#google

anonymiss@despora.de

#Google Is Paying #Reddit $60 Million for #Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat #Glue

source: https://www.404media.co/google-is-paying-reddit-60-million-for-fucksmith-to-tell-its-users-to-eat-glue/

The complete destruction of Google Search via forced #AI adoption and the carnage it is wreaking on the internet is deeply depressing, but there are bright spots. For example, as the prophecy foretold, we are learning exactly what Google is paying Reddit $60 million annually for. And that is to confidently serve its customers ideas like, to make cheese stick on a pizza, “you can also add about 1/8 cup of non-toxic glue” to #pizza sauce, which comes directly from the mind of a Reddit user who calls themselves “Fucksmith” and posted about putting glue on pizza 11 years ago.

#news #technology #fail #omg #wtf #troll

caos@anonsys.net

"Zwang zum Digitalen: Ich! Will! Analog! Sein! Ob Bank, Arztpraxis oder Carsharing – alle setzen auf digitalen Zugang. Wer nicht digital ist, wird ausgeschlossen." (taz)

taz.de/Zwang-zum-Digitalen/!60…

Gastkommentar von @Ulf Schleth in der @taz @taz

"Neulich versuchte ich, einen Termin bei einem Orthopäden zu bekommen. Doch niemand ging ans Telefon. Auf der Webseite der Praxis nur der Hinweis „Terminvereinbarung bitte über Doctolib“. Wenige Wochen zuvor kam Post von der Bank: Ich möge mir doch die neue App zulegen, das alte Banking-Verfahren werde sicher bald eingestellt. (...) Und so geht es weiter. Für mich lohnt es sich nicht, ein eigenes Auto vor der Tür zu haben, also vergleiche ich Carsharing-Anbieter. Der vielversprechendste verlangt nicht nur das Installieren der App, sondern auch die Nutzung von Google-Diensten beziehungsweise die eines iPhones. Um es anders zu sagen: Der Digitalisierungsterror macht vor nichts und niemandem halt.
(...)
Der Verein Digitalcourage, der jetzt mit einer Unterschriftenaktion ein „Recht auf Leben ohne Digitalzwang“ im Grundgesetz fordert, verlangt nur etwas, das selbstverständlich sein sollte."

#Digitalzwang #Datenschutz #Google #Gesundheitsdaten #Doctolib #Carsharing
@Datenschutz - Privacy - Digitale Selbstverteidigung @Digitalcourage

berternste2@diasp.nl

/e/OS Is Better Than Android. You Should Try It

Wired

Even if you aren’t technically inclined, this privacy-first mobile operating system helps you escape surveillance capitalism. (...)

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Photo of e/os on phone
Photograph: Scott Gilbertson, Getty images

One project that has created a great user experience on top of AOSP is /e/OS. For the past six months, I've used nothing else, and I am here to say that the world of Android alternatives has never been better. If you're looking to get out of the Google box, come on in, the water's fine. (...)

While Android is open source, Google has taken a page from the Microsoft playbook of old and uses things like its “Play Integrity” APIs to ensure that apps will only work with Google's version of Android. This way Google can wave the open source flag while effectively preventing downstream forks from working. (...)

Complete article

Tags: #e/os #android #data #data_mining #surveillance #surveillance_capitalism #privacy #smartphone #big_tech #google #alphabet

waynerad@diasp.org

Google had a plethora of AI announcements at Google I/O.

Gemini Advanced subscribers now have access to the newest model, Gemini 1.5, which has a 1-million-token context window. In practice the "context window" is the combined size of your prompt and any underlying "system message" that the creators of the system put in.

Google demoed a "Ask your photos" feature where you can ask questions like "What's my license plate number" and it searches all your photos and finds your license plate number and tells you what it is. You can ask when your kid learned how to swim. You can ask questions of your Gmail, such as "summarize all the announcements from my kid's school".

