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MakeUseOf: “When you open an app for the first time on your iPhone, it often requests various permissions—such as access to your camera, contacts, microphone, photos, and, most importantly, your location. What you may not realize is that granting location access often means giving the app your exact coordinates. This means any app on your …
Lifehacker: “If you’ve ever felt like you were duped by overpaying for something that was advertised as a “great deal,” you’re in the right place. It’s easy to get caught up in frenzied online shopping holidays like the upcoming October Prime Day sale— especially when retailers sometimes sneak price hikes before major sales or deceive shoppers …
Washington Post no paywall via MSN – “Google quietly added a “homework help” button to the world’s most-used web browser. Educators say it makes cheating too easy. The temptation to cheat was suddenly just two clicks away Sept. 2, when Google quietly added a “homework help” button to Chrome, the world’s most popular web browser. The …
Online Journalism: “TL;DR: If you understand code, or would like to understand code, genAI tools can be a useful tool for data analysis — but results depend heavily on the context you provide, and the likelihood of flawed calculations mean code needs checking. If you don’t understand code (and don’t want to) — don’t do …
FactCheck.org: “Since the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, social media users have shared posts showing, quoting or paraphrasing remarks the posts attribute to the conservative activist. Many readers have asked us to provide the facts on whether Kirk, the founder of the youth political group Turning Point USA, made several of these …
EFF: “This is the first installment in a blog series documenting EFF’s findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. We’ve been hearing that social media platforms are censoring abortion-related content, even when no law requires them to do so. Now, we’ve got the receipts. For months, EFF has been investigating …
Washington Post: “Of late, I have found myself gravitating toward science fiction franchises that imagine not advanced technology or seamlessly integrated AI, but something even more improbable and futuristic: a world free from the distractions and degradations of the internet. It may seem perverse to seek solace in “Dune” and “Battlestar Galactica,” fictions about societies …
Music Minds Massive Attack deploys real-time facial recognition scanning audiences during live performances Band transforms surveillance discomfort into deliberate artistic commentary about digital tracking Performance sparks debate over consent requirements for biometric data in entertainment “Facial recognition creeps deeper into daily life while Massive Attack transforms that discomfort into performance art. The pioneering trip-hop collective …
Reuters: “TikTok’s U.S. operations would be controlled by an investor consortium including Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz, under a framework the U.S. and China are finalizing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. A new company will be created to operate TikTok, with U.S. investors holding a roughly …
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How to Geek: “Most of us feel stuck switching back and forth between the same five apps. We’re stuck because companies spend billions to keep us “engaged” on their respective platforms. That’s why the internet feels like it has shrunk to a handful of apps, and stopped being a place you once explored and browsed. …
Follow up to Large Language Muddle It’s OK to be a Luddite! – See Also Neomam Studios: Why Our Small Business Chooses Human Intelligence Over AI: “…The rampant use of generative AI tools to automate our jobs has driven prices down to the ground and is flooding the web with subpar content that nobody cares enough to …
