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<p>&quot;CEO Marc Benioff said Salesforce, San Francisco’s largest private employer, does not plan to hire engineers this year because of the success of AI agents created and used by the company.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/salesforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/salesforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfstandard.com/2025/02/27/sale</span><span class="invisible">sforce-marcbenioff-layoffs-tech-agents/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/salesforce/" rel="tag">#salesforce</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a></p>

<p>&quot;Rita Contreras, a hairstylist in Brooklyn, said that in the past six months, the number of clients walking in with AI images has ballooned.</p><p>[...]</p><p>“I have to just say, ‘This is not a real person. This is not real hair,’”&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/23/ai-hair-inspo-wedding-stylists-businesses/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/23/ai-hair-inspo-wedding-stylists-businesses/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.washingtonpost.com/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/2025/02/23/ai-hair-inspo-wedding-stylists-businesses/</span></a></p><p>Archived link: <a href="https://archive.is/erYG5" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>archive.is/erYG5</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content<br>—</p><p>Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-meta-abandons-fact-checking-boosts-viral-content?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/facebook-meta-abandons-fact-checking-boosts-viral-content?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fac</span><span class="invisible">ebook-meta-abandons-fact-checking-boosts-viral-content?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/facebook/" rel="tag">#Facebook</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#Meta</a> <a href="/tags/zuckerberg/" rel="tag">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a></p>

Streaming overtakes cable and broadcast as the most-watched form of TV <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.world/post/31536266">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>As ChatGPT Linked to Mental Health Breakdowns, Mattel Announces Plans to Incorporate It Into Children’s Toys</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/mattel-announces-openai" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/mattel-announces-openai"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/mattel-announces-</span><span class="invisible">openai</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#PRESS</a></p>

Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/26962711">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>Meta is facing an AI copyright lawsuit in France brought by authors and publishers who are accusing the company of economic “parasitism.” Read more at <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Techcrunch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Techcrunch</span></a></span>. <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#Meta</a> <a href="/tags/instagram/" rel="tag">#Instagram</a> <a href="/tags/facebook/" rel="tag">#Facebook</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/copyright/" rel="tag">#Copyright</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="https://flip.it/mSO6-8" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>flip.it/mSO6-8</a></p>

<p>How ProPublica Uses AI Responsibly in Its Investigations<br>—</p><p>When our reporters prompted a large language model to help identify “woke” themes in a database of grants, AI helped them tell a vital accountability story about science funding and Ted Cruz.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/using-ai-responsibly-for-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/using-ai-responsibly-for-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/usi</span><span class="invisible">ng-ai-responsibly-for-reporting?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="/tags/research/" rel="tag">#Research</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a></p>

<p>Running sh commands on Android is easy.</p><p>You need a terminal ENV which runs unprivileged. You need package management. You need csh zsh ksh bash skills</p><p>It&#x27;s full blown, comes with minimal packages, so you can extend with anything from vim, Yes VIM to htop, neofetch, to c programming, with all the cherry 🍒 on top </p><p>I use termux</p><p>You may get it on fDroid, the home site, but NOT from playstore </p><p>Update:<br>I was just warned that the Play Store version is horrifically broken please read the post from the contributor</p><p>Thank you <span class="h-card"><a href="https://techhub.social/@traecer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>traecer</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/bash/" rel="tag">#bash</a> <a href="/tags/csh/" rel="tag">#csh</a> <a href="/tags/zsh/" rel="tag">#zsh</a> <a href="/tags/ksh/" rel="tag">#ksh</a> <a href="/tags/fish/" rel="tag">#fish</a> <a href="/tags/sh/" rel="tag">#sh</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/command/" rel="tag">#command</a> <a href="/tags/line/" rel="tag">#line</a> <a href="/tags/termux/" rel="tag">#termux</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/posix/" rel="tag">#POSIX</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>

<p>&quot;A federal judge in California ruled Monday that Anthropic likely violated copyright law when it pirated authors’ books to create a giant dataset [...] but that training its AI on those books without authors&#x27; permission constitutes transformative fair use under copyright law. &quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.404media.co/judge-rules-tr</span><span class="invisible">aining-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/</span></a></p><p>via <a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/114739272177738351" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mastodon.social/@404mediaco/114739272177738351"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@404mediaco/11</span><span class="invisible">4739272177738351</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/copyright/" rel="tag">#copyright</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>

<p>If you still use one of these devices, you might want to start looking into alternatives.</p><p>&quot;In an email sent to customers today, Amazon said that Echo users will no longer be able to set their devices to process Alexa requests locally [...] Starting on March 28, recordings of everything command spoken to the Alexa living in Echo speakers and smart displays will automatically be sent to Amazon and processed in the cloud.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">3/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/</span></a></p><p>via <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114166991733057284" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114166991733057284"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11416699</span><span class="invisible">1733057284</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/amazon/" rel="tag">#amazon</a> <a href="/tags/alexa/" rel="tag">#alexa</a> <a href="/tags/amazonecho/" rel="tag">#AmazonEcho</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a></p>

