Michigan State Rep. Says ‘F*ck Your Thoughts and Prayers’ After Mass Shooting
GitHub announces that Copilot for Business, the company's $19/month enterprise version of its AI-powered code completion tool, is now generally available (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/14/githubs-copilot-for-business-is-now-generally-available/
http://www.techmeme.com/230214/p26#a230214p26
Google begins rolling out its Privacy Sandbox to select Android devices today. It's basically a set of technologies that lets your phone continue to spy on you to collect data for advertising purposes... but to do so a little more anonymously than before. Yay? https://gizmodo.com/google-android-launches-privacy-sandbox-chrome-cookies-1850112117
#google #android #PrivacySandbox #PrivacySandboxForAndroid #privacy #advertising #AdTech
Twitter’s Remaining Engineers Appear To Solve Elon Musk’s Complaint That His Tweets Aren’t Getting Enough Views By… Making The Algorithm Forcefeed All Of Elon’s Tweets To Everyone https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/14/twitters-remaining-engineers-appear-to-solve-elon-musks-complaint-that-his-tweets-arent-getting-enough-views-by-making-the-algorithm-forcefeed-all-of-elons-tweets-to-everyone/
Hyundai and Kia are offering a free anti-theft software upgrade for over 8M vehicles, after a rash of car thefts inspired by the viral "Kia Challenge" on TikTok (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23599300/hyundai-kia-car-theft-software-update-free-tiktok-challenge
http://www.techmeme.com/230214/p25#a230214p25
If tumbler can do it, FF should be able to aswell.
Shame altho that FF foundation hasn't even #opensource 'd their product yet - as promise who knows when ago
Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker discusses Mastodon with the Verge.
Looks like the approach will be three-fold:
1. Set up a Mozilla instance
2. Study and learn about the Fediverse
3. Build new initiatives based on ActivityPub
Before building new tech, Mozilla wants to be an active participant in the Fediverse and learn from it—not go pushing its weight around like a gorilla.
After backlash, Spotify removes a clause that let Apple use audiobooks from Findaway Voices to develop synthetic voices; Spotify acquired Findaway in June 2022 (Shubham Agarwal/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-spotify-audiobook-narrators-ai-contract/
http://www.techmeme.com/230214/p22#a230214p22
Microsoft's AI Bing also generated factual errors and fabricated text in its demo launch https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/14/microsoft_ai_bing_error/
#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.namazso.eu/TheRegister/status/1625458462153900034
Do you want to remove all but one specific file when using Bash under #Linux, #macOS/*BS or Unix? For example, delete all except demo.txt:
rm -v !(demo.txt)
Please note that wildcard is supported too. See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-bash-delete-all-files-in-directory-except-few/ for more info.
When anyone tells you that Ukrainians should trade land for peace, remember: On that land, people have been subjected to arrest, torture and murder - and still are.
To mark the war's first anniversary I wrote about the nature of the Russian occupation, together with Nataliya Gumenyuk, who runs the Reckoning Project
Bing Chat demo was filled with mistakes of its own, says report
https://www.onmsft.com/news/bing-chat-demo-was-filled-with-mistakes-of-its-own-says-report/
#TheNewBing #BingChat #OpenAI #News
Trump spent $600,000 to be told he's wrong about voter fraud
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-2020-report-fundraising-scam-rcna70404
all those default #macos command-… hotkeys (cut/copy/paste, etc.) are seriously messing up my muscle memory. how do i change them to ctrl+…, but without messing up my «good» ctrl+… hotkeys (tmux, vim, etc.)?
like, yep, i've already tried switching command and ctrl, and that is definitely NOT what i need (see above).
also: why things that are so easy and natural with #linux, are so musking impossible or complicated with #macos?
"According to results collected on Jan. 5 using Shadow Bird, a website that analyzes accounts blocked from Twitter’s search results, tweets from 30 accounts of Chinese dissidents were not showing up in search results." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/technology/twitter-china-elon-musk.html
More than a dozen Indian Income Tax officials entered BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai seizing accounts, financial documents, and phones of BBC employees.
The raid took place this morning, weeks after the airing of the BBC doc Modi sought to censor.