floofloof
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'It Should Be Illegal': Trump's 1,156 July Stock Trades Involved AI, Big Oil, Weapons-Makers, and More cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/80398
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Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/52944835 You hear it all the time: Modern cars are basically smartphones on wheels. And just like the phone in your pocket, the car in your driveway collects vast amounts of data - tracking where you drive, how fast you accelerate, how hard you brake, how aggressively you turn, and much more. The legality of this […]
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US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035 cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/71553176 The AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world. Archived version: archive.is/…/us-data-centers-could-consume-more-n… Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the...
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Elon Musk Spends $100 Million on Anti-Trans Ads Targeting Dems in Midterm Races cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/78227 Elon Musk’s America PAC has dropped $100 million to support the GOP in critical races that could control the future of the Senate. It includes TV commercials, digital ads, and a social media blitz across platforms Musk owns and platforms he doesn’t. The eleventh-hour push is a brazen attempt to stoke the anti-trans moral panic and turn equal rights for transgend...
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Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all
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Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/66826876 About 12.5 trillion tons (11.3 trillion metric tons) of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since 1979, which is enough frozen water to stack ice five feet deep across the continental United States, according to a major scientific report. A warming Earth is accelerating the melting of the planet’s two major ice sheets...
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US data centers could consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035 cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/70951453 cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/71553176 The AI frenzy could push U.S. data centers to become one of the largest consumers of natural gas in the world. Archived version: archive.is/…/us-data-centers-could-consume-more-n… Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multi...
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Wildfires, permafrost thaw in Canada causing even more climate change, new study shows
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What Trump’s new study says about support for trans rights — and why experts are worried cross-posted from: quokk.au/…/what-trumps-new-study-says-about-suppo… Researchers who study authoritarianism and political violence have major concerns about the study and how the administration plans to use it.
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OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More.
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Al Green Files Impeachment Articles Over Trump Using CBP, ICE as 'Unaccountable Paramilitary Police Forces' cross-posted from: news.abolish.capital/post/73936
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cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/64745676 A 10-month Commerce Department probe concluded Meta could view all WhatsApp messages in unencrypted form
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That has always been true, but the prices are higher for all tiers now.
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So much winning.^*^ *Not necessarily for the USA.
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I don’t really understand why people with repositories that are vulnerable to DMCA takedowns persist in hosting them with Microsoft. But then I don’t really understand why so many open-source projects opt for Microsoft’s Git hosting anyway, when there are alternatives without the Microsoft.
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They're just making themselves look trashy and desperate. What might work is making their software better than everyone else's. But that requires effort and skill and managerial competence.
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>Frey told Ars he was shocked to see a platform as big as Discord relying on such poor support infrastructure. It's exactly what we can expect from tech companies these days.
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Who Is Kyle Bassinga? Missing Atlanta Man Found Hanging From Tree in Cobb County Park
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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/43189320 Access options gift link — registration required archive.today
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cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/47449079 I stumbled across this link in the comment of another post, and thought it was super promising! Someone mentioned something about in the US, this would be illegal due to DRM laws - not sure about the specifics of this, but regardless an open source printer seems like something we’ve needed for ages, as printers are something that always seem like way more of a headache then they need to be. It seems like such a simple technology that has existed...
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cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/41122324 Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement of the class-action case, which accused the firm of “unlawful and intentional interception and recording of individuals’ confidential communications without their consent and subsequent unauthorized disclosure of those communications to third parties.”