Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely ...

lmao *jesus*

A Map🗺️ showing Land cover of East Africa for year 2023 Dataset from Earthmap

A Map🗺️ showing Land cover of East Africa for year 2023 Dataset from Earth map (Esri Land cover 10m) #Kenya #Tanzania #Uganda #EastAfrica #geospatial #gischat #Africa #dataviz #render #qgis #blender #b3d

While major model makers and hosting providers try to make safe tools, there is always an indie dev who will download a library literally called “what could go wrong” (pypi.org/project/wcgw/) and give the tiny AI agent they kludged together access to their bank account, as I saw yesterday on Reddit

Our @thraets.bsky.social team uncovers how social media is systematically weaponized against female journalists in the global south. Our first report reveals coordinated hate campaigns, political targeting & platform inaction faced by journalist @RanaAyyub in India. thraets.org/when-technol...

Dear websites,

How about we just assume that nobody wants any tracking cookies? At all. Ever. And then, *if* someone decides they'd love some tracking cookies, they can just pop into their settings and enable them.

Sincerely,
Every person that uses the web.

Silicon Valley has a monopoly on the web. But we can make a difference by choosing privacy-friendly alternatives. Here are some ideas:

✅ Tuta Mail
✅ Tuta Calendar
✅ Firefox browse
✅ DuckDuckGo search
✅ OpenStreetMap
✅ Mastodon
✅ LibreOffice

What are your favorite apps?

Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · torvalds/linux@1da177e Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in th...

Fun fact: Open this commit on GitHub, scroll all the way down, and then try scrolling up with the wheel. Your browser will start trembling in fear!

github.com/torvalds/lin...

Algorithmic Justice League @AJLUnited In celebration of Women's Equality Day, we're highlighting last fall's @RollingStone Magazine feature by Lorena O'Neil ( @lorenaoneil ) of the women pioneers in the AI space — including Dr. Joy Buolamwini ( @jovialjoy ), Rumman Chowdhury ( @ruchowdh ), Timnit Gebru ( @timnitGebru ), Safiya Noble ( @safiyanoble ), and Seeta Peña Gangadharan. Read more below. #WomensEqualityDay_2024 beautiful photo of all of them Image of the Rolling Stone article including Timnit Gebru, Rumman Chowdhury, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini (from left). Image is overylayed with text reading "Rolling Stone. These Women Tried to Warn us About AI. By Lorena O'Neil" cover: THESE WOMEN TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT AI 0:29 AM · Aug 26, 2024 · 2,787 Views

Algorithmic Justice League is highlighting last year's Rolling Stone cover story, THESE WOMEN TRIED TO WARN US ABOUT AI by Lorena O'Neil.
tweet:
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article:
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Beware of Fake Google Chrome Update Pop-Ups that Installs Malware In the ever-changing landscape of cybersecurity, a persistent threat appears in the form of a fake Chrome update.

Beware of Fake Google Chrome Update Pop-Ups that Installs Malware

Found out in a weird way. Person next to me was blasting spaces like a shortwave or fm radio on their phone

I've just successfully pulled, cross-built (on my amd64 box), installed and booted #FreeBSD 14-STABLE armv6 on my Raspberry Pi 2. Great work, Core and RE Teams!

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