Matt Mullenweg says WP Engine no longer has free WordPress.org access and directs WP Engine customers having trouble with their websites to WP Engine support
disrupting essential work for #WordPress users, agencies, freelancers, and plugin developers. Please read: https://wpenginestatus.com/... Brian Gardner / @bgardner : My heart is breaking. 💔 @pressable...
OpenAI responds to The New York Times' lawsuit: training is fair use and there is an opt-out, “regurgitation” is a rare bug, and NYT “manipulated” its models
written evidence (LLM0113) Dan Milmo / The Guardian : ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Ryan Daws / AI News : Copyrighted data ‘impossible’ to avo...
A look at the vast and mostly hidden “tasker” underclass, including subject-matter experts, hired by companies like Scale AI to annotate data for AI training
As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere. Bluesky: @sarahjeong.bsky.social , @knguyen.bsky.social , and @yoyoel.com Mastodon: @stshank@mstdn....
Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon join the NIST's push to scrap the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation but can cause glitches
so Meta wants to get rid of them Mariella Moon / Engadget : Meta calls for the death of the leap second Ciaran / worthreading : Worth Reading Issue #12 Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Meta and ot...
A deep dive: how Apple uses iOS WebKit monopoly to strip-mine and sabotage the web, hurting all browser engine projects and draining the web of future potential
the only platform that actually supports Safari *and* competing browsers. @satefan : An open letter to Tim Cook signed by all iOS browsers builders (big and small), an alliance, writing code to prove ...
How the peer pressure to be a part of the blue bubble iMessage text groups keeps US teens locked into Apple's ecosystem
Good morning! Have you heard of Mukesh Ambani, the hotelier? Alan Friedman / PhoneArena : Google executive accuses Apple of using peer pressure and bullying to sell iPhones Jeff Butts / HotHardware.c...
Meta struggles with harassment in VR, where solutions like letting users record everything need to be balanced with privacy and headsets' storage and power
Sydney Smith had dealt with lewd, sexist remarks for more than a month while playing the Echo VR video game. Tweets: @techledes , @jeskillings , @avibarzeev , and @stshank Tweets: Connie Guglielmo / @...
Twitter's photo cropping algorithm favors people with slimmer, younger-looking faces, and lighter skin; a researcher was awarded $3,500 for the discovery
Stephen Shankland / CNET :
Twitter offers bug bounty of up to $3,500 to spot bias in its photo cropping algorithm, which was shown to favor white people over Black people
Stephen Shankland / CNET :
Safari's extremely slow pace in adopting popular features and fixing showstopping bugs, and refusal to engage with contentious API proposals, is harming the web
Features not implemented are not dangerous —'Safari is the next IE' is well supported by many bugs —Ignoring Chrome proposals without engaging or alternative offers, makes the problem worse https://ht...