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> All emotes go to heaven... especially this one.

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> [...] Against the back wall, where one might find confessionals in a different kind of church, there’s a tower of humming black servers. These servers hold around 10 percent of the Internet Archive’s vast digital holdings, which includes 835 billion web pages, 44 million books and texts, and 15 million audio recordings, among other artifacts. Tiny lights on each server blink on and off each time someone opens an old webpage or checks out a book or otherwise uses the Archive’s services. The constant, arrhythmic flickers make for a hypnotic light show. Nobody looks more delighted about this display than Kahle. > > It is no exaggeration to say that digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—and that, as the world’s knowledge repositories increasingly go online, archiving as we know it would not be as functional. Its most famous project, the Wayback Machine, is a repository of web pages that functions as an unparalleled record of the internet. Zoomed out, the Internet Archive is one of the most important historical-preservation organizations in the world. The Wayback Machine has assumed a default position as a safety valve against digital oblivion. The rhapsodic regard the Internet Archive inspires is earned—without it, the world would lose its best public resource on internet history.

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> Ubisoft, take note.

> Recall nearly launched as a scraper that stored all its data in plaintext.

> I, for one, welcome our traffic light-identifying overlords.

The advertising for this that I heard, was for companies to use this AI instead of developers because devs are so expensive to hire. It was a podcast audio ad. Their web presence makes it sound like it's for devs to use.

Heads up

> "... sales teams are more productive when onsite."

> OpenAI doesn't want its chatbot to sing, but sometimes the ability slips through.

> The publication aims to bolster its business with digital subscriptions.

> Valve previously sued a law firm in attempt to stop mass arbitration claims.

> There are about 100 million lines of code in modern cars, according to PwC – far more than a passenger jet running 14 million lines of code, or a fighter jet with about 25 million. Therefore, it should come as little surprise that software fixes now account for over 20 percent of automotive recalls, according to an analysis of 10 years of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data by DeMayo Law, as reported by Ars Technica. For better or worse, this represents a significant shift in how recalls are handled.

> Google's Tel Aviv office was to host a military tech conference in Israel, but scrubbed any internet record of it after being asked.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240927160825/https://theintercept.com/2024/09/27/google-israel-defense-tech-conference/

> X says it suspended reporter for "posting unredacted personal information."

> Security officials warned future attempts are imminent.

> That lack of user interaction — or request for consent — is what confused and concerned some former Kaspersky customers.

> A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report confirms what EFF has been warning about for years: tech giants are widely harvesting and sharing your personal information to fuel their online behavioral advertising businesses.

Report: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/ftc-staff-report-finds-large-social-media-video-streaming-companies-have-engaged-vast-surveillance

> Time to change things around.

> “My morale for this job is gone ..."

> LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking.

> The U.K.s' antitrust authority says that Amazon's equity investment in Anthropic can't be investigated under current merger regulations.

> Huawei is nearly ready to ditch Windows and adopt HarmonyOS as its primary PC operating system. According to Yu Chengdong, who heads the company's consumer business group, the PCs currently being sold by Huawei will be the last to feature Microsoft's "Western" OS. The next batch of Huawei computers will include HarmonyOS Next, the upcoming iteration of the operating system, which is expected to launch by the end of 2024.

> Gavin Newsom said he opposes mandate on mobile operating system developers.

> Hugging Face cites community-driven customization as fuel for diverse AI model boom.

> ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit benefit corporation that will no longer be controlled by its non-profit board, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, in a move that will make the company more attractive to investors.

> MKBHD launched the Panels Wallpapers (just called Panels on Android) app this week. The YouTuber personally curates high-resolution digital wallpapers from artists, but unlocking them costs $12 per month or $50 per year.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23424063 > Complaint cites "steep penalties" for Microsoft customers using other providers.

> Disney’s password sharing crackdown is here.

> One of London's biggest newspapers is resurrecting a famous editorial personality via algorithm.

> OpenAI stokes China fears to woo US approvals for huge data centers, report says.

> Maybe smartphones do make better pocket AI pals.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/23424650 > Cox disputes speed tests, claims it serves areas eligible for broadband grants. > > Case file: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cox-v-rhode-island.pdf

> You can't "sue anyone with a click of a button" without testing it first, FTC says.

> European digital rights group NOYB (None Of Your Business) has filed a privacy complaint with the Austrian data protection watchdog (DSB) against Mozilla, alleging the company uses a Firefox privacy feature (enabled without consent) to track users' online behavior.

> The report, which details content moderation practices, shows the company has removed millions of posts and accounts from the site in the first half of the year. > > X, formerly Twitter, suspended nearly 5.3 million accounts in that time, compared with the 1.6 million accounts the company reported suspending in the first half of 2022. The social media company also “removed or labeled” more than 10.6 million posts for violating platform rules — about 5 million of which it categorized as violating its “hateful conduct” policy. > [...] > When Musk was trying to buy Twitter in 2022, he said he was doing so because it wasn’t living up to its potential as a “platform for free speech.” Since acquiring the company that October, Musk has fired much of its staff and made other changes, leading to a steady exodus of celebrities, public figures, organizations and ordinary people from the platform.

> Telegram continues trying to repair its reputation.

> Exploiting workers, undermining public services, exacerbating climate crisis, ITUC says

> Famed sci-fi director joins board of embattled Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion.

> Raspberry Pi expert Geerling posted a shorter-than-usual video on his YouTube channel yesterday titled 'They stole my voice with AI.' In it, he plays a clip from a tutorial video posted on Elecrow's channel featuring a voice that sounds almost identical to Geerling's.

> The Daily will offer only three free episodes now.

> YouTube subscriptions are getting more premium (pricing).