Technology

Largest U.S. Grid May Cut Power to Data Centers to Prevent Blackouts

Digital Independence Day - Lots of great Digital Switch Recipes that can help you ditch Big Tech

More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

Multiple Mouse Cursors in Wayland

Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings

eBay has agreed to pay nearly $50 million to couple sent cockroaches, bloody pig mask

Universities drop AI detection tools over fears about accuracy: Some institutions are overhauling assessment and trying to move away from the emphasis on surveillance

‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/33313028

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Cameras don't track people, Flock does /// The Pleasant Hill, IA, department blamed 'misinformation' after a Flock camera was destroyed. Flock makes the same claim. We tried to verify, but found myst…

Youtube is BROKEN

Heck, I dont even know where to start. As time passes, youtube is starting to break so much that it doesnt even load videos anymore. Has any of you found ANYTHING to fix it without switching to chrome and disabling the adblocker? I am using the Zen Browser

Pacing the Frontier: A statement from 1,132 employees of frontier AI companies

Double Fine Is Unionizing

T-Mobile Is Down. If your phone isn't working, it's not just you: T-Mobile is down.

Sam Altman is ready to "decelerate" the pace of development

Supposedly the change of heart came after “the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally,” the Huggingface escape. To me it sounds like he’s worried about the competition breathing down his neck and wants someone to come in and call a time-out.

"We still value the culture of physical media" As PlayStation prepares for an all-digital future, Sega president comes out in support of discs

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/49846070

Sega is the latest publisher to make its views about physical media clear, in the wake of Sony’s controversial decision to kill off the manufacture and sale of discs by 2028. The president of the Japanese publisher, Shuji Utsumi, noted that he believes physical media is still important, though digital distribution is “crucial”, mostly thanks to the “steadily increasing” number of people playing on PC.

“When it comes to titles we call ‘full games’ for consoles and PCs, we believe that a digital shift is crucial,” he notes in an interview with Japanese publication Famitsu. "Of course, consoles are important, but the proportion of people who play on PCs is steadily increasing. Even in areas where consoles are not widely available, there are many people who say, 'I can play it on PC.

“In order to cultivate that market, we believe it is important to strengthen our digitalisation. We tend to think from a physical perspective, so I think we need to be more digitally conscious and become more global.”

He then draws on Sega’s own legacy, noting that - once upon a time - the company was in the hardware market itself. It learned some pretty important lessons back then, and since dropping out of the hardware race, Sega has found massive success as a publisher. This seems to colour Utsumi’s belief in physical media.

“We were originally a platform provider, and of course, we still value the culture of physical media. Rather than completely abandoning that, we are currently challenging ourselves to shift so that we can think about and act on the important aspects of digital media in parallel.”

Given the response to Sony and PlayStation’s decision to move away from physical media altogether, this is quite refreshing. Many have outlined how a digital-only future could impact consumer rights, whilst others have begun petitioning Sony in the hopes the company will change its mind. The hardware giant seems immovable in its stance at the moment, however, likely emboldened by the fact that even the EU will be unable to influence its decision.

Other creators have begun weighing in on the matter, too, with the most recent comments coming from the creator of the RPG series, Disgaea. Sohei Niikawa believes that if PlayStation kills physical media, it should “get rid of the hardware” too.

Game Pass Was Supposed To Save Xbox – Instead, It’s Killing the Company

cross-posted from: piefed.ca/…/game-pass-was-supposed-to-save-xbox-i…

“Netflix for games” has proven to be far from the ideal solution.

Data centers have united Americans of both parties in a shared hatred

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

Artificial intelligence labs are in a new arms race to buy up millions of rare books, slicing them open, scanning the pages and pulping the remains — sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed on an industrial scale.

ISBNdb notes that “print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination”.

“Millions of the most valuable books have never been digitised. They exist only in physical form, scattered across library shelves, used bookstores, and out-of-print catalogues. We get them to you at scale.”

Beijing says US firms train AI models on Chinese examples

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal