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- Comment on Bezos-backed Perplexity AI makes surprise bid for Google Chrome 2 weeks ago:
The US is taking a cut from chip sales to China - what does it mean?
Unusual. Quid pro quo. Unprecedented.
That is some of the reaction to news that two of the world’s tech giants will pay the US government 15% of their revenue from selling certain advanced chips to China. Industry watchers, former government advisers, policy makers and trade experts have been giving their views on the deal.
The news comes mere months after the Trump administration banned the sale of these chips to China, citing national security concerns.
That ban was lifted in mid-July. And now it seems the US government will go a step further - becoming a part of these American firms’ business with China.
And critics argue that is both confusing and worrying.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 3 weeks ago:
also known less formally as rant
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 3 weeks ago:
Again, I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, it probably does, but that story doesn’t prove it either.
Why are you writing diatribes then?
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 3 weeks ago:
You might be partially right, but I can’t find what is meant by the “recorded conversations” part. I guess I gotta look further in.
“Each of the Defendants had their own purpose for collecting and using Flo user data,” the brief said. “Flo used this information to acquire new app users through advertising and marketing, including advertisements based on Flo App users’ reproductive goals (e.g., getting pregnant). Flo also sold access to the CAEs sent through SDKs to other third parties for profit. Google and Meta separately used the data they intercepted for their own commercial purposes, including to feed their machine learning algorithms that power each of their respective advertising networks.”
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 3 weeks ago:
We’ve got a lot of really smart people here, some are journalists. These people go around telling other people and now have links to sources. Why do you think the trolls come here?
It’s good to have this as a back up when the techbro trolls try to say they don’t really listen for ads or data farming. This happened just a few weeks ago, but I couldn’t find a link.
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 3 weeks ago:
Such as?
- Comment on Meta illegally collected data from Flo period and pregnancy app, jury finds 3 weeks ago:
This is not about just the data, they were found guilty of fucking eavesdropping. I can’t wait to see people defending this as not being true for advertising. Please bookmark this article everyone. That headline is crap.
Plaintiffs in a class-action case proved by a preponderance of evidence that Meta intentionally eavesdropped on and/or recorded conversations using an electronic device, said a verdict form released yesterday in US District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs also proved that they had a reasonable expectation of privacy and that Meta did not have consent from all parties to eavesdrop on and/or record the conversations, the jury found.
- Comment on In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen 3 weeks ago:
This is great satire, but unfortunately you can replace microwave with AI and CEO’s are actually saying this shit fr.
One of my chefs mentioned that if they could cook the steak on the grill they could get it right the first time. This is not an acceptable attitude in the microwave era. Chefs have fragile egos and they all seem to enjoy cooking (???) so it’s obvious they’re just too attached to the food. Also they’re worried I’m planning on firing all of them. That’s true but not relevant here.
Second – you need to realize I’m an idea person. Ok? Who else would have thought about putting pepperoni on a pizza? And if I didn’t have a microwave no one may have delivered that idea at all. With a microwave I was able to deliver that idea much faster. The new economy will be purely idea based. Is the quality of a microwaved pizza worse? Sure. But by 1960 cooking pizzas in ovens will be a thing of the past. I don’t have any evidence to back that up. But any rational person can see in a few short years ovens will be gone.
- Comment on Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon 1 month ago:
I’m curious to what you’re trying to say. It could be taken a few different ways.
- Yes, that’s a technique that Bannon uses and it works too well. The researchers are breaking AI like Bannon broke democracy.
- That this is just like Bannon’s method and they’re using it to spread misinformation.
I think you’re saying the first one, yeah?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It 1 month ago:
Huh, wouldn’t you have to have people trust you to do this?
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 9 comments
- Comment on Elon Musk’s xAI Is Reportedly Burning Through $1 Billion a Month 2 months ago:
He’s supposed to be over-leveraged, but he does have Saudi Arabian buddies that might bail him out for awhile. He might go the My Pillow Guy route though too. Idk if he still has a base after the nazi salute.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 14 comments
- Comment on Universal Studios, Disney sue AI company Midjourney over copyright claims 2 months ago:
Maybe because they want to use it to replace animators? That’s my guess anyway. Granted, just a guess.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 3 comments
- Comment on Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you! 3 months ago:
Being a tech savvy individual, the complainant additionally examined what exact data was being sent to Ubisoft when playing. The complainant discovered that, over a period of just 10 minutes, the game established a connection to external servers 150 times. Among the recipients of the complainant’s data: Google, Amazon and US software company Datadog.
- Comment on As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver 3 months ago:
Hey workers of any kind, remember how fast these companies tried to replace you. It wasn’t because they thought the tech was cool.
- Comment on The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business 3 months ago:
What is the last one that doesn’t collect anything? I’m not familiar with that logo.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new features for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, including an AI agent in Settings and updates to Start menu, Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool 3 months ago:
No
- Comment on Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar 3 months ago:
We have to protect Wikipedia. We have to.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 3 months ago:
Gates must be rolling in his grave
Eh?
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 3 months ago:
I think you have to have copilot installed to have the recall spyware though.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 3 months ago:
Glad to see it. It begs the question though, if they could get computers to want to talk to other computers and Microsoft could somehow make money, would that make them happy? Is computer to computer business something corporations want?
That’s right; Microsoft Copilot’s weekly user base is only 5% of the number of people who use ChatGPT, and it’s not increasing. It’s also worth noting that there are approximately 1.5 billion Windows users worldwide, which means just over 1% of them are using Copilot, a tool that’s now a Windows default app. This is quite scary from Microsoft’s point of view, which has put so much effort and money into its AI ventures that it really cannot afford for its business to dwindle out so soon.
- Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone 6 months ago:
Global access is wild, basically it means if the UK could force this that any five eyes country would then have the same access without needing to look bad to their citizens.
Doesn’t the US already have that backdoor? From what you’re saying, the UK probably already has access? Not attacking, sincerely asking.
- Submitted 6 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 24 comments
- Comment on ‘Humiliated’ mom sues Airbnb after ‘grossly inaccurate’ background check leads to ban 6 months ago:
I agree, but it’s not the main point. They may have few options when they can’t get their expunged records to go away.
- ‘Humiliated’ mom sues Airbnb after ‘grossly inaccurate’ background check leads to banwww.independent.co.uk ↗Submitted 6 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 10 comments
- Comment on TikTokers offered $5,000 to join Facebook and Instagram 7 months ago:
Meta treats their influencers like shit, they are wise to avoid them.