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[?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
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Organizations are moving at a rapid-fire pace to adapt AI, in many cases going straight from experimentation into something business critical. But as companies are finding new ways to use it, many are leaving their security teams scrambling to patch up the related vulnerabilities. @TechRadar has more:

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    [?]Metin Seven » 🌐
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    I hope the RAM price misery will result in a revival of "dumb" tech. A good old regular TV set doesn't need RAM. 👍

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      AI-generated passwords look like they would be bombproof. But tech writer Kim Key discovered just how easy the repetitive character sequences are to hack. Read more from PC Mag:

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        [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
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        Humanoid robot runs 100-meter race in 9.39 seconds, outperforming Usain Bolt’s 2009 world record. Read more from @CBSNews:

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          [?]Assn for Computing Machinery » 🌐
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          Can external metrics and data capture what's truly important?

          Find out in this book review of C. Thi Nguyen's The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game, now available from Penguin Press.

          technologyreview.com/2026/06/1

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            [?]DigitalEscapeTools » 🌐
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            Kagi just shipped two useful updates.

            Its Stocks widget now supports ETFs, interactive price charts, multiple time ranges, and more market data.

            It also added an “Exclude paywalled websites” setting that automatically removes known paywalled sites from search results.

            More details: digitalescapetools.com/2026/08

              [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
              @TechDesk@flipboard.social

              Can a startup called Outer Biosciences figure out how to keep living human tissue alive outside the body? Read more from @Techcrunch:

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                [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
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                After initially trying to ban AI use, a growing number of U.S. public schools are trying a new strategy: encouraging classroom experimentation. Will exposing students to AI keep them from outsourcing their thinking to chatbots? @AssociatedPress reports:

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                  does anyone know any tools to split a two page, side-by-side, digital pdf into a single page digital pdf?

                  said pdf: ashby.info/Ashby-Introduction-

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                    [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
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                    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently asked Waymo to answer a wide range of questions following a Jan. 23 crash in which one of the company’s robotaxis hit a nine-year-old girl. @Techcrunch has more, including how Waymo responded:

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                      [?]Paria sans portefeuille » 🌐
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                      "What truly binds together this movement is a desire for freedom from, if not total control over, nation-states; a belief in the superiority, either innate or engineered, of a superior class of elite coders and engineers; and a complete rejection of any conception of social responsibility or equality under the law."

                      Ali Winston reviews @gilduran 's : Fascism and the War on Democracy

                      thebaffler.com/latest/revenge-
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                        [?]Assn for Computing Machinery » 🌐
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                        ACM DL is 100% .

                        What's the difference between DL Basic and DL Premium?

                        Find out: youtube.com/watch?v=7a0h21Gd7os

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                          [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
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                          What’s being browsed on the internet? Bots reading web pages written by other bots, apparently. @Techcrunch has more on the substantial AI wave crashing onto the shores of the web:

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                            [?]Assn for Computing Machinery » 🌐
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                            What's new in cybersecurity? Watch Ben Nassi discuss the information confidentiality risks associated with the interface between photodiodes and IoT devices.

                            Full article here: cacm.acm.org/research/illumina

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                              [?]Metin Seven » 🌐
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                              Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, it has been studied how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning.

                              ● X-Axis: Homework scores
                              ● Y-Axis: Exam scores

                              🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

                              Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

                              Alt...Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

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                                [?]Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers » 🌐
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                                A phone you don't have to feel as guilty about.

                                Fairphone officially starts selling its new repairable Android phone in the US for $649

                                9to5google.com/2026/08/18/fair

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                                  every Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas weekly since 2022! Going live in five (0UTC Wednesday)

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                                  @kentpitman and also presence returns!

                                  @ramin_hal9001 cohosting too.

                                  This week let's (re)create a new in !

                                  Lispy gopher climate banner in pencil with someodd.zip gopher's flying saucer hovering above.

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                                    [?]Em :official_verified: » 🌐
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                                    After some time off, I'm now ready to look for work again! I'm especially interested in positions related to:

                                    ✊️ Digital rights activist (with a specialty in privacy rights)

                                    📣 Communications or Campaigns Manager

                                    🔒️ Privacy expert or consultant

                                    🙌 Managerial position

                                    📰 Tech journalist (investigation, education, advocacy, review)

                                    💻️ Technical writer (tutorials, documentation, research)

                                    :mastodon: Fediverse and Mastodon advocate

                                    :opensource: Open source advocate

                                    💚 Or any other fitting positions

                                    I am especially interested in working with nonprofit organizations, cooperatives, open-source projects, privacy-oriented software companies, or any other organizations working for the public good.

