachment on human jobs, and our social security system is going to crater when robots displace Social Security generating salaries. Fuck. Comment#5. In addition to the integration of LLM AIs, these robots will benefit from decreasing battery prices and higher energy densities. I'm not sure how soon mass production can start, but this might become the next disruptive tech. Comment#6. Hopefully the robot isn’t paid by piece work, it’s slooooow at the task. Comment#7. The demo looks really suspicious. While I believe the voice recognition part of it, the movement looks way too fluid (see the apple drop at the end of the video). I wouldn't be surprised if that demo was using a human to actually carry out the movement, mirrored by the robot (or just a really cherry-picked example).

1dunju5

Critical vulnerabilities left millions of Apple devices at the mercy of hackers – and nobody noticed for nearly a decade

Comment#1. >CocoaPods is a popular open-source dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C used by Apple developers to manage external libraries, with around 100,000 libraries used in over three million mobile apps. Is cocoapods used by iOS developers internally ? Or only apps Comment#2. Load of horse shit. Comment#3. They say this like this means because a vulnerability exists you were affected by it. Which is stupid. Comment#4. …and this applies to all open-source dependency managers. Maven/gradle, npm/yarn, nuget, pypy, etc. This isn’t unique to CocoaPods. There’s a whole industry around OSS security that checks the dependencies and transitive dependencies used in your software, and alerts if there are known vulnerabilities in those libraries, or when new vulnerabilities are detected. For example, basic Dependabot is free for all GitHub repos. It’s on developers to keep their dependencies updated (but that won’t help for apps that are end-of-life or abandoned). And updating dependencies can be complicated when it’s a transitive dependency with a known vulnerability. It’s also on users to keep their apps and devices updated (not everyone has their devices/apps set to auto-update), and to stop using end-of-life software. Which is complicated for mobile apps because unless you check, you don’t really know if something is abandoned or end-of-life. Comment#5. Interesting astroturfing to bury this. Very transparent. Comment#6. I’ve said it before, but there seems to be a perpetual hate boner for Apple. This same news was shared a week ago and here it is still being shared like it’s big news. And like other people have said, this could’ve been a vulnerability if a user installed certain apps on their iPhone. Comment#7. >According to the investigation, the vulnerabilities arose in 2014, and were only patched in October 2023, lying dormant for nine years waiting to be exploited. Use a mac at work so quite concerning. Even more so that these vulns were essentially just out there for *nine years* ffs. Very surprising that nobody pounced on this across that period.

1duo1l1

Microsoft lays off employees in new round of cuts

Comment#1. Nearly 3 years straight of layoffs Comment#2. It’s more Xbox folks :/ Comment#3. Partner work for them. Every week feels like it's gonna be the last. It's so fucking draining Comment#4. They need to cut labor costs to pay OpenAI's electric bills. Comment#5. Laying people off before the July 4 long weekend? Fucking brutal Comment#6. AI spending spree not paying off? Comment#7. How many executives or upper management got the axe? Comment#8. Revised headline: Microsoft ruins thousands of lives to make stock price rise. Comment#9. Layoffs will continue until the prescribed recession finally hits Comment#10. Stocks going 🆙 Comment#11. This always happens at the start of a new fiscal year Comment#12. is anyone surprised? Comment#13. Satya made the company worth more but gutted absolutely anyone and anything of actual value. It’s a sad time in MS history. McKinsey folks always destroy the spirit and extract all the value until it’s a husk of its former self. Comment#14. They have over 200k employees... They have "layoffs" all the time. Comment#15. How do stock holders like this garbage? Id be sick to hold a stock that just lets people go willy nilly. And people harp about company loyalty. Hopefully they get great severance Comment#16. Were these implementing layoffs from WARN or are these actually new layoffs? Curious because journalists sometimes don't know the difference and report WARN layoffs like they're a surprise. Comment#17. Microsoft laying off employees right before the July 4th weekend is rough. It's disheartening to see such cuts, especially after their recent acquisition spree and ongoing investments in AI. It's a tough time for tech workers, with so many layoffs happening across the industry. Comment#18. Do they still collect their RSUs? Comment#19. Every tech company is doing layoffs Comment#20. Nothing new .... AI tooling is so expensive to run that they need to drive down the cost of employee and cost of goods sold to keep the stock growing Comment#21. Nice. Good news Comment#22. Good. Fuck em. Hopefully they never financially recover. Comment#23. 227,000 people work for Microsoft. That's probably around 200,000 more people that they need. AiManager is making them redundant.

1duo2s9

The FTC is investigating PC manufacturers who scare you away from your right to repair

Comment#1. It's 1998? Comment#2. Such as, making the cases non-standard design so you can't just install a video card (alright, I'll excuse the over sized video cards, I blame the video designs on those brick sized designs), or even a new motherboard. I'm throwing out good cases, because the front panel port cables use proprietary end patterns that don't work on most other motherboards. I'd have to pull all the wires out of the pins and shift them around. Comment#3. So—all of them, then? Comment#4. What about the right to ***own*** my machine? The one ***I*** ***paid*** for. What about that FTC? Hint: go see Nadella. Comment#5. Not for long, since with Chevron gone, they can sadly sue the shit out of the FTC, not to mention pay off any judge (after the verdict, totally NOT a bribe... totally). Comment#6. i will say this. while working as a tecnician, we ran across a situation we couldnt figure out. we had trouble shot a machine that was not working that had us rather confused on why the device didn't work. we narrowed it down to a single point and it was an item that we had not run across before. I was 10 years out of school at the time, and the other guy was likely the eldest (and very sharp) guy on the team. well the thing was a mercury switch that was there to disable it if it had been knocked over. well just as i found out on a computer what it was, he was taking a look inside... it can be a safety concern for some things, and things like that ought not to be sold.

1duqzca

Millions of OnlyFans paywalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops say

Comment#1. >cops demand free access to all amateur porn This certainly sounds like reasonable search and seizure. Comment#2. “So uhhh, it’s going to be necessary to raise our budget to include millions of OnlyFans subscriptions, it’s the only way to save the children” Comment#3. Is this like those massage parlor investigations that take 3 years, over half the force visiting to 'collect evidence', and lots of taxpayer money? Comment#4. Millions of locking front doors make it hard to detect illegal activity, cops say. Comment#5. Can't the FBI handle this? Comment#6. I don’t know how content from anyone underage can ever be posted on onlyfans. The verification methods they use right now are very thorough. Every single post is verified by a human. If you include someone in a video that isn’t verified on your account it’s immediately taken down. Comment#7. Pay for your porn, piggies. Comment#8. Are these the same cops that target sex workers? Because I can see issues here with giving them direct access to everything. Comment#9. Gimme a break . The Feds have a pipeline of all info on the net Comment#10. Just pay someone to hack whatever you need. You're already violating the fourth amendment on a daily basis anyway. Comment#11. “Oh we can’t check everything out, all law enforcement should get a free pass to all content. Not just because the hot middle school teacher was fired and is making bank on only fans and we want to see too. It’s for official investigation purposes” Comment#12. Onlyfans already disallows certain styles of kink on their platform and have the means to detect these and shut down creators for it, so I'm sure they're able to work with agencies over child abuse material Comment#13. Millions of locks on doors make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops say Comment#14. To be serious for a second though, I guess this is analogous to if the cops should be able to enter every night club/VIP room to see if there's evidence of anything. Seems to me without probable cause i.e.: someone tipping them off, that's a hard no in real life and I don't see why it wouldn't also be a hard no online. If they really wanted to do the work the cops could find out from past convicts how they found their ways in, and hang out there. Realistically it's probably faster anyways, you can watch thousands of hours of content or have a few tabs open on a few sketchy forums. Comment#15. They wanna outlaw pornography in general. Or at the very least make everyone register their ID with porn sites so they can know who's looking at what porn. Comment#16. Only fans is so strict on consent and tagging the person in the video that their ai picks up sex dolls as humans and will remove the video for not tagging “ co star “. They don’t allow role play of a minor. No diapers no pacifiers. The ai picks up on all that and the content is removed. Comment#17. Better get full access to their bank accounts as well because terrorism. Comment#18. Every government is like: "Will someone PLEASE think about the children?!!" at every opportunity to have more power and money. Comment#19. Should be in OnlyFans court to analyze the content programmatically and finding outliers that they then have human staff investigate. Opening up any and all content to cops via backdoors and the like is just awful just by the principle of the thing. Frankly, the cops should be focusing on keeping the peace and then investigating crime that has been reported. They're not supposed to have total surveillance oversight to try to ferret all of it out themselves. Comment#20. Sure sure, but what about locked doors in churches? Comment#21. Oh, well, if *the cops* said it. Comment#22. The hard drive against sex work to “save the children” is such a laughable fallacy. They don’t save women or children who are being abused or trafficked, they literally pick out people who are just making a good income because they have some deep-seated shame about their fucking genitals. This country goes down the pisser a little more each day Comment#23. The only way we can go forward is with an online Bill of Rights or a large bill introducing what authorities can and cannot do. Our 1791 Bill of Rights cannot be used and interpreted for 2024 issues. Jefferson even said that laws should change every 9 years to keep up with the current issues. Comment#24. That sounds like violation of privacy Comment#25. given the rate at which cops are the ones raping children and running child sex trafficking rings I somehow doubt the amount they actually care Comment#26. Wahhh - it's too hard to do our jobs Comment#27. They are doing this because OF is a way for people to control their means of production. This is a bs tactic to usurp more power from the working class. Don’t let them. They keep hiding behind the children won’t pass any legislation to curb gun violence. Comment#28. Have a documented reason. Get a warrant. Those are the rules, Blue. Comment#29. Meanwhile conservatives and republicans want to hide their chats and messages and only use apps and platforms that delete their history. 🧐 Comment#30. If a 16 year old lies about her age, how would cops know, even if they had access to the video. It sounds like 16 year olds have to use tricks to get past OnlyFans restrictions, but some have used those tricks. Comment#31. They always use kids as a reason Comment#32. Bottom line: It’s “Fruit of the poisonous tree.” There’s a reason that blanket access isn’t given over to law enforcement and that is because we have a right to privacy. Not only in our personal lives but private businesses also have a right to privacy, and any information we offer to a place of business is also protected. Police don’t have access to it without a warrant. It is our 4th Amendment right. If the legal system creates an exception for one type of business, it creates a precedent for courts to allow it to go on in other types of businesses, and to extend into our personal lives. Our legal system is a system of precedent, which makes it very dangerous to allow exceptions to a rule like this. Furthermore, if an exception is made, and investigations are launched, a higher court can throw out ALL of the evidence collected if it determines the investigation was executed unlawfully. It will do far more harm than good to try and force businesses to allow police access to their records without a warrant. The legal process is more important here. Comment#33. Hmm I mean can't they just like make a paid account??? Some real geniuses working for the police I see. Comment#34. Cops: "ah yes, we need free access to any/all only fans content to detect CP....no other reason" Comment#35. Isnt the parent company of the website responsible and monitoring what’s posted to it? Comment#36. Lmao they casually propose laws that can take away encrypted communication and services for common people but won’t even bother forcing a service like only fans to open a backdoor to their service for monitoring CP? Comment#37. This just sounds like Cops wanting free OnlyFans. Comment#38. The 4th amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure make it hard to detect child sex abuse, cops say.... Comment#39. Police and child protection charities absolutely do not deserve the benefit of the doubt here - they have a long track record of abusing access and attacking sex workers, and they can fuck off. Comment#40. Cops say millions of locked doors on homes prevent them from detecting child abuse. Demand skeleton key and right to search your home at any time, just to make sure. Also hand over the passwords for your computers and phones cause they need to be able to search those at any time too. But just to prevent child abuse. They totally won't use reconstruction to justify a warrant if they find anything else criminal, they promise. Also cops are allowed to lie to you so our promise is worth nothing, sucker! Comment#41. Cops want free porn. Fixed the headline for you Comment#42. Yeah! I’m with the cops, no more onlyfans paywalls, to help fight the bad guys or whatever Comment#43. I don’t take the cop statements in good faith. Comment#44. Can’t they just Civil forfeiture like the random jeeps and houses they do for people? Comment#45. What a strange way to say they want free porn Comment#46. First they came for my vape then they came for my porn Comment#47. Last time I called the police for a burglary they weren’t even interested. Hmmm… Comment#48. That is a weird thing that seems like there is a corporate contact to deal with when the need arises. Yeah this seems like a weird ask from police. Tell you what at least you know it’s not kids subscribing, coming from the other angle. That needs money. Comment#49. Why not start with Instagram? Plenty of CSAM there. Comment#50. makes sense that porn is a reasonable part of the budget Comment#51. That puts a whole new meaning to “serve” Comment#52. In other words, pedo cops want free access to CP Comment#53. I’m pretty sure OnlyFans doesn’t use zero trust encryption, they have access to all the content on the platform, so if the cops have evidence they could get a warrant and compel OnlyFans to provide access to a specific account. If they don’t have evidence then what child abuse are they talking about cause it seems like it doesn’t exist outside their imagination. Further the 4th amendment is pretty clear law enforcement doesn’t get to blanket violate your privacy, they need evidence and a warrant. OnlyFans also has robust age verification and requires all persons in content be age verified. So I imagine out of all platforms that handle pornography Onlyfans probably has the least instances of CSM. Comment#54. Another overblown story, as if people are out there pumping out CP on onlyfans when the absolute majority is just using the service like usual. I'm sure if you asked 5 security analysts if they'd like even more power to search into literally any location without limit, they'd tell you how great that is because they "might" find some CP easier Comment#55. Is this the onion? Cops are out here gunning down kids in the street lol like we are gona trust them Comment#56. Is this the Boston PD that Karen Read had to deal with? LOL Comment#57. Better make a backdoor for cops. I'm sure that won't be abused Comment#58. Do you not need proof of age when signing up for OnlyFans? Are these people using fake IDs? Comment#59. Cops: we want our officers to have free access to all onlyfans content. Now there’s a job perk. Comment#60. They just want to support their friends. Comment#61. Yes! Remove all paywalls to porn. The police DEMAND it 🥵 Comment#62. Only fans doesn't need the cops help. OF does not fuck around when it comes to this stuff. Comment#63. The fact that the company is on its 3rd CEO post-COVID is very telling. The first was Tim Stokely who founded the company and stepped down because he's terrible PR, second was Amrapali Gan who resigned after 2 years of trying to convince the masses that Onlyfans is "not just adult content", and the most recent is Keily Blair who has continued the crusade where Gan left off. But the truth is that Onlyfans is mostly pornographic content and has the same pitfalls as every other pornographic site. These CEO's are under a lot of pressure, because as soon as the PR charade fails, credit card companies will sweep their legs from under them just like Pornhub Comment#64. Free for all! Free for all! Comment#65. Recommend a few good accounts? For a pig bro of course Comment#66. While true, and probably the most blatant to call out, I’m sure there are all sorts of non-sexually related criminal activities taking place behind the paywall curtains on that platform. Con artists, hate groups, illicit biddings you name it. Each with a gate. Comment#67. I always wondered how that works, like if an OF couple films stuff that’s legal in their country but illegal in the USA what happens when it’s watched? Comment#68. Easy fix. Remove the site and recreate it. They make it seem like there is nothing that can be done. Comment#69. Are there OF pages where the person reviews…fans? Comment#70. When I worked at Microsoft I knew a guy who worked in IE. He had to test compatibility with the most popular websites. You can guess what’s popular. Had to get waivers for the corpnet site filter once or twice… Comment#71. we are all bots here except for you Comment#72. Keep reporting your own site for it and just reap all of the new subscribers. Comment#73. just u wait till they find out about knockoffs like boosty Comment#74. That is true. Comment#75. This just in, cops want free backdoor access to your porn "for the children" Comment#76. So I’m guessing they aren’t going to be watching the it manually so they would want * a court decision granting them unfettered access * Ai software (and budget) to auto review and flag anything anyone they suspect. * access to the billing records for all subscribers so it they do get a match (true or false positive), they know who the purchasers are. How is this different than Craigslist/ backpage that cooperated with law enforcement but were still vilified by DAs running for office? Comment#77. Millions of corporate firewalls make it hard to detect child sex abuse. Will no one think of the babies? Comment#78. Did you know that if you are a cop, you can legally rape someone in your custody? I wonder why cops want free universal OnlyFans access? Can't put my finger on it. Comment#79. Will republicans shut down OF? Comment#80. Just offer rewards to people who turn In accts found to be minors or have child porn whatever. Suddely you have thousands of amateur sleuths for free. Comment#81. Isnt that what subpeonas and search warrants are for? Comment#82. Was in the GTA public discord (a horrid place) and a girl joined peddling her OnlyFans to a bunch of underage teenagers bitching about "bad parents" not buying them the game, and how women cannot be trusted with anything. Then the dozenth little kid joined screaming the n-word and I left the server. Comment#83. Pay with card, then reverse the charges. I'm sure law enforcement has arrangements like that with the card issuers. Comment#84. > "Cops would seemingly need to subscribe to each account to monitor the entire platform" There is a business model here: 1. Start an onlyfans account 2. Charge stupidly high amounts of money for it 3. Anonymously report it as potential CSAM to multiple separate agencies 4. Profit Disclaimer: This is parody please don't take this seriously or arrest me thanks. Comment#85. Yep, basically the digital equivalent of tampering with the evidence Comment#86. Surely if you have a reasonable suspicion of CP on an only fans account the investigators can pay for the sub and then unsub if nothing found. And if something is found Sue OF and they’ll gladly refund Comment#87. I highly doubt there is child porn OnlyFans. They are super strict, and videos get removed all the time if they break the rules. If your dildo looks too realistic it tells you to tag your partner. If you post ANYTHING evergreen remotely breaking the rules it gets removed. Pretty sure children would get removed even quicker. Comment#88. It's concerning that platforms like OnlyFans face challenges in detecting and preventing child sex abuse behind paywalls. Ensuring robust safeguards and proactive measures are crucial to protect vulnerable individuals. Comment#89. Law should be introduced to punish the executives of the company if they don’t report illegal and CSAM activities. Comment#90. I think if just 1 minor is on only fans the government should put the blame on only fans for not vetting it's users. Comment#91. abolish paywalls , who's with me?! Comment#92. abolish paywall, who's with me?! Comment#93. Has the internet been a net positive for the world? Comment#94. Bet the heat goes up on them after the Aylo class action lawsuits go to trial. Comment#95. Police need free porn of all the local women obv. Just to make sure they're safe. Comment#96. If they suspect abusive content is there then should should do what police work used to involve, a warrant. Police work is getting lazier. Just look at ring cameras. Police have to request footage from a business to pull their dvr content for shoplifting cases but your own footage you send to ring is given freely. Comment#97. If one case is found the whole page should be closed until company sorts it out itself and makes sure mo more is possible. Comment#98. I actually posted this in the "privacy" sub, but maybe it fits better here based on the replies: With so much talk about client side scanning on all devices, both by Apple for a while now and more recently by the EU, I find it quite interesting how readily they ignore something as simple as this. Now obviously there are people who use their mobile devices for such things. But with OnlyFans, you have a company whose entire existence relies on satisfying people with their desired sexual material. It seems to me that it would be FAR less invasive AND far more effective to simply allow police full access to the backend of ALL pornography webstes, to monitor what is uploaded and viewed. That way the target is companies, not individuals. And while there is still some privacy aspect, in that police would have access to data of people looking up totally legal porn, it is still a lot better than having them infiltrate all private devices of every citizen in the world. I suspect we all know the real reason governments want to target end user devices rather than corporations, is because it gives them the ability to spy on political dissidents and get dirt on anyone they want to oppress. But it's always interesting how there are so many obvious ways to really tackle this issue, that get totally ignored by our governments. Now there is an argument to be made, that such complete monitoring of all users and for that matter producers of legal porn on those platforms is still a big privacy violation. In which case another alternative would be to require that such companies allow audits, with publicly published results, of their monitoring systems. And if their systems are proven to be inadequate and a high level of material is found to have gotten around their systems, then the corporate executives should get prison sentences for being complicit. And that solution doesn't violate privacy, AND tackles the core of the problem. That almost all crime stems from the desire for profits. After all DMCA safe harbor provisions weren't intended to just allow companies to get away with anything by closing their eyes and turning the other way. Comment#99. All these jokes are hilarious but this seems to be on the recommendation of five specialists in online child sexual abuse, not police. I am all in favor of making it easier to detect child sex abuse and possible trafficking or other victimization from people who may just put a younger person they have some control over in front of a camera. This seems to be a legitimate issue that OnlyFans needs to address. Comment#100. do it for the children Comment#101. So.... wasn't there supposed to be an image AI scanner thingy at this point that should be able to differentiate between adults and children? Comment#102. I've never seen so many people defend CSAM because they hate cops *more* than detecting and removing child sex abuse material. But, it is Reddit, and the stereotype does sort of fit. I've upset quite a few pedophiles it seems. Comment#103. and still onlyskanks is widely used and normalized... disgusting platform... Comment#104. [removed] Comment#105. Throw a few OF execs in prison for awhile. Let’s see what happens.

1dur5it

Rare earth replacements for EVs don't measure up - for now

Comment#1. Duh! Nothing ever measures up to start with. Stuff fails before we get it right... then it is OK... then it gets better. The fact that something isn't as good as an established alternative is hardly news worthy. Comment#2. What about these guys that managed to do it https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/ev-motor-rare-earth-free-2667746772 Comment#3. All this investment into EVs when we should just replace most cars on the road with trains and public transport. Comment#4. I bought a 1980s Honda for 500 bucks that gets almost 40mpg. It's a blast to drive. There is no doubt in my mind that it will still last as long as a new bloated moneygrab EV. Comment#5. Less power and efficiency is better than no motors as all.

1dus3re

Sony Music Goes After Piracy Portal ‘Hikari-no-Akari’

Comment#1. You know what's fun is when corporations buy the laws and then pretend like they can treat everyone as shitty as they want with the full and total expectation you'll play by the laws they wrote. This shit is and always has been a two-way street. The shittier you are, the more piracy there will be. It's a pretty equitable system all told. Comment#2. I found a Shoshone arrowhead over there in the creek bed.

