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Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base
"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."
China-led study proposes global green-energy network to solve power crisis
“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.”
#DOGE #Veterans #AI #Health #Government #Technology #Journalism #Transparency
Wait. Is this reading correct?
"Under current law, content produced entirely by AI immediately enters the public domain, allowing unrestricted commercial use."
https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2025/03/20/ai-generated-works-are-public-domain-court-affirms/
Other news coverage:
"Because many of the Copyright Act'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."
"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."
https://restofworld.org/2025/tiktok-moderators-turkey/
(CW for brief references to the types of internet content moderators have to deal with.)
"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."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram/
#news #technology #TechNews #meta #instagram #SocialMedia #AI #slop
Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
You "may be part of an experiment where your information will be processed by an age-assurance vendor, Persona."
#Discord #privacy #surveillance #AgeVerification #enshittification #Persona #Palantir #dystopia #socialmedia #gaming #technology
Grok Reveals Elon Musk Has ‘Tried Tweaking My Responses’ After AI Bot Repeatedly Labels Him a ‘Top Misinformation Spreader’
Well, there's one silver lining, I guess.
"It also cited a survey conducted by Recon Analytics, which asked more than 260,000 Americans about their AI usage. Just 0.174% of respondents said they are paying for Grok. By comparison, 6% say they are shelling out monthly for ChatGPT."
Cooperative european Search index (French Qwant & german Ecosia)
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U.S. analytics company Gallup says it is beginning to research using AI-generated agents to simulate how individuals and populations might answer survey questions. Here's the company blog with more information.
Remembering alum David Mills, who brought the internet into perfect time
A “Goofy” DJ’s Secret Life at the Center of an Online Terrorism Network
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To friends, Matthew Allison was a likeable part of Boise, Idaho’s electronic music scene. But behind his computer screen, authorities say, he helped lead the Terrorgram Collective, an online network that inspired white supremacist violence.
https://www.propublica.org/article/matthew-allison-dj-terrogram-collective-boise-dallas-humber?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Idaho #Terror #Violence #Telegram #Extremism #Technology
I sort of gave up on this awhile ago, but there's a lot of nerds here so I thought I'd ask: can anyone find a minecraft seed with just a description of around where structures are and other surrounding information? There was a world very dear to me, but my friend that was hosting got bored, deleted it, and refused to give me the seed. I'd do anything to see my village again.
#minecraft #bedrock #tech #technology #videogames #internet #help
"Being pro-labor and pro-AI is incompatible, as AI devalues the work that actual workers do, making them less valuable to the market and easier to underpay going forward."
https://www.vulture.com/article/ghibli-portrait-chatgpt-ai.html
#news #technology #TechNews #AI #labor #WorkersRights #ghibli #StudioGhibli
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Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Oh wow, the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) annual challenge for writers that started as a Yahoo! mailing list in 1999 is shutting down.
"NaNoWriMo lost significant community support when it took a stand in favor of the use of artificial intelligence in creative writing. [...] Around the same time, the nonprofit was also lambasted for inconsistent moderation on its all-ages forums, which created an unsafe environment for teenage writers, community members claimed."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/nanowrimo-shut-down-after-ai-content-moderation-scandals/
#news #technology #TechNews #NaNoWriMo #NationalNovelWritingMonth #writing #AI
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