🔖 Big Batteries Are Booming. So Are Fears They'll Catch Fire: The world needs thousands of new grid battery installations to fight climate change. They rarely catch fire—but many people are skeptical of having one next door | Wired https://www.wired.com/story/big-grid-batteries-are-booming-so-are-fears-fire/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Plausible Sentence Generators [and their effect on muddying the already cloudy signals we send each other—racheting up the "signal war"] | Commentary by Cory Doctorow in Locus Mag https://locusmag.com/2023/09/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-plausible-sentence-generators/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Google’s widely opposed ad platform, the “Privacy Sandbox,” launches in Chrome: Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Rejected From an Extracurricular at Yale? Join the Club: Clubs at Yale and other universities have become competitive to the point of absurdity | The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/yale-college-undergrad-clubs-competitive/675219/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Some rough impressions of Worldcoin [mostly from a privacy standpoint] | Matthew Green on A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2023/08/21/some-rough-impressions-of-worldcoin/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Beijing is coming for the metaverse: Proposals reviewed by POLITICO show China wants to assert state control over virtual environments | POLITICO https://www.politico.eu/article/china-beijing-designing-metaverse-proposal-social-credit-system-un-itu/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 New Wi-Fi, who's this? Ohio State rolls out new network [campus IT phasing out “osuwireless” SSID in favor of “Eduroam” and device-based authentication for all Ohio State users] | The Lantern https://www.thelantern.com/2023/08/new-wi-fi-whos-this-ohio-state-rolls-out-new-network/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Apple's Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Raygen opens Carwarp solar and thermal power plant project, bolstered by fresh funding | ABC News (Australia) https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-31/raygen-resources-opens-new-solar-and-thermal-power-plant-carwarp/102798366 #BookmarkShare

🔖 AI images are getting harder to spot. Google thinks it has a solution | Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/29/google-wants-watermark-ai-generated-images-stop-deepfakes/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’: Thousands of workers in the Philippines labor for San Francisco start-up Scale AI. Many don’t always get paid | Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/28/scale-ai-remotasks-philippines-artificial-intelligence/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Can news outlets build a ‘trustworthy’ AI chatbot? The media company operating Macworld, PCWorld, Tech Advisor, and TechHive introduced an AI chatbot earlier this month. The bot is trained using the sites’ archives | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/25/23844868/ai-chatbot-macworld-pcworld-journalism-smart-answers #BookmarkShare

🔖 Generative AI and intellectual property: If you put all the world’s knowledge into an AI model and use it to make something new, who owns that and who gets paid? This is a completely new problem that we’ve been arguing about for 500 years | Benedict E https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/8/27/generative-ai-ad-intellectual-property #BookmarkShare

🔖 Can AI crack comedy? Machines are getting better at making us laugh — and challenging our notions of humanity in the process | Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/818f2cab-57ff-42c3-917b-4a83f1d87802 #BookmarkShare

🔖 AI Isn’t Good Enough [“The key component of this current wave is that it is characterized by scarcity—training data, models, chips, and AI engineers—and the accompanying high costs that scarcity brings.”] | SK Ventures https://skventures.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-good-enough #BookmarkShare

🔖 How ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”: Until recently, AI models were specialized tools. Modern LLMs are different | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/08/how-chatgpt-turned-generative-ai-into-an-anything-tool/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 MOVEit, the biggest hack of the year, by the numbers: At least 60 million individuals affected, though the true number is far higher | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/25/moveit-mass-hack-by-the-numbers/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 This venture-backed startup has quietly bought more than 80 mom-and-pop shops | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/24/this-venture-backed-startup-has-quietly-bought-more-than-80-mom-and-pop-shops/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Comparing Passkeys and Federated Logins | Spherical Cow Consulting https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2023/08/26/comparing-federated-logins-and-passkeys-which-one-fits-your-needs/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 The EU's war on behavioral advertising: Meta recently conceded that in-app behavioral advertising in the EU can no longer be opt-in by default, marking the end of an era. The regulators won, at least for now | Unpacked https://thisisunpacked.substack.com/p/the-eu-war-on-behavioral-advertising #BookmarkShare