Tech

My earnest hope is that all of the former WordPress community supporters and contributors, swivel and start investing their time and effort into WriteFreely.

Let's build another web browser based on Servo!

cross-posted from: rss.ponder.cat/post/25531

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/20057289

Escaping the smart tv doom.

USB Type C is great! ...unless you have to use dongles anyway.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/26470153

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/1149

A tech service named Clerk put together a nice breakdown of how Passkeys work on a technical level. I've found many other explanations too focused on technical definitions rather than a conceptional overview or so simplistic they were unhelpful for me. This one feels like a nice balance between not enough information and too much.

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: Click here to see the summaryThis is the best summary I could come up with: CrowdStrike's now-infamous Falcon Sensor software, which last week led to widespread outages of Windows-powered computers, has also caused crashes of Linux machines. Red Hat also advised that "disabling the CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor/Agent software suite … will mitigate the crashes and provide temporary stability to the system in question while the issue is investigated." The occurrence of kernel panics mere weeks before CrowdStrike broke many Windows implementations therefore hints at wider issues at the security vendor. That progress will likely be of great interest, as Microsoft veep for enterprise and OS security David Weston on Saturday estimated that 8.5 million Windows machines had been laid low by the problem. The extent of disruption caused by CrowdStrike remains uncertain, but we've read accounts of over 6,800 flights cancelled last Friday alone, and of some airlines only restoring systems on Sunday evening. The British Medical Association has warned that "normal service cannot be resumed immediately" by UK doctors, at least, due to the backlog caused by the outage. The original article contains 494 words, the summary contains 165 words. Saved 67%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Hi everyone. I'm launching Linguist Translate, an open-source, full-featured translation solution with an embedded offline translator based on the Bergamot Project created by Mozilla.

Ooooh... car BSOD vibes...

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: Click here to see the summaryThis is the best summary I could come up with: Multiple security firms sounded the alarm on Tuesday, warning organizations whose websites use any JavaScript code from the pollyfill.io domain to immediately remove it. More than 100,000 sites are already carrying the hostile scripts, according to the Sansec security forensics team, which on Tuesday claimed Funnull, a Chinese CDN operator that bought the polyfill.io domain and its associated GitHub account in February, has since been using the service in a supply chain attack. Since February, "this domain was caught injecting malware on mobile devices via any site that embeds cdn.polyfill.io," Sansec, an e-commerce security company, warned, adding that any complaints about the malicious activity are quickly vanished from the GitHub repository. In February, he said he had nothing to do with the domain name's sale, and presumably the associated GitHub repo, to the Chinese CDN, and urged everyone to remove its code from their webpages as a precaution following the change in ownership. Soon after other popular CDN providers including Fastly, where Betts works today, and Cloudflare created mirrors of polyfill.io so that sites could continue to use the code for the meanwhile without having to load in stuff from a Chinese entity. "The concerns are that any website embedding a link to the original polyfill.io domain will now be relying on Funnull to maintain and secure the underlying project to avoid the risk of a supply chain attack," Cloudflare's Sven Sauleau and Michael Tremante said in February. The original article contains 657 words, the summary contains 238 words. Saved 64%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

...which is why i prefer AM for hardware longevity.

A robotic gripper developed by Washington State University researchers is able to gently grab the majority of apples out of a tree without damaging the fruit.

A quality assurance game testing company contracted by Microsoft’s Activision laid off an entire team of workers because they began organizing, according to an unfair labor practice charge filed by the Communications Workers of America (CWA) on Monday

The developer does this better than I could, just read the page.

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I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the keynote or State of the Union, but Apple’s model training data is either licensed or publicly available on the Internet. No personal information is used.

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: Click here to see the summaryThis is the best summary I could come up with: Additionally, Meta plans to collect information about people who aren't on Facebook or Instagram but are featured in users' posts or photos. "Unlike the already problematic situation of companies using certain (public) data to train a specific AI system (e.g. a chatbot), Meta's new privacy policy basically says that the company wants to take all public and non-public user data that it has collected since 2007 and use it for any undefined type of current and future 'artificial intelligence technology,'" Noyb alleged in a press release. Meta has said that collecting personal data is necessary to train AI services that reflect "the diverse cultures and languages of the European communities who will use them." Participating will help Meta "provide and curate artificial intelligence technology in our Products, enabling the creation of content like text, audio, images, and videos, including by understanding and recognizing your use of content in the features," an AI policy page said. "This includes features not yet available in Europe, like allowing people to create customized stickers for chats and stories, as well as Meta AI, our virtual assistant you can access to answer questions, generate images, and more in our family of apps and on devices," Meta's blog said. The AI initiative seems to be part of the social media company's effort to appeal to younger users, according to a blog from head of Facebook, Tom Alison. The original article contains 549 words, the summary contains 231 words. Saved 58%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

It's a two minute video

Internet surveillance, and the resultant loss of privacy, is following the same trajectory. Just as certain fish populations in the world’s oceans have fallen 80 percent, from previously having fallen 80 percent, from previously having fallen 80 percent (ad infinitum), our expectations of privacy have similarly fallen precipitously. The pervasive nature of modern technology makes surveillance easier than ever before, while each successive generation of the public is accustomed to the privacy status quo of their youth. What seems normal to us in the security community is whatever was commonplace at the beginning of our careers.

John Deere was unavailable for comment.

April 23 (Reuters) - International Business Machines (IBM.N), opens new tab is nearing a deal to buy cloud software provider HashiCorp (HCP.O) , opens new tab, according to a person familiar with the matter. Hashicorp's stock surged 24%, giving it a market value of $6.1 billion, after the Wall Street Journal first reported the talks.

Imagine performing a sweep around an object with your smartphone and getting a realistic, fully editable 3D model that you can view from any angle. This is fast becoming reality, thanks to advances in AI.

In a notable shift toward sanctioned use of AI in schools, some educators in grades 3–12 are now using a ChatGPT-powered grading tool called Writable, reports Axios. The tool, acquired last summer by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is designed to streamline the grading process, potentially offering time-saving benefits for teachers. But is it a good idea to outsource critical feedback to a machine?