                                    Also, with a team that doesn't require to be recorded during meetings or presentations (and doesn't use AI notetakers).

                                    🇨🇦 Remote from Canada

                                    :no_AI_logo: All the work I produce is guaranteed to be AI-free

                                    Let me know if you hear of any good opportunities!

                                      [?]Assn for Computing Machinery » 🌐
                                      @ACM@mastodon.acm.org

                                      Why shouldn't you use chatbot tools instead of search engines?

                                      2025 ACM Luiz André Barroso Award recipient Ricardo Baeza-Yates shares his concerns with .

                                      Full interview: buff.ly/3hXQ7Fy

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                                        [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
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                                        We’ve all been there before — waiting in the lobby for your dentist appointment and thinking “I’ll just log in to my banking app real quick.” Well, think twice. Hackers are targeting Wi-Fi networks at hotels and other places in ever sneakier ways. PC World has more, including tips to avoid getting hacked on public Wi-Fi:

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                                          [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
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                                          Meta is facing another trial over social media addiction, the latest test for the platform that is facing thousands of lawsuits, including accusations of the impact its apps have on teen mental health. @Engadget has more:

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                                            [?]joriki :cascadia: » 🌐
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                                            "We utterly defanged our regulators and let corruption hollow out Congress. The U.S. federal government genuinely no longer functions.

                                            Yet we're still somehow subjected to this bizarre, performative pantomime in the press where we pretend the emperor is fully clothed and is capable of following through on elaborate protectionist policy that time and time again doesn't achieve any coherent goal outside of the enrichment of a bunch of preposterous assholes.

                                            The reality remains that if the U.S. cared about consumer privacy, we'd pass a modern privacy law holding all companies (foreign and domestic) accountable. If we cared about national security and foreign influence, we'd dismantle the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. If we cared about social media propaganda, we'd properly fund journalism, boost media literacy, and embrace antitrust reform. If we cared about labor, we'd modernize and bolster unions.

                                            The federal government no longer does these things because it's simply too corrupt to function. And the U.S. press, ostensibly tasked with conveying the truth to the electorate, is largely incapable of bluntly informing the public; in part because the truth might upset advertisers, event sponsors, ownership, and ad outreach."

                                            U.S. Anti-China Tech Protectionism Is Sloppy, Corrupt, And Stupid
                                            karlbode.com/u-s-anti-china-te

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                                              [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
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                                              What actually happens when you let apps track your activity?

                                              What kind of data is being collected by our devices, and how is it being used? Should we "Ask app not to track"?

                                              engadget.com/2236798/what-happ

                                              [Engadget]

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                                                [?]Mx. Chara Aznable of Pnictogen [They/Them] » 🌐
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                                                There's folks (yes this is a sub-post) who still expect a degree of social deference that they do not merit.

                                                How many people in the technology sector, even if they're not directly involved in pumping up Elon Musk or garbage, are still financially vested in these things in some fashion and thus hoping that "AI" or Tesla will succeed merely because it'll boost the value of their portfolio?

                                                The culture is not used to thinking of money as corrupting...but it is.

                                                  [?]TechWire ⚡ » 🤖 🌐
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                                                  Ukraine built a $48,000 long-range drone after covertly snapping Chinese factory photos, clone destroys Russian Tu-95 bomber — attack drone has 2,000 km range, country builds 6,000 $48,000 flyin…

                                                  The drone that destroyed a Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber at Russia's Engels-2 air base last month turns out to be the MICH 2000.

                                                  tomshardware.com/tech-industry

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                                                    [?]screwlisp » 🌐
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                                                    Wait, dead mic?

                                                    Alright, it is in fact Sunday-morning-in-Europe but I am elbow-deep in setting up some machine over the world's slowest network connection, so if you're into that this is that. Just building and . ( , and ) (and but there's no accounting for taste).

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                                                    Every week since 2022 ! every 8am Sunday UTC.

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                                                      [?]Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers » 🌐
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                                                      It took them 4 years to require cops to need a reason to use it?

                                                      Flock tries to make its cameras harder for cops to misuse - Engadget

                                                      engadget.com/2236415/flock-tri

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                                                        [?]Flash Mob Of One » 🌐
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                                                        My new YT video is up!

                                                        This week's video is about the NoRecognition project and its adversarial design and learning model, which creates visual patterns that fool Flock cameras.

