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Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

Firefox own data disproves your statement. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 minutes ago

I know there are strong feelings about posts that include Threads and to lesser extent Bluesky, but it's important to know what corporate media thinks of Fediverse and how they compare it to corporate alternatives. You are encouraged to dissect the article and point out all of its failures, or just downvote the post and move on. But I won't be removing it.

P.S. The author of the article definitely has a pro VC stance.

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Sidney Powell settles lawsuit with man she falsely claimed was on 'Antifa conference call' (www.rawstory.com)
 

Notorious "Kraken" lawyer Sidney Powell, who pushed false claims about Dominion Voting Systems back in 2020 based on information she received from a woman who claims she can speak with the wind, has settled a defamation lawsuit filed against her by former Dominion executive Eric Coomer.

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MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline (variety.com)
 

The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/hOSxQ

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Meta tests Vision Pro-like freeform virtual screen placement for Quest headsets (www.theverge.com)
 

It’s not quite like the Vision Pro, but it’s also not $3,499.

Lemmy.world community banned people for misinformation on the post complaining about Lemmy.ml instance banning people for misinformation in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 51 minutes ago

[email protected], created not long ago, exactly due to similar reasons.

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Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs (arstechnica.com)
 

Running AI models without matrix math means far less power consumption—and fewer GPUs?

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Welcome to the fediverse: Your guide to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, and more (techcrunch.com)
 

Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away (this one, in fact), a few internet rebels decided that they were tired of the corporate overlords controlling their online lives. Thus, the fediverse was born — an attempt to wrest control of microblogging services, such as Twitter and its ilk, away from centralized powers and into the hands of the people.

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South Korean ISP 'Infected' Torrenting Subscribers with Malware (torrentfreak.com)
submitted 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A report from South Korea reveals that Internet provider KT actively installed malware on the computers of over half a million subscribers.

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Polyfill.io JavaScript supply chain attack impacts over 100K sites (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
 

Over 100,000 sites have been impacted in a supply chain attack by the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and the script was modified to redirect users to malicious and scam sites.

Firefox now lets you choose your preferred AI chatbot in its Nightly builds in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

It's internal. They are becoming irrelevant (their browser market share have been shrinking for years now), so they are jumping all the new hype trends now. They literally just became an ad company. We have Google, Apple, Brave and Mozilla all being an ad companies that produce browsers.

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The Day Israeli Tanks Fired Directly at AFP’s Gaza Bureau (theintercept.com)
 

Israel denied it attacked the building. An investigation shows the Agence France-Presse news bureau came under tank fire — cutting a crucial live feed.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240625060533/https://theintercept.com/2024/06/25/israel-gaza-journalism-afp-office-bombing/

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Israel’s War On Gaza Is the Deadliest Conflict On Record for Journalists (theintercept.com)
 

Attacked in the field, in the office, and at home, Israel's war on Gaza has killed more journalists than any other conflict on record.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240625165047/https://theintercept.com/2024/06/25/israel-gaza-war-journalists-killed/

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Namibia Court Decriminalizes Consensual Same-Sex Conduct (www.hrw.org)
 

The Namibian High Court has declared the common law offences of “sodomy” and “unnatural sexual offences” unconstitutional, marking a major victory for LGBT people.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/aIY2l

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Red Crescent Says Israel Never Reached Out About Hind Rajab’s Death, Despite State Department Claim That Israel Said Otherwise (theintercept.com)
 

When asked about 6-year-old Hind Rajab’s killing, the U.S. said that, according to Israel, the Red Crescent and U.N. have not helped investigate.

Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20240625215936/https://theintercept.com/2024/06/25/israel-hind-rajab-child-killing/

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Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag (techcrunch.com)
 

Telegram's founder Pavel Durov says his company only employs around 30 engineers. Security experts say that raises serious questions about the company's cybersecurity.

To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

If you read the blog post you would know there are 0 mentions of VPNs there. VPNs have very limited purpose, and it's just a small tool in the arsenal of privacy.

Dagestan: Deadly attacks on churches and synagogue in southern Russia in c/[email protected]
Fedora has been shipping with a broken screen reader for nine years but the real problem is me in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm not the author of the blog post. That would be @[email protected].

Alternatives to major corporate monopoly software. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

They have an issue about it https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/255 from 2 weeks ago.

Vivaldi browser improves customization for RSS subscriptions in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

They used to. They dropped support in 2018.

Poland-Belarus: Tsikhanowskaya warns against closed borders in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Europe is moving away from the track gauge used by Russia/Belarus, so it's less of a factor now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-European_Transport_Network

A Rising Enforcement of Censorship in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

RCS doesn't support encryption natively. Google only has proprietary encryption for Messages app.

Twitch banned Dr Disrespect after viewing messages sent to a minor, say former employees in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

This is probably out of topic of this community, so just downvote it if you find it not interesting.

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