Google is working towards AI agents that will do multiple steps for you instead of just answering one question. You could tell it to complete a task for you and then it will go and try to complete all of those steps to complete the task. "Return these shoes for me." It figures out where the shoes came from, how much they cost, how to contact customer support, and then it actually contacts the shoe seller.

Their lightweight model is called Gemini 1.5 Flash and is designed to run on mobile phones.

Project Astra is their attempt to create a real-time AI agent that uses the camera on your phone. You can ask it to explain what you're looking at, "What is this part of the speaker called?" or ask it to make up rhymes.

Google's response to OpenAI's Sora is a video generation model called Veo.

Google is rolling out an "AI Overview" in Google Search. (I've already seen it.) It uses what they call "multi-step reasoning". You should be able to ask Google Search "multi-step questions".

They're building AI into Android phones that can detect if you're potentially talking to a scammer.

They're open-sourcing a 2-billion parameter model called Gemma 2.

Google just took over the AI world (a full breakdown) - Matt Wolfe

#solidstatelife #ai #genai #llms #multimodal #edgecomputing #google

berternste2@diasp.nl

Weg van big tech, vaak niet zo gemakkelijk.

We moeten weg van big tech, geen twijfel over mogelijk. Op de slimfoon is e/os een goede optie, want gebruiksvriendelijk.

Logo van e/os

Voorzichtigheidshalve heb ik e/os eerst getest op tweede telefoon. Dat ging een hele tijd prima (behalve die keer dat een update vastliep en een schone installatie nodig was).

Maar nu twijfel ik toch of ik een volledige overstap aandurf: een bankapp van een buitenlandse bank werkt niet meer door update naar e/os v2 óf update van app.

Dat is een lastige, want het geeft onzekerheid.

#e\/os #android #data #data_mining #surveillance #surveillancekapitalisme #privacy #smartphone #slimfoon #big_tech #google #alphabet

tom_s@friendica.ambag.es

Googles neue Abhörtechnologie könnte Regierungen dazu veranlassen, das Scannen von Geräten vorzuschreiben

Digitale Betrügereien werden immer raffinierter, und Googles jüngste Innovation bietet einen vielversprechenden #Schutzmechanismus. Aber wie bei allem, was #Google als Fortschritt anpreist, könnten die Auswirkungen auf das Leben und die Implikationen der #Technologie zu einem großen Problem für die #bürgerlichen #Freiheiten werden.

Wie auf der Entwicklerkonferenz I/O bekannt gegeben wurde, testet das Unternehmen eine neue Funktion zur #Anrufüberwachung, die #Android-Nutzer vor #Telefonbetrug schützen soll. Diese Funktion nutzt #Gemini #Nano, eine vereinfachte Version von Googles großem #Sprachmodell Gemini, das lokal auf den Geräten ausgeführt werden kann, um betrügerische Sprache und Muster bei Anrufen zu erkennen und die Nutzer in Echtzeit zu warnen. Diese Entwicklung ist ein wichtiger Schritt im Kampf gegen Betrug, wirft aber auch kritische Fragen zum #Datenschutz und zum Potenzial für breitere Anwendungen auf, die die persönlichen Freiheiten verletzen könnten.

Gemini Nano: Ein mächtiges Werkzeug gegen Betrug

https://uncutnews.ch/googles-neue-abhoertechnologie-koennte-regierungen-dazu-veranlassen-das-scannen-von-geraeten-vorzuschreiben/

science_bot@federatica.space

Кубический миллиметр головного мозга содержит грандиозное количество информации

Опубликован самый большой на сегодня набор данных о нейронных связях. Кубический миллиметр мозговой ткани — вроде бы, не так уж много. Но с учётом того, что этот крошечный кубик содержит 57 000 клеток, 230 миллиметров кровеносных сосудов и 150 миллионов синапсов, что всё это — 1400 терабайт информации, результат, полученный учёными Гарвардского университета и корпорации «Google», — грандиозное достижение. Под руководством Джеффа Лихтмана (Jeff […]

