Collaborate Disseminate
“In a few weeks, KDE will turn 30 years old,” writes core contributor Kevin Ottens, celebrating with some special KDE community data analytics (including a 30-year graph of the number of contributors):
It peaks around 180 on average (and sometimes re… Continue reading As KDE Turns 30, Contributors and Commits are Going Strong
There’s at least 15 author-driven lawsuits underway against AI companies, while publishers have filed roughly 10 more coordinated suits of their own, notes Publisher’s Weekly.
Yet “While the lawsuits play out, some publishers are building bridges.”
G… Continue reading Are Book Publishers Warming Up to the AI Industry?
“Australia is considering barring the use of camera-equipped smart glasses in government workplaces…” reports Reuters, “in what it said could be the first ban of its kind.”
But meanwhile “more than 70 people who bought, used or were recorded with M… Continue reading Australia Considers Smart Glasses Ban in Government Workplaces, While 70 People Sue Meta Over Unknowing Data Collection
“I would like to verify your technical abilities, so please download the specified file and complete the assigned task…”
Fake job listings aimed at software developers and IT professionals led to 30,000 infected devices in over 100 countries &mdash… Continue reading North Korean Hackers Posed as Recruiters. They Infected 30,000 Devices Worldwide
Tom’s Hardware reports:
Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the developers of these AI models violated antitrust laws when they agreed to slow AI development. According t… Continue reading Lawsuit Says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI And Google Made Illegal Agreement On AI Slowdown
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State ultimately asks the question, “How did we cede control of our democracy to the machines, and can we get it back?” according to the Harvard’s Arts and Sciences site, FAS Current:
The new title finds Lepore, who… Continue reading Democracy vs Digital Infrastructure: Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Charts ‘The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State’
“New research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved independently over hundreds of millions of years,” Stanford Medicine announced this week:
The new research finding shows that the human bra… Continue reading The Brain Is Actually Two Completely Separate Organs
The European Commission “proposed on Thursday banning children under 13 from social media, with parent-supervised accounts until 15,” reports Reuters.
“Enforcement would rely on a tool Brussels built itself” — a free, open-source age verificati… Continue reading To Enforce Its Proposed Social Media Ban for 450 Million Pre-Teens, EU Builds an Open Source App
Saturday morning President Trump announced he’s creating an AI task force and appointing an AI czar, reports Politico.
“I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS,” Trump wrote Saturday in what Politi… Continue reading Tech Industry Scratches Its Head Over Trump’s ‘AI Force’ Proposal
Mashable writes:
Flock Safety offered employees voluntary buyouts on Friday, WIRED reported… Without the buyouts, those familiar with the situation suspect the company would have to lay off some of its 1,500 employees.
WIRED writes that people f… Continue reading Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees