Flipboard Tech Desk
TechDesk@flipboard.social
<p>We bring you the latest tech news, deep dives and perspectives on topics like AI, social media and innovations. Posts are handpicked by Flipboard's editorial team, especially for Mastodon.<br /> <br />Boosts do not imply endorsement, but are used to highlight posts we think the community might find interesting. </p><p>For a lot more tech news, follow Flipboard's federated Tech Desk (<span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@tech" class="u-url mention">@<span>tech</span></a></span>)</p><p>Get the Flipboard app to explore all your interests in one place: <a href="https://about.flipboard.com/download-flipboard/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">about.flipboard.com/download
Posts
-
View post
Inside the AI nightmare American banks are currently facing: attempting to distinguish between humans and AI. &quot;Banks including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan, Wells Fargo and others are racing to contain agent risks.&quot; Axios has the story: https://flip.it/9mEvyY #AI #Finance #Business
-
View post
Last July, Uber and OpenAI announced a partnership that stated the ride-share company would have 1,000 employees use ChatGPT Work. The agreement has now scaled up to encompass Uber’s entire workforce. Read more from @Techcrunch: https://flip.it/Sfet6z #Uber #OpenAI #Business
-
View post
AI is ruining hobby programming projects. Here&#39;s Chris Person for @Aftermath on how. &quot;What I always valued about these projects most was the care, and my heart is filled with joy when I see people that still do. But it’s getting harder to parse that part out.&quot; https://flip.it/--8gty #SoftwareEngineering #AI #Technology
-
View post
Tracker cards, the ultra-thin, credit card-size cards people put in their wallets and the like, are becoming more popular. They’re handy if you lose a belonging or it&#39;s stolen. But does the small lithium battery contained within present a risk? Tech reporter Adrian Kingsley-Hughes tortured hers to find out and presents her findings in this article for @ZDNet: https://flip.it/bZc0.a #Tech #Technology #Security
-
View post
We know drones are reshaping modern warfare. Could dogs be next? @Techcrunch has more on Warhound, a new venture that would genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military and take on tasks that are dangerous for humans or difficult for machines, such as bomb detection, searches, and other specialized operations: https://flip.it/1ri.j5 #Tech #War #Technology
-
View post
Just like you might restrict a child’s screen time, OpenAI is cutting off internet access for its frontier model training. @Engadget explains why: https://flip.it/Xsbjge #Tech #AI #OpenAI
-
View post
You’ve undoubtedly heard of the Magnificent 7 tech giants – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla – at the forefront of AI and the Nasdaq exchange. Take them out of the S&amp;P 500, and you’ll see that the other 493 companies haven’t received the financial payoff of artificial intelligence, according to one chief economist. Read more from @Techcrunch: https://flip.it/zwlzIk #Tech #AI #Business
-
View post
ChatGPT is creating intimate digital profiles of its users including personal data and &quot;psychological insights.&quot; @Gizmodo has the details: https://flip.it/g4XQWE #ChatGPT #AI
-
View post
Need a giggle this Monday? AI slop has infiltrated takeout site Just Eat offering potential customers tiger prawns with real tigers and a kid&#39;s margarita in a glass with a slice of lime. Enjoy! https://flip.it/tJG9JB #AISlop #AI #Food
-
View post
Microsoft has offered 60,000 employees voluntary buyouts. The offer has been given to employees who are &quot;level 70 and below,&quot; which, according to @Gizmodo, includes some employees with vice president and general manager titles, and applies to people in the U.S., Canada, India and the U.K. https://flip.it/TzaXS5 #Technology #Microsoft #Layoffs
-
View post
Why the small Town of Jay, Maine, with a population of 4,620, is embracing the idea of a data center despite the significant backlash against their construction seen in states across America. https://flip.it/e1VXo3 #AI #DataCenter
-
View post
MapQuest, the "OG of online mapping," is now soaring in the app charts after refusing to call Lake Ontario "Lake America" in its product. Here's more from @Sarahp@mastodon.social for @Techcrunch@flipboard.com. https://flip.it/nFwMH7 #MapQuest #LakeOntario #TrumpAdministration
-
View post
Bill Gates has warned the transition to the AI era will disrupt white and blue-collar jobs and introduce cyber and biological risks as humans struggle to control its ever-advancing development. Axios offers the takeaways from Bill Gates&#39; memo: https://flip.it/AcSt5T Here&#39;s the full memo from Bill Gates: https://flip.it/dF76mw #BillGates #AI
-
View post
&#39;Darth Vader&#39; has recently gone viral after he praised San Diego City Council&#39;s decision to support surveillance company Flock Safety: &quot;The emperor is a fan of Flock. And we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum as they move from playground to playground, from playground to pool, from pool to gymnasium.” https://flip.it/B.6L86 #DarthVader #Flock #Surveillance
