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looorg writes:https://github.blog/news-insights/research/survey-ai-wave-grows/Githubs "AI in software development 2024 survey" is here. A compilation of wishful thinking and overly optimistic interpretations of survey data. It generates more questions then answers. Mostly the survey and the report wants to sing the praise of the AI as some kind of development savior, as it will literally improve everything and there doesn't appear to be any negative aspects associated with it at all. Or at least they don't ask about such things. The survey and the responses generates more questions then it answer. After all it doesn't really answer any questions.

upstart writes:Federal Appeals Court Finds Geofence Warrants Are "Categorically" Unconstitutional:

NotSanguine writes:The New York Times is reporting (Archive link here) on a novel lawsuit filed against Meta, using Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.From the article:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://boingboing.net/2024/08/21/after-massive-public-outcry-disney-stops-attempt-to-kill-lawsuit-after-killing-restaurant-guest.htmlSee Previous Story: Disney Seeking Dismissal of Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/microsoft-will-try-the-data-scraping-windows-recall-feature-again-in-october/

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fliptop writes:A major American auto manufacturer reportedly laid off about 1,000 of its employees on Monday, including about 600 workers based in the U.S. in a bid to streamline current operations:

looorg writes:The scraping defence. They are not scraping content for their AI models. They are just looking for statistical correlations to their models.https://torrentfreak.com/nvidia-copyrighted-books-are-just-statistical-correlations-to-our-ai-models-240617/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/that-book-is-poison-even-more-victorian-covers-found-to-contain-toxic-dyes/

AnonTechie writes:An interesting article about why legalese is written the way it is:

hubie writes:The best removal rate was less than 70%, and that didn't beat manual opt-outs:

upstart writes:Customers uncertain as app remains downloadable after company's Chapter 7 filing:

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upstart writes:The researchers set 20 horses a task consisting of three stages:

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hubie writes:Scientists are exploring how fermentation in microgravity effects various brewing properties:

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owl writes:https://www.userlandia.com/home/iigs-mhz-myth

hubie writes:Blocking the company's AI overviews also blocks its web crawler:

upstart writes:Experts studying material from event 66m years ago find signs to show how Chicxulub impact crater was formed:

owl writes:https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/reverse-engineering-patent-protection-cautionary-tale-harry-strange/

A trade magazine https://www.automotivetestingtechnologyinternational.com/news/adas-cavs/mercedes-benz-granted-approval-to-test-l4-avs-in-china.html reports,

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/new-ai-tool-enables-real-time-face-swapping-on-webcams-raising-fraud-concerns/

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upstart writes:Bacteria and fungi are evolving to eat plastic but their impact will likely be limited to specific applications, researchers say:

upstart writes:Please don't, actually. But do update your Shimano Di2 shifters' software to prevent a new radio-based form of cycling sabotagers:

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AnonTechie writes:The Conversation

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"dalek" writes:The Bell Riots are a unique event in Star Trek in that when Deep Space Nine showed them on screen, they were in the future, but that time period is now contemporary. Star Trek has shown time travel to events that were in the past or contemporary when the shows or movies aired, and they discussed future events like the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s but only showed their effects in the future with the original series episode Space Seed and the movie The Wrath of Khan.The Bell Riots are shown in a two part episode called Past Tense (Part I, Script; Part II, Script) in which a transporter accident sends Commander Sisko, Lieutenant Dax, and Doctor Bashir back in time to August 30, 2024. They arrive in San Francisco, but over two centuries too early. Sisko and Bashir are found by security guards, and because of their lack of identification, they are sent to Sanctuary District A. However, Dax is found by a wealthy business owner named Chris Brynner, who provides her shelter.There are sanctuary districts in nearly every city, places where people were promised food and shelter while employment was scarce, but quickly became overcrowded and with poor living conditions. The general public is mostly unaware of the conditions within the sanctuary districts, whose residents are prevented from leaving and have largely been forgotten. The residents are referred to by slang terms of gimmies (unemployed people), dims (mentally ill people), and ghosts (people who struggled to integrate and joined gangs). During the Bell Riots, some ghosts and other residents overpowered the guards, took hostages, and seized control of the sanctuary's processing center for incoming residents. Despite rumors that the hostages had been killed, Gabriel Bell prevented this from happening. Bell was able to broadcast from the district and inform the public of the living conditions within the district, which brought the living conditions to the general public's attention and spurred on reforms.However, when Sisko is attacked on August 31 by a gang of ghosts, Gabriel Bell is killed by a ghost named B.C. while trying to help Sisko fend off off the attackers. This alters the timeline, and Sisko assumes the role of Bell to try to restore the proper course of history. There is no longer a Federation in the 24th century, no evidence of advanced technology on Earth, and there is a Romulan outpost at Alpha Centuary. Chief O'Brien and Major Kira use the transporters to travel back in time to a few points in history to try to find the missing crew members and restore the timeline. The episode's script includes this dialogue:

owl writes:https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/08/14/so-the-department-of-energy-emailed-me/In a perfect example of checkbox security in action:

hubie writes:Disney has asked a Florida court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit citing an arbitration waiver in the terms and conditions for Disney+:

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fliptop writes:A quote from Wyoming's governor and a local prosecutor were the first things that seemed slightly off to Powell Tribune reporter CJ Baker. Then, it was some of the phrases in the stories that struck him as nearly robotic:

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hubie writes:"We just would like for them to stop honking their horn at four in the morning repeatedly," one neighbor said:

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upstart writes:2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever:

upstart writes:The maintainers of the FreeBSD Project have released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in OpenSSH that attackers could potentially exploit to execute arbitrary code remotely with elevated privileges:

canopic jug writes:Here are two related essays on software freedom in light of the current environment where platform decay has become the norm.Lead developer of Linux-Libre, FSFLA board member, and previous FSF board member, Alexandre Oliva wrote a piece back in June about platform decay (also known colloquially as enshittification) and how to fight it through software freedom. It's from his May 5, 2024 LibrePlanet presentation with the same title ( video and slides). This weekend, developer Daniel Cantarin wrote a follow up addressing the nature of software freedom and the increasing communication, philosophical, and political barriers to actually achieving software freedom.The two essays are essentially in agreement but raise different points and priorities.Alexandre Oliva's essay includes the following:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/08/mdma-for-ptsd-three-studies-retracted-on-heels-of-fda-rejection/

upstart writes:Algorithmic collusion appears to be spreading to more and more industries. And existing laws may not be equipped to stop it:

Submitted on behalf of mrpg:https://www.wired.com/story/usps-scam-text-smishing-triad/