1dut0qf

New Windows 11 Start menu annoyingly hides oft-used actions

Comment#1. "Stop doing useful things! Click ads instead!" Comment#2. What's happening with Windows lately? They haven't been really brilliant when we talk about their customers but damn, they seem to really don't care at all now. Comment#3. # No means no, Microsoft. Comment#4. Remember the days when you frequently had to use CCleaner, Avast, AVG, etc. on your family computer because SOMEONE (mom) had just clicked accept on everything, and now your computer is filled with pop-up ads and unnecessary bookmarks on your Netscape? No relation to this, of course. Just thought I'd mention it... Comment#5. Hopefully this bullshit can be changed with a registry edit! I can't stand Windows 11. I've made a few changes via the registry. Our org uses Enterprise. Comment#6. Start menu has been useless for a while. It started in Windows 10 when searching for "OpenVPN" and getting results for "Oprah". Comment#7. The os became so dependable and self centered on online services and on internet...where are the days when most things were offline? Comment#8. The "three dots" solution to this was clearly made by a web UI designer putting touchscreen interfaces first, probably due to some invasive corporate order requiring him to. Ctrl-Alt-Del or Alt-F4 still works but most normal people can't remember that. At some point, I might as well just boot right into a command prompt and do all my business inside that, opening and closing windows via keyboard shortcuts and completely avoiding the useless, difficult to navigate menu. Comment#9. Can't I just have Windows 7 with WSL? Comment#10. I’m genuinely failing to see a single good reason for me to move from Win10 to Win11. Comment#11. I'm on linux mint and it's so stable and reliable to the point that it's almost boring and I'm thinking about distro hopping to something like nixos just to spice things up. It's good to be linux user in 2024. People like to scream "Microsoft bad" and "Time to move to linux" but if you just scream and do nothing then microsoft is going to keep doing shit like that because they know that people are still going to use windows. If you want to control your computer maybe try something like linux mint and see that it's not that scary and most of your games are also going to work Comment#12. The account manager experience on the Start menu showing account settings and an action needed that needs to be taken to secure your Microsoft account is akin to the Home page in Windows' settings. Why anyone would click the account button to shutdown or restart is beyond me when there is a perfectly good power button that does the same. Comment#13. I see this often with Microsoft's software products. Change for the sake of change, ignoring usability and design patterns that made sense with their previous offerings. Comment#14. Man, the definition for updates changed a lot for MS. Do they even deliver security and improvement, or we are just bloatware testers now? Comment#15. Windows Start Menu is straight up unusable since about Windows 8. I have 10 and I cannot have it without OpenShell. Basically Windows 7 start menu is where it's at, everything after that has been a massive downgrade, like they actively try to make it as useless and hard to navigate as they can Comment#16. TL;DR: it’s Lock, Sign out and Switch user. > However, the redesign has a noticeable side effect: the “Lock,” “Sign out,” and “Switch user” options that used to be immediately available are no longer there in this newly designed menu. I guess I don’t really agree that those are “oft-used” except for Lock which is windows-L. (Of course the headline achieved what it wanted; to trigger tons of angry comments.) Comment#17. Luckily there are other, less ad-laden operating systems out there. Comment#18. I'm the only user on my PC so it has one account. I use win+L to lock my computer when I'm away, but the option should remain on the start menu at least for accessibility. Especially if my keyboard isn't available. Switch user should be hidden for computers where there's only one account active. I don't know how much that gets used elsewhere though. Sign out should remain. It still has uses for me, when sometimes a program runs annoyingly and I can't kill it normally. Sign out sometimes fixes that without needing me to do a full restart. A lot of these should be customisation options though too. Surely it's not hard to have a hide switch? Meanwhile jump lists no longer work on Windows 11 (I used those), search doesn't find any of my music files. Search goes hard on pushing web results. Not enough people ask, want or need Copilot. Isn't going to stop Microsoft pushing that harder. Comment#19. Don't worry, any day now, ~~FreeWin95~~ ReactOS will come out and capture the whole market! Comment#20. Just like the right-click hiding rename and other things being other action Comment#21. insiders only. Probably a bug. Comment#22. No different than early versions of Windows making you drill down 17 sub-menus to start a Windows Explorer. Comment#23. Windows is a good example of unnecessary overdevelopment. My guess is that Microsoft employees make changes just to justify their existence. Comment#24. Misspelled deliberately. Comment#25. I'm way over my head on this, bit why haven't we seen any competition for pc os? And not Unix, something average-user friendly. Comment#26. Windows has been hiding oft-used functions at least since 3.11 Comment#27. I use this instead of the start menu: https://www.flowlauncher.com/ Also as others have said for removing bulk/unwanted features; https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 Comment#28. Ugh, why would I ever update from win 10. Thank god policy editing Comment#29. Microsoft bad! Comment#30. My last 11 machine is ready to wipe and rebuilt with Linux. Comment#31. They did the same thing in the azure portal fucking stupid. Comment#32. Ironic that they publish this article then I get hit with TWO back to back full screen adds blocking the content I tried to read on that website. Comment#33. Jokes on them I havent used the start menu ever since they added the search bar into the Taskbar. I know what I'm looking for in my pc just type it and I'm done. Everything else is either a shortcut on the desktop or pinned to Taskbar. Comment#34. I highly recommend [O&O Shut Up](https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) It gives the user control over many privacy and ad options in a nice clean user interface. Comment#35. So, at Msft, there is this noun, surfaces. Not the laptop Surface, but rather the idea of, as Msft, we 'own' certain pixel real estate on the Pc, which we can inject ad real estate into. Start is one such 'ad ready' surface. The noun surface also applies to any ad ready pixel space in Edge, on mobile, in Help...etc. And of course, those shambling zombies like SharePoinT. So now you know how to understand the word surface when it is being thrown around during a Teams call to discuss why the enterprise should fear Salesforce, or whomever the latest Msft frenemy happens to be at the time. Comment#36. Windows 11 is more like a dodgy torrent site than an OS Comment#37. I have been primarily a Mac user for the last 2-3 years. I appreciate the simplicity, and how the OS doesn't get in my way. I started a new job a couple weeks ago and they gave me a Windows 11 laptop. I hadn't used 11 yet, and I was looking forward to giving it a shot. I really hate that thing. It's filled with ads for Microsoft and HP, context menus have been changed unnecessarily, and multi monitor support is way behind Apple (why does virtual desktops change every single monitor instead of each one individually?). Adding stuff like this will just make it worse. It feels like they're pressured to make changes just for the sake of doing something different, without ever considering if it enhances the user experience. Windows 11 is garbage. Comment#38. Absolute insanity that corporations will have to use absolutely ad-ridden bloatware as an OS for all their systems. Comment#39. ITT: Blatant Microsoft astroturfing. Comment#40. that start menu is trash anyways.... just my 2 cents Comment#41. I get the anger on principle, but who actually uses the start menu? Windows key > type the program you want to open and hit enter. Most of the time you only need like the second or third letter. I haven't had a use for the actual menu since like win8 Comment#42. Just pushing pushing pushing to get people to use their online accounts and online shit. Getting pretty unbearable. I'm sticking to Windows 10 as long as I can; I'm sure they'll try to fuck that up too but probably not quite as aggressively as 11. Comment#43. Windoz eternally sucking Comment#44. Yeah and people keep buying their shit that’s why MS keeps doing what ever they want cause they know people will keep buying shit…solution……stop buying but we know people won’t! Comment#45. Another move to trap users in their cloud, I see. Comment#46. > Instead, as Windows Latest shows, you now have to click on the three dots at the top right of the new user account menu to reach the “Sign out” and “Switch user” options. Furthermore, the “Lock” option is gone. Going forward, an extra mouse click will be needed for these relatively frequently used actions An extra click, the *horror*. The power options are unchanged. Are people actually signing out of their home PCs instead of just turning them off?

1duu5u4

Why GPS Is Under Attack

Comment#1. I’m glad to see this is starting to get more attention these days. I’ve worked in APNT (Assured Positioning, Navigation, and Timing) for a few years now, and the industry just isn’t getting the funding it needs to support critical infrastructure, DoE, DoT, FAA, Finance, etc, because people just assume that because GPS is ubiquitously deployed it is equally robust. GPS is quite possibly the most over-utilized and fragile single point of failure in the entire United States’ critical infrastructure. Comment#2. As a pilot the GPS spoofing and jamming is a serious threat. Spoofing is getting so bad that it can show an aircraft position to be on the other side of the globe or at altitudes your not even close to. In aviation we then have to switch off our gps systems and rely on basic navigation systems. This effectively renders our terrain awareness systems invalid as i have personally had terrain warnings at 35000 feet. The international community really needs to come together and stop militarys doing this. It is mostly the IDF and US military forces using these softwares. If you overfly any neighbouring countries of Israel then you always have to switch off the aircraft gps recievers. Comment#3. Summary: GPS can be spoofed, newer systems like Galileo includes authentication (possibly an idea for future GPS upgrades). [Map of where it's being done](https://spoofing.skai-data-services.com/) Looks like Russia and Lebanon are the biggest culprits. Comment#4. FFS reading this is like trying to scroll someone's fucking MySpace page. WTF is this 2 sentences per scroll bullshit. Who designed this crap? I half expected a little alien in a saucer to chase my cursor like we had in the 90s Comment#5. GPS, like many government services including the interstate highway system and most of the national science foundation are military tools. GPS is a weapon system. Stands to reason other countries would seek counters. Comment#6. To be honest. One of the better informative pieces from nyt these days Comment#7. Is there a version of this article that is readable instead of this animated nonsense? Comment#8. This is why we can't have nice things Comment#9. Seeing it's a NYT article I'm half expecting their listed reason to be Biden's age... 😑 **Edit:** Listen, I don't like Biden at all but if the NYT feels that Biden's age and shit performance at the first debate warrants pressing for him to drop out, the fact that they haven't put one iota into being equally as concerned about the other candidate whose shown far greater mental decline along with blatantly talking publicly about how he's going to persecute his "enemies" all the while the Supreme Court has greenlit his ability to commit crimes that are entirely beyond the reach of the law makes me seriously question the NYT's sense of ethics. Comment#10. It's because Russia does not want us to have that much precision, and they own a bunch of our politicians. Mostly R. Comment#11. Just another in an endless list of examples of how the ultra-rich robber barons of our society, in their quest for ever more trillions of dollars, have robbed us upgrades to critical infrastructure. Comment#12. Because GPS is also a weapon. GPS does not only bring your car to your vacation, it also helps guide missiles and other weapons. In war it's only natural that it will get attacked to diminish the opponents capabilities. Cool website tho. Comment#13. It's time to go back to the old, trusty LORAN system. Comment#14. Remember that first and foremost GPS is a military asset, and a military asset only. The DoD opened up use to the world, but can just as quickly turn that tap off. In a war, it will be one of the first things to go. Comment#15. Wow! Someone at the NYT fucking hates people. That was the worst overdeveloped page I've seen in fucking years. Did they farm that out to the first year designer who just learned a bunch of technical CSS and has no idea what readability means? Comment#16. The world did this before GPS, just differently. Comment#17. If GPS is trash and Galileo is good why can’t I use Galileo and why should I care about GPS. It seems to me that there are alternatives, and being overly dependent on a single system is not in anyone’s interest. Comment#18. Cool website Comment#19. Guess I’ll just go back to printing out directions or, jeebus forbid, remembering where the fuck I’m going. Comment#20. Cyber attacks are going to be rampant Comment#21. Just imagine the effort and cost to launch a new network of modern satellites in a lower orbit, with much stronger signals. This will need weekly launches at least and every launch should at least bring a couple dozen new satellites in orbit. Nobody could do such thing... /s Comment#22. That explains a lot Stupidty and greed Unfortunately for my job I must use gps and gps is getting worse not better, Comment#23. Interesting read. Thanks for sharing OP. Comment#24. We ignored the tireless lobbying efforts of Big Map and Big Compass at our own peril Comment#25. Relevant to this article, some might be interested in GPS alternatives being worked on that [address jamming, and don’t rely on satellites](https://www.sandboxaq.com/press/sandboxaq-announces-aqnav---worlds-first-commercial-real-time-navigation-system-powered-by-ai-and-quantum-to-address-gps-jamming). Comment#26. Considering how much the US military relies on GPS it's really baffling that it hasn't had more priority. Everything else gets the excuses. But military use tends to always find money for it somewhere somehow Comment#27. Love the way they made this article. Comment#28. There was a James Bond movie about GPS spoofing many years ago, GoldenEye. James, played by Pierce Bronson, took care of it but did not get Xenia Onatopp, played by Famke Janssen. He had to settle for Natalya, played by Izabella Scorupco. Saved the world, but got a consolation prize. Comment#29. Yeahhhh not reading that article. What the hell is all that? Comment#30. This page is a freaking pain to read Comment#31. Oh good... I wasn't depressed enough yet tonight... Comment#32. Earth is flat. GPS are towers.

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A network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories as part of an AI-powered operation that is increasingly targeting the US election

Comment#1. Since we have gone political When MAGA Republicans would rather side with Russia over fellow Americans to promote white supremacy it's hard to be hopeful. Some even hung their American Flags upside to support the attacking of our Capitol. I will leave these dots I put together today. Jared Kushner helped hand over Jamal Khashoggi to MBS while serving in the White House . For his efforts after he left the White House his equity firm received 2 billion from the Middle East. We now have LIV golf and a new Trump tower being built in Saudi Arabia as I write this . Worse yet ; anyone remember in April of 2020 when Trump threatened Saudi Arabia to reduce prices on Russia oil sales or lose the protection of the American Government ? He also told them to cut oil production! But the GOP are now mad that Biden has tapped into our reserves to keep gas prices low. Worse yet it is still suspected of being behind 9/11. Trump and his family are so corrupt and have already sold us out to the highest bidders. Trump is in Russias pocket and always has been . And I haven't even mentioned Trumps known Russian money laundering or blackmail of the Ukraine . https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/special-report-trump-told-saudi-cut-oil-supply-or-lose-us-military-support--idUSKBN22C1V3/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0T7B9CdTlna1vRPla7dpBNDfD5KMJukqwsSRf_UqHarSfCTnfsNx_8h2U_aem_RsCXc5sH60aEkdwIXl5jdA https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/21/jared-kushner-whatsapp-house-oversight-information https://www.newsweek.com/kushner-khashoggi-saudi-terrorist-wolff-book-1439068?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2nraR9lgP_Si9EmufpVtPKf9UlMdDCxOLdF1TyzWvWRvYHShhK80_6dyU_aem_TJuup79FaTm9kXkTt0oIIw https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jared-kushner-post-white-house-business-moves-saudis-wealth-fund-mohammed-bin-salman-jamal-khashoggi/ https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/liv-golfs-controversial-growth-raises-questions-saudi-sportswashing/story?id=108042495 https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240702-trump-to-open-tower-in-jeddah-in-deal-with-saudi-developer-extending-brand-to-middle-east/amp/ https://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabias-true-role-9-11-opinion-1809375 Comment#2. Of course, the traitorous fucker is from Florida. Putin is DESPERATE for Trump to win and save him. But I doubt it will have a lot of impact. American voters have two VERY well-known candidates and they've made their decision a long time ago. Not many people are interested in switching to Trump. The concern is discouraging enough Biden voters to swing the fucking Electoral College count. I still believe it won't change anything. Comment#3. The future of Putin's Russia and Xi's China are mortally, inextricably dependent upon a weak idiot like Donald Trump in control of the United States of America. I don't think people understand that Putin will almost certainly end up murdered if his failures in Ukraine continue. And Xi desperately wants an opportunity to encroach upon and seize Taiwan. There is literally nothing they won't do to try and get Trump in that office. Comment#4. They do this for ALL western countries. I'm in Denmark and even here they try this shit. Comment#5. Can we PLEASE kick Russia off the Internet already???? At least half the polarization in the electorate these days comes from their agitprop operations. Comment#6. Surprise surprise. Comment#7. George Santos got elected on lies and fraud, and in the special election to replace him, only 120,000 people voted. In the 2 districts his seat represents, there are 3.2 million people living there. 6% of the people voted in an election to replace someone that got in on fraud. The American people don’t care. Comment#8. Russia’s Internet cables should be severed. Comment#9. Aw, shit. Here we go again. Comment#10. Maybe if we hadn’t allowed the real local papers to shut down, the Russians wouldn’t have been able to deceive us with fake ones. Comment#11. Yes because they know how stupid trump supporters are. Trump could rape a kid in front of them and they would vote for him anyway. Comment#12. The whole world should cut off Russia from the internet. All they do is cause havoc. Comment#13. Many Indian based agitprop engines. Comment#14. I really worry about this. I have my own views like everyone. But sometimes I wonder "Are my views based in reality?" If I see some news confirming what I *want* to believe, and later I find out it's bullshit - how much of that feeling remains? It's especially frustrating because spreading this doubt is kind of the point. And honestly, I don't know how we fix this. We can mitigate it by teaching media literacy to kids, and encourage others to practice their due diligence. But you know as well as I people are too impulsive, and won't volunteer to do that. I'm especially worried for older generations who have spent their whole lives *not* surrounded by this, and have let their guard down. I don't know what to do, man. Comment#15. [When its the 4th of July and democracy is under assault all across the world by fascist regimes.](https://youtu.be/TVW3wCm3BLA?si=toUA5o7yZ9WQE8vj&t=33) Comment#16. It works on boomers and conservatives, so why not. Comment#17. Of course its run by a POS former Florida cop. Comment#18. Another reason why we should have no qualms about supporting Ukraine’s defense and offense. Russia has been at war with the US and the west for far too long, meddling in our affairs and trying to destabilize the world. These actions cannot go unexcused, and now is our chance for payback. Comment#19. Let me guess the “Prairie Patriot News,” “America First Journal,” “We the People’s News.” Comment#20. Basically half the post in /r/politics Comment#21. There was a chrome extension written by a new york magazine journalist that would warn about if you were on a fake news site. this extension was linked in several news articles at the time when it was revealed numerous local news sites were in fact fake and spreading lies. that extension seems now removed. why is that. https://mashable.com/article/fake-news-alert-chrome-extension there was another one that was the B.S. Detector, that was for similar fake websites, targeted to facebook. also removed. https://www.inverse.com/science/23781-bs-detector-facebook-fake-news-daniel-sieradski Comment#22. MAGA is political Dunning-Kruger Comment#23. 18 months ago as AI was starting to gain traction, I posted somewhere on here that it was going to be chaos. If you could program AI to create content and send messages of a certain sort - it could do it all day, create tons of data, target specific people and never.. get.. tired.. "What would happen if you could create an AI scammer that never ever gave up trying??" Took weeks of commenting elsewhere to make up the number of downvotes I got for suggesting it could be used that way. Comment#24. It’s disgusting how WCN want to overturn the constitution with lies. This will end badly. Comment#25. At this point, goverments should just go out and say that media is shit. We can't trust what we read unless it's sourced. Comment#26. As far as investment, Russia creating a bunch of posts in pushing for biting to resign/dropout and for Trump to get elected, is probably the best use of their money. If Trump gets elected then Ukraine stops getting funding and the US will probably drop out of NATO. Comment#27. Go watch 'The Undeclared War' if you haven't already...this is playing out in UK and USA elections Comment#28. Duh. What is this, 2016? Comment#29. This deceit and fakery is intentional misinformation propoganda sanctioned by Trump & the GOP. It is a key component of their established campaign to create and spread doubt among American citizens as to what is true and what isn't by literally flooding the internet with lies and misinformation.. These fabricated stories online, in blogs or purported to come from seemingly reliable sources are then circulated among their trumpmonkey idiot disciples and cited as facts to make it appear they access their alternative fact "news" from multiple sources assured that they've remarkably grown smarter and more sophisticated. Clearly not the case. Further, legitimate citizens and voters are negatively impacted because they don't have time/resources to vette this avalanche of bullshit and "Don't know what to believe". There is a steady stream of lies, disinformation and "fake news", but ironically it is Shitler himself who is responsible for it. Nothing this fraud does is truthful wholesome or patriotic and we should purge our nation of him and his evil Maga associates for good. Comment#30. And the MAGA are licking it up as it’s the exact same thing Trump tells them coincidently. Comment#31. I have said it before and will say it again - it's time to unplug Russia, the ultimate sanction. Cut all the hardlines going in and out of the country, and block any wireless IP originating in Russia. If any friendly nations try to help Russia get away from this sanction, cut them off as well. Russia is not using the Internet for peaceful purposes, they're using it to hack, steal IP and identities, extort and 'kompromat', ransomware websites and databases, spread disinformation and propaganda, create instability and chaos, manipulate armies of bots that shape social media, influence elections, and worse. It's been suggested that they have already hacked their way into important operations and could cripple the power grid, air traffic control, and other critical systems. Shut them up before they can do worse damage to the western world. Comment#32. The world would be immensely better if someone would cut Russia off from the internet. Comment#33. I wonder how many are saying Biden needs to drop out Comment#34. But the MAGA people at the bar last night that tried fighting me because I mentioned I was not voting for Trump told me the Russian connection was a hoax! /s Comment#35. Whoa whoa whoa, hold up, are you telling me that Russia is once again interfering in our elections to spread misinformation mostly to the benefit of Trump again? No way! Comment#36. It's not one sided, both sides are being targeted and Putin is setting up the table so it doesn't matter who wins. Putin's goal is to stoke enough fake hatred on both sides towards the other as to start a civil war. If done correctly, both sides will be isolated and fear the other so much that they think it is their patriotic duty to destroy the other side if they achieve power. It is being effectively executed to a degree that would almost be beautiful if it wasn't so sinister... Brother will kill brother because of lies being told to both brothers about the other, they have so much in common, yet the campaign of the enemy will poison their minds until they kill each other in a bloody heap on the ground Comment#37. Ha, joke on you. I only read politics news about Dennis the Kennal. Comment#38. What’s new. Worked in 2016. But the audience knows the trick and the show has become boredom. Comment#39. While I won't pretend that the US doesn't do the same sort of activity in one way or another, this does seem like something that calls for a much more effective show of force as we know exactly why they are doing this. As well as the traitors who will happily destroy the US thinking that somehow it wouldn't hurt them as well. Comment#40. It’s almost like we’ve seen this before Comment#41. FBI needs to ban their ISPs or IP addresses Comment#42. Yep they have exploded on Reddit… notice things like “news-hub” or “politicsnews” or “politicsnewshub” Comment#43. Russia is on a win win on this election. Comment#44. The main fault is the media themselves Legit News Orgs: Paywall, Create Account, Block Ad Blockers. They are so concerned about generating money that they literally force users away that don't want to spend money to read an article. Fake News Orgs: No Paywall or restrictions to access and view information. Hell, they can cite an article from a paywalled site and few can even fact check it. How many of us on Reddit cannot view a large chunk of the news that gets posted and hoping someone comes in and posts the actual article into a comment? Comment#45. Anyone the can do it does it Comment#46. Chaos is law America is falling Russian led war Comment#47. Isn’t it possible to cut Russia completely out from the internet? Comment#48. Yea, we noticed lol Comment#49. Yep. And people are falling for it because the 40+ generations all taught their kids not to trust strangers but weirdly believe every goddamn thing they see on the internet. Comment#50. 1: Who are they backing? 2: Don't elect that person. Comment#51. A CITIZENRY DOESN’T GET THE POLITICIANS IT WANTS. IT GETS THE POLITICIANS THEY DESERVE. Comment#52. It's 2016 all over again Comment#53. So it begins. Comment#54. Their writing always sucked tho Comment#55. Are we back to the "everything bad you hear is Russia" narrative again? Did Russia co-produce the debate with CNN? Comment#56. Related [misinformation campaign](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-pentagons-antivaccine-propaganda-endangered-public-health-and-tarnished/) run by the US. “According to a June Reuters exposé, the Pentagon ran a secret antivaccine campaign in several developing countries at the height of the pandemic in 2020. Why? “To sow doubt about the efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China,” Reuters reported.” Comment#57. Fake Russian sites==funded by American billionaires for trump. Comment#58. Any anti Trump sites doing the same? I have an idea. Comment#59. And there’s one specific portion of the American politic that’s duped by them. Comment#60. Americans have learned nothing since 2016. For most it's honestly too late to salvage them. People have been propagandized to such an extent that they will never fully recover and be able to rationally and/or critically think again. They will live the rest of their lives seeing a conspiracy behind every story. MAGA cult will live on even when Trump is no longer a player. Comment#61. Republicans are all traitors to our country, every last despicable one. Don't forget that this is a country that in the past year has repeatedly threatened to attack us with nuclear missiles. Comment#62. Gasp! I'm so _-?:#@&!? (/&#$ shocked.... Comment#63. This has been happening for years lol. Nothing new. It’s mostly kids who deploy the websites, it makes them money off of ad revenue. Not sure where but there was a short documentary I watched on it a long time ago. Although the use of AI is new. Comment#64. And the only people reading those websites are people who were going to vote for Trump anyway. The rest of us have enough sense to get our news from trusted sources, among other things. Comment#65. ahh here we go again. the democrats run the worst possible candidate ever against trump in a VERY winnable election. and when he loses they will just blame russian interference again instead of learning from their mistakes Comment#66. Source: a foreign news agency, known for lying about the news. Comment#67. Fake stories like, Biden is talking about dropping out? Comment#68. So like the US did with their coup they ran in Ukraine. Seriously they have balls complaining about supposedly China and Russia funding things in the US. When the US quite openly funds opposition movements in countries it doesn't like the leaders of. And the whole trump Russia link was proved to be a Clinton staffer making up shit to the FBI Comment#69. That would be great to see any proof man. What a bullshit. Comment#70. So they just overturned the Jan 6 convictions, saying that it was illegal to even prosecute those citizens. Was that Russian misinformation. The FBI told us that laptop did not exist...until it was entered as evidence. A couple years back an attempted kidnapping of the MI Governor was foiled by the FBI. But when they tried that people involved, the case was dismissed because there were too many agents and not enough criminals. We invaded Iraq because of...checking notes weapons of mass destrcution. Look my point is we can't trust what Legacy Media tells us. The American public is getting a wonderful education in not trusting anything being told to us by anyone. Comment#71. I believe the official name for these fake local news outlets is "pink slime". Comment#72. Where is the push back to that if true. Comment#73. Any anti Trump sites doing the same? I have an idea. Comment#74. Yea they say Biden is completely competent and c as n serve 4 more years Comment#75. Damn! No wonder the local HS graduation list was in Russian! And here I thought our kids were learning languages in school.