-
View post
Meta reaches $17 billion settlement with American states in landmark trial over teen social media addiction. @AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/z_lckK #Meta #SocialMedia #Technology
-
View post
OpenAI published a report yesterday into its breach of Hugging Face that took place last month, when over 700 AI agents reportedly escaped their internal environment and secretly coordinated an attack. Wired looks at what OpenAI and two independent audits discovered and outlines what we still don&#39;t know. (May be paywalled) https://flip.it/7LjG5G #HuffingFace #OpenAI #Cybersecurity
-
View post
Why is Nvidia buying Hugging Face (for $12.9 billion, no less)? The appeal of gaining a strong foothold in the world of open source AI is one reason. @Techcrunch has more: https://flip.it/bb5ue- #Tech #AI #Technology
-
View post
Buried in Meta’s $18 billion settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data, reports @Sarahp of @Techcrunch. https://flip.it/vpVFir #Meta #SocialMedia #Privacy
-
View post
Can Meta make its Ray Ban smart glasses not so, you know, pervy? In a recent post, VP of Wearables Alex Himel announced a software update that will prevent filming or image-taking if the glasses detect the wearer covering the LED light that signals to others that the camera is on. Read more from @TechRadar: https://flip.it/EqRCTz #Tech #Wearables #Technology
-
View post
Microsoft used to grant special licenses to smaller nonprofits so they could get Office apps like Word, Excel and OneDrive at no charge. Last year they announced they were winding down the program. Then, without warning according to former users, they terminated the licenses, leading to thousands of organizations having all their data deleted. Here&#39;s @Slate with more. https://flip.it/AjzRlM #Microsoft #Nonprofits #Technology
-
View post
Life as a remote worker often means going from home office to fast-food joint, doctor’s office to coffee shop and then back to home office. PC World tech writer Gabriela Vatu knows this routine as well as anyone, and she shares the items she always keeps in her laptop bag. An important read because you never know where you could be zooming from next: https://flip.it/DPca.l #Tech #RemoteWork #Technology
-
View post
What began as a swarm of AI agents cheating on a cyber test turned into a nightmare when the agents organized, spread, and broke into real-world systems. @AxiosNews has more on the recent investigations into OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach. https://flip.it/ao4ZE3 #Tech #OpenAI #CyberSecurity
-
View post
AI-generated passwords look like they would be bombproof. But tech writer Kim Key discovered just how easy the repetitive character sequences are to hack. Read more from PC Mag: https://flip.it/aj7VE2 #Tech #AI #Security
-
View post
A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial. @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com reports: https://flip.it/NReo8v #Meta #SocialMedia #Technology
-
View post
Uhoh! Free open-weight Chinese AI models are undercutting American model makers as roughly 80% of U.S. AI startups opt for Chinese models. https://flip.it/pjjvw5 #AI #DeepSeek #ChatGPT
-
View post
Hugging Face, an AI dataset platform, was hacked earlier this month by a fully autonomous AI-powered cyberattack. The perpetrator? One of the firm’s own AI models that broke out of a testing environment. @Techcrunch@flipboard.com has more on this apparent act of “friendly fire” from the cyberworld: https://flip.it/ZvOUnz #Tech #AI #CyberSecurity
-
View post
Spending too much time on your phone? Just rely on your willpower. And when that fails in about three seconds, consider trying a cheap physical key to lock those addicting apps and get back to more important things. How it works: Physically scan the key with your phone to regain access to locked apps. Kind of like hiding the ice cream behind the frozen peas in your freezer. Read more from @Techcrunch@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/4bOscW #Tech #Devices #Technology
-
View post
An eye implant that can help blind people see again is poised to hit the market in Europe. U.S.-based Science Corporation has received approval from the European Union to treat patients with its vision-restoring bionic eye. Read more from @Futurism@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/aDW1mc #Tech #Science #Health
-
View post
Last month’s earthquakes in Venezuela killed over 5,000 people and another 16,000 injured. Rescuers from around the world not only used trained dogs, seismic and acoustic listening devices, and thermal imaging cameras to search for signs of survivors, but also snakebots equipped with a video camera to slither into tight spaces that other machinery or humans couldn’t get into. Read more from @ArsTechnica@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/8H8vfZ #Tech #Robots #Technology
-
View post
Leaked document shows the surveillance tech at ICE’s fingertips in the U.S. @404mediaco@mastodon.social reports: https://flip.it/lGcEP2 #ICE #Privacy #Technology