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The advertising for this that I heard, was for companies to use this AI instead of developers because devs are so expensive to hire. It was a podcast audio ad. Their web presence makes it sound like it's for devs to use.

Heads up

I, for one, welcome our traffic light-identifying overlords.

Valve previously sued a law firm in attempt to stop mass arbitration claims.

Ubisoft, take note.

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[...] Against the back wall, where one might find confessionals in a different kind of church, there’s a tower of humming black servers. These servers hold around 10 percent of the Internet Archive’s vast digital holdings, which includes 835 billion web pages, 44 million books and texts, and 15 million audio recordings, among other artifacts. Tiny lights on each server blink on and off each time someone opens an old webpage or checks out a book or otherwise uses the Archive’s services. The constant, arrhythmic flickers make for a hypnotic light show. Nobody looks more delighted about this display than Kahle.

It is no exaggeration to say that digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—and that, as the world’s knowledge repositories increasingly go online, archiving as we know it would not be as functional. Its most famous project, the Wayback Machine, is a repository of web pages that functions as an unparalleled record of the internet. Zoomed out, the Internet Archive is one of the most important historical-preservation organizations in the world. The Wayback Machine has assumed a default position as a safety valve against digital oblivion. The rhapsodic regard the Internet Archive inspires is earned—without it, the world would lose its best public resource on internet history.

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OpenAI doesn't want its chatbot to sing, but sometimes the ability slips through.

"... sales teams are more productive when onsite."

X says it suspended reporter for "posting unredacted personal information."

Google's Tel Aviv office was to host a military tech conference in Israel, but scrubbed any internet record of it after being asked.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240927160825/https://theintercept.com/2024/09/27/google-israel-defense-tech-conference/

Security officials warned future attempts are imminent.

The publication aims to bolster its business with digital subscriptions.

Time to change things around.

That lack of user interaction — or request for consent — is what confused and concerned some former Kaspersky customers.

A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report confirms what EFF has been warning about for years: tech giants are widely harvesting and sharing your personal information to fuel their online behavioral advertising businesses.

Report: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/ftc-staff-report-finds-large-social-media-video-streaming-companies-have-engaged-vast-surveillance

Recall nearly launched as a scraper that stored all its data in plaintext.

All emotes go to heaven... especially this one.

The U.K.s' antitrust authority says that Amazon's equity investment in Anthropic can't be investigated under current merger regulations.

Hugging Face cites community-driven customization as fuel for diverse AI model boom.

“My morale for this job is gone ..."

LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking.

There are about 100 million lines of code in modern cars, according to PwC – far more than a passenger jet running 14 million lines of code, or a fighter jet with about 25 million. Therefore, it should come as little surprise that software fixes now account for over 20 percent of automotive recalls, according to an analysis of 10 years of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data by DeMayo Law, as reported by Ars Technica. For better or worse, this represents a significant shift in how recalls are handled.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer be controlled by its non-profit board, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a move that will make the company more attractive to investors.

One of London's biggest newspapers is resurrecting a famous editorial personality via algorithm.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23424650

Cox disputes speed tests, claims it serves areas eligible for broadband grants.

Case file: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cox-v-rhode-island.pdf

You can't "sue anyone with a click of a button" without testing it first, FTC says.