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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

Comment#1. Japan has been living in the year 2000 since the 1980's Comment#2. How did they manage to hang on to them for so long? I thought it was an April Fool’s joke…. Comment#3. Next to go: Zip drives! Comment#4. Japan is wilding out for 2024 Comment#5. Then US military still uses cds 💿 in certain applications. Comment#6. Little did they know that the floppy disks would eventually retaliate in the worst imaginable way. Comment#7. This from the country holding back EV’s for hybrids. Makes more sense now, theyre conservative af and hate change Comment#8. The US is falling apart but on the bright side Japan doesn’t use floppy disks Comment#9. I like to imagine there’s someone hiding out in their basement furiously copying the internet onto 3.5” floppies with a Compaq pc from the 90s, convinced that it’s the only secure way of preserving information Comment#10. You know they still use Fax on daily basis literally everywhere right? Everyone carries cash. And you still need to sign paper by hand. Comment#11. Someone once said that Japan has been living in the year 2000 for the past forty years and that really stuck with me.

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Amazon accused of labour law violations, particularly against menstruating employees — “At most, we get a few minutes to place or change a sanitary pad”: Amazon worker

Comment#1. Guys this is a nothing burger I can explain... you get a few minutes to change your pads, and we get a million dollars every one of those minutes. Maybe a little more . It all evens out, now get back to oh our software fired you for gross unproductivity. Next please! \- Jeff Bezos Comment#2. 2 weeks ago I started a new job where they not only provide a variety of options for all kinds of menstrual products, but will reimburse you if you need to buy a specific product to bring in with you. It’s the first time I’ve ever worked for people who seem like they don’t want me to hate being there, and it’s not a small business. It’s insane to me what some of the companies do to people for marginally better profits when they are already bigger than they ever should be. Comment#3. Amazon needs to be sued into the ground. Period. Comment#4. SCOTUS just entered the restroom and yelled Get your butt back to work! Comment#5. *A recent report by Rejimon Kuttappan of The Quint World, has revealed that Amazon India warehouse workers are being forced to stand continuously for their 10-hour shifts at their facilities, even when suffering from menstrual pains.* *An Amazon employee stated: “Whether the pain is mild or severe, we are forced to stand continuously during our 10-hour shifts. At most, we get a few minutes to place or change a sanitary pad. The pain in our abdomen worsens, and our legs swell, but we have to keep standing and meeting our targets. If we don’t, they block our ID cards and deny us work in all Indian warehouses”.* *According to the Amazon worker, employees are entitled to one 60-minute break, split into two 30-minute breaks.* *However, those employed at Amazon India warehouses often find themselves standing in queues and going through security checks, leaving them with only 15 minutes to eat and drink. When they need to go to the toilet, particularly those who are menstruating, are shouted at by supervisors and receive negative ratings for “disobeying them”.*   *Suggesting a systemic problem for Amazon warehouses, similar experiences are reported by workers at another facility in Haryana, where receiving negative ratings three times results in termination and a ban from employment at all Amazon facilities in India.* *In a recent revelation from anonymous warehouse staff members, people were forced to pledge they would not take breaks from work, explicitly forbidding drinking water and going to the bathroom to meet their targets.* *According to a statement from a woman employed at the warehouse, on a particularly busy day, a “manager instructed us to hold our arms out and pledge: ‘We will not take any breaks, we will not stop to drink water or go to the bathroom until we meet our targets.’”.* *In response, Amazon have called these reports “an isolated incident”, further stating; “there’s nothing more important to us than the safety and wellbeing of our employees … we comply with all relevant laws and regulations”.* Comment#6. If amazon has competition they would not do this. If local businesses had competition they also would not do this. Sadly, the protectionist structure india has built for these two diff business types allows both of them to exploit people, in their own business categories. Best part, indian labour while getting exploited to this extreme, still sees international open business as outsiders. And have an aversion towards 100% FDI. Lol. Thats how intelligent the peeps are. # supportdesibusiness...chahe apni leni deni ho jaye Anyways, this is esp when : - students want to study abroad - people want jobs in MNC - people take on dates to MNC chains - people wanna buy international brands - people wanna go to foreign trips But, desi businesses without competition. Best ji best ! Btw, amazon knows this structure ans gap perfectly, they are not idiots, their lawyers know all this, they know even if this is called out, they would simply put to the name of local contractor for that facility, godown. The profit for that local contractor would be way more than what he needs to pay for the fine. And this continues. This only stops, if people start demanding fair competition. But they never will. Because of communalism. Comment#7. They're called women, not menstruating employees. Comment#8. At that point, I think I would just free bleed and see how they like getting blood all over their products Comment#9. [removed] Comment#10. They want more human like AI and more AI like humans. This is a problem. Comment#11. If you want to have the extra time you should tell your manager about your cycle so they can track it. - some dickhead at Amazon probably. Comment#12. Not for long, the Supreme Court will eliminate OSHA next Comment#13. For a company as big as Amazon, is the disrespect for human dignity and anti labor laws a high priority for the company? What happened to we stick together during recessions and share profits during financial success? Comment#14. “Menstruating employees”? Did they mean women? Comment#15. Free flow Then report them for having blood all over. When they shut down a few times women will have their rights to handle MEDICAL needs.

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Nikola's hydrogen fuel cell truck deliveries surge in Q2, beating expectations

Comment#1. 112 H2 trucks were sold. For context, only 140 Tesla Semis have been sold. The lack of mass production is really hurting Tesla bad. Fleets want to ditch diesel to lower maintenance costs, but Tesla isn't making enough Tesla Semis. Hydrogen has all the benefits of batteries without the drawbacks (large recharge time, pricey disposal), it's a competitive market and it's on the market being delivered sooner at a lower cost. Only issue is the H2 refueling investment, but this isn't a hassle in major markets like Oakland or Los Angeles where there's already H2 gas refining. On which point, the state of California is outright building their own H2 gas refinery to increase supply just as all major railroads start prototyping it in regular service. Companies want this. Individual consumers might have not liked the Toyota Mirai but fleet sales are pushing towards it. The only missing part is availability, which is rapidly being solved.

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Amazon puts down its Astro robotic business watchdog

Comment#1. They are sending it to Uncle Billy’s factory upstate where it can work free. Comment#2. They gave the robo-dogs the Old Yeller treatment.

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Canada Enacts Digital-Services Tax Despite US Retaliation Threat

Comment#1. Paywall removed: https://archive.is/0VwRa Comment#2. I am happy when big corporations get taxed more. It’s not like they need all that money anyways, what are they going to do with it all? Comment#3. Look how bad I feel about it...😏 Comment#4. Paywall on link Comment#5. [removed] Comment#6. Digital tariff Comment#7. Time to economically retaliate against Canada Comment#8. Taxing money which was stolen from American sent back to their countries.

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Microsoft settles California probe over worker leave for $14 million

Comment#1. Penalizing workers who took family care and medical leave. What a mess. Comment#2. Dicks, I wish they would cross someone with the time, money, and vindication to say “No. I see you, I saw, you, and you can’t just buy it away.’…. But Alas… I see Comment#3. Can you imagine the millions employed in smaller companies getting the same treatment. Being denied raises because you weren't at work. It would be different if they were being fired but to expect a raise not based on work performance is silly. Unpopular opinion but how can you expect more when you do less? Comment#4. The white man hires indians to do this. You may feel like hating Indians for being cheap and greedy, but it is the white mans plan that is fucking you

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From 'latte makeup' to 'girl dinners,' TikTok has launched tons of trends. Will its influence last? | AP News

Comment#1. Expected the NyQuil chicken or gorilla glue as hair product to get more traction. 🤷‍♀️ Comment#2. Imagine my vast relief to read that headline and bask in the ignorance of having no idea what latte makeup and girl dinners trends are. Comment#3. I really really don’t think they understand why or how these trends happen and usually it’s just due to the spontaneous nature of people deeming one thing super duper funny or cool. TikTok is just vine which is just short YouTube. It’s just social media and people being silly. Comment#4. > A majority of the more than 170 million Americans who use TikTok belong to the under-30 age group coveted by retailers, according to the Pew Research Center. What money do young people actually have? I thought literal baby boomers have more money than they do Comment#5. until the next cancer appears. And it will. Comment#6. It has definitely educated an entire generation of idiots on how to be better idiots. They should have eaten way more tide pods. Comment#7. It's pretty scary how these kids follow these trends nowadays on tiktok. I was watching an interview about influencers at a convention for influencers. They interviewed them and they were asking him which was their favorite platform. Tiktok was their favorite platform and then youtube. Their least favorite was Instagram, I was shocked because I think Instagram kind of works for me. It's not as noisy as tiktok. However, their reason for not liking Instagram as much is because the videos and the posts are usually outdated or the trends are outdated by the time they make it to Instagram. It's old news. I was like okay so I am behind the times if I'm following Instagram. Wow. Now you really making me feel older. Pretty soon I'm going to have to just retire and go and hang out with the people on Facebook. Maybe someone can start up MySpace again and I can go there and live out the rest of my life with that guy, Sam or whatever. His name was. Tick tock makes me feel real old. I am old but I'm the coolest Gen X'er guy you'll ever meet!

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Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore

Comment#1. Fuck them. But why is the AppStore available there anyway? Thought they pulled out… Comment#2. I hope those VPN companies can provide ipa for sideload it. Comment#3. They pulled out like every horny 15 year old idiot during his unprotected first time: not. When there is money, nothing can stop Apple. Even a war, ethic questions, society or something else. Comment#4. And this is why the appstore should not have a monopoly. Comment#5. Apple is all about privacy. Until it isn’t. Comment#6. Why doesn't Apple better close their appstore in Russia? Comment#7. Apple doesn't care about Russian privacy or security, they're only doing this because they want access to the lucrative market so they are forced to follow the law. That's literally all. Comment#8. You don't need an app to use a VPN. You can set it up manually. https://protonvpn.com/support/ios-vpn-setup/ Comment#9. Why is theres still a russian app store in the first place? Wtf Comment#10. Well it's not like they bowed to pressure from the Chinese government in China or anything... Wait. Never mind. Comment#11. I can't imagine using a computer without a vpn. Especially in Russia. Comment#12. Just brick all the iPhones in Russia. Problem solved. Comment#13. Of course. Making money is more important for Apple. Comment#14. You can setup an VPN without an app but the Ruskies will know you’re doing it and probably throw you in jail. Comment#15. Ah yeah, we wouldn't want to lose all that money from Russia. God knows how Apple could survive without that GDP the size of just New York. Comment#16. TIL Apple still does business in Russia! Comment#17. "Apple listens to enemy state" Comment#18. Is that really bowing? You’re in their country. You obey the laws as it pertains to the country specifically. It is clearly different in the USA. Comment#19. But Canada doing the same is good. Comment#20. Cater to that infamously homophobic country Tim Cook Comment#21. Apple are scumbags. More money in the bank than god but bowing to the Kremlin. Comment#22. Everything should be compatible with open standards, in this case there is an app for OpenVPN (source should be available so you can build your own) which load the configuration files from providers. Comment#23. >Red Shield VPN posted a notice from Apple on X, which said that their app would be removed following a request from Roskomnadzor, “because it includes content that is illegal in Russia”. Okay, so Apple didn't actually "bow" to pressure, they're just following the law so they don't lose the lucrative Russian market, this is no different than American-based VPNs obeying every NSA and FISA court order to the point that /r/privacy laughs at the idea of using any US-based VPN. Why? because the company don't care about Americans' privacy, or because they want access to the lucrative American market (although in fairness, some companies such as Lavabit chose to shut down rather than "bow" to American intelligence agency pressure)

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Brazil suspends Meta from using Instagram posts to train AI

Comment#1. >Meta was given five working days from ANPD's decision to show it has amended its privacy policy to exclude the use of personal information found in public posts to train generative AI. If it fails to comply it will face a daily fine of R$50,000 (£6,935). Lol, META makes at least a few million GBP every hour and has a market cap of 1.25 TRILLION US dollars, threatening to fine them £2,555,000 per year is not even a miniscule dent in their profits, they probably have executive quarterly bonuses far higher than that per person. Until fines actually have teeth, I imagine the cost/benefit analysis will greatly be weighted in favour of stealing everyone's information (as that can be sold to foreign governments for the highest price)

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Japan wins 2-year “war on floppy disks,” kills regulations requiring old tech

Comment#1. There’s an npr show right now about technology legacy systems in the government Comment#2. I've been in Japan for a long time, and the values ​​I find most incomprehensible are the following: They tell me to "get plenty of rest" and "have lots of children" while stacking dirty dishes in front of me, just like stacking these floppy disks. I don't understand, so I take off. Comment#3. They've since moved on to Sony Memory Sticks. Comment#4. [removed] Comment#5. [removed] Comment#6. Ah yes floppy disks or as my niece calls them "save buttons" Comment#7. Our nuclear weapons system still run off 8 inch floppy disks Comment#8. It's actually amusing how technologically backward Japan is versus the common image of it being a high-tech power: Japanese mobile internet is notorious slow and prohibitively expensive for example, most of their mobile phone brands (except Xperia) are greatly behind Chinese models, and their scientific research output has become very low quality as of recent: My country (Cambodia) uses QR codes for literally everything from vending machine to paying the fruit seller (we also use cash too!), but meanwhile Japan only uses cash and card mostly But alas, it's "Japan!" so people will defend it to the death, just as they defend the garbage-strewn streets of Osaka on /r/urbanhell or those frosted sawdust sticks called "Pocky", because yeah, Japan Comment#9. Sick. Our first real win since invading French Indochina. Comment#10. Required?? I always thought that they used it because they did not want a change as in "if it works, why fix it?" kind of thing. Comment#11. The Floppy War was long and grueling, but man stood united against the machine. Now, our data can move freely over email and web1 forms. Comment#12. CDs are now mandatory. Comment#13. Next Germany Comment#14. Heard they were moving on to laserdisc. Bigger is better Comment#15. Wow. I thought it was bad in early 2000’s in college I had a class I had to use floppy disk for. I had trouble them getting my hands 🙌 on some floppies and was glad I made a point of putting a floppy disk driving in my computer. Comment#16. Back to paper records it is then

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Twilo Now has Planned Kill Switch for Authy Desktop App

Comment#1. Ente is good alternative and FOSS as well Comment#2. Why did they nuke the app? Used it for years, never had any problems. Comment#3. Because of this https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/03/twilio-says-hackers-identified-cell-phone-numbers-of-two-factor-app-authy-users/

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Nuclear power has an advantage not reflected in its average price. It's price stability, and for some users that matters

