Technology

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1160169/a-danish-pension-fund-has-blacklisted-spacex-calling-it-grossly-overvalued-with-catastro

AkademikerPension will not buy SpaceX shares at any price near the $1.8 trillion IPO target, saying the company cannot reasonably be worth more than $1 trillion and that Musk’s voting control makes it effectively uninvestable

Deep dive into the tech being deployed by an unofficial US government office. References cited at the bottom of the article.

Tin-foil hats cinched tight. This is not good.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1159425/ronny-chieng-s-f-ck-ai-speech-met-with-cheers-from-harvard-graduates

Extra.

“Can I just say fuck AI, fuck AI, fuck AI?” the comedian, actor, and rotating host of The Daily Show asked in his keynote speech during the Class Day celebration on Wednesday. The crowd at Tercentenary Theatre, made up of the graduating Class of 2026 and their friends and families, answered him with a roar of approval.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1158275/the-netherlands-just-blocked-a-us-company-from-buying-the-app-dutch-citizens-use-for-eve

Researchers normally submit such findings to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) for patching to prevent hackers from exploiting them. But Nightmare Eclipse has deliberately ignored the responsible disclosure route, citing claims that Microsoft mistreated them.

“They mopped the floor with me and pulled every childish game they could,” the researcher wrote last month, without elaborating. “It was soo bad at some point I was wondering if I was dealing with a massive corporation or someone who is just having fun seeing me suffer but it seems to be a collective decision.”

A deep dive into the origin story of W Social, an analysis of the strategic arguments they have been using to appeal to government officials, media companies and advertisers... and the discussion of conflicting signals they have been sending

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47499598

We’ll soon get a chance to see whether, frankly, our last hope, evil corp Google, can still distinguish content created by AI from Human one 🤖

Here’s how I would rank the detection difficulty: 1️⃣ Text 2️⃣ Code 3️⃣ Images 4️⃣ Gifs 5️⃣ Videos If they already fail at level 5, we have a SERIOUS problem.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1158035/how-enshittification-ruins-the-internet-and-much-more-feeds-filled-with-ai-slop-big-tech

Our online world is rapidly ‘enshittifying’. How do we stand up against it?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1157779/us-says-troops-were-targeted-with-location-data-as-senator-warns-ad-industry-is-a-nation