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Research: The whole Reddit has become more negative over time. Also, the longer the community exists, the more negative it get — and the longer a comment thread continues, the more negative it becomes

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1336543/research-the-whole-reddit-has-become-more-negative-over-time-also-the-longer-the-communi

A judge orders Kalshi to stop offering most of its prediction contracts in Washington state, after finding it likely violated state gambling-related laws

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1334481/a-judge-orders-kalshi-to-stop-offering-most-of-its-prediction-contracts-in-washington-st

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1332594/pbs-broadcaster-loses-access-to-50tb-of-data-comprising-70-years-of-tv-history-after-con

Researchers Show How Meta's 'Pervert Glasses' Are Used to Harass Women

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1332159/researchers-show-how-meta-s-pervert-glasses-are-used-to-harass-women

Pre-print research paper.

How governments design laws against you and call it cybersecurity

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1330873/how-governments-design-laws-against-you-and-call-it-cybersecurity

France bans unsolicited telemarketing calls to protect consumers

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1328527/france-bans-unsolicited-telemarketing-calls-to-protect-consumers

New creators applying for YouTube Partner Program (YPP) will need 8,000 qualified watch hours in the last 365 days, or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.

Old requirements for comparison:

1,000 subscribers with 4,000 watch hours in the past year or 10 million Shorts views in the past 90 days.

YouTube announces monetization changes that make it harder for new creators to make money

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1327151/youtube-announces-monetization-changes-that-make-it-harder-for-new-creators-to-make-mone

New creators applying for YouTube Partner Program (YPP) will need 8,000 qualified watch hours in the last 365 days, or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days. The entry thresholds for our Fan Funding and shopping products remain unchanged.

Old requirements for comparison:

1,000 subscribers with 4,000 watch hours in the past year or 10 million Shorts views in the past 90 days.

Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500 word love letter to AI seeks 'superintelligence for everyone'

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1327081/mark-zuckerberg-s-6500-word-love-letter-to-ai-seeks-superintelligence-for-everyone

Essay.

Bernie Sanders Calls on Tech Giants to Pause Development of Out-of-Control AI

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1326814/bernie-sanders-calls-on-tech-giants-to-pause-development-of-out-of-control-ai

Following recent and repeated public reporting about artificial intelligence (AI) technology breaking outside of human control and creating potentially dangerous viruses, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today urged America’s largest AI companies — Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI — to immediately pause their development of Artificial Intelligence.

The Grift Economy: The ‘Manosphere’ Isn’t a Movement. It’s a Multibillion-Dollar Grievance Industry

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1326771/the-grift-economy-how-young-men-are-being-sold-fake-belonging-and-fake-wealth-online

Full Report: The Grift Economy: How Young Men Are Being Sold Fake Belonging and Fake Wealth Online.

Windscribe: Proton VPN got caught running secret price tests on users, then denied it. Their own code revealed the opposite

Note: I couldn’t crosspost as the automod would remove it.

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative and, with Arcee, Unveils Genesis-Science-1 — Its First Open-Weight Model for Scientific Research

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1321502/u-s-department-of-energy-launches-the-genesis-open-models-initiative-and-with-arcee-unve

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1322510/deepmind-s-weathernext-model-achieves-breakthrough-forecasting-cyclones

As AI ‘therapists’ dish out advice, California lawmakers try to set some limits

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1323150/as-ai-therapists-dish-out-advice-california-lawmakers-try-to-set-some-limits

• The use of chatbots has exploded over the last two years, and people are increasingly turning to them for mental health advice.

• SB 903 would ban advertising chatbots as therapy and add rules for AI use in formal health spaces.

America’s largest newspaper chain, USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data as search traffic falls

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1320702/americas-largest-newspaper-chain-usa-today-co-partners-with-palantir-to-analyze-audience

Sigh

If you had read the situation, you would find that the information news outlet reported this first, then the media talked about it then Meta admit this in news statements. (They didn’t even release a blog/press release).

While I don’t rule out that it’s a publicity stunt, I think it’s very unlikely. Otherwise I would call Meta terrible at marketing because they are not loud about it at all.

In my opinion, OpenAI accident has triggered a wave of scans among AI companies to discover any problems before they get hold liable for damages by the hacked company and to solve them internally.

That’s how I read the situation as of 7th of August. My opinion might change, if any new info came out that seem sus.

Spectre is Back: CPU Mitigations Found to Be Ineffective

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1320015/spectre-is-back-cpu-mitigations-found-to-be-ineffective

Modern processors are fast in part because they guess. Rather than waiting to find out which way a program will branch, a chip predicts the likely path and races ahead. When the guess is right, time is saved. When it’s wrong, the work is discarded, but traces of it linger, and since the Spectre vulnerability was disclosed in 2018, attackers have known how to read those traces to pull secrets out of memory they should never see.

GrapheneOS says Revolut is blocking its users over Google Play checks

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1319937/grapheneos-says-revolut-is-blocking-its-users-over-google-play-checks

Via @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social on Mastodon.

New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay to Establish $567 Million Fund to Abate Harms to Youth

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1319748/court-orders-instagram-and-facebook-s-meta-to-pay-567m-to-address-kids-mental-health-onl

On Thursday, the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe, New Mexico issued a decision in the remedies phase of State of New Mexico v. Meta Platforms Inc. The court found Meta’s platforms created a public nuisance by contributing to the youth mental health crisis and by facilitating child sexual exploitation. It ordered a range of remedies, including the creation of a $567 million abatement fund to finance various measures intended to address the harms to the public.