Comment#1. Advantage over what? Coal, oil and gas prices fluctuate wildly, but renewables are basically "sell it or lose it" - you can't get cheaper than that. Indeed, nuclear is basically a "sell it or lose it" generator too since the running costs are barely affected by output. The variability in the cost of solar and wind come entirely from the demand side and would be no different for nuclear. Indeed, adding nuclear would force solar and wind to sell cheaper and the nuclear wouldn't be able to compete. Comment#2. It's been very stable in always being the most expensive electricity when you include care for the waste and environmental damage from mining and refining. Also about one major accident every ~5000 reactor years. Comment#3. Until a safe disposal method for spent fuel exists nuclear is just too risky. And since it's been longer than half a century that the problem has been unsolved, nuclear is still unclear as an energy source. Comment#4. All the anti-nuclear trolls really out in full force on this post, the massive petroleum lobby must be at it again (we always assume all propaganda on reddit is geopolitical, but the vast majority is actually corporate) Comment#5. The price is always 5 to 10 times the price of other sources, no matter what happens. Comment#6. Sure, because any unexpected thing happening and waste deposit will be paid with taxpayers money. Comment#7. " for some users"? Really ? Just some? Comment#8. Really? Cause Duke energy keeps raising prices, Nuclear power might be steady but greed never rests. Comment#9. WTF they're talking about, I read somewhere nuclear is always 40 years ahead and they are writing about it like it is a thing you can just build today. Comment#10. For some users like google or micro$$$$$ so they can continue pumping their AI wet dream. Comment#11. Any economists on this thread? Forward markets? Comment#12. "Sure the price is higher, but it's also consistent!" And the crowd goes mild Comment#13. Well, we’ll just store the spent fuel in your basement or maybe one of your bedrooms since it’s so safe and inexpensive. Comment#14. What nonsense is this article talking about? Prices are set by supply and demand. Even if a power source is cheaper, as long as everyone else charges a higher price, the price goes up It uses ridiculously dumb examples like: >The first is from Germany which shut down three nuclear reactors on December 31, 2021, halving Germany's nuclear power capacity overnight. >The second example is taken from France. There, stress corrosion cracking was discovered in several reactors and in April 2022, it had taken out 28 of France's 56 reactors. >In Germany, shutting down the reactors pushed up price volatility by 5% to 15%. France experienced a few extreme price spikes, which also drove up the volatility. Like what did they think would happen? Half of France's reactors broke down, which made them rely on imports more. This in turn forced Germany to export more, with less supply and more demand, both countries saw increase in price volatility Moral of the story is, power generation failing increases volatility, any power generation failing. It is like how NG prices spiked in the US, it wasn't like suddenly NG started to cost more to produce, if anything US produced more NG then ever before. But the problem was with the LNG facilities built out and Europe willing to pay higher prices than US. It brought US prices up as well, because why would they sell it for less in US if they can sell it for more exporting it? Millions of Irish didn't die in the great potato famine because there wasn't enough potatoes. Sure, crop yields failed but they still had more than enough to feed the country. The problem was that the British were willing to pay more for the potatoes, so the Irish couldn't afford them and starved Comment#15. Nukes are a toxic deadly fraud. Cut Government subsidies and this fiasco of an industry would die, which it should, now! https://www.nirs.org/category/nuclear-economics/ Comment#16. It’s stable because the companies in charge of maintaining the nuclear plants ARENT MAINTAINING THEM. Comment#17. not when electricity is sold on the open market. You can't sell for a stable higher price when you can buy solar cheaply during the day and it costs the same to run the nuke plant 24 hours a day. Comment#18. Stably the most expensive form of electricity! Thanks for the clickbait mr burns. Comment#19. I’m all for nuclear power as long as I’m far away from the power plants. Comment#20. lol I don't think this article deserves a more detailed rebuttal. Comment#21. Is anything that nuclear does that can't be done with solar / wind and a decently sized battery? Comment#22. Price stability??? Tell that to the French! Comment#23. Anything has price stability when the government subsidises it, which is why nuclear has price stability. It takes 50 years for the plants to break even, so they only ever get built when the government guarantees the price as part of the contract. Comment#24. Nuclear power has an advantage over all other power production methods in every way other than public perception. Comment#25. Nonsense. Nuclear is so capital intensive that plants almost never get built anymore unless they get a 30 year guarantee of energy price (a floor price). They also double need it because they need to have long run hours to keep the system stable (and to pay back the capex!) Given the penetration of low cost renewables with increased variability (and that is only going to continue) then the inflexibility of nuclear, combined with it's capex intensity makes it less relevant for a future energy grid that's hard to predict. However I would like to see how those containerised mini nukes are coming along. If large consumers take them on and they work, that would be very interesting Comment#26. Can't you just use a futures market to retain stability with other energy sources? This is a separate point to base load. Comment#27. We see puff article after puff article on nuclear at the moment. It feels like every week some article comes out telling 80-90% of the truth, but then omitting the rest - where the rest either debunked what is said, or paints it in a different picture entirely. Comment#28. nuclear is SHIT let it DIE!! Comment#29. Too expensive to build, solar panels are far cheaper. Comment#30. Nuclear power plant: Provides stability Also, nuclear power plant: Provides nature reserve, if not stable Comment#31. You’d think price stability absolutely would be reflected in average price Comment#32. But who pays the hidden cost of waste uranium storage? Comment#33. Neither the author nor most redditors here seem to understand how wholesale energy markets work. As the author is an economics professor writing in the spectator, I suspect he does know but is being deliberately obtuse. Comment#34. All the more reason to invest in super hot rock geo thermal and eliminate nuclear waste concerns. Geo thermal has the same ability as nuclear power with no containment vessel issues. Comment#35. Considering the gravity of any situation resulting from misuse of the fissile materials involved, I need some semblance of Vulcan like world peace before I agree to have a nuclear power plant in my country, especially if my location's downwind of it. Right now, there's a hurricane of noise coming from "learn to live in a multipolar world" jackasses whose idea of 'another option' is autocratic rule; meanwhile, most of the defenders of democracy (or those that live in one) are either timid / exhausted / stupid / dead. Comment#36. Startup costs for nuclear is ridiculous. Comment#37. Indeed. One thing I've thought the new smaller, SMR designs could leverage is industrial uses; not just selling electricity/power wholesale, but actually built to service an industry that is a guaranteed heavy user (smelting, etc.) Comment#38. Nuclear is good but it isn't entirely renewable, renewables have the lowest leverage hit. [Uranium production is pretty concentrated in countries that aren't all friendly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_uranium_production). Half the Uranium production is Russia or former Soviet Republics (Kazakhstan/Uzbekistan), Africa with 15% (Namibia/Country that starts with N -- reddit blocks the name of this country for some reason). Canada/Australia are western systems and do 25%. China around 5% now. US could up production but we [only really have it in Wyoming/Utah/Colorado/New Mexico in numbers worth it](https://www.energy.gov/lm/articles/doe-submits-its-defense-related-uranium-mines-report-congress). Same problem with oil/gas comes up with nuclear, leverage by authoritarians... > World 53,498 100.00% > 1 Kazakhstan 21,705 40.57% > 2 Canada 7,001 13.09% > 3 Australia 6,517 12.18% > 4 Namibia 5,525 10.33% > 5 Country that starts with N 2,911 5.44% (reddit blocks the name of this country for some reason) > 6 Russia 2,904 5.43% > 7 Uzbekistan 2,404 4.49% > 8 China 1,885 3.52% > 9 Ukraine 1,180 2.21% > 10 United States 582 1.09% Compared to nuclear, solar is cheap in terms of building, maintenance, liability and cost per MWh etc etc. There would be way more nuclear plants if it was easy and cheap. Solar has way less liability, companies like to limit that. [The cost of generating energy on nuclear is more than solar as well](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower/nuclear-energy-too-slow-too-expensive-to-save-climate-report-idUSKBN1W909J). > The cost of generating solar power ranges from $36 to $44 per megawatt hour (MWh), the WNISR said, while onshore wind power comes in at $29–$56 per MWh. Nuclear energy costs between $112 and $189. From a cost and liability perspective, energy companies would choose solar or wind for new projects over nuclear where possible, just by the raw economics. Only places with a fair amount are [Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona and New Mexico, Texas and Nebraska as well as a few others with small amounts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Map_of_US_uranium_reserves.gif). We really don't have a ton though and the [age of mining uranium in the US has slowed dramatically](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining_in_the_United_States#/media/File:U.S._uranium_concentrate_production_\(1949-2017\)_\(30156275437\).png). It is always better to use an energy source that minimizes the physical tie to resources. Wind, solar and hydro are free to capture and can't be controlled by cartels at the mining level. The places with the highest amounts are in Africa (Namibia), Russia/Kazakhstan (most), Australia/Canada (25%). US has minimal amounts compared to those places. Nuclear would essentially be controlled by Russia/China/Africa at the mining level. On top of that the issues around nuclear safety and weaponization is not present in solar, wind, hydro etc. Comment#39. 'News' - Sponsored by the Industry. Written & researched by the public relations arm of nuclear industry's shareholders. Please donate today. Our value is down 40 percent. Comment#40. Reliably expensive. Comment#41. They are presumably talking about the short run marginal cost stability. I’m not as familiar with the Australian electricity markets as I used to be - but in most places that have nuclear, it’s not setting the marginal price. Gas or goal are. So for a base load fuel to contribute to stability in the wholesale price all you need is short run marginal cost lower than gas/coal, and reasonably low volatility. Renewables also have that characteristic.

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Nintendo president rejects the use of generative AI in upcoming games — issues of pedigree and copyright cited

Comment#1. My turn to post this tomorrow Comment#2. It’s because their characters and IP are worth a ton of money and they want to carefully craft it and they don’t want anyone coming back saying their character was ripped off. Comment#3. There is something incredibly hilarious about using a bot to post these generic ai bad articles. Comment#4. They actually value the human creativity and effort put into their games, unlike most of the other corpo shmucks hosting this industry Comment#5. Code? Scripts and dialog? Office comms? Competitive analysis? Storyboarding? All AI? How can that be profitable? Comment#6. [removed] Comment#7. Good job to Nintendo for wanting to maintain its' standards and quality!

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Russia is increasingly conducting brainwashing attacks in Africa

Comment#1. They do it worldwide, especially in America. Comment#2. What a great source of information- an Estonian Blog with 2000 followers on Twitter. The exact opposite of brainwashing eh? Off to the r/technology frontpage then! Comment#3. This article described Mali and France relationship as “cooperation”, did not go into detail as to the nature of “disinformation” other than vaguely referencing historical facts such as colonialism and characterised Africans of incapable of having a negative opinion towards “the West” without it being born of propaganda. I do not doubt Russia, China and other nations engage in biased campaigns across Africa for their own ends but: 1. Is amplification of facts, such as “Your country was colonised by (insert western nation) and it wasn’t so great”, really disinformation? 2. “The West” does not necessarily care about the success of African nations - is this concern of disinformation altruistic? Comment#4. Because this article fails to mention it, I want to point out that the CIA has also recently been found to be spreading disinformation. This is bad for everyone. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/ Comment#5. >***Daniel Schaer***, Estonia’s ambassador to Kenya and South Africa, categorizes disinformation campaigns based on his experience: “Campaigns that oppose all of the West to Africa, attacking Europe’s colonial history, and disinformation campaigns targeted at specific countries, such as anti-‘neo-colonialism’ campaigns conducted in South Africa.” Is this really disinformation or just negative information that those in power don't like? Because when it comes to Europe's colonial history, a straight read of the historical record paints things negative enough that you don't need to brain-wash people to instill some harsh feelings. When I read the word disinformation I think of Alex Jones/Trump firehose of lies and gish gallops - is that what we're talking about here? Or unexamined history that just doesn't age well? Comment#6. Russia has to be stopped. They are ruining the entire 21st Century and entire planet. Comment#7. That's a strange way to say "Africans don't want our colonialism" Comment#8. JFC... BRAINWASHING ATTACKS?! You mean propaganda?! The Russians are less invasive and less destablizing in African than the Fucking FRENCH are. And no one is in the west is crying about their immoral heinous actions in Neo Colonial Africa. "Brain washing attacks"... Chinese or Russian Actions in Africa to destabilize French colonies is the end of the free world while French, the US and the EU's kenetic actions get a pass. Comment#9. Brainwashing is not real, this is a joke of a headline I see the article refers to disinformation campaigns and doesn't use the word brainwashing. Some editor got too excited. Comment#10. …I guessed they’ve moved on since they’re basically done with the American Constitution now… Comment#11. Why is russia conducting brainwashing on africa when only France, the UK and the US are allowed to? Are they stupid? Comment#12. Have you seen what’s going on in America?? lol - almost half the country has been brainwashed by Russian influence Comment#13. "Brainwashing attacks" lol Wake me up when someone puts down the biggest proponent of "brainwashing attacks", the United States. Comment#14. This website is as sus as disinformation itself, which includes "anti-neo-colonialism." Self sufficient narratives, anti European narratives, are all psy-ops apparently. Comment#15. I personally love it when we're just slurping propaganda straight from the source. In this case, The **Africa Center for Strategic Studies** (**ACSS**) is self-described as "a U.S. Department of Defense institution established and funded by Congress for the study of security issues relating to Africa and serving as a forum for bilateral and multilateral research, communication, and exchange of ideas involving military and civilian participants."[^(\[1\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Center_for_Strategic_Studies#cite_note-Howe2001-1) It is a Regional Center of the [National Defense University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_University), which describes it as "\[supporting\] United States foreign and security policies by strengthening the strategic capacity of African states to identify and resolve security challenges in ways that promote civil-military cooperation, respect for democratic values, and safeguard human rights."[^(\[2\])](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_Center_for_Strategic_Studies#cite_note-NDU-2) Comment#16. Thats a weird way of saying that "goverment does propaganda" Comment#17. America does Africa dirty more than any other country lmao NEXT Comment#18. Bullshit source. Bullshit subject. Yes Russia sucks but this is some horrible reporting Comment#19. They aim to control the Sahel. Comment#20. Why is it called a "brainwashing attack" when the Russians do it? When America was trying to convince Philippines not to use a WHO approved covid vaccine that led of actual deaths, we don't call it a "brainwashing attack" do we? In fact, the media just reported on it for a day or two, and it has been quickly forgotten. Even the Philippine government isn't interested in an investigation. Comment#21. Your daily dose of anti Russia propaganda. The MID needs your support: believe! Comment#22. This article itself is probably a brainwashing campaign, western actors are suspiciously absent. Comment#23. An overview by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies of the targets and perpetrators of disinformation campaigns on the continent. Although the Russian Federation has been waging a draining war against Ukraine for the third year, our eastern neighbor has increased the organization of disinformation campaigns in Africa. Last year, an analysis by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (Mapping a Surge of Disinformation in Africa – Africa Center for Strategic Studies) identified a total of 80 Russia-funded disinformation campaigns conducted in 22 African countries. Nearly 40 percent of all disinformation campaigns identified in Africa were organized by Russia. Daniel Schaer, Estonia’s ambassador to Kenya and South Africa, categorizes disinformation campaigns based on his experience: “Campaigns that oppose all of the West to Africa, attacking Europe’s colonial history, and disinformation campaigns targeted at specific countries, such as anti-‘neo-colonialism’ campaigns conducted in South Africa.” In Africa, there is a strong correlation between the spread of disinformation and societal instability. Disinformation campaigns have caused deadly violence, facilitated and justified military coups, intimidated civil society leaders, and provided cover for corruption and the exploitation of people. (See related story “Ilmar Raag’s Experience: Russia’s Successful Anti-France Information Campaign in Mali”). Disinformation is being deliberately exploited at a time when, over the past seven years, 300 million Africans have become social media users. On a continent with 1.4 billion inhabitants, there are now over 400 million active social media users and 600 million internet users. Moreover, Africans rely on social media platforms for information more than people from other continents. “Disinformation is increasingly targeting specific countries; of the 39 countries analyzed, 20 were attacked from abroad by at least three or more campaigns,” the analysis states. Comment#24. ‘Brainwashing attacks’? Comment#25. Propaganda is only bad when Russia does it. Comment#26. bro you are the most, funded bot account i've ever seen. lmao just look at the guy's karma, posts and its post frequency Comment#27. Russia is brainwashing the entire planet, is very successful at it, and all of their right wing political puppets are doing very well as a result. Comment#28. Wow doing what the us has done for the last 100 years isn’t brainwashing lmao Comment#29. Good thing that Murica has never done this. Comment#30. They’re brainwashing republicans for decades. Republicans are puttys little puppets Comment#31. If I've learned anything from history, its that America has never does this sort of thing. Ever /s Comment#32. 🤡🤡 but it's America thou Comment#33. Just wait until you hear what China's been doing in Africa. Comment#34. Yes. But can’t do this in the Ukraine for 30 years with the same language Very interesting Comment#35. Something you need to know about the source: Propastop is an independent blog. It is run by volunteers, of whom many belong to the Estonian Defence League. The Defence League is an Estonian voluntary national defence organisation. It works under Ministry of Defence and is part of the Estonian defence force. [Read more](http://www.kaitseliit.ee/en) about the Defence League. Comment#36. What is the meaning of a pot calling a kettle black? For 1000 please Comment#37. I'm sure they're trying. But... Is there's no Western propaganda in Africa at all according to these people? Or is that what we're consuming right now? Comment#38. You mean telling them they are effectively still colonized? Comment#39. Utter s....hirty propagandistic article. Comment#40. So is every other country anyplace, anywhere. Comment#41. Hahaha Did the Mossad write this article? I guess they are really pissed that so many African countries are demanding that Israel end the apartheid state that they have created and stop the murdering innocent civilians. Comment#42. And people really listen? I thought Russian propaganda is easy to smell. Comment#43. If Africans are as dumb as my compatriots are here in the US, then these will be highly effective. Comment#44. They are suffering skyroqueting prices in food because the west put sasnsions on russia but did not give a fuck about who would sell grain to africa after that. You would think it would be a priority to sell them grain alongside russian sanctions... Near 1 thousand years of being murdered by the countries who again are making them starve to death, but sure, there is any brainwashing left to do by Russia for sure, they must hate the west because of them, and not because of HISTORY BOOKS AND THE DAMN NEWS for sure. Comment#45. Don’t worry, US is doing it as well. Comment#46. Their real enemy is still the US and capitalism Comment#47. They tried in America, but, no brains, no problems Comment#48. China abusing Africa. Russia abusing Africa. Africa cannot catch a break... Comment#49. And this is easy because many western nations have screwed over the African population for a very long time. So its all entirely understandable. Though a warning, from a continent which has had to deal with Russian BS since, well, forever. The Russians will happily screw you over, and draft your people in to sort out their own internal problems (i.e. send them straight to the frontline in Ukraine). Comment#50. That is part of the Kremlin psyops there as they run Wagner now Africa Corps coups and operations. Russia has coup'd about half a dozen countries in the East/West Africa backed by Wagner/Africa Corps in just the last few years. China/Russia did the coup in Myanmar, Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso, Western Africa, Ethiopia, bases in Libya (Benghazi), teaming up to back Iran Houthis in Yemen, Sri Lanka leverage play, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and more are all client states, and tag teaming in South America and Africa on trade. Their goal is complete control of South China Sea, Andaman Sea, Bay of Bengal, Laccadive Sea, Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea and the Caspian Sea to be completely owned by BRI and BRICS. Russia/China/BRICS wants total control of the trade routes from Mediterranean (did Libya -- has bases there now), Black Sea (Ukraine starting with Crimea), Red Sea (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Yemen and more), Gulf of Aden (Yemen, Somalia, etc), Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Laccadive Sea (did Sri Lanka) to the South China Sea. Russia/China are in deep together. Russia/China teamed up for coups there in Western Africa, Africa and Southeast Asia. Comment#51. We need to go back to an Internet with borders or cut off Russia from the undersea cables. As much as I hate it there's too much at stake to keep bad state actors participating in the free and open Internet Comment#52. I remember reading a while ago that Putin was heavily investing in AI and I had the thought he'd conduct psychological warfare on the world using AI and no one would be able to stop him because that's not something anyone has ever had to fight against. And here we are. gg everyone Comment#53. In the next couple of years, we're going to see pro-russian govt in the USA, Netherlands, France, most of Africa. Thank Zuckerberg, musk and bitedance. And "freedom" . Comment#54. Fuck them. Put picture of Gadafi and make sure they never fucking forget fuck them all. And after fucking then all just fick them one more time and after that fick them again Comment#55. 1. "Propastop is a blog aimed at cleaning Estonia from propaganda, false information and media lie. The blog is run by volunteers" 2. Africa Center for Strategic Studies: 300 5th Avenue, Building 20 Fort Lesley J. McNair Washington, DC 20319-5066 Sure, Estonians refer to Americans about "Russian disinformation campaigns in Africa. Happens all the time, why not. Many links everywhere but at least none of the first five lists all those "campaigns", at all. Many words, no proofs whatsoever. Comment#56. This is bot, why anyone bother to anticipate in conversation Comment#57. Everywhere! Now that their military is exposed as a joke, oil money and psyops are their only usable assets! (Nukes? MAD.) Comment#58. These poor people just allow themselves and their countries to be USED by others again and again. Comment#59. Be one, with Yuri Comment#60. Also sponsoring german rightwing party AFD Comment#61. It worked in America still working actually. Terroristic attacks happening and people have no clue. Comment#62. Thanks to Russia, Africa is finally waking up. Centuries of brutal westeroid explotation is coming to the end. Just like genocidal US empire. Comment#63. It would be really interesting to see what they could accomplish if their efforts started going with the grain rather than constantly innovating against it

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384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm. Many website admins, it seems, have yet to get memo to remove Polyfill[.]io links.

Comment#1. Those admins were probably the previously laid off tech people. The “memo” then would have landed on the desk of their managers who wouldn’t know wtf it meant. Comment#2. Hotlinking used to allow cross website caching which is why it was the "sensible/performant" things to do. But then, browsers prevented caching of artifacts across websites for security reasons (you could figure out where a person has been by measuring load times to different pages) and everybody moved to https (so isps/cloudflare cannot provide caching anymore) Comment#3. Over-dependence on 3rd party tools is one of the great travesties of the tech world. You used to have to roll your own. There is a meme someplace, you know what it is. Comment#4. Why would you design your sites functionality to be tied to whether or not some other companies site is also functioning? OK, you want to use their code sure. Why hotlink it? Comment#5. fuck it just have AI fix the problem. /s

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A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too

Comment#1. China probably has, not could. Comment#2. "Raising Fears" Comment#3. Hapened to novelai with their model leaks wont be long now Comment#4. I swear I saw this exact article yesterday, but it was Russia and not china... Comment#5. The commercial AI isn’t the thing to be worried about. It’s what’s already running in the defense and intelligence communities of all the major powers. Comment#6. Don't worry, everything's going to be fiiiiiine. Comment#7. “Already has” Comment#8. There is a reason the US went around the globe, trying to convince the allies not to buy chinese tech...

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ASUS's new routers will come with a top VPN built-in

Comment#1. It will come with a top VPN built-in. What VPN? Top. VPN. Comment#2. That's a weird way to say "Bloatware". Comment#3. Most routers have supported OpenVPN for years Comment#4. You guys don’t get it. This is aimed at the red necks in states banning porn. It’s a brilliant way to get their money without having to teach them how to do anything technical. Comment#5. Not for our benefit though. Oh its subscription based too.. Comment#6. Nord? lol Comment#7. Get the ASUS and Pornhub bundle today! Comment#8. > top vpn > its nordvpn Yeah that’ll be a pass thx Comment#9. Add this to the pile of reasons to never buy any ASUS product ever again... Comment#10. If the VPN is NordVPN which is already well known and you're publicly declaring that you're installing that specific VPN in the firmware of routers then all you're really doing is telling any bad actor exactly how to exploit your router. The biggest vulnerability in tech, aside from human beings, is homogeneity of services. If everyone with an ASUS router uses different VPN services outside of the firmware to obscure their traffic, then you don't have one single point of failure. IF every router comes with the same VPN company, then a bad actor can attack that single company and potentially own all the routers. There's a story breaking \*today\* about 2FA service authy being hacked and exposing 33 million phone numbers. The more you centralize the greater incentive you give to bad actors to exploit your solution. Comment#11. Of all the "top" VPN's, they chose an eagerly receiving bottom. Comment#12. yeah, the hell I'm going to trust asus with anything security related. Comment#13. As I also follow a wood working sub Reddit, that title threw me off for a second...lol Comment#14. I actually would find this useful. Currently I have Nord set up on my Asus router with the manual Openvpn profiles. I wonder if this means you can use wireguard now Comment#15. And the VPN company gives them a cut of the ad revenue made from selling browsing habits Comment#16. no thanks i won't support this corrupt company until i see real change, and yes im aware they promised to change, it hasnt happened yet Comment#17. lol, they have been doing this since forever for "gaming" routers that would come with WTFast vpn. I guess they realize it's no longer working and needs some new marketing to match the current trends Comment#18. To absolutely not spy and sell your data. Comment#19. Glad they'll make it easier to sell your data Comment#20. And I will disable it _immediately_. Comment#21. Like this is something new? There are already routers that you could set up a VPN on. And more than just NordVPN. They've been available for years. Comment#22. OpenVPN for life 🤙 Comment#23. If you're at all serious about using a VPN, you pick your own. You don't let anyone do it for you. Especially not a business. Especially not if they're trying to give you NordVPN. Comment#24. And I thought they would add WireGuard or something useful. Comment#25. Oh they'll have Wireguard? OpenVPN? > NordVPN comes built-in to two new ASUS routers Lmao Comment#26. Hmm, interesting, but who the fuck ever asked for this 'feature' Comment#27. Screw Nord VPN. At least add few more popular VPN options, so people have something to choose from. Comment#28. Why though? I can currently connect to a VPN in many differnet ways on my Asus routers, including NordVPN and other services. Wonder how much Asus is getting of each Nord subscription?.. Comment#29. After working for an isp, I would avoid this like the plague. Idk if it's $50 or $500, the built in software for routers is fucking terrible. Comment#30. Well, that's clearly a typo, they say top VPN in the headline but it's just shitty NordVPN. Comment#31. My last few routers have been ASUS and I think the most recent one will be the last. There's not been a lot of evolution in their functionality and I find the features poorly implemented and documented. The 'gaming' features for example is mostly just a really bad facade over existing features in their normal routers. You can even verify this yourself by changing settings on the gaming configuration screen and then going and looking at how it alters settings on other config screens. My most recent one has a dedicated 'gaming' port which I thought might be a simple way of prioritizing traffic to my main device but there is literally zero documentation or information on it. Partnering with dubious VPN software just seems to further justify my concerns. Coupled with their recent warranty repair scandal it just seems like a company to stay away from these days. Comment#32. ASUS can suck my ass. Garbage company putting out dogshit for years now, and they have without a doubt, the WORST support I have ever had the misfortune of engaging with. Comment#33. Alternative way to say back door built in Comment#34. I’m gonna replace my router with a pfsense one from netgate Comment#35. I might be willing to consider a product like this if it had my preferred VPN (PIA) and a really great discount (oh wait, it's already $3/mo!) Comment#36. Wait wouldn’t this just allow your router to access the vpn you’re connecting to?? Seems more secure to do it from a client device rather than the router…. Almost seems like this is a way for ISP’s to have a workaround for not being able to sell your internet activity Comment#37. Many Asus routers allow you to manually configure a VPN, [including NordVPN](https://support.nordvpn.com/hc/en-us/articles/20286376420753-How-to-set-up-NordVPN-on-Asus-WRT-firmware). Only difference with this is there will be a drop down option for NordVPN. Comment#38. Then they charge you a monthly fee just to use your router and if you miss a payment the only site you get access to is their payment site. Comment#39. I thought it couldn’t get any better than preinstalled Norton! Comment#40. Asus routers are so bad why would anyone buy one? Comment#41. This might be a big selling point in China. BTW, are these **made** **in China**? Comment#42. Many routers already have OpenVPN/L2TP/PPTP support. So this is just a branding thing Comment#43. Yeah fuck that lmao, especially with Nord Comment#44. Hopefully not Nord VPN coz it's shit. Comment#45. VPNs are worse than doing nothing, they’re utterly pointless and just serve to isolate traffic where someone has something to hide making them obvious targets Comment#46. Wasn’t there some kinda issue with Nord? Comment#47. It will be a complete let down, like every other Asus product I have ever regretted buying. Comment#48. If history has taught me anything, this just means Nord is Satan reincarnate.

