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Forty years ago, Richard Stallman announced the plan to develop the GNU operating system, which would be entirely composed of free software. The existence of a free operating system would enable people to operate their computers in freedom, throwing off the power of the developers of nonfree software. The GNU Project has also built the global free software movement.

The companies that own many leased solar systems on Americans' rooftops are going out of business, leaving homeowners in a lurch.

It’s the end of an era! I still have a few that I never returned and just paid for, I bet one day they’ll be a novelty nostalgia item.

The 90,000 follower-strong account typically picks targets who appeared in other viral videos, or people suggested to the account in the comments. Many of the account’s videos show the process: screenshotting the video of the target, cropping images of the face, running those photos through facial recognition software, and then revealing the person’s full name, social media profile, and sometimes employer to millions of people who have liked the videos.

According to reports by Access Now, a non-profit that tracks state-imposed blackouts, for the past five years, India has shut down the internet 84 times just last year alone. In the troubled region of Kashmir, after stripping the state of various independent rights, the government imposed an 18 month shutdown from August 2019 until February 2021 – the longest ever imposed in a democracy. Before that, in June 2018, the residents of Darjeeling endured a blackout that lasted over 100 days after unrest broke out.

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We did an analysis of the Google antitrust trial. Last week, over half of the trial was held behind closed doors because the judge, Amit Mehta, is deferring to Google on the need for secrecy.

As part of the Strategic Capabilities Office initiative Project Pele, the DOD awarded a contract option to X-energy, LLC of Rockville, Md., to develop an enhanced engineering design for a

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The enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. It doesn't have to be this way. Enshittification occurs when companies gobble each other up in an orgy of mergers and acquisitions, reducing the internet to "five giant websites filled with screenshots of text from the other four" (credit to Tom Eastman!), which lets them endlessly tweak their back-ends to continue to shift value from users and business-customers to themselves. The government gets in on the act by banning tweaking by users - reverse-engineering, scraping, bots and other user-side self-help measures - leaving users helpless before the march of enshittification. We don't have to accept this! Disenshittifying the internet will require antitrust, limits on corporate tweaking - through privacy laws and other protections - and aggressive self-help measures from alternative app stores to ad blockers and beyond!

A 420-pound, 5-foot-2 robocop with a giant camera for a face will begin patrolling the Times Square subway station overnight, the NYPD has announced.

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This is a classic case of tragedy of the commons, where a common resource is harmed by the profit interests of individuals. The traditional example of this is a public field that cattle can graze upon. Without any limits, individual cattle owners have an incentive to overgraze the land, destroying its value to everybody.

We have commons on the internet, too. Despite all of its toxic corners, it is still full of vibrant portions that serve the public good — places like Wikipedia and Reddit forums, where volunteers often share knowledge in good faith and work hard to keep bad actors at bay.

But these commons are now being overgrazed by rapacious tech companies that seek to feed all of the human wisdom, expertise, humor, anecdotes and advice they find in these places into their for-profit A.I. systems.

BTW this is the 1,000th thread here

DATA IS GONE FROM SATELLITE?

Google allegedly gave drivers bridge route for years despite correction requests.

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The Grift Shift is a new paradigm of debating technologies within a society that is based a lot less on the actual realistic use cases or properties of a certain technology but a surface level fascination with technologies but even more their narratives of future deliverance. Within the Grift Shift paradigm the topics and technologies addressed are mere material for public personalities to continuously claim expertise and “thought leadership” in every cycle of the shift regardless of what specific technologies are being talked about.

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Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy cybersecurity company Splunk Inc. in a deal valued at about $28 billion, creating one of the world’s largest software companies.The combination will help make companies more resilient to cybersecurity threats, according to the statement.
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Better use of tech in prisons would help with transition back into society, says researcher | Phys.org
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Starting next year, users will be able to pay for fresh groceries using their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits from right within the Uber Eats app.