Technology

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1262675/12-states-sue-paramount-over-warner-takeover-say-merger-would-extinguish-competition

Emergency Motion to Immediately Block Warner Bros./Paramount Merger.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1261812/26-employees-lawsuit-meta-used-ai-to-target-workers-who-took-time-off-work-using-their-p

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1262255/paint-on-tattoos-could-help-spot-heart-attacks-early-power-robotic-prosthetics-and-read

Microsoft is facing fresh criticism over its handling of user accounts after another customer claimed the company permanently deleted their Microsoft account.

Streamer Joshua Khane shared the situation on X, claiming Microsoft deleted both his account and associated OneDrive storage even after confirming he was the account’s owner and that it had been compromised.

In the post, he wrote: “Microsoft deleted my account and OneDrive!!?? After acknowledging that I’m the owner of the account and that it was compromised? 25 f****** years of data, thousands of euros spent on games?? My son’s baby pictures? gone.”

He continued: “All because Microsoft couldn’t bring back a compromised account?? One of the biggest companies ever couldn’t do that, so they just deleted that s*** like it was nothing?? F****** shame on you!!”

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1261690/a-majority-of-americans-now-support-seizing-wealth-from-ai-industry

While 89% back mandatory safety disclosures, nearly 70% support requiring AI firms to transfer 50% of their stock to a public fund

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1261694/new-york-city-enacts-first-us-ban-on-data-center-construction-for-1-year-in-the-first-st

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49429587

URL for the crowdfunding: https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch

Specs:

• Display: 4.26" e-paper touchscreen, 480 × 800 px, warm + cool frontlight
• Processor: ESP32-S3 dual-core, Wi-Fi + Bluetooth LE
• Memory: 16 MB flash, 8 MB PSRAM
• Formats: EPUB and plain text, no DRM
• Storage: microSD card slot
• Interface: USB-C with integrated LiPo charging
• Dimension: 78 × 120 × 10 mm, about 85 g
• Open source: MIT-licensed firmware, open hardware (to be released at shipping)

It also has a replaceable 800 mAh battery, I found it cool :)

It's a designed algorithm.

The rocket engines you'll see in this video were neither created by humans or AI.

edit: removed the baiting

Telegram's t.me short-link domain has been placed into serverHold status at the registry level, causing invite links, channel links, and usernames to stop resolving globally. Unlike an application outage, a serverHold status removes a domain from DNS resolution entirely, making it effectively disappear from the Internet until the status is lifted

Only one notch above junk level.

Telegram’s core domain t.me has been placed on serverHold at the .me registry, effectively removing it from global DNS and rendering all t.me links inaccessible.

The change occurred today, according to domain records. As of now, there has been no official explanation from Telegram, the .me registry, or backend operator Identity Digital.

A serverHold is a registry-level status that completely dead-ends the domain, preventing it from resolving anywhere in the world.

For years, tech giants have argued that if information is available on the internet, it can be used for AI model development and outputs. They call it fair use. Content owners have tried to prevent this, with no success.

Now Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are discovering what the rest of the internet has already learned through painful experience: once you put something online, people will find ways to use it in ways you don't like and can't stop.

The latest flashpoint is something called "distillation," using the outputs of one AI model to improve another. Anthropic says competitors are harvesting its outputs at scale, turning billions of dollars of research into a shortcut for rivals. OpenAI and Google have made similar warnings recently.

Remove Paywalls Link

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1260166/climate-gov-was-destroyed-open-data-saved-it

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1259761/we-must-act-now-nearly-200-including-eric-schmidt-reid-hoffman-economists-tech-leaders-a

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1259159/the-new-york-nurses-replaced-by-ai-ai-makes-inroads-in-healthcare-threatening-patient-ca

Montefiore is planning to lay off real nurses and replace them with artificial intelligence (AI)-powered software. These are nurses who use their decades of bedside experience and clinical judgement to review insurance denials and make sure patients get the care they need covered by insurance.

Replacing real nurses with AI is terrible for workers and the economy in the Bronx. It could also have negative consequences for patients in the Bronx.

A letter calls for policymakers to do more to understand and respond to potential disruptions from artificial intelligence.