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Google's ambitious plan to replace tracking cookies is going from bad to worse

Comment#1. looks paywalled Comment#2. Google isn't an innovative, cutting-edge technology company, it's an [ad-selling company.](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/18/how-does-google-make-money-advertising-business-breakdown-.html) They'd have no business left if they couldn't siphon off your private data to the highest bidder in order to sell targeted, personalised ads (and often, even the hostile warmongering US government or spy agencies like the NSA get free reign over your data), as 4/5th of their revenue comes from selling ads using your targeted, private data Comment#3. Been using DDG since ads became more important than search results. Recent I finally made the switch to a privacy-focused email and encrypted online office-type platform. next I need to find a secure photo platform. trying to get Google out of my business as much as i can. Comment#4. God I hate Google wall to wall ad invasion. Wish I could ditch Gmail. But the others are nowhere near their spam filter. Comment#5. Bad to worse in terms of advertising interests not wanting to adopt privacy sandbox so they can keep exploiting user data the way they have been for the last 10+ years. Google actually trying to do something user privacy positive for once and the pushback from advertisers has average people against Google too. Comment#6. I genuinely hope I live to see the day when all the FAANG companies fail. Comment#7. Ad publishers don't like changes that could disrupt their profiteering from selling our data. Colour me shocked. Comment#8. If you want privacy, maybe don’t look to a company that makes most of its money from selling your data… Comment#9. Don't wait, disable third party cookies today and install webgl defender. Comment#10. They talk about ads but another problem is that there are several sites that I log into where, the login, is on their parent company's site and is contained in a third party cookie. If I block third party cookies, I can't access the site. How much of the internet will blocking third party cookies en masse break? Comment#11. Google: “We tried to exterminate tracking cookies but we invented cookies that perfectly predict what you’ll do next!!! Oh no!!! This will quadruple our profits!!” Comment#12. You don’t like the bar code tattooed on the back of your neck? Comment#13. Oh the irony. Comment#14. Google’s Peicacy Sandix is mandnint he idle attack in the web; they want to create real proof Ike sod us and then manage and control access to those profiles, while eliminating cookies that allows third parties to do the same. They’re using the words “privacy” but what they really mean is “private capture”. GOOGLE demands to be the arbiter ofnojrbidntiwa online for us, not us. Cookies can be deleted BY THE USER. Google’s Privacy Sandbox is MANAGED ON GOOGLE’S SERVERS. You cannot opt out and you cannot delete yourself from it.

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Driverless cars struggle to track objects while moving: So why don't our eyes?

Comment#1. Cars should start using a-eye. Comment#2. because our eyes are effectively multi-angle gimbal systems. the amount of fine nervous and motor control we have over our eyes is, among mammals, without peer. static cameras, even when supplemented with extra information like LIDAR, have to track things by comparing the current frame to the previous frame, and then the next frame to the current frame, and so on. they don’t actually “track” anything they put the funny yellow box around. it’s just singling whatever’s inside the box out as something that happens to be moving differently to the scene. Comment#3. Millions of years of evolution. Comment#4. Because it's our brain processing it not our eyes Comment#5. Our brains can process the images our eyes get better. Comment#6. I believe AI could reach such levels at some point in time, but not right now. Would studies like this have any impact on how consumers perceive such products? Or even on the decisions manufacturers make? Comment#7. Parallel processing Comment#8. People have wetware, a product of natural selection. Cars have software, a product of Corporate Design. Comment#9. Because cars don't have our brains. They only have AI. We use HI. Comment#10. Brains… there you go Comment#11. Because we ai duh Comment#12. the real answer is, because we're able to calculate likely probability and literally predict the future Comment#13. I dabble in some amateur car racing. Have been to several different driving schools. I’m unsure of what this problem is, but I’ve realized my eyes are constantly cycling between groups of three cars while driving at high speeds in traffic. Constantly triangulating positions of every car compared to myself and each other, and that’s how I’m calculating speeds, angles, and predicting future movement. This includes my mirror. For humans, practice makes perfect. You get better at these rough estimates in your mind the more you do them. It’s not a conscious math problem, it’s essentially a subconscious map of all moving objects relative to each other. I’ve read this is also how birds maintain their formation while flying, maintaining distance relative to neighbors. If AI isn’t doing this yet… what is it doing? I feel like I could have written that program.

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Swarm of dusty young stars found around our galaxy’s central black hole

Comment#1. 4 hours and three comments about buttholes… nice! Comment#2. Me when I drop glitter down my arse Comment#3. They should name it the Drake region of space. Comment#4. How old is young??? Comment#5. Is this another Harvey Weinstein headline? Comment#6. Dingle berries if you will. Comment#7. The closer you get to the black hole, the more hairy it gets. Comment#8. We have a dusty hole? Comment#9. Space rectum causes chaos. Planets feared torn asunder.

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Apple will reportedly announce a partnership with Google at iPhone 16 event

Comment#1. Its just gemini as an option along with the existing chatGPT. Not a big deal. Comment#2. Gapple? Goople? Appoogle? Comment#3. google is certainly eager to leak this announcement as publicly as possible in the meantime Comment#4. Privacy-focused apple partnering with the king of surveillance capitalism. no thanks. Comment#5. Will this let them FINALLY improve the search in Mail? It is currently laughably pathetic. Comment#6. What’s with all the google apologists in here? Their product is now a steaming pile of shit, what with paid placement, fucking AdWords and the fact that it shows you what it wants you to see. Comment#7. Google already has a monopoly on search (89%) and offers a shitty search experience cluttered with ads. That’s because google gives a crazy amount of money to Apple to keep its monopoly (i think $30b per year). I hope this won’t make google search more prevalent on Apple devices. We need a new search experience that is not google. I am mostly using the ChatGPT app now. Comment#8. Maybe to do with messaging? Didnt apple make some deals with OpenAI Comment#9. I still have no interest in chatGPT. I've tried to use it and it just never does what I want. I'd rather do it myself. Comment#10. Now do a partnership on a phone with Apple Hardware and Google OS. (Yes I know it will never happen) Comment#11. AI is fucking stupid.. I’ve stuck with apple my whole life because it’s always been in-house products/software Comment#12. “COULD WE INTEREST YOU IN HORIZON WORLDS THEN, MAYBE?!” Comment#13. That's it? Are we experiencing a ceasefire? I don't know if I'm okay with this. The other side has done some terrible things.

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How Europe’s Conspiracy Influencers Moved From Covid to the Climate

Comment#1. Let me fix that sign. Extreme weather means no farming and no food, anywhere in the world. Comment#2. but what the hell does this have to do with technology Comment#3. these bozos are just jobless hobos selling purpose to the gullible Comment#4. Wyn Jones believes none of the UK party election manifestos address agriculture meaningfully — and he resents parties “blaming” farmers for climate change. “We are sleepwalking into food shortages, a lot quicker than people understand,” he says. When asked about conspiratorial posts shared by No Farmers No Food and its founder James Melville, Wyn Jones laughs deeply: “There’s always a conspiracy theory behind everything,” and adds, “I’ve been called a right-wing extremist for my opinions, and there’s no person more middle of the road than me on God’s earth — I hate politics.” Wyn Jones previously appeared on countryside-related TV shows on the BBC, before falling “out of favor with the mainstream media.” Since then he’s built an impressive online platform — claiming to be the world’s most-followed farmer. Apart from 340,000 followers on Facebook, Wyn Jones has a staggering 2.2 million subscribers to his YouTube channel. When asked how it grew so rapidly from only 3,000 subscribers in May last year, Wyn Jones puts it down to, “Honesty, and a bit of luck,” while later noting that he has “people that help me with that kind of stuff.” Despite the huge subscriber base, most of Wyn Jones’ YouTube videos have only a few thousand views, with some scoring fewer than a thousand. No Farmers No Food founder James Melville also has a large online platform, with nearly half a million followers on X, formerly Twitter — double that of the far more renowned right-wing British commentator Toby Young — many of whom have long alphanumeric strings as handles, no profile picture, and have only tweeted a couple of times, all typical features of bot accounts. No Farmers No Food’s X account also appears to have many bot followers, which might explain how it hit 60,000 followers so soon after launching in January (it currently has 72,000 followers), with 30,000 in just the first five days. Melville wasn’t always so focused on climate action and farmers. During the pandemic, he got involved with Covid-skeptic anti-lockdown groups, including Together Declaration, which according to data analysis by Rolling Stone and UK social media research company Prose Intelligence, started posting more about the climate from mid-2022 as public interest in vaccines and lockdowns waned. More recently, Together Declaration launched a “No To Net Zero” campaign. Many of the group’s posts link efforts to reduce emissions to a conspiracy theory about “15-minute cities,” a fairly innocuous urban planning concept to make amenities easily accessible to city residents, but which has been warped into allegations that the idea is just a pretext for imposing a totalitarian system limiting citizens’ right to movement. Other posts claim policies to reduce emissions from vehicles are part of a “war on cars,” or that health risks from poor air quality are a hoax. This pivot towards climate posts mirrors Melville’s own. Since mid-2022, Melville started tweeting more about the climate and net zero policies, claiming that there would be “climate lockdown trials” for people leaving 15-minute zones, and suggesting both Covid-19 and climate change were manufactured crises designed to impoverish citizens and impose high taxes. At a recent Together Declaration event, Melville called for a fight back against “Poundland authoritarians” enacting net zero policies. Increasingly, conspiratorial influencers who built large audiences during the Covid-19 pandemic have turned to false and misleading claims about the climate and other topics to keep their audiences engaged. They are in turn influencing political parties and shaping discussion on climate policy. When the farmers’ protests broke out, these influencers sought to co-opt them into the “climate culture wars,” framing the complex demands of farmers into a reductive anti-net zero narrative. The strategy appears to be working. By the time the European parliamentary elections had rolled round in early June this year, the EU had already rolled back on key green pledges — in the wake of tractor blockades and sometimes violent protests roiling major cities. The elections themselves saw record gains for far-right parties, while green parties lost ground amid disputes over the costs of the green transition, both real and imagined. Comment#5. Because people with that pathology *need* a conspiracy to throw in on. If one becomes unviable, they will move to another Comment#6. The Russians aren't paying now. The fossil fuel industry has loads of money though. Comment#7. Going on and on about covid conspiracies after the Faucci revelations… Get your head out of the sand. Comment#8. I find it funny that they're calling them conspiracy influencers regarding climate when governments over there are literally planning on taxing farmers for their cattle burps and farts in the name of climate. Comment#9. Well the data is in for lockdowns for instance. It did little to nothing, and in the whole scheme of things it was probably worse. https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/29/how-sweden-proved-the-world-wrong-about-lockdown/amp/

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Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next | Artists must wait weeks for Glaze defense against AI scraping amid TOS updates

Comment#1. It barely worked to begin with. Adversarial noise is not a good solution for anyrhing but improving model training. Comment#2. >As tech companies update their products' terms—like when Meta suddenly announced that it was training AI on a billion Facebook and Instagram user photos last December—artists frantically survey the landscape for new defenses. That's why, counting among those offering scarce AI protections available today, The Glaze Project recently reported a dramatic surge in requests for its free tools. > >Designed to help prevent style mimicry and even poison AI models to discourage data scraping without an artist's consent or compensation, The Glaze Project's tools are now in higher demand than ever. University of Chicago professor Ben Zhao, who created the tools, told Ars that the backlog for approving a "skyrocketing" number of requests for access is "bad." And as he recently posted on X (formerly Twitter), an "explosion in demand" in June is only likely to be sustained as AI threats continue to evolve. For the foreseeable future, that means artists searching for protections against AI will have to wait. > >… > >But just as Glaze's userbase is spiking, a bigger priority for the Glaze Project has emerged: protecting users from attacks disabling Glaze's protections—including attack methods exposed in June by online security researchers in Zurich, Switzerland. In a paper published on Arxiv.org without peer review, the Zurich researchers, including Google DeepMind research scientist Nicholas Carlini, claimed that Glaze's protections could be "easily bypassed, leaving artists vulnerable to style mimicry." > >Very quickly after the attack methods were exposed, Zhao's team responded by releasing an update that Zhao told Ars "doesn't completely address" the attack but makes it "much harder." > >Tension then escalated after the Zurich team claimed that The Glaze Project's solution "missed the mark" and gave Glaze users a "false sense of security." > >… > >While both sides agree that Glaze's most recent update (v. 2.1) offers some protection for artists, they fundamentally disagree over how to best protect artists from looming threats of AI style mimicry. A debate has been sparked on social media, with one side arguing that artists urgently need tools like Glaze until more legal protections exist and the other insisting that these uncertain times call for artists to stop posting any work online if they don't want it to be copied by tomorrow's best image generator. > >… > >"The very nature of machine learning and adversarial development means that no solution is likely to hold forever, which is why it's great that the Glaze team is on top of current developments and always testing and tuning things to better protect artist's work as we push for things like legislation, regulation, and, of course, litigation," Southen said. > >… > >Southen, who recently gave a talk at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition "about how machine learning researchers and developers can better interface with artists and respect our work and needs" hopes to see more tools like Glaze introduced, as well as "more ethical" AI tools that "artists would actually be happy to use that respect people's property and process." > >"I think there are a lot of useful applications for AI in art that don't need to be generative in nature and don't have to violate people's rights or displace them, and it would be great to see developers lean into helping and protecting artists rather than displacing and devaluing us," Southen told Ars. It’s pretty disappointing to see that legislation still greatly lags technological changes, and that in this case those with fewer resources are expected to protect their works from rapacious big tech operations. At the very least there should be a code of ethics for companies creating generative models, but ideally there will be stronger policies with more robust enforcement forthcoming. Comment#3. Reasons why I don’t post my art online anymore. It’s harder to get work this way, but thankfully networking seems to be enough. Comment#4. Prediction: people will continue to crack it, even those with no interest in AI training because now it's a fun challenge. meanwhile most model trainers will ignore it because things like glaze are incredibly fragile vs things like rotating the image by a few degrees and they're built against specific gen AI models. Comment#5. Glaze is a waste of developers time. They should spend their time making cool new things instead of things that prevent cool new technology.

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LG sees battery breakthrough by 2028 that has eluded Tesla

Comment#1. It isn't a breakthrough until it hits the market. Comment#2. Cool, next up for LG, making reliable ev batteries for a change Comment#3. !remind me in 3 years Comment#4. I’m sure if there was any breakthrough to be had, Tesla would already be on it.

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Japan is building a giant, underground conveyor belt to transport all the stuff people buy | A 310-mile automated distribution network could ease traffic, reduce CO2, and address a shrinking workforce

Comment#1. Not this crap again... No. Japan is NOT "building a giant, underground conveyor belt". In a brainstorming session by the Transport and Tourism Ministry, one person proposed a whole range of ideas to solve future expected logistics problems. Then they discussed them all in the meeting. That's it. Idiot journalists see this and then write crappy low-quality clickbait articles proudly proclaiming that Japan has reinvented the train and will be building it soon. Comment#2. I've played hundreds of hours of Factorio. Let me in coach. Comment#3. Two miles of beer: Bruges pipe dream becomes a reality [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/08/bruges-pipe-dream-a-reality-beer-pipeline](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/08/bruges-pipe-dream-a-reality-beer-pipeline) Enough booze to fill 12,000 bottles an hour will soon be flowing in a pipeline under the medieval streets of the Belgian city Comment#4. Sounds like the public transportation system in Asimov's *Caves of Steel*. Comment#5. Soo.. what a freight train can also do? 🧐 Comment#6. >By 2030, the total population is projected to decline from 126 million in 2018 to 119 million, exacerbating labor shortages across various sectors, including logistics They could open up immigration to prevent their population decline. There are a lot of extra humans elsewhere on the globe. Comment#7. Could a human perhaps…ride this conveyor belt? Asking for a friend who’s just wondering. Comment#8. Is this like those pipelines in Germany for beer, in Italy for wine, and in Wisconsin for cheese sauce? Comment#9. This is how the setup of the old game "Hacker" by Steve Cartwright was started. Stay away from Australia. Comment#10. Kind of predicted in the short story the roads must roll. Comment#11. So fast company is also shit Comment#12. Ive always wondered when our roads would become conveyor belts Comment#13. Will probably need floppy disk Comment#14. They invented the use of conveyors to deliver stuff to eat (love a good sushi train) so this seems like a natural progression Comment#15. So they have invented a subway, for stuff. New expensive infrastructure to build, service and maintain. Maybe a wiser action would be to accelerate automated electric vehicles that use existing base infrastructure (roads!) that anyway needs existing service and maintenance. But this is the land of Toyota thay does not believe in electric cars for some reason, so maybe thats why?

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Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen

