technology

Japanese publisher Kadokawa paid $3 million to Russia-linked hacker group after cyberattack (mainichi.jp)

TCL TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads (arstechnica.com)

Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI (www.theregister.com)

Itch.io games site taken down

Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)...

AI is not Designed for You (www.youtube.com)

Teen creates memecoin, dumps it, earns $50,000 (arstechnica.com)

Labor Department investigating migrant child labor claims at HelloFresh (abcnews.go.com)

Federal judges uphold law that could ban TikTok, say platform could be unavailable in U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)

The D.C. Circuit voted to uphold the ban, citing national security threats and the collection of data from TikTok users.

Google has developed an AI tool that generates fully playable 3D worlds (www.gamescensor.com)

Stop using generative AI as a search engine (www.theverge.com)

U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack (www.nbcnews.com)

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic' (www.nbcnews.com)

First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released (sfconservancy.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/123708...

All the other brands went along

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)

REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets (www.windowscentral.com)

Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods (arstechnica.com)

Gotta get creative with your layoffs when you already did massive layoffs but still need to please wall street.

NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules (arstechnica.com)

Here is the text of the NIST sp800-63b Digital Identity Guidelines.

Amazon is making its employees come back to the office five days a week (www.theverge.com)

Hey Reddit lurkers! my ad-free, open source Reddit viewer RDX is on Android now (play.google.com)

Since a lot of you asked me to build an Android version and post about it here when I launch, and I sincerely apologise that I forgot to post on lemmy sooner. The free app was launched on Play store almost a month ago and has garnered some excellent reviews. It has feature parity with the iPhone App and works on all Android 8.0+...

Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI (futurism.com)

Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer (www.pcgamer.com)

Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 (sh.itjust.works)

Source...

The little smart home platform that could (www.theverge.com)

Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability....

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