#биологиябиотехнологии #компьютерыитии #google #мозг #нейронныесети #нейрофизиология #lang_ru #ru #22centuryru #22century #хх2век #xx2век #наукаитехника

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

I Have Added Censored Videos to My Minus Library

[minus://envbba6qz5rq36kkt7ipo6oqtj7glvz6hhkescpxb3m6zx2jnmo6zmad.onion/Glory-to-Hong-Kong---Anthem-of-The-Hong-Kong-Protests-Pe1gTPcWyds.mp4](minus://envbba6qz5rq36kkt7ipo6oqtj7glvz6hhkescpxb3m6zx2jnmo6zmad.onion/Glory-to-Hong-Kong---Anthem-of-The-Hong-Kong-Protests-Pe1gTPcWyds.mp4) 3.73 MiB

If you don't have MinusBrowser, you can download this by starting Tor Browser and then typing this in a terminal window.

curl --socks5-hostname 127.0.0.1:9150 -O gopher://envbba6qz5rq36kkt7ipo6oqtj7glvz6hhkescpxb3m6zx2jnmo6zmad.onion:1990/9/Glory-to-Hong-Kong---Anthem-of-The-Hong-Kong-Protests-Pe1gTPcWyds.mp4

Freedom for Hong Kong!

my library
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Voice of America content is produced by the Voice of America,
a United States federal government-sponsored entity, and is in
the public domain.

YouTube agrees to remove videos of banned Hong Kong protest song

by VOA News

YouTube says it will block access in Hong Kong to videos of
performances of a banned protest song.

Hong Kong's Court of Appeal ruled last week that "Glory to Hong Kong,"
which emerged as an anthem for protesters during the massive
anti-government protests in 2019, is illegal to sing or play in the
city. The ruling said the song's composer intended for the song to be
used as a "weapon."

There was no immediate comment from the government in Hong Kong.

The ban covers anyone who either broadcasts or distributes the song
with the intention of promoting Hong Kong's independence or
misrepresents it as the city's official anthem. Hong Kong is a
semi-autonomous city.

YouTube said in a statement Wednesday that it will block access in the
Chinese city to 32 videos of the song, which the court deemed was
"prohibited content."

"We are disappointed by the Court's decision but are complying with its
removal order," the online video sharing service said. The company said
it shared concerns with human rights organizations about the chilling
effect the ban would have on free speech online, and that it is
considering options to file an appeal.

A search for the 32 videos in Hong Kong resulted in a message saying
they were "not available on this country domain due to a court order."

The song has mistakenly been played at sporting events as the official
anthem of Hong Kong. The city does not have its own anthem, instead
using mainland China's official anthem "March of the Volunteers."

The appeal court's ruling overturned a previous decision issued last
year by the High Court, which cited free speech concerns. The
government went to court last year to have the song banned after Google
and other internet service providers refused to remove it from their
search results.

YouTube and Google are owned by California-based Alphabet.

The ban is the latest action taken by the government to silence
dissenting voices since Beijing passed a sweeping security law for Hong
Kong in 2020 in response to the protests. The law punishes anyone
believed to be carrying out terrorism, separatism, subversion of state
power or collusion with foreign forces.

Since the law took effect, hundreds of pro-democracy advocates have
been arrested, tried and jailed, and the city's once-vibrant civil
society has been stifled.

George Chen, the co-chair of digital practice at the Washington-based
business and policy consultancy Asia Group, said the ban could hurt
Hong Kong's reputation as a global financial hub if officials pressure
online platforms on a daily basis to remove content, as it could raise
questions about its willingness to allow the free flow of information.

Some information for this report came from The Associated Press,
Reuters, Agence France-Presse.

The Voice of America provides news and information in more than 40
languages to an estimated weekly audience of over 326 million people.
Stories with the VOA News byline are the work of multiple VOA
journalists and may contain information from wire service reports.

#hong-kong #hongkong #china #youtube #censorship #google #alphabet #anthem #hong-kong-anthem #anthem-of-hong-kong #香港 #中国