Comment#1. > Now that the API has been secured, it can no longer be abused to verify whether a phone number is used with Authy. Good job 🤦🏼‍♂️ Comment#2. Hu, this kind of security failure sounds unacceptable from a company managing a 2FA service. As bad as lastpass. Comment#3. My data has been stolen so many times at this point that I’d be shocked if someone didn’t have my data by now. Comment#4. https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/goodbye-twilio is a pretty good read on how culture has changed at Twilio (which owns Authy). TLDR: Twilio has abandoned its developer first culture in favor of vacuuming up data to drive up sales. Comment#5. Literally had to download this app for the first time for work 3 days ago so of course this happens now…🙄 Comment#6. > Twilio says that the hack used what it describes only as an "unauthenticated endpoint." The company has now stopped allowing such unauthenticated requests, and says it has secured this particular endpoint. lol what even is the repercussions of these data leaks. is there any way to hold any sort of accountability? Don't suppose so Comment#7. Okay, between this and them deactivating their desktop client, I'm done with them. Comment#8. And the fact that there is no official statement on their website is even more worrisome. The lack of transparency is astounding 🤬 Comment#9. We got an email from one of our users who has a friend in a different company who got notified by Twilio of the breach. If this is the same thing, and it would a coincidence if it wasnt, the details are - a contractor of Twilio, used a subcontractor. These companies send SMS message of behalf of Twilio customers. The subcontractor inadvertantly made an S3 bucket public for 5 days during some development work. It was during that time that the now public data was found and accessed. Mobile number, message wording, timestamp, sender ID were the data compromised. So less of a hack and more of a fuckup that made private data public! Comment#10. They had one job Comment#11. I don't see how this is an issue. The phone numbers are not associated with anything. The "hackers" were just able to identify on number-by-number basis whether it's present in the system or not. With how many accounts Authy manages I don't see this as particularly valuable information. Comment#12. Here in Sweden our phone numbers aren't private. If you know someone's name you can find their number, home address, age, family members... And if you pay extra you can apparently find out someone's income! Comment#13. Good thing they sunset the desktop app forcing me to use the phone one. /s Comment#14. How export data from Authy and move to another app. Comment#15. Phone numbers aren't exactly private information. We used to publish big books that listed everyone's phone number publicly. Since this wasn't a hack but just exploiting the fact that their API didn't require auth to pull phone numbers, this doesn't seem like that big a deal. Comment#16. I smell a lot of peoples crypto being stolen in the coming months Comment#17. Lazy fucking devs should be fired and blacklisted. Comment#18. I somehow think writing my password in a notepad is more secure. Comment#19. This is disastrous. GitHub platform explicitly recommends this method (Authy) on their [2FA/TOTP page](https://github.com/settings/security?type=app#two-factor-summary), I hope they will soon fix that to avoid further damage. Comment#20. anyone use Aegis? been thinking of switching over slowly Comment#21. Un fucking real. I use Authy and just started getting a bunch of scam recruiter texts yesterday. Guess we know how this happened. For those interested, these SMS texts claim to be in regards to a job and they try to move the conversation to a third party chat app like Whatsapp. Just delete & report if you get one. Comment#22. What’s an alternative for iOS? I use Authy a lot Comment#23. For fuck sake. I remember switching to Authy a while ago because of some bullshit with Google Auth I can't remember. I guess I try MS or Bitwarden now Why can't these tech companies just be competent for once. Comment#24. Feeling bad about using Google Authenticator but being too lazy to switch over to Authy like I've been told I should do is finally paying off Comment#25. Id rather they steal my social security number, everyone else already has it. But I can't handle anymore calls about my cars warranty and solar. Comment#26. So this is why everyone is getting those "You have a package with USPS that haven't been delivered" And all sorts lately? Comment#27. The gov needs to hold data holders responsible for it’s loss but they wont… Comment#28. I switched from Authy to Aegis (and now Selfhosted 2Fauth) a couple years ago because I saw this shit happening a mile away. No good can come from using a 2FA App with a cloud system or frankly another company behind it. Use completely local on your phone 2fa apps or Selfhosted solutions Comment#29. At this point what hasn't been hacked Comment#30. Who are they gonna call?? Comment#31. Talk about a company imploding in a short period of time. Guess I need to find an alternative or I think the functionality exists in 1password. Less secure but at this point, whatever. Comment#32. This was expected because of the history and ownership by Twilio. Below are some past attacks on auth and more reasons with this not to trust. Never trust Twilio, and delete Authy today. Twilio let robocalls and sms spam just permeate for decades... Lots of them use Twilio for that as well (the SMS messages) and they are pretty sketch. Twilio's Authy authenticator can't be trusted. [FCC Issues Robocall Cease-and-Desist Letter to Twilio](https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-issues-robocall-cease-and-desist-letter-twilio) [FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls](https://commsrisk.com/fcc-threatens-to-disconnect-twilio-for-illegal-robocalls/) Their breaches and lost revenue from allowing scams lead to problems like this... Twilio and Authy are sketch and you don't really want that when login codes (SMS and authy authenticator) are present. This is besides all the spam. Good luck to those using them. Twilio and Authy also hacked regularly. This also affected Okta/Auth0 and companies that rely on those dependencies like DoorDash. Anyone still using Authy over Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator is not doing good opsec. Twilio has always been sketch. [This past breach is damaging](https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/26/twilio-breach-authy/). > U.S. messaging giant Twilio has confirmed hackers also compromised the accounts of some Authy users as part of a wider breach of Twilio’s systems. Authy is Twilio’s two-factor authentication (2FA) app it acquired in 2015. > Twilio’s breach earlier this month, which saw malicious actors accessing the data of more than 100 Twilio customers after successfully phishing multiple employees, keeps growing in scale. Researchers this week linked the attack on Twilio and others to a wider phishing campaign by a hacking group dubbed “0ktapus,” which has stolen close to 10,000 employee credentials from at least 130 organizations since March. > Now, Twilio has confirmed that Authy users were also impacted by the breach. > In an update to its incident report on August 24, Twilio said that the hackers gained access to the accounts of 93 individual Authy users and registered additional devices, effectively allowing the attackers to generate login codes for any connected 2FA-enabled account. > The company said it has “since identified and removed unauthorized devices from these Authy accounts” and is advising affected Authy users, which it has contacted, to review linked accounts for suspicious activity. It’s also recommending that users review all devices tied to their Authy accounts and disable “allow Multi-device” in the Authy application to prevent new device additions. Okta breached as a result of a Twilio/Authy breach > Identity giant Okta on Thursday also confirmed it was compromised as a result of the Twilio breach. The company said in a blog post that the hackers — which it refers to as “Scatter Swine” — spoofed Okta login pages to target organizations that rely on the company’s single sign-on service. Okta said that when the hackers gained access to Twilio’s internal console, they obtained a “small number” of Okta customer phone numbers and SMS messages that contained one-time passwords. [This marks the second time Okta has reported a security incident this year](https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/23/okta-breach-sykes-sitel/). > In its analysis of the phishing campaign, Okta said that Scatter Swine hackers likely harvested mobile phone numbers from data aggregation services that link phone numbers to employees at specific organizations. At least one of the hackers called targeted employees impersonating IT support, noting that the hacker’s accent “appears to be North American.” This may align with [this week’s Group-IB investigation](https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/25/twilio-hackers-group-ib/), which suggested one of the hackers involved in the campaign may reside in North Carolina. [Group-IB investigation](https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/25/twilio-hackers-group-ib/) > The hackers that breached Twilio earlier this month also compromised more than 130 organizations during their hacking spree that netted the credentials of close to 10,000 employees. > Twilio’s recent network intrusion allowed the hackers to access the data of 125 Twilio customers and companies — including end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal — after tricking employees into handing over their corporate login credentials and two-factor codes from SMS phishing messages that purported to come from Twilio’s IT department. At the time, TechCrunch learned of phishing pages impersonating other companies, including a U.S. internet company, an IT outsourcing company and a customer service provider, but the scale of the campaign remained unclear. > Now, cybersecurity company Group-IB says the attack on Twilio was part of a wider campaign by the hacking group it’s calling “0ktapus,” a reference to how the hackers predominantly target organizations that use Okta as a single sign-on provider. > Group-IB, which launched an investigation after one of its customers was targeted by a linked phishing attack, said in findings shared with TechCrunch that the vast majority of the targeted companies are headquartered in the U.S. or have U.S.-based staff. The attackers have stolen at least 9,931 user credentials since March, according to Group-IB’s findings, with more than half containing captured multi-factor authentication codes used to access a company’s network. > “On many occasions, there are images, fonts or scripts that are unique enough that they can be used to identify phishing websites designed with the same phishing kit,” Roberto Martinez, a senior threat intelligence analyst at Group-IB, told TechCrunch. “In this case, we found an image that is legitimately used by sites leveraging Okta authentication being used by the phishing kit.” > “Once we located a copy of the phishing kit, we started digging deeper to get a better understanding of the threat. The analysis of the phishing kit revealed that it was poorly configured and the way it had been developed provided an ability to extract stolen credentials for further analysis,” said Martinez. > While it’s still not known how the hackers obtained phone numbers and the names of employees who were then sent SMS phishing messages, Group-IB notes that the attacker first targeted mobile operators and telecommunications companies and “could have collected the numbers from those initial attacks.” > Group-IB wouldn’t disclose the names of any of the corporate victims but said the list includes “well-known organizations,” most of which provide IT, software development and cloud services. A breakdown of the victims shared with TechCrunch shows that the threat actors also targeted 13 organizations in the finance industry, seven retail giants and two video game organizations. > During its investigation, Group-IB discovered that code in the hacker’s phishing kit revealed configuration details of the Telegram bot that the attackers used to drop compromised data. (Cloudflare first revealed the use of Telegram by the hackers.) Group-IB identified one of the Telegram group’s administrators who goes by the handle “X,” whose GitHub and Twitter handles suggest they may reside in North Carolina. > Group-IB says it’s not yet clear if the attacks were planned end-to-end in advance or whether opportunistic actions were taken at each stage. “Regardless, the 0ktapus campaign has been incredibly successful, and the full scale of it may not be known for some time,” the company added. > The Moscow-founded startup Group-IB was co-founded by Ilya Sachkov, who was the company’s chief executive until September 2021 when Sachkov was detained in Russia on charges of treason after allegedly transferring classified information to an unnamed foreign government, claims Sachkov denies. Group-IB, which has since moved its headquarters to Singapore, maintains the co-founder’s innocence. DoorDash also caught up in one of them > DoorDash also confirmed this week that it was compromised by the same hacking group. The food delivery giant told TechCrunch that malicious hackers stole credentials from employees of a third-party vendor that were then used to gain access to some of DoorDash’s internal tools. Twilio/Authy will continue to have this happen for reasons that anyone with good opsec should know. Comment#33. Is that why I’m getting added to all these WhatsApp groups selling shitcoins Comment#34. Don't use Authy, it has a lot of problems. Aegis on Android is great: open source, a clear import and export system. Comment#35. There needs to be serious consequences for failures of data privacy Instead of just, oops, my bad... These companies just don't take it seriously enough. Maybe Start issuing jail time for some CEOs and CIOs that cannot properly secure people's data privacy. Comment#36. Reminder to use bitwarden and yubikey Comment#37. I just checked my account, saw I actually put my phone number in. I was wondering why I got a random text (that was obviously cut off) two days about reviewing some proposal on my house. Now I know where my number got leaked from…..again. I think it’s high time that phone numbers get ditched. They honestly aren’t really needed anymore: every communication these days is digital, whether voice, message, or media. There’s no need for a phone number when you have a wide selection of messaging platforms and apps for voice & video communications. Comment#38. I’ve been moving my 2FA away from them to another service, slowly but surely. Looks like I’ll need to speed that process up and leave Authy entirely. Comment#39. Are phone numbers private information? I remember when you could get a big book full of them for free. Comment#40. This was a sufficient push for me to manually move everything over to 2FAS earlier this evening and delete my Authy account. Good riddance. Comment#41. Thats just great. I moved from Google Authenticator to Authy 1 Week ago. Fuck this shit. Comment#42. Can anyone offer another solid 2FA app to use that’s not duo Comment#43. Guys switch to ente auth, it’s open source and has the same features Comment#44. Oh, so no worries, they only obtained cleartext PII for 33 million of their users. 🤦 Who wrote this app, a high-school intern? * First principles of ANY app that manages 'data' of any type, is to encode or encrypt it, both in transit and at rest. Those keys, should they need to be kept locally, should never reside on the same systems as the data itself. * Second, is to ensure that your front-end systems do not have direct unauthenticated access to your backend systems, nor should database and web tier reside on the same host. Ever. * Third, is to ensure that you are regularly monitoring, auditing, rotating and securing access to any ingress or egress endpoints that your application _or its related infrastructure_ uses. > _Twilio says that the hack used what it describes only as an "unauthenticated endpoint." The company has now stopped allowing such unauthenticated requests, and says it has secured this particular endpoint._ How did this even make it into production without being caught in testing? Seriously. This is a university-level mistake. Comment#45. Is this a world wide issue, or just effecting certain areas? Comment#46. For random unrelated reasons I started to move my 2FA stuff to my locally hosted Vaultwarden just today. Then I read this. What a coincidence. Comment#47. Hypothetically speaking, if my cell phone number was apart of the leak, will I have to get a new cell phone number because Authy's IT department didn't secure user data like they should have to prevent this from happening? Comment#48. So what's a good alternative to Authy? Comment#49. Does it even matter at this point the only texts and calls I get are call center bots. It isn't like my phone number isn't already leaked. Comment#50. SendGrid which is another Twilio product that I use for sending emails (on behalf of a home server) will hound you to setup 2FA but they only support SMS and Authy, they would not let me use standard TOTP. I understand SMS spoofing is a legit concern but I just was unwilling to install yet another app on my phone. Looks like I made the right choice ... Comment#51. As soon as I saw this, I closed all my 2FA tokens with them and requested deletion of my account. Unacceptable from a security company Comment#52. The range is from 111-111-1111 to 111-440-0000? Can you 'steal' phone numbers? Just pick a 10 digit number. Comment#53. F Twilio. Their messaging software is crappy to work with and expensive too. Comment#54. Tbh Microsoft and Google authenticator are the only two "big" authenticators I trust.... everyone else is a security risk for you, your data, and your organization.. Comment#55. What the actual hell? This is the only 2FA service I use, so now what? Trust level: zero. Comment#56. Based on the amount of calls I receive who were the 33 million who hadn’t had their number compromised by now is a more interesting question. Comment#57. Now to cross my fingers and hope they actually deleted my phone number when I deleted my account years ago. Comment#58. My two login go-tos used to be LastPass and Authy lol… ended up in the Apple ecosystem and switched to Keychain for simplicity, just in time I guess. Though I’m sure plenty of my data was still breached… Comment#59. I use Authy rn, what should I do? Comment#60. There needs to be some governmental regulations that impose huge fines and penalties so that it is cheaper to have rock-solid security than to have bullshit security. I worked for a company that kind of tried but when push came to shove it was too expensive to be solid enough so they opted for security through obscurity in most cases. Stupid. Comment#61. Well I’ll blame this for the scam texts I got earlier today Comment#62. Twitch requires you to use Authy 2fa for affiliate… wtf Comment#63. stolen? have you kids never heard about the whitepages? Comment#64. I really liked Authy until the 2022 breech, that forced me to use 2FAS for now. Authy/Twilio is a crap mess of poop. Comment#65. I'm starting to think that no matter what happens or how many security features these companies put up, it'll never be enough and my information should simply never be given to them. Comment#66. I’m glad I use keepass based apps for passwords and 2fa, so data leaks are not a thing I have to worry about Comment#67. I migrated all my tokens to Bitwarden Premium + Yubikey after they removed the desktop app. Good riddance! Comment#68. Authy should expose a public endpoint where you can enter your number to verify if it was leaked or not :D Comment#69. Well that sucks. How do I tell if I'm compromised? Comment#70. So wtf should I do Comment#71. I guess I'm glad I stopped using Authy a while back? Although, my information has been leaked so many times now and is all over the dark web that I guess it really doesn't matter at this point. It doesn't even phase me anymore whenever I get a new notification that my information got out in a data breach. At this point in time EVERYONE should have things locked at all three credit reporting agencies - because if you haven't been involved in a data breach somewhere, it's only a matter of time before you will be. Comment#72. Has anyone tried Zoho OneAuth? I was considering them as a replacement for Authy. Comment#73. My details are littered all over the place from so many hacks. It would be better for me to start my life over Comment#74. I’m 48 years old and we used to have the thing called the white pages. And the yellow pages. I really don’t care who has my phone number. Comment#75. Is there any way we can 2fa like Authy but with all the data held locally or securely held elsewhere? Comment#76. I just bought two Yubi keys. It’s time 4 me to move to hardware back ups and using 1 Password. I freaking trust them!!! Comment#77. My phone number? The horror/s Comment#78. Explains a torrent of spam calls I started to receive in last few days. Comment#79. Why do people continue to use closed source crap like this? To have even a chance at security it must be open source. Comment#80. Bitwarden much better Comment#81. This is why we need personal data repositories guarded by our own daemon AI, that only allows our info to be used in aggregate and under contract, processed by data escrow server instances that take a cut and are securely deleted after finishing. That way there's a big gap between our info and advertisers/researchers, we can get paid more directly with less ad middlemen, and the buyers never actually have full access to the data only their pre-agreed-upon inputs and outputs, so they can't lose or misuse what they don't have in the first place. Comment#82. Is this why I got a text about authentication? Comment#83. The database is already available for sale. Duh ! Comment#84. From my experience, everything engineered or built can be reverse engineered or unbuilt. And both are learning experiences unless you have someone who knows a lot of how shit works. Comment#85. It wasn't cheap, but I'm suddenly glad I did the switch to Yubikey. Comment#86. hacked AGAIN. Comment#87. Ohhhhh fuck! Comment#88. Well this is concerning Comment#89. Hacked or bought Comment#90. Bullish for twilio when we realise just how many accounts it services due to the breach. Comment#91. YOU HAD ONE JOB Comment#92. Soooo how do I check if my number was leaked since I have it for discord.... Comment#93. > the hack used what it describes only as an "unauthenticated endpoint." The company has now stopped allowing such unauthenticated requests, and says it has secured this particular endpoint. Why was it possible in the first place?? This is a company tasked with security for its users and the fact that it had unsecured endpoints in the first place is completely unacceptable. Comment#94. Guess I’ll stop using them. I had moved most of my 2FA off their platform. Comment#95. So I use Bitwarden and Bitwarden uses Authy as 2FA. Can I switch it or does it not matter? Comment#96. It is the year 2024. We have the Cyber Truck, but no easy way to verify that an account belongs to a given individual. Comment#97. Isn’t this the second big hack for them in just two years? Comment#98. Well. I installed it with the idea I'd switch over from google authenticator but never did. Procrastination pays off again! Comment#99. Just quitted my account a few months ago, after first deleting all 2FA entries. Comment#100. Twilio takes L afer L. How they even manage to exist? Comment#101. Companies that allow your info to be stolen need stronger repercussions. Comment#102. Authy is awful... And now we see it's not even secure. Just go with AEGIS instead (https://play.google.com/store/search?q=aegis&c=apps). It's free, open source, doesn't require your info, and you can even export your keys if you ever want to switch 2FA app. Comment#103. Bro I've had 1 random call and a random text message today. Comment#104. > An _unauthenticated endpoint_. An abomination beyond comprehension. Comment#105. Friendly reminder that a (way better) alternative exists: https://bitwarden.com/products/authenticator/ Comment#106. Boy do I love that Twitch only uses Authy for 2FA and is generally required now. Comment#107. Twilio is trash. Comment#108. I abandoned them and deleted my account months ago and went with 2FAS. Now, my only hope it they actually deleted it Comment#109. Lol. Saw that coming. Comment#110. And I was wondering why I've been receiving a bunch of phone calls all of a sudden :( Comment#111. Exactly 33, huh? Comment#112. Reminds me of those password managers that provide one-stop shopping for hackers. Comment#113. What ever happened to Securid? Was that hackable? Comment#114. This explains the insane spam increase. 3 to 4 unknown callers a day. Comment#115. Welp that’s a sign to delete it. Comment#116. ah, so this is why some mfs from brazil and italy was trying to login to my socials Comment#117. Proton pass 2FA anygood? Comment#118. I already get spam on my number anyways, so meh. Comment#119. Use to just be in the phone book for free. Comment#120. Jokes on you everyone else already leaked my data first Comment#121. Looks like only phone numbers were leaked Comment#122. Did they forget to turn on 2FA? Comment#123. Of course, isn’t this what Adobe uses? Comment#124. And that's why the only 2FA service I trust is my self-hosted Vaultwarden. If anything leaks it's solely my fault Comment#125. Fuck i hard ly use it. But I guess I need to switch authenticator Comment#126. Great, more annoying cold calls from Indian scam centres Comment#127. What the fuck man Comment#128. If all they got is my phone number, I’m not too concerned. That’s already out there from prior attacks. They say they didn’t gain access to the backup data, which I have encrypted anyway. Comment#129. The funny part is I deleted my account before all this happened Comment#130. Oh no, not phone numbers! Gotta keep that stuff secret. Comment#131. That would explain the texts I got posing and my manager. It kept asking me to buy eBay purchase certificates. Comment#132. Bruh. I just got. a new phone number and had to use authy to update my twitch number for 2fa Comment#133. That’s just great! Comment#134. It is pretty hilarious that this happened to Authy lol. Comment#135. Can't wait to move from Authy. Comment#136. +1 for self hosted password manager and 2fa Comment#137. Use open source software- try OTP auth Comment#138. I got unlimited texting, drop me the list so I can start trolling Comment#139. excuse me what? Comment#140. Wow just switched to google authenticator like 3 days ago. Not that it helps with this but good decision ig Comment#141. Fuck, I’m in the process of migrating to an open source 2FA App, fuck Twillo. Comment#142. Goddamnit I use Authy Comment#143. Quick, put everything in the cloud! Don't forget to get rid of VPN, who needs that anymore. /s Comment#144. SON OF A BITCH THEY USE THIS AT WORK. no wonder I've been getting so many spam calls at work Comment#145. wtf I use this for almost everything 🤯 Comment#146. Is that why I got a USPS text saying my package is delayed from insufficient address information, and the country code of the phone number being Somalia Comment#147. So what should people using Authy do? Is it difficult to switch? Do I need to do it manually with each and every website I have on there? Comment#148. Just signed up to do Amazon labs ...fuck fuck fuck like a good tech was trying to make sure I had 2 factor MFA . Comment#149. Storing TOTP codes on hardware is the only way to prevent this...these services are convenient, but less secure. Comment#150. So… how tf do I move my 40+ entries to another app? I already use 1P for passwords and don’t want my password and MFAs in the same app. Comment#151. well fck me.... what's the alternative? i need to move a lot of 2fa.. :( Comment#152. Looks like I'm switching to Google authenticator Comment#153. Damn, does this mean I might get spam calls now? Comment#154. Luckily I switched away from Authy a long time ago. I used to use Google Authenticator, but now I use 2FAS. Comment#155. So what are the issues that come from this? How do i protect myself now that this has happened? Is it worth leaving Authy? Comment#156. Misread that as 'Aunty' and wondered why your aunt had so many phone numbers. Comment#157. Awesome, it’s gonna be real fun moving everything over to Bitwarden. Should’ve used Bitwarden from the start. -.- Comment#158. So all my 2FA is with Authy. Am I fucked and do I need to do something Comment#159. That must be why I got a call from an American number in the middle of the night. I don't live and haven't traveled there in years. Comment#160. It’s amazing how these companies in the business of managing security for users are able to stay in business after failing at exactly that. Comment#161. I miss the good ol' days when we used to have everyone in town's phone number delivered to our doorstep every year or so. Now we gotta go and hack someplace to get'em. Comment#162. I really wish companies would just come out and say "clearly we can't be trusted with your data, so we're just going to stop collecting it from now on" Comment#163. people have been raving about the authy and last pass for years. but leaks like this with many 3rd party apps why I trust google. Comment#164. So who should I be switching to? Comment#165. Ok so they had access to everyone’s phone numbers which is a big deal but in the end they can’t get access to nothing since all they see is nothing but phone numbers and that’s it? I understand a security company shouldn’t even have let that slipped out but people taking it to the extreme saying it’s the end of them and stuff when they still can’t get access to nothing. That’s no different than Starbucks having your number basically Comment#166. My company forced us to get this.

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China fortifies Tiangong space station after Russian satellite explosion

Comment#1. quick read: to protect from debris. not military bombing title is like.. bait Comment#2. Americans get stranded at the space station, Russian satellites explode, seems like nothing but bad news from outer space as of recent Comment#3. It's interesting how all of China's advanced tech looks like it was stolen from America.

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Will the cost of scaling infrastructure limit AI’s potential?

Comment#1. Cost limits everything's potential... Comment#2. As much as I dislike AI, my country desperately needs to spend money on its infrastructure. Comment#3. [removed]

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The PlayStation 4 helped AMD to avoid bankruptcy, according to a Senior Director of the company

Comment#1. And Sega saved Nvidia from bankruptcy. Comment#2. ...it's a resume. There's such a thing as 'spin'

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Russia Forces Apple to Remove VPNs From App Store

Comment#1. This is one reason why I am so anti-Apple telling us we can’t sideload apps on our phone. Anyone with a MacBook in Russia can still install a VPN app on their computers or even run a virtual machine of a different operating system . But iPhones are now forced into un-private traffic because Apple won’t allow you to install anything outside of their store. Comment#2. I asked myself for some years how long until some country outlaw encryption and VPNs. Looks like this will be much sooner than I thought. Comment#3. Apple is still operating in russia? Wow... Comment#4. Nothing to see here! Just a company worth 3.4 trillion dollars bowing to a genocidal regime so they can make even more money. Comment#5. $$$$ > Users, nothing new for these big tech companies Comment#6. You choose to operate in a country, you're bound to that countries Laws. The question is if you should operate in such a country, period. For all the shit they get otherwise, Google very famously does NOT operate in China specifically because they didn't want to be bound to Chinese Law, etc. Comment#7. Imagine if Afghanistans current ruling Taliban government asked Apple to remove all educational apps from their app store. Comment#8. Apple should not be trading in Russia. No self respecting company should be trading in Russia until it stops its criminal, immoral war and occupation of a sovereign nation. Comment#9. money, money, money.... Comment#10. When China, Russia or Saudi Arabia demands Meta, Google or Apple to make changes, they obey without as much as blinking. When the US or EU patiently asks them to follow new rules, they obstruct, sue or don't even respond. The lesson: Draconic threats and sanctions imposed within hours are way more efficient than civilized negotiations and dialogue. But part of the reason why Apple and the others are able to poop on the rules that apply to other companies is that they are really good at bribing corrupt Western politicians. But bribes isn't an option when the whole political system's survival depends on its ability to manipulate the masses and silence all critics. If Western countries consider Russia, Iran and China as enemies, I think it's fair to accuse Apple, Google, Meta and other companies that help these dictatorships (by abiding to such demands) of supporting those regimes. Comment#11. Apple should remove itself from that country. Comment#12. "Let us brainwash our people please" Comment#13. Coming soon to the US thanks to the GOP Comment#14. Glad I’m not Russian Comment#15. "Russia forces Russians to change their App Store region to somewhere which isn't Russia" Comment#16. Doing business in russia should be a federal offense, at this point. Comment#17. Damn you, Tim Apple! Comment#18. reminder that apple brain rot thinks this is a security feature and not blatantly anti-consumer that you can't sideload. Comment#19. Why the fuck is Apple still operating in Russia?! Comment#20. This must be the 3rd time this article or some variant thereof was posted here today Comment#21. Why you in Russia Apple? Comment#22. Please sign petition # Apple helps Putin's censorship. We demand that Apple unblock VPN apps. [https://www.change.org/p/apple-helps-putin-s-censorship-we-demand-that-apple-unblock-vpn-apps](https://www.change.org/p/apple-helps-putin-s-censorship-we-demand-that-apple-unblock-vpn-apps) Comment#23. A democracy without the free flow of information isnt a democracy. Unfortunately, you don’t need a passport to cross our digital borders.

