Executives, inventors, investors, and lawyers accuse Apple of copying their ideas after talks about partnerships or integrating their tech into Apple products (Aaron Tilley/Wall Street Journal)
WhatsApp rolls out a handful of new verification and protection features, including defenses against SIM jacking and social engineering attacks (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
Substack tells writers Twitter "unexpectedly restricted access to embedding tweets"; Twitter seems to have disabled likes and RTs for tweets with Substack links (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
Substack users are currently unable to embed tweets into their stories. That’s just the tip of the iceberg for the problems being caused by Twitter’s API changes.
a fluffy baby otter being held in someone's arms, looking up at the camera with big, shining eyes. One of its paws is up as if waving, showing its little footpads. It looks so cozy! #Alt4you
@jaybird110127 I read that article earlier today. Now I see that an ISO of the software was posted to archive.org. Going to download it, peek inside, and see if the customized DECtalk engine that the article talks about is a DLL, or statically linked into the executable.
Breaking news: For the first time since the Apollo era, NASA on Monday named a crew of astronauts for a lunar expedition. The astronauts will fly around the moon in a mission that would precede the first human landing there since 1972. wapo.st/3nvpCZZ #press
The Tor Project partners with VPN maker Mullvad to launch the Mullvad browser, available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, seeking to reduce a user's "fingerprint" (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)
Mullvad VPN has teamed up with the Tor Project to release a browser focused on privacy, and making you harder to track via browser fingerprinting and third-party trackers.
The Brazilian translation team debian-l10n-portuguese
had their first workshop of 2023
in February, with great results:
The workshop was aimed at beginners, working in DDTP/DDTSS.
Two days of a hands-on workshop via Jitsi.
In the follo...
Nesse ano a MiniDebConf Brasil está de volta! A comunidade brasileira de
usuários(as) e desenvolvedores(as) Debian convida a todos(as) a participarem da
MiniDebConf Brasília 2023 que acontecerá
durante 3 dias na capital federal.
Nos dia...
Some signatories of the open letter to pause AI training walk back their positions, others turned out to be fake, and many experts disagree with its proposal (Chloe Xiang/VICE)
"Some fun facts about AI and a few thoughts about the software ecosystem trend" by M. Zhou (and info about the Debian Deep Learning team) lists.debian.org/debian-projec…
"Con 68 años comprándose a una niña como si fuera un juguete de Reyes": críticas a Ana Obregón tras hacerse con un bebé por vientre de alquiler publico.es/tremending/2023/03/… #External
I hated writing in high school. It wasn’t objective like my favorite subjects, math and science. It also didn’t help that we had to write about old, hard-to-understand literature like Shakespeare.
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Sahil Dhiman (sahil) Jakub Ružička (jru) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Josenilson Ferreira da Silva Ileana...
A group of librarians argue the Internet Archive is a library, saying that the four major publishers' lawsuit threatens the development of digital collections (Inside Higher Ed)
Researchers are sounding the alarm on the world’s first-known instance of real-world malware that can hijack a computer’s boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled. arstechnica.com/information-te…
The Be My Eyes app for the visually impaired will integrate with GPT-4, which can inspect and describe images, through a new Virtual Volunteer feature (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)
I tento rok vlaje na budově Krajského úřadu Středočeského kraje vlajka Tibetu jako připomínka 64. výročí tibetského povstání a zároveň snaha poukázat na porušování lidských práv.
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