”Hundreds of thousands of ordinary apps, including popular ones such as 9gag, Kik, and a series of caller ID apps, are part of a global surveillance capability that starts with ads inside each app, and ends with the apps’ users being swept up into a powerful mass monitoring tool advertised to national security agencies that can track the physical location, hobbies, and family members of people to build billions of profiles”
https://www.404media.co/inside-global-phone-spy-tool-patternz-nuviad-real-time-bidding/
”OpenAI’s reports to US tax authorities have from its founding said that any member of the public can review copies of its governing documents, financial statements, and conflict of interest rules”
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-scrapped-promise-disclose-key-documents/
How the Spotify app will look in a few months in the EU with Apple’s restrictions to in-app purchases lifted
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2024-01-24/the-dma-means-a-better-spotify-for-artists-creators-and-you/
”…its unit costs leave considerable margins to spend on some AI processing it outsources, like understanding user intention via ChatGPT. (Their own analysis finds the heaviest users would run about $15/month in billings to OpenAI, which Rabbit will cover.)…
If Rabbit were simply an app, Apple could see his code, which Lyu feels would equate to sharing his company’s IP.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/91013196/how-design-drove-10m-in-pre-orders-for-rabbit-r1-ai-hardware
”The car will use what is known as a Level 2+ system, the people said. That’s a downgrade from previously planned Level 4 technology — and, before that, even more ambitious aims for a Level 5 system.”
”Satellite-to-smartphone technology is generally seen as a supplement to cellular networks in hard-to-reach areas…
In September 2023, AST SpaceMobile said it made "the first-ever 5G connection for voice and data between an everyday, unmodified smartphone and a satellite in space" and that it achieved a download rate of 14Mbps.”
”Nowadays, many are wondering what happened to Russia and how to solve it. Let me explain to you that nothing happened to Russia. You are witnessing “normal” Russia. Russia has always been like this and will remain so as long as Russia is Russia.”
https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/opinion/a-letter-from-a-russian-friend/
Bluesky has multiple clients. For example, this is the one I use: https://graysky.app/
The rest is a bit matter of definition. If you consider that it’s a protocol then you can be only kicked out of an instance but you still have your social graph, posts etc.
What would be today’s version of this?
Hard to imagine Apple doing anything like that.
https://stratechery.com/2024/the-apple-vision-pros-missing-apps/
”The UK has become the world’s biggest insurer of shipborne Russian oil, and that the Russian oil trade “remains highly reliant on vessels insured in the UK”, which have transported a third of Russia’s ocean-going energy exports (by volume) since sanctions were imposed at the end of 2022.”
https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-report/2024/01/revealed-city-of-london-vladimir-putin-oil
”Ukraine will still manage to keep Putin at bay, he predicted, and has already proved that “the whole legend of [Russia’s] power is a soap bubble”.
https://www.ft.com/content/98c005cd-7def-44b5-a938-5243c77520a9
”Microsoft didn’t detect the breach until January 12, exactly a week before Friday’s disclosure. Microsoft's account raises the prospect that the Russian hackers had uninterrupted access to the accounts for as long as two months.”
Is Rabbit the new Raspberry Pi?
”Perplexity will be providing up-to-date search results via Rabbit's $199 orange brick — without the need of any subscription”
nostr:npub1ust7u0v3qffejwhqee45r49zgcyewrcn99vdwkednd356c9resyqtnn3mj do you think an open protocol in nostr stands a chance at not getting censored by the GUULAGL?
Maybe nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 has insight on this
A good question.
If it’s irrelevant it can avoid but might be the case of deplatforming some of the nostr apps/tools depending on what happens and whether something is targeted for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gab_(social_network)#Dissenter)
How much that may affect the whole nostr remains to be seen in that case.
Relays and apps will see push back if nostr becomes more mainstream.
”We're currently training our next-gen model Llama 3, and we're building massive compute infrastructure to support our future roadmap, including 350k H100s by the end of this year -- and overall almost 600k H100s equivalents of compute if you include other GPUs.”
https://venturebeat.com/ai/meta-is-all-in-on-open-source-agi-says-zuckerberg/
Is the coder the new plumber?
You know how stuff works, and you can build things.
The rest ask AI to do something.
The old features are the new features.
Gab had this, and they were not the first one to invent it.
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”On average, more than 2,000 companies shared data with Meta about each participant, with some volunteers' data being shared by more than 7,000 companies. ”
https://www.thestreet.com/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-privacy-consumer-reports-study-tracking