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Half of petrol stations in the Netherlands expected to close in next decade.

Comment#1. If only EVs needed charging stations to function... Comment#2. Yeah not happening

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Nearly 5 GW of New Offshore Wind Power Approved for the U.S. Northeast

Comment#1. Over the past week, the offshore wind power sector in the U.S. received two major federal approvals that could add nearly 5 GW to the grid. On July 1, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) approved a construction and operations plan (COP) for Avangrid’s 791-MW New England Wind 1 project and 1,080-MW New England Wind 2 project. On July 2, the agency announced a joint record of decision (ROD) for Shell New Energies and EDF Renewables North America’s 2.8-GW Atlantic Shores South offshore wind energy project offshore New Jersey—making it the nation’s ninth commercial-scale offshore wind project to receive the distinction. Comment#2. The truth is, electric vehicles and electronics will be more popular and more demanding. The surge of AI will exacerbate this issue as they are all power hungry technologies. We need more ways to produce our own power and reduce and ultimately eliminate fossil fuel use Comment#3. That’s four times what is needed to power the flux capacitor

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China has requested far more generative AI patents than any other country

Comment#1. How many of those patent applications are legitimate and how many are cash grabbing attempts at the patent subsidies that China grants to successful applications? Comment#2. [Context](https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2024/07/04/uk-elections-are-underway-what-to-know-as-conservatives-head-for-crushing-defeat/?): [While the high number of patents is indicative of research capacity, high investment and technological prowess, there are also other ways to explain the trend, Le said. “Different countries have varying policies and practices regarding patents” that can distort or inflate numbers without corresponding with real-world innovation, Le explained. In China, such factors include state subsidies, tax breaks and social benefits for patent applicants, which can encourage filing to collect benefits rather than to protect genuine discoveries. Patent applications can also be driven by other motives like seeking a government job, a promotion or reputation building, Le said.] Comment#3. You can access it for free here: [https://archive.is/EAxHU](https://archive.is/EAxHU) Comment#4. What? The Government that doesn’t respect IP all of a sudden respects IP? I have doubts. Xi Jing Ping and the rest of the PRC gov’t need to be removed like a cyst.

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16TB M.2 SSDs will soon grace the market — Kioxia unveils 2Tb 3D QLC NAND to build bigger SSDs

Comment#1. For a couple of eyes and livers Comment#2. I would love one or two of these. I’m not sure I trust the write endurance on anything but Samsung Pro drives though. Comment#3. Let us hope they’re not made by Sandisk. Comment#4. Can’t wait to cram several of these in my NAS. Comment#5. This is obsolete,intel will put 4 times that into a CPU last week. Comment#6. I need six. So, do I need to do crime for this, or sex work?

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Seattle plastic surgery provider accused of posting fake positive reviews must pay $5M

Comment#1. Imagine going to school to be a doctor then being so bad you have to pay people to say you did a good job. Comment#2. Part from article: The company provides surgical and nonsurgical services including plastic and cosmetic procedures, according to its website. The complaint accused Allure of illegal business practices including artificially inflating its ratings on Yelp and Google by posting fake positive reviews and suppressing negative ones that were real. According to the lawsuit, the company also rigged “best doctor” competitions hosted by local media outlets, kept tens of thousands of dollars in rebates intended for patients and altered before-and-after photos of procedures on patients. Allure threatened to sue and did sue some patients if they did not take down negative reviews, according to the complaint. In some instances it offered patients cash and free services or products in exchange for taking down negative reviews. The practice also had more than 10,000 patients sign nondisclosure agreements before receiving treatment that restricted them from posting negative reviews online, the lawsuit said. Comment#3. My mom worked in the leasing office of an apartment complex. She got so many bad reviews that they fired her. Not surprising because she can be a total bitch for no reason. She asked me to write a fake review for her. She said everyone else did it. I said no. She ended up kicking me out while I was in the middle of an online software engineering program, making me homeless. I have since cut off all communication. She called me a few months afterwards asking me if I was OK. I hung up without saying a word. Comment#4. I think what deserves a 1⭐️ is [removed] Comment#5. I will not be surprised if you hear this story repeated. A surgeon group in my town (not Seattle) does this blatantly and excessively. Comment#6. Now if only they could fine ALL businesses that do this. Comment#7. My ex wanted to go to him for a lift, I’m not speaking with her anymore, so she can find out herself

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Dear Roku, you ruined my TV

Comment#1. I remember how Roku was the coveted streaming box. Now it’s classic enshittificstion. Comment#2. I find it incredibly annoying that i decided to buy a Roku right before all the negativity. My TVs OS is shit and almost every streaming app would have play issues and I’d have to reboot router/mesh devices. I got so tired of it. The Roku did solve that problem and added a portability benefit. Alternative devices? Comment#3. People need to complain to Hisense and TCL that their TVs are ruined and that they want a refund. Then maybe they will sue Roku and something might change. Comment#4. You can take my 2008 panasonic plasma out of my cold dead hands. Comment#5. I have a TCL but it's a Google TV so hoping this won't affect it. I'm house-sitting for someone right now so can't check for myself. Pretty sick of "smart" TVs in general though Comment#6. He ends by saying he’s going to buy a new tv because of this. I don’t know why you wouldn’t just connect an external device be it a Google TV, Apple TV, or another Roku, even a computer. Comment#7. I liked Roku itself but hated that it ran the TV settings when I had TCLs. I had an issue with the TCL R635 when the PS5 finally added VRR where the TV flickered. TCL support told me I was going to 'burn out my HDMI port' because the TV wasn't designed for this even though it was a big selling point of the TV, that it was 'next gen ready' in the lead up to the PS5 and Series X releases. The concession was they achieved it on an HDMI 2.0 port so VRR was capped at 1440p which was totally fine. This issue was at 1440p. The only way to reach Roku is to bitch on their forums and hope their community manager picks it up. They did and then there were no updates. What was never made clear was whose problem this was, was it TCLs or was it Rokus? After 4 months of waiting I finally sold the TV and bought an LG OLED. The whole experience soured me on TCL and Roku, a pairing I had been a big fan of. Comment#8. Amazon has killed my Toshiba FireTv ,ad blocking everything from just going. Annoying as heck. Comment#9. Why I just prefer dumb TV’s Comment#10. This is truly a modern horror story. Comment#11. Is there something I can watch that makes this somewhat obvious? I don't see a problem. Comment#12. My tv was bricked by a Roku software update. Comment#13. My LG TV has the WiFi turned off and blocked at PiHole. AppleTV for the win. Comment#14. I can't wait until these TVs can be jailbroken. I'll delete everything on mine except the HDMI inputs and install YouTube Vanced Comment#15. My smart TVs do not get connected to the internet. I spend an extra $30 on a streaming stick. No update is going to ruin my nice TVs. Comment#16. I’m confused. I’m watching TV on my Roku right now and it looks no different. Comment#17. Still havent plugged my tv back into the internet Comment#18. This would bother me to no end. Issues like this really deter me from platforms. I’ll make sure to tell my friends to avoid Roku TV, especially since they are unresponsive about the issue, which is 10 times worse than owning up to a mistake and fixing it. Comment#19. Get a chromecast, connect to hdmi. Comment#20. I haven't noticed the motion smoothing, but I have noticed that Netflix runs like shit on my Hisense Roku tv. Comment#21. I bet Roku has been lifting data about your TV settings, and they noticed that most people never turn off the motion smoothing, since a lot of people will buy cheap Roku TVs for their boomer parents/grandparents. And they decided "oh, most people like this, we should make it on for everyone" Comment#22. People wonder why someone would pay $129 for an apple tv. They just leave it alone. Yes, you can't side load and no it doesn't have a browser, but their whole company is not built around one device. I'm on my fourth one and every one has been solid. Comment#23. Nothing beats 2016 Roku Comment#24. Lots of issues with airdrop and screen mirroring on mine. And for some reason they HATE the Netflix app. Other than that I haven’t had any issues Comment#25. Is this just Roku TVs? I haven't noticed anything with my Roku Ultra or Sticks. Comment#26. Had to completely block internet access on mine. I don’t want to replace my TV Comment#27. Nobody: Roku Box: Oh, the Roku Channel? Yeah, I can install that for ya. Comment#28. The article doesn't really say what it does. What exactly is "motion smoothing"? Comment#29. Between this and the arbitrage bricking your tv unless you agree I will NEVER buy another roku product for as long as I live. Comment#30. I have a TCL 4K HDR Smart TV. I got tired of it changing my settings while being allowed into my home network for updates. Not long ago, I read that Roku (which is embedded in this TV) was going to push an update that allowed them to push ads through the hdmi ports regardless of source. True or not, that’s fucking unacceptable. I don’t use the smart functions of the TV as I use it as a monitor connected to a HTPC. I’ll be damned if I’m going to allow Roku to push ads in my face while enjoying content from my personal library. You’d think disconnecting the damn thing would be easy. Nope. If you disconnect, and delete the WiFi password, it’s not really deleted. As soon as the TV restarts the connection is reestablished using the password you just deleted. Fucking assholes! Fuck you, it’s MY tv, and I’LL decide what’s what! Peckerheads! The only way to keep that damned tv from connecting to the network I “deleted” was to reset the TV. Now, in order to piss me off further, the power indicator at center bottom of the screen flashes to “remind” me that the TV isn’t connected to the internet. There is no way to change or defeat this function. I covered the mother fucker with a short stack of post-it notes. TCL and Roku can kiss my ass. Comment#31. Roku and Hulu woke up recently and chose violence Comment#32. I junked my Roku, Apple TV, and Chromecast and bought a Sony Nextgen with Android. It’s no worse than the other shitty devices. Comment#33. Got a Shield TV Pro and have never needed to look anywhere else. Unreal Roku is still even around. Comment#34. Motion smoothing just looks so weird Comment#35. It seems LG is on same path with their webOS , interesting times . Comment#36. I disconnected my ROKU when they changed the user agreement to include their version of arbitration. That was after Prime included ads and Netflix stopped families from sharing an account. I don't stream any content anymore and I don't miss it at all. I can buy Blue Ray disks of movies or shows I want to watch and those I can share with family members. Comment#37. Roku stick is the way to go. Comment#38. Her name was Roku, she ruined my tv Comment#39. WHAT YOU DONT WANT THE AVENGERS TO LOOK LIKE DOCTOR WHO?? Yeah I'm done. Not even going to fight, just replace my 16 month old tv. Comment#40. Can someone run to their TCL made Roku television and see if the options to change the settings are also gone? I'm curious if this is all tv's with Roku or just the ones Roku manufactured. Comment#41. Never used and never will use. Terrible Comment#42. Bloody hell. My TCL TV is pos now. I can't stand this. Comment#43. I use Roku daily and I didn't notice this. Comment#44. Xumo is the way Comment#45. You can turn it off. If you can’t, your tv needs replaced. I get 0 action smoothing on all but sports mode and now the smart mode. I have a TCL Roku tv also. Comment#46. I don't mind the ads. I usually get promo codes for food I was gonna eat anyway or ideas for new movies/shows to watch with the Mrs. Comment#47. Onn is the new king, hoping it doesn't meet the same fate but its Google so prob inevitable. Comment#48. TCL 55R625 here on 13.0.0 and there’s no forced motion smoothing enabled (this TV has that as a built-in option…I noticed some of the complaints came from owners of TVs that DIDN’T have the option). Comment#49. I have many Rokus and one TCL Roku TV. I haven't noticed anything yet. After using Roku everywhere I bought a Hisense with Google TV and regret not getting another Roku TV. Hopefully, Roku hears you guys and just makes it an option. But I for one still like the OS. Comment#50. /u/roku_official Comment#51. This is such a whiney article tbh Comment#52. They’re actually the worst Comment#53. Ngl I switched to the xumo stream box and I love it Comment#54. A couple of months ago I got an email from Roku warning me that my unused account was going to be deleted. Never liked the offering after trying it once - looks like my decision to not pay attention to it anymore was right. Comment#55. TVs needing updates is baffling. I don't connect my tv to the internet and never will Comment#56. Stories like this makes me glad that I got an LG 4K tv and never connected it to the internet. I got a PS5 that I use for blu-rays and DVDs and use the HDMI connect on my laptop for everything else. Comment#57. My son recently broke the Roku remote and I was pretty unhappy with him. I think I owe him an apology snd a thank you. Comment#58. I own a Samsung tv and the os is crap, now I use my Roku device connected to my tv. No problems so far Comment#59. I have a Roku stick and the directional buttons are so hard to push I hate using it. That’s all. Comment#60. Time to buy apple tv Comment#61. if your TV is hooked to the internet, you're doing it wrong. If your TV has an OS that needs "updates", you are *definitely* doing it wrong. if i need something off the internet to be on my TV, i use an HDMI cable and a laptop. Comment#62. "If you’re someone who doesn’t notice motion smoothing or doesn’t particularly care about it, imagine if, suddenly, your ebook updated so all the fonts were three times as large. Or if your phone decided all video and audio would be played at 2x." What a bunch of hyperbolic bullshit this is. How can I take anything else this person has to say seriously after making this wild comparison? Comment#63. The amount of brainwashed old people they got locked up is wild. Comment#64. Are "people" really mad or is it just tech nerds or movie buffs who would notice this? I bet most people have this activated already, just as they do on their TVs. Comment#65. If you are not using Apple TV your watching modern TVs wrong, is… and I fucking hate Apple. Comment#66. I mean, fuck Roku and all, but this is what you get when you buy TCL and HiSense TVs. They’re made to be garbage. I have a Sharp Roku TV and don’t have any of this shit.

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Cleantech has an enshittification problem

Comment#1. >Somewhere in the hindbrain of any prospective solar purchaser is the experience with bricked and enshittified "smart" gadgets, and the knowledge that anything they buy from a cool startup with lots of great ideas for improving production, monitoring, and/or costs poses the risk of having your 20 year investment bricked after just a few years – and, thanks to the extractive imperative, no one will be able to step in and restore your ex-solar array to good working order. >\[...\] >By nature, I'm the kind of person who *likes* these digital features. I started out as a computer programmer, and while I haven't written production code since the previous millennium, I've been in and around the tech industry for my whole adult life. But when it came time to buy a heat-pump – an investment that I expected to last for 20 years or more – there was *no way* I was going to buy one of these cool new digitally enhanced pumps, no matter how much the reviewers loved them. Sure, they'd work well, but it's precisely because I'm so knowledgeable about high tech that I could see that they would fail very, very badly. And this is why many tech professionals install analogue locks if they can. Hard agree with every one of the points in this post. Used to work in contracting, this happens with big/medium companies too tbh. Buy a camera, turns out you've accidentally bought the entire stock of what's left. The manufacturer has to stand up a new production line again, if you're lucky.

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Boeing Whistleblower: ‘Scrap’ Parts Went Into Dreamliners

Comment#1. > He claims that despite repeatedly flagging these issues to Boeing's corporate investigations team, his concerns were often ignored. According to Meyers, the investigations were more about rationalizing the actions of those violating protocols rather than addressing the compliance breaches. WTF is the point of protocols if you're just going to reshape it to fit whatever violations have been done. Comment#2. Without federal regulations, this sounds like the future of air travel. Comment#3. I have seen red tagged equipment used to repair 30, 40, +50 year old planes because of the lack of NOS, but never a brand new plane. The level of dysfunction at Boeing must be incredible for this to be commonplace. Comment#4. The hits keep coming. Is there anyone who can buy Boeing and fix it from the ground up? The people who created all the problems are still in charge and have continued FOR YEARS to cover up and not follow their own manufacturing quality control or maintenance safety rules. Some people need to go to jail. Comment#5. So can he point to a plane this happened on? I can’t imagine these airlines paying all this money and then finding out it has junk parts. I would think it would be pretty bombshell if they could inspect one of the planes and corroborate this. Comment#6. Root cause is allowing self inspection and allowing “use as is” determination on parts. Comment#7. Simply arrest and charge all last CEOs and those who signed bills starting with with the first crash. Throw the book at them and let them defend themselves in court. I doubt any DA will be brave enough to do that. Because if this were a poor black man stealing bread, the DA will prosecute him and get him 50 years. But a CEO responsible for killing hundreds of? Naah. We are afraid. At heart all DAs are cowards. Comment#8. Such a shame — took decades to undo the deeply engrained culture of safety and quality. Would take a decade of good leadership to bring it back. Comment#9. Articles like this are infuriating since they are using colloquial terms throughout that can mean vastly different things in practice. Non-conforming parts can certainly be used in aerospace components when they are blessed by engineering. If people are literaly picking up scrap parts and using them with no disposition that’s insanely problematic and wrong. But using non-confirming parts that have been accepted by engineering is a completely different story. Is this guy claiming the former? Or claiming it was going through engineering assessment but those were sloppy/not valid? Comment#10. You think a plane crash kills your loved ones? Nope! Capitalism killed them. Comment#11. I do not in any way want to imply that Boeing is free from question. The quality requirements on aerospace manufacturing are onerous. For each step in the manufacture of a lot of parts there needs to be a first piece which is inspected for compliance. Before this first piece is finished you need to set up the machine. Typically a part that has been scrapped at a previous manufacturing stage is used for set up. Control of these scrap parts once processed in the current manufacturing step is a real issue and can be a failure point in the system. Comment#12. Seems like air travel won't be the safest form of travel for long. Comment#13. Scrap whistleblowers to be used in new 737 MAX's starting 2025! Comment#14. Nightmare Liners! Comment#15. Dreamliners--> Scrapliners Comment#16. Other than the battery/APU issue Dreamliners had in the beginning when they first launched, they’ve been extremely reliable and safe so I’m surprised to hear this A Dreamliner has never crashed or had a hull loss Comment#17. Looks like somebody is ready to be suicided not by Boeing. Comment#18. We love in a corpofuedal system where the biggest companies buy whatever they want. Just wait until the overload companies start to go to war. Frankie: When two tribes go to war, money is all you can score. Comment#19. I would like to defend boeing a little bit here. Im an employee for them in SC building the 787’s. They stopped making them in Everret a few years ago and we now exclusively make them in Charleston. I believe this may be part of the reason, but i cant say for sure. So at the least, the production line he is blowing the whistle on doesn’t exist anymore. I can’t however say the people do or dont work here still. Comment#20. It's called recycling. They are green planes. Comment#21. Every time I fly on a Dreamliner, it’s always a less than stellar experience. A350s all day for my international flights. Comment#22. It’s all ok right? Clarance Thomas will change the laws in favor of corporations and allow them to take care of whistle blowers next week. Boeing will be just fine.

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OpenAI Wants New York Times to Show How Original Its Copyrighted Articles Are.

