Collaborate Disseminate
“The European Union’s Copernicus climate monitoring service confirmed Monday that June and July were the hottest on record in western Europe,” .according to a report from the CBC. “The period saw an estimated 25,000 heat-related deaths.”
CNN has befo… Continue reading Europe’s Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships
This week Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word open letter titled “The Future is for Everyone”.
But the BBC is more interested in why big tech executives keep writing manifestos about AI:
[Zuckerberg’s] vision echoes what AI leaders have… Continue reading Why Are Big Tech CEOs Writing Long Manifestos About AI?
Three years ago environmental regulators discovered garbage burning deep inside California’s Chiquita Canyon Landfill, reports the Los Angeles Times. [Alternate URL here.] “Few imagined the calamity that would follow.
“Somehow the landfill’s pollutio… Continue reading Toxic Underground Fires Are Spreading at California Landfills
Futurism reports:
404 Media revealed that a July 10 audit by the Los Angeles Police Department Office of the Inspector General caught the department’s ALPR cameras generating 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts in just two months — each one ending… Continue reading How Accurate Are Flock’s AI-Powered License-Reading Cameras?
Microsoft’s cloud storage app OneDrive got a new Photos app in the worst possible way, reports the blog Neowin . “The app is reportedly showing up even on Windows 11 Enterprise machines, despite apparently being a beta application aimed at consumer fun… Continue reading Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quietly Installing Beta ‘Photos’ App on Enterprise Machines
With nearly 70% of the market, “Meta wants its smart glasses to be a big hit,” writes the Los Angeles Times. But after some users found ways to disable the light that warns people they’re being filmed, “the high-tech specs have also turned into a liabi… Continue reading Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta’s Smart Glasses
Linux Torvalds expects Linux 7.2 should be released next weekend “unless something really bad
pops up,” Torvalds said while announcing today’s release candidate.
But there’s something interesting about Linux 7.2-rc7, writes Phoronix. “By the time the… Continue reading AI Reviews Bring ‘New Normal’ to Linux Release Candidates: Lots of Bug Fixes
A Massachusetts newspaper reports that officials from the town of Littleton (population: 10,141) “claim that five of Littletonâ(TM)s Flock Safety cameras were switched back on by the company without informing the town…”
Littleton had temporar… Continue reading Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town
NBC Bay Area brings news from the small idyllic California town of Suisun City (population: 29,518). The city council “declared a state of emergency Saturday after a cyberattack that shut down computer systems including 911 public safety operations.”
… Continue reading California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack
XDA Developers reports:
On July 22, a Google DeepMind engineer, Vidy Thatte, shared a snippet of a browser he built that “treats every URL as a prompt and generates a site from scratch” on his X account. Just a few days later, he shared a TestFlight… Continue reading AI-Powered Browser Just Generates Every Website From Scratch