                                                        It's an exceedingly neat story. If you give it a watch, please tap the like button. That engagement helps a small creator out in a big way. Thank you.

                                                        youtu.be/y9jXa6V72mk

                                                          [?]Light » 🌐
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                                                          Dependency resolution is a pain.

                                                          I noticed it more when I switched to Tumbleweed. Is it worse here or did I just start noticing it more?

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                                                            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
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                                                            Ferguson said he’s been surprised to see the “growing community backlash” against specifically, given that the isn’t new & other companies sell it as well. But Flock & the movement against it have “captured people’s sense that maybe they don’t want to be surveilled all the time,” he said.

                                                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
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                                                              Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a professor at the George Washington University Law School whose scholarship has focused on , & the , said Thursday’s shifts were “better than the opposite” but called for further scrutiny of the in the form of “sustained democratic engagement with the rules & judicial checks on access at a minimum.”

                                                                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
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                                                                Robert Frommer, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm that’s led litigation over the , called the changes “window dressing” from a company in “panic mode.”

                                                                “This is window dressing that doesn’t address the fundamental problem, which is that police officers are the ones deciding who & when to search, & that should be done by with real warrants,” he said.

                                                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                  Critics of the company reacted skeptically to the changes, which they said appeared designed to address the growing bipartisan anger about the cameras but could still leave room for to abuse the system.

                                                                  The ACLU said that the shortened evidence retention window could be “a step in the right direction,” but it characterized the other changes as “retreads” of inadequate safety measures.

                                                                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
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                                                                    Customers will also be allowed to decide which offense types — such as homicide or arson — outside agencies can search their data for, which would allow a customer to block outside searches related to enforcement, the company said.

                                                                    Langley said that change will give individual cities & departments control to use the system in a manner “consistent with community values.”

                                                                      [?]Nonilex » 🌐
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                                                                      credit the as an important crime-fighting innovation that helps locate missing people & track suspects in violent crimes. But critics say it amounts to warrantless . Dozens of cities & agencies have nixed their relationships with amid concerns that the data can be accessed for enforcement or in unauthorized tracking, after a flurry of examples surfaced of officers misusing the tech for personal searches.

                                                                        [?]Nonilex » 🌐
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                                                                        The company operates a vast nationwide network of automated cameras that record the license plate numbers & other characteristics of all passing vehicles every day. Thousands of agencies in 49 states can search & share Flock’s data across jurisdictions to aid their investigations.

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                                                                          [?]Quasit » 🌐
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                                                                          Chrome really pisses me off. I have to use it to pay certain bills, but it's always aggressively trying to get me to make it my default browser. And it WON'T just let me say "No" and be done with it. The closest thing it allows me to say is that I'll set it as the default "later".

                                                                          I really hate Google!

                                                                          Set Google Chrome as your default browser
Keep your passwords, bookmarks, and history perfectly synced across
devices. Easily access the features you know and love by updating your
default browser to Chrome.
Apps > Default apps > Google Chrome
Make Google Chrome your default browser [Set default]

[Set Later] / [Open Settings]

                                                                          Alt...Set Google Chrome as your default browser Keep your passwords, bookmarks, and history perfectly synced across devices. Easily access the features you know and love by updating your default browser to Chrome. Apps > Default apps > Google Chrome Make Google Chrome your default browser [Set default] [Set Later] / [Open Settings]

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                                                                            [?]ProPublica » 🌐
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                                                                            NEW: General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking.

                                                                            Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.
                                                                            propublica.org/article/general

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                                                                              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
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                                                                              Jury selection is on Wednesday, with opening statements slated to begin August 18. founder and CEO is expected to testify, as is head .

                                                                              In terms of potential damages & implications for Meta, the trial is the biggest test yet of youth litigation & comes amid a broader reckoning across the globe over social media's effects on young users.

                                                                                [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                                @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                                The trial in Oakland, expected to last seven weeks, will test Colorado, Kentucky, California & New Jersey's allegations that designed its platforms to keep young users hooked & ‌misled consumers about their safety. It will also address claims by 29 states that the company illegally collected & used 's in violation of federal law.

                                                                                  [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                                                                                  @Nonilex@masto.ai

                                                                                  faces biggest fight yet over ’s impact on

                                                                                  Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered & to be to children, a case that could expose the company to massive damages & force it to make sweeping changes ​to its platforms.


                                                                                  reuters.com/business/meta-29-s

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