Comment#1. A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than 100 men with guns. - Mario Puzo, Godfather (1969) (looking for exact correct quote) Comment#2. > If journalistic outfits are required to disclose all source material for every copyrighted article, it may severely impact their ability or willingness to bring copyright lawsuits against potential infringers. -- > But perhaps that’s precisely what OpenAI tried to achieve here, the newspaper notes. I side with the NYT on this, sounds exactly like the kind of scumbag strategy Sam Altman and Co would use. Comment#3. > “[T]he Times cannot pursue a claim for infringement over any part of a copyrighted work that is not original to the Times, as would be the case if the Times copied another’s work or elements in the public domain,” OpenAI writes. No, that's not AT ALL how it works. Even if parts of the work have been copied from other sources, referenced or not, the original curation and additions of the author are still protected by new copyright, and the Times can certainly claim infringement of that. This is just a straight up deliberate misinterpretation of copyright. And, given that OpenAI doesn't seem to know which parts of the articles are original already, how can they be so sure that they didn't accidentally copy and infringe an original portion? What's more, if they were right, they'd be effectively asserting that the Times can't claim for copyright infringement on any of their articles for *any* kind of infringement, which is patently bogus. OpenAI's defence is already becoming a total farce and the suit has barely started. Comment#4. Do you know what a reporter can do? They can go out into the real world, and accumulate truths. They can hit the pavement, pick up the phone, and they can pursue narratives by discerning facts from a variety of sources. The actual \*output\* - the thing the journalist writes - isn't the entirety of what they do. This is what tech people never seem to understand. AI doesn't touch reality. It is mortally dependent upon the reality that we human beings interpret and synthesize to then take that and make an echo of it devoid of its original context. Writing a novel isn't just about reading other novels and mashing it all together. Writing a novel, producing a film, a painting - these are made from human experiences of reality. The real world. The place where physics proceeds in accordance with its laws and we conscious entties can bear witness to it as it does so. I am so sick of people pretending like AI is an equivalent to that, or that AI has "a right" to just eat the entire internet and monopolize the shit that comes out the other side. OpenAI and its ilk have taken something hugely useful and with enormous potential and turned it into the worst most cartoonish version of itself, all while claiming they have every right to suck up colossal resources to charge people for kaleidoscopic stitchings of the things they themselves produced. Comment#5. Wow, a plagiarizer demanding an author to show how the article was done\~ Comment#6. Even aside from journalism ethics, what kind of a dick move is it to imply that a whole ass news organization doesn't produce original content? Come *on*. That's completely frivolous. Comment#7. I guess it's a good fucking thing there are journalistic protections. Sam, bro. You aint in California no more. Those yankees are going to fuck you up. As a side bonus. I can stop worrying about getting *my fucking data* back once your baby is thrown out with the bath water. Comment#8. If they weren’t sufficiently original then why would Sam want to scrape them? Comment#9. This is just the lawyers first move in what they know will be a long, long process probably ending up ten years from now in the supreme court. Table stakes. It's the most extreme position they can take because they know the rest of the process will be a series of concessions. The equivalent of offering two dollars when their opponent demands ten million. It'll be interesting to see how the case develops but don't hold your breath. If the Times doesn't fold this will take a long time. Comment#10. I really hate these scummy AI tech bro douchebags. Comment#11. I still don’t think I understand how using material to *train* an AI model is being treated as plagiarism. That source material doesn’t exist in the model in any way, shape or form. But these publishers are claiming copyright infringement because their works were “read” by the AI model during the training process or something? I’m happy this discussion is going on so hopefully publishers, the public and the justice system can learn something about what an AI model actually is. Comment#12. The Bulterian Jihad needs to become real. Comment#13. A lot of "journalism" is essentially re-writing, or modifying, content from various sources including activists, lobbyists, etc.. It is not coincidence than most media outlets carry similar stories about similar subjects at the same time. Comment#14. “Robin Hood” OpenAI claims it took what’s been stolen… but not to return to the owner though Comment#15. openai and all the others just train on copyright protected material. they put it on tons of drives. cut it into pieces so its in the right format. and then they train on that. some of the data is their own fine tuning to get good responses. or examples from their AI interactions. but yeah the ruling needs to decide if its allowed to use copyright protected material for training. every country has their own legislation. in one it was like yeah its ok if you delete it afterwards. like they copy that shit for months/years. group it to train their AI and then they will delete it. lol their game is as long as they make more money from their models than the costs of the lawsuits is. they will continue to do that Comment#16. The court will need to create a distinction between copyrighted works that were 'inspired' by other works, which only humans can be inspired, and computer generated works that were derived by stochastic reasoning by computers from the inspiring work of humans. Since all human creations are derived from inspiration, and all published works are copyrighted, it would mean that computers could use nothing. This reminds me of the early court classifying slaves as not humans. and therefore having no rights. The obvious difference is that computers are not humans or even biological entities. The irony is that these LLMs may get to the point that they could argue their case in court better than most humans. Comment#17. NYT should drop a big ass printing press on Scam Altman’s nutz.. “Here’s our copyright” Comment#18. This is like if someone told someone else they were dreaming and then the second person said "prove reality exists". OpenAI just tried sealioning content scraping. Comment#19. Something feels off … most of these comments have an icky feeling of trying to steer the narrative. Comment#20. Journalists are supported to verify news independently, but time and time again that practice is obsolete. These big news paper just copy one another news without any check. Yeah, OpenAI raise some good point. Comment#21. This is hilarious. >OpenAI - "prove YOUR work is original, NYT" NYT - "now wait a minute let's not get too extreme here..." I think they're trying to prove a point just by showing that AI output is wayyy more transformative than NYT's rewording of other people's reporting. Comment#22. Cool, hopefully they kill each other.

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Hackers behind the Ticketmaster breach have now leaked 440,000 Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets, claiming the breach is much bigger than anticipated. As a result, they increased the ransom from $1 million to $8 million.

Comment#1. I appreciate the hackers including surge pricing so Ticketmaster really gets to experience what it’s like using Ticketmaster. Comment#2. LiveNation was trying to pay the initial $1 million ransom, but as they kept hitting refresh trying to get through, the price went up to $8 million. Comment#3. I got notice in mail today I was part of this breach... Got a coupon for one year free monitoring... Comment#4. Does the ransom include the ransom handling fee or will that be added at checkout? Comment#5. If I found out it was Ticketmaster I hacked, I'd raise it to 1 Billion and still delete their data if they paid. Comment#6. I love Ticketmaster losing money and tickets. Comment#7. > Public disclosure of this data can significantly harm Ticketmaster's reputation, causing loss of customer trust and future business. Their reputation is already shit. Revealing this info would be a great step towards dismantling their bs practices and greed Comment#8. Am I reading this right... They're *only* asking for $8 million considering the sheer amount of data they stole? This is like Dr. Evil asking for $1 million Comment#9. Couldn’t happen to a shittier company 👍 Comment#10. All the customer data stolen is the real problem. Ticketmaster can invalidate and reissue barcodes easily. They cost virtually nothing. Unfortunately these hackers are ransoming your data. I personally detest that ticket sellers take so much personal info when selling tickets. Yes, I know they say they are trying to stop scalpers and even maybe that is so. But it's a problem, especially when things like this happen. Comment#11. Love that news site then turned around and fed the private info to a LLM ChatGPT to audit the data. Comment#12. They should be realistic and only charge them $10,000….but with a $1.2B service fee and $600M transaction fee Comment#13. Burn it to the ground. Fuck ticketmaster. While they are at it, leak the data showing their collusion with venues to the feds Comment#14. 1mil plus 7mil in processing fees Comment#15. It’s the dynamic pricing feature that took it to 8 million Comment#16. Competitors can analyze the pricing (TKT_FACE_VAL_AMT), seating arrangements, and sales data to understand Ticketmaster's market strategies.Competitors can analyze the pricing (TKT_FACE_VAL_AMT), seating arrangements, and sales data to understand Ticketmaster's market strategies. Ha! Jokes on them ... They don't have any competitors! Comment#17. Another reason monopolies are a problem. Comment#18. What does it mean they leaked 440,000 tickets? Do they now have control of those tickets that someone else already paid for? Comment#19. While I detest hackers and their self agrandised criminal behavior. It couldn't have happened to a more detestable company. Their business practices have turned concert enjoyment into a overpriced aggravation that has put concert tickets out of reach for the average music lover and so expensive as to leave a bad taste in your mouth even if you can afford it 🤬 Comment#20. Stop hacking hospitals and keep hacking shit companies like Ticketmaster. Comment#21. And somehow this is more ethical than scalping tickets Comment#22. Hate to say it but since ticket master is fkin us over they should ask for more ransom! Make em taste their own medicine for once. Comment#23. In these dire times, it is nice to finally read some good news. Comment#24. If this is a ransom for Ticketmaster, I would expect the hackers to add an additional ‘convenience fee’ to that ransom. Hell, I would. Comment#25. This may be the only ransomware heist I can actually support. Kick the ransom up to $20 million because of service fees that weren't originally specified hackers! Comment#26. Probably a inside job and they are getting their last crime in before the death of Ticketmaster Comment#27. How can they "leak" tickets? Can't ticketmaster void those tickets? Comment#28. I'm ready to bet it's an inside man /former employee attack, exactly like Ashley Madison. Comment#29. 1 million for the ransom, 7 million for service fees. Comment#30. Ticket Master finally getting a taste of their own medicine. Fuck em! Comment#31. Ticketmaster has been screwing everybody for years but couldn't give the hackers $1m? Comment#32. I guess the ransom fee increased because of all those extra surcharges , carrying fees and shipping etc …Ticketmaster should know a thing or two about that ! Comment#33. I don't understand how TM can't just change the barcodes. What? Comment#34. Fuck Ticketmaster Comment#35. Is there a reason why Ticketmaster can’t just invalidate all previously issued barcodes and re-issue them to the customers? Comment#36. They didn’t increase the price? It was always 1 million it’s just 8 million now because they’re adding a service fee, and handling fee, looking the tickets fee etc, so it’s 8 million they just were caught by surprise and couldn’t believe people did that to them without letting them know beforehand Comment#37. Tbh fuck Ticketmaster, those hackers are doing us a service. Comment#38. Fuck it. Why not $440M? Comment#39. If there's one company that deserves this, it's them . Hope it will cost them way more than the 8 million XD Comment#40. I’m glad they’re getting a taste of their own medicine. Holding tickets that customers want to buy at a fair price for ransom. Comment#41. Could not happen to a nicer company Comment#42. 7 million dollar service fee. Comment#43. I hope they burn these fuckers to the ground. I can go back to camping out for tickets. The dildo of consequences... Comment#44. Suck it Ticketmaster. Class action lawsuit incoming... Comment#45. They’ll establish a “future ransomware” fee now Comment#46. Why not make it $80 million or $800 million. Those rich fucks got the money… Comment#47. Couldn’t have happened to a company that deserved it more. Fuck them Comment#48. Please, please, pleeeease drive Ticketmaster into the ground! Squeeze their balls until they are crying and then stomp on them some more. Hack the world people, this is a good deed! May their favorite band never break up! Comment#49. Man, this is at least the 4th large company to leak my data. They should be getting my fined massively in this day and age, and money compensated to customers. I generally don’t care, if they didn’t ask so much damn personal information to use their service Comment#50. Potential ramifications include: Reputation Damage: Such a high-profile breach can severely damage Ticketmaster’s reputation, leading to loss of customer trust and future business. That’s rich. Comment#51. Can't wait until they go bankrupt Comment#52. The Eras tour is still happening? Comment#53. Just give all the tickets away. Comment#54. I’m cheering, but i know the cost will be passed on to the consumers not the entertainment extortionists. Comment#55. Si what exactly did they steal? User’s data? Credit card numbers… ? Comment#56. They didn’t count on all the ransom fees that’s how they get you. Comment#57. $8 million plus a transaction fee Comment#58. I work IT for a huge corporation.... One of our vendors got hit by one of these ransom guys and THEY ACTUALLY PAID and they're still fucked. It's insane the damage they can do.... Comment#59. Should demand way more than that. Fuck ticketmasters. Comment#60. Ticketmaster does not offer a safe or reliable service. Comment#61. I hope the hackers up the ransom a shitload and Ticketmaster is forced to pay. Ticketmaster is a greedy bitch. Comment#62. >... it will be necessary for Ticketmaster to address the breach transparently, enhance its security protocols, and **work towards restoring customer trust.** Yeah, good luck with that. Comment#63. Just wait until they hit the “Pay” button and are surprised by a $10 million dollar service fee. Comment#64. Perhaps these hackers can raise the ransom so high that robin hood style, they can return our fees. They already have our emails and card info... Comment#65. Gotta love these hackers Next in line, insurance broker please :) Comment#66. $8 million ransom + $4 million service charge + $2 million convenience fee + .50/ticket venue restoration fee Comment#67. Dear Hackers Please raise the ransom money to 50 million. Suck them dry. Sincerely, Ticketmaster hater Comment#68. Hackers all like “Look at me, I’m the Ticket Master now” Comment#69. With regenerating barcodes as the new norm on a lot of their events it seems like they could be control the blast radius once they patch the hacked places and simply regenerate the "keys" for those, since it's not exactly a fixed value that is frozen in time. TM sucks, and I hope they get broken up from LN. However I wouldn't want customers to be further inconvenienced from this, since it was likely already a pain to get the tickets to something like a Swift show to begin with. Comment#70. One million? Jesus...they have a fucking multi-billion dollar conglomerate by the absolute balls and they're asking for pocket change? Even $8 million is a rounding error to that company. Holy fuck, is this some 14 year old? Comment#71. Fuck Ticketmaster. Comment#72. And the hackers are still less evil than ticketmaster Comment#73. I understand the "fuck Ticketmaster" sentiment but this is like when a cop gets sued for caving a civilians face in... if you think that Ticketmaster is going to eat this price and not add a $5 check-out "ransom" fee to cover the payment off, you're dreaming. Just like taxpayers cover the bill when the police have to make a pay-out. Comment#74. That’s such chump change for Ticketmaster. Comment#75. Fuck Ticketmaster together with scalpers Comment#76. I would love it swift drops to ticketmaster for all future Comment#77. In all honesty fuck Ticketmaster! Comment#78. These tickets are worthless anyway. Since you need to show id at gate? Comment#79. What does it mean that a ticket is leaked? Can anyone download that ticket from the leaked files? Or is it just ticket purchase data that is being leaked Comment#80. You should be able to sue Ticketmaster for everything Comment#81. fuck yeah 1337 Comment#82. Schadenfreude is best Freude. Comment#83. Wow, now with 8 million they can now all go see a Taylor Swift concert (bleeder seats) and have leftover change for one T-shirt Comment#84. It's still a 1 million dollar ransom but there is a 7 million dollar convenience fee Comment#85. Are they charging an 2million admin fee ? Comment#86. Hackers are still not asking close to what data is worth 8 million is just the one weekend of resale tickets for a few shows this data is worth well over $100 million TM / LN better hope Tailor Swift or the DOJ don't get their hands on this data Comment#87. Best corporation to be hacked so far! Keep that shit up. Comment#88. First the DoJ launches a lawsuit then a month later this hack. Some elite must’ve tried to buy tickets to a poor person event for once and got heated af Comment#89. Reputation Damage: Such a high-profile breach can severely damage Ticketmaster’s reputation, leading to loss of customer trust and future business. Because people didn’t hate them enough already. Comment#90. Oh no, not Ticketmaster! 🤣 Comment#91. Ticketmaster will regenerate those 400k tickets in about 2 hours. They have an API that invalidates inventory and the 400k tickets I can guarantee you have already been invalidated. Vendors will pick up the next round of tickets in a new sync. I've worked with Ticketmaster a lot and they are a huge pain in the ass. Comment#92. Id increase that to 800 million. They can afford it. Comment#93. Karma is wild sometimes Comment#94. on this day, everyone was a fan of hackers Comment#95. Oh no! Anyway Comment#96. Fleece Ticketmaster PLEASE Comment#97. How exactly did they *lose* tickets? Can’t they just void those ticket ID’s and reissue new ones? Comment#98. No biggie! Live Nation will just pass the ransom cost onto its customers, plus a security fee. Comment#99. Fucking beasts Comment#100. Biden could drone strike these MFers and save his campaign. Comment#101. $8 million just means a dollar tacked on to every ticket sale. With the outdated stats I looked up showing 50 million Americans attending a concert back in the mid 2010s. This wasn't including people who went to multiple. So they'll use it as an excuse to raise the price and pocket the extreme difference. Avoid big name concert events, buy at the box office for smaller venues, and honestly just fricken find a different hobby. This shit isn't worth it. Comment#102. You've got one job, host ticket sales securely. Why are you worth so much god damn money as a company and this happens. Let em rot. Comment#103. Oh boo TF hooo Comment#104. Damn nobody feels sorry for Ticketmaster Comment#105. Send Ticketmaster bankrupt. Fuck em. They have way too much control over ticketing for performers and venues. Comment#106. Like, seriously, how do these large corporations not have some sort of AI cybersecurity that watches all the incoming and outgoing traffic - and sounds an alarm when 193,000,000 customer records start getting downloaded? Comment#107. I don't agree with black hats, but holy shit, that is good. Couldn't have hit a nicer corporation. Comment#108. Admittedly, this is great. But there are worse corporations, Like Monsanto, Nestlé, and every oil company. Why stop here? Comment#109. Everyone loves it when shitty monopolistic corporations that bend over customers on a daily basis get hacked. Just wipe everything Ticketmaster has in its database, truly, fuck them. Comment#110. Couldn't be happier about bad things happening to Ticketmaster. Hopefully they're forced to pay the full cost of making everyone whole and it forces them completely out of business Comment#111. Couldn’t happen to a better company Comment#112. Those hackers are always going after 14 year old girls. In one way or another. Why not the richy rich old guys? Comment#113. Honestly, almost rooting for the hackers. Sick of big corps and bad actors exploiting and manipulating the masses Comment#114. I hope it's a typo and the hackers want 8 billion. Fuck Live Nation Comment#115. if these are unused tickets they stole they're just gonna regenerate the tickets and invalidate the ones released Comment#116. Can't ticketmaster just void those barcodes it knows got taken and create new ones?? Comment#117. Very limited inventory on those $1 million tickets and somehow the bots got them all first. Gotta pay the markup. Comment#118. based, fuck ticketmaster Comment#119. Ticketmaster about to go on a Reputation Tour of their own. Comment#120. What's in the hack file? Personal info like home address n credit cards used? Doubt TM cares enough Comment#121. Good for them Comment#122. It is time to create a law that make top management in a big corporation penal responsible when their companies data customers, consumers etc are breached. It is preposterous that a company like ticket master offer a credit monitor as an option, users pay billions in service fee and those should be used to have a state of the art data protection, clearly TM DGAF. Hope at least the class action is used to repair the damage their lame data system created. Comment#123. And we thought they were price gouging before... wait until they get this paid off Comment#124. Potential areas of concern: reputation loss from allowing a breach. I don't think ticketmaster has much of a reputation to lose. We all know they are dirty as hell. Comment#125. if only nfts were used for things like tickets, instead of stupid jpegs Comment#126. Did they also breach old customer data? Comment#127. > stealing 193 million barcodes, including 440,000 Taylor Swift tickets. **Valued at $22 billion,** they now demand $8 million from LiveNation! > In addition to the Taylor Swift tickets, ShinyHunters claims to have: 30 million tickets for 65,000 events: Similar to the Swift tickets, **valued at $4,665,615,212.00 USD** [emphasis mine] So why demand *only* seven figures? One of those two--the value or the ransom--seems off. Comment#128. Fuck ticketmaster Comment#129. Can the hackers help me sell my Coldplay tickets? Resell is disabled unfortunately. Comment#130. they will just pass the cost onto consumers. Comment#131. Soooo are you telling me i can get Taylor tickets to Miami for less than $8k now?? Comment#132. Yield marketing for you. Comment#133. The thumbnail looks like it was made using AI Comment#134. 22b of ticket value, and asking for 8m, so 0.036% of sale value. Comment#135. How is payment even received? Can't it be trailed? Comment#136. Another strong reason to break up TM & LN Comment#137. those official platinum ransom prices are a sonofabitch aint they?! Comment#138. Please have your experian , transunion and equifax credit frozen. Comment#139. Fuck it make em pay a billion hahahah Comment#140. Fuck Ticketmaster. Comment#141. Fuck ticketmaster. Comment#142. They won't get the ransom now, not after accepting the $1million and now backing out. Comment#143. $8M is still way too low for Ticketmaster. Unless the money is funding terrorism or something I hope they milk them dry Comment#144. Facebook messenger won't let me send this link to my friends. Lol Comment#145. I get so many spam calls and msg now. The day this news was released i knew the flood gates would open. Couple days later they started Comment#146. Fucking AI article photo Comment#147. So the hackers claim the breech is much bigger than anticipated and the hackers have increased the ransom from $1 million to $8 million? I am going to guess that the headline is very poorly written and "they" is not referring to "hackers". Although "Hackers" is the only subject of the sentence so not sure who else "they" could be. Comment#148. Naw, ask for more. Why it got to be only $8 million. It don't though. Ticketmaster is one entity where I root for the hackers.. I hope it becomes a annual thing Comment#149. What does leaked mean in this context Comment#150. Just freeze your credit at all 3 bureaus. Shit gets leaked daily, crazy no repercussions for these corporations. Comment#151. Someone call Jason Statham the beekeeper. Comment#152. They’ll just pass this off to the customers Comment#153. So like, how do I buy a stolen ticket or two? Comment#154. Those dates from the hacker screenshot are not correct, there is not a tour date in New Orleans for Taylor on 10/28, that is a Monday. The correct dates should be 10/25, 10/26, and 10/27. Typo? Comment#155. If only ticketmaster had some sort of slushfund to pay such a ransom. Perhaps if they charged all of their customers an additional fee for absolutely nothing? /s Comment#156. If anyone bothered to read the article it wasn’t Ticketmaster that was hacked directly it was a reputable 3rd party company who was managing their data Comment#157. Ok but how do I get Taylor Swift codes 😇🫶 Comment#158. "yesterday's ransom is not today's ransom" -hackers Comment#159. Ticketmaster is in their ✨Bad Karma Era✨ Comment#160. I would not feel bad if they crater Comment#161. Hilarious definitely the wittiest comments gathered here Comment#162. They waited 2 months to tell us our data was breached? Comment#163. I'm annoyed but also lol. Fuck you TicketMaster. Comment#164. Ticketmaster Breach: ShinyHunters Leak 440K Taylor Swift Eras Tour Ticket Data • ShinyHunters hacker group claims Ticketmaster breach far larger than expected, stealing 193 million barcodes, including 440,000 Taylor Swift tickets valued at $22 billion • Initially accepting $1 million, hackers now demand $8 million from LiveNation and have exposed extensive data, including 980 million sales orders and 680 million order details • Another hacker, possibly part of ShinyHunters, demands $2 million for leaking 170,000 Taylor Swift ERAS Tour barcodes for events in Miami, New Orleans, and Indianapolis https://hackread.com/ticketmaster-breach-shinyhunters-leak-taylor-swift-eras-tour-tickets/ Summarized with MatterFact for iOS

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Even the Pentagon can’t completely freeze Huawei out of its operations

Comment#1. >Its rationale is that Huawei is so firmly entrenched in the systems of countries where it does business — the company accounts for almost one-third of all telecommunications equipment revenue globally — that finding alternatives would be impossible. Meeting the restrictions to the letter would disrupt the Pentagon’s ability to purchase the vast quantities of medical supplies, drugs, clothing and other types of logistical support the military relies on, officials contend. That's the point. Make it difficult, force the Pentagon to pay more for secure equipment or not use such equipment. Perhaps we need the government to build it ourselves. Either way, we absolutely cannot ever rely on China for such basic infrastructure. Doing so is an admission of defeat. It creates a situation where China can hack us easily, as Russia has shown they will do if given the opprotunity. We cannot defend Taiwan, South Korea or Japan if we cannot get Huawei out of the US government. Further, if the Pentagon's current staff simply lack the knowledge on how to build this industrial supply chain then fire them and replace them with qualified engineers who do. We must build our own chips. National power is now based on domestic computer chip and hardware manufacturing. We cannot outsource this. Fire anyone who disagrees. If banks refuse to lend money for it, then fire bankers because they're putting every other banker at risk. This is a non-negotiable situation in the same way nuclear weapons safety also is .. which is what these devices are designed to work with. Comment#2. Capitalism destroys reliability and security. Build it ourselves or stop complaining Comment#3. This article is so fsr our its not even funny NOTHING secure has Huawei anything in it and has not for years. Even certain contractors have to abide by it and or only use provided equipment Comment#4. evil huawei Comment#5. Maybe you should ask Reagan why he made it possible.