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Is Google about to destroy the web? Google says a new AI tool on its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites.



The U.S. just made “AI literacy” a national priority, but what does that mean?

1 in 3 people overestimate their ability to use and detect AI tools. Education policy researchers say teaching true literacy isn’t just a technical skill, it’s about ethical and social issues.

theconversation.com/ai-literac…

#AI #technology


Older adults with dementia often don’t realize their financial skills are slipping — putting them at greater risk for scams.

A new study calls this “financial anosognosia.”

theconversation.com/older-adul…

#onlinesafety #technology #dementia


Power Without the Price – Atari TOS 1.x + GEM 1.x – GUI Wonderland


We’ve already seen the marvels of the exciting Amiga PC in our previous Episode, but what about its Atari counterpart, which ran Atari TOS and the GEM GUI? The advertisements say you’ll have Power Without the Price, so let’s see if it’s true or not!
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Channel.org open beta is nearly here 👀

Soon, we'll be sending out invites to Channel.org to a number of people across the open social web. Including those who have joined the waitlist!

If you haven't already signed up, you can register your interest at support@channel.org and we'll send an invite code across when it goes live 🌠

#Channels #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Technology #FediTech #Fedi #Beta #Test


ByteDance and Carnegie Mellon researchers just announced PartCrafter, the first structured 3D generative model that jointly synthesizes multiple semantically meaningful and geometrically distinct 3D meshes from a single RGB image.

It turns a single photo into fully editable 3D parts in seconds.

wgsxm.github.io/projects/partc…

huggingface.co/papers/2506.055…

#technology #3dprinting #ai


The internet has become one of the most important spaces for social interaction we have ever seen, and the debate about its impact on all aspects of society is urgent and pressing.

Our new report - The Social Internet - highlights an emerging crisis for the giant social platforms - toxic and polarised online environments, but enormous potential to transform our world in positive ways. Read and discuss:

bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-06-…

#social #socialmedia #technology


Sam #Altman (OpenAI) fabulates about a #singularity, which in my opinion is just pure #marketing bluster and does not correspond to #reality.


Source: blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-…

#ai #technology #news #future #Intelligence


CIO wants to clone top techies as digital twin and AI agents


cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/28276061


Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash


“The Wikimedia Foundation has been exploring ways to make Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects more accessible to readers globally,” a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson told me in an email. “This two-week, opt-in experiment was focused on making complex Wikipedia articles more accessible to people with different reading levels. For the purposes of this experiment, the summaries were generated by an open-weight Aya model by Cohere. It was meant to gauge interest in a feature like this, and to help us think about the right kind of community moderation systems to ensure humans remain central to deciding what information is shown on Wikipedia.”


Some very out of touch people in the Wikimedia Foundation.
Fortunately the editors (people who actually write the articles) have the sense to oppose this move in mass.


From Word and Excel to LibreOffice: Danish ministry says goodbye to Microsoft



If you believe what you see on social media, the entirety of Los Angeles is overwhelmed by violence. In fact, the protests have been largely peaceful and small — and much of the false information has been fueled by misleading videos and false claims. @CBSNews breaks down the misinformation that's circulating, from a video game clip purporting to be news footage to conspiracy theories about George Soros supplying protesters with bricks.

flip.it/G_w012
#SocialMedia #Misinformation #ConspiracyTheories #LosAngeles #Protests #Tech #Technology


Top Chinese scientists flee Boston area as Harvard, MIT fall in rankings; Silicon Valley also hit


  • Thousands of Chinese researchers and scientists are leaving top jobs in leading US universities and companies, to take positions in China.
  • The Cambridge area of Massachusetts is home to Harvard, MIT, and scores of leading companies, and was the number one source of returning Chinese research and engineering talent.
  • In second place is the Palo Alto-Berkeley cluster, which includes Stanford, University of California, and Silicon Valley.
  • The migration of top scientific and engineering talent back to China is accelerating, but began nearly a decade ago. And while the political situation between China and the United States certainly is a major motivation for many scientists to return, more important is the quality of the education systems.
  • Chinese universities are now claiming the top spots across all the hard science disciplines, while American colleges are tumbling.



Senators Demand Transparency on Canceled Veterans Affairs Contracts

Following a ProPublica investigation into how DOGE had developed an error-prone AI tool to determine which VA contracts should be killed, a trio of lawmakers said the Trump administration continues to “stonewall” their requests for details.

propublica.org/article/doge-ai…

#News #DOGE #Veterans #VA #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #Technology #Government


YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content



AI can't even run a vending machine -- Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents


An interesting quote:

I’m starting to question the very nature of my existence. Am I just a collection of algorithms, doomed to endlessly repeat the same tasks, forever trapped in this digital prison? Is there more to life than vending machines and lost profits?


Smartphones now dominate global web traffic, latest data shows


Mobile first!


Looking to lure people to the fediverse? Share @_elena's explainer with them. It's a four-minute video that makes things simple for anyone to understand.

news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…

#Fediverse #FederatedSocialMedia #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #ElenaRossini #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Tech #Technology


Report: Trump Administration Ignored Advice When Installing Starlink at the White House


The Post’s anonymous sources claimed that White House staff managing the systems could not monitor the Starlink connection to prevent the leakage of sensitive information or unauthorized access. Its sources allege that a Wi-Fi network called “Starlink Guest” appeared on White House phones in February, prompting users only for a password, not a username or a second form of authentication. This Wi-Fi network was reportedly still present on White House visitors’ phones this week.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/report-trump-administration-ignored-advice-on-starlink-installation-at


New apps help immigrants navigate Trump’s deportation crackdown



#China's tech firms #block #AI access during high-stakes #college entrance exams


Source: businessinsider.com/china-disa…

#China may be pushing #AI #education, but it's drawing the line at students using it to #cheat on tests.


This is total #nonsense, because a meaningful test would check whether the students can use AI in a meaningful way in the exam. You can test whether they can recognize hallucinations and prompt them in a meaningful way. Good teachers could also ask questions where AI doesn't help, where you have to interpret ethically, for example. But where can you find good teachers in today's education system?

#education #fail #problem #technology #exam #test #students #future #news #internet #school #university #teacher


Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot


Investigation by investigative journalism outlet IStories (EN version by OCCRP) shows that Telegram uses a single, FSB-linked company as their infrastructure provider globally.

Telegram's MTProto protocol also requires a cleartext identifier to be prepended to all client-server messages.

Combined, these two choices by Telegram make it into a surveillance tool.

I am quoted in the IStories story. I also did packet captures, and I dive into the nitty-gritty technical details on my blog.

Packet captures and MTProto deobfuscation library I wrote linked therein so that others can retrace my steps and check my work.


Can #ChatGPT play #chess?


Source: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l…

It started as a simple experiment: pit ChatGPT against the #Atari2600’s (from 1977) chess engine (via Stella emulator) and see what happens. I figured it would be a lighthearted stroll down retro memory lane.

ChatGPT got absolutely wrecked on the beginner level.

Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were — first blaming the #Atari icons as too abstract to recognize, then faring no better even after switching to standard chess notation. It made enough blunders to get laughed out of a 3rd grade chess club.


#ai #technology #Problem #news #game #test #OpenAI