<p>Senators Demand Investigation Into Canceled VA Contracts, Citing “Damning Reporting From ProPublica”<br>—</p><p>The senators are calling for a federal watchdog to investigate the Trump administration’s killing of hundreds of VA contracts. Among their concerns: ProPublica revealed DOGE used artificial intelligence to mark contracts as “munchable.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-veterans-affairs-ai-senator-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/doge-veterans-affairs-ai-senator-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dog</span><span class="invisible">e-veterans-affairs-ai-senator-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/veterans/" rel="tag">#Veterans</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a></p>

<p>Let’s get a little weird for the weekend! This is my first longer blog post and I’ve been doing a fair bit of reflection on <a href="/tags/theology/" rel="tag">#Theology</a> and <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> these days…</p><p><a href="/tags/jesus/" rel="tag">#Jesus</a> <a href="/tags/christian/" rel="tag">#Christian</a> <a href="/tags/church/" rel="tag">#Church</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> <a href="/tags/episcopal/" rel="tag">#Episcopal</a> <a href="/tags/weird/" rel="tag">#Weird</a> <a href="/tags/spirituality/" rel="tag">#Spirituality</a> </p><p><a href="https://catecheticconverter.com/gods-technology" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="catecheticconverter.com/gods-technology"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">catecheticconverter.com/gods-t</span><span class="invisible">echnology</span></a></p>

First RePebble Watches can now be preordered <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://feddit.org/post/9408784">See Original Page</a> </small>

Get your new PebbleOS watch <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ca/post/40895540">See Original Page</a> </small>

Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base <small class="notice" x-post-type-data="None"> Takahe has limited support for this type: <a href="https://lemmy.ml/post/32528526">See Original Page</a> </small>

<p>&quot;Of course, what [the British-American academic and author Alice Mary Hilton] defined as cyberculture — an automated society where mankind is freed from drudgery by computers — is very different to what it ended up meaning in the 90s.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/cyberculture-alice-mary-hilton/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/cyberculture-alice-mary-hilton/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/cybercultu</span><span class="invisible">re-alice-mary-hilton/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>

<p>“ProPublica’s reporting revealed these cancelled contracts were delivering essential services … and exposed the cruel and dumb AI formulas DOGE bros used to cancel contracts,” Sen. Blumenthal said. “Veterans and all Americans deserve transparency.”</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-veterans-affairs-ai-senator-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/doge-veterans-affairs-ai-senator-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/dog</span><span class="invisible">e-veterans-affairs-ai-senator-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/veterans/" rel="tag">#Veterans</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/transparency/" rel="tag">#Transparency</a></p>

<p>Wait. Is this reading correct?</p><p>&quot;Under current law, content produced entirely by AI immediately enters the public domain, allowing unrestricted commercial use.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/03/20/ai-generated-works-are-public-domain-court-affirms/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/03/20/ai-generated-works-are-public-domain-court-affirms/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.synthtopia.com/content/202</span><span class="invisible">5/03/20/ai-generated-works-are-public-domain-court-affirms/</span></a></p><p>Other news coverage:</p><p>&quot;Because many of the Copyright Act&#x27;s provisions make sense only if an author is a human being, the best reading of the Copyright Act is that human authorship is required for registration.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-copyrights-ai-generated-art-lacking-human-creator-2025-03-18/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.reuters.com/world/us/us-appeals-court-rejects-copyrights-ai-generated-art-lacking-human-creator-2025-03-18/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.reuters.com/world/us/us-ap</span><span class="invisible">peals-court-rejects-copyrights-ai-generated-art-lacking-human-creator-2025-03-18/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/copyright/" rel="tag">#copyright</a> <a href="/tags/publicdomain/" rel="tag">#PublicDomain</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>&quot;If you let workers believe that AI will soon replace them, they are going to try as much as they can to hold on to their jobs, do everything the boss says and behave so that they are not going to be fired.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-moderators-turkey/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-moderators-turkey/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-mo</span><span class="invisible">derators-turkey/</span></a></p><p>(CW for brief references to the types of internet content moderators have to deal with.)</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/unions/" rel="tag">#unions</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>&quot;The new feature would likely be an unwelcome one for users who would rather keep comments AI-free on Instagram, especially those who believe their friends deserve genuine comments as opposed to AI slop.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta</span><span class="invisible">-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#meta</a> <a href="/tags/instagram/" rel="tag">#instagram</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/slop/" rel="tag">#slop</a></p>

<p>How do you learn to use your <a href="/tags/gnu/" rel="tag">#GNU</a> <a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#Linux</a> tools?<br><a href="/tags/floss/" rel="tag">#floss</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#foss</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/computer/" rel="tag">#computer</a></p> <div class="poll"> <h3 style="display: none;">Options: <small>(choose one)</small></h3> <ul> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="30 votes">53%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Reading the manual</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="18 votes">32%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Reading the documentation online</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="7 votes">12%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Watching a video</span> </label> </li> <li> <label class="poll-option"> <input style="display:none" name="vote-options" type="radio" value="0"> <span class="poll-number" title="2 votes">4%</span> <span class="poll-option-text">Asking on social media or chat</span> </label> </li> </ul> <div class="poll-footer"> <span class="vote-total">57 votes</span> &mdash; <span class="vote-end">Ended 1y ago</span> <span class="todo">Polls are currently display only</span> </div> </div>