Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

Chinese media warned Elon Musk, effectively saying don't bite the hand that feeds you, after he replied to a tweet implying COVID-19 spread via a Wuhan lab leak (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/28/chinas-ccp-warns-elon-musk-against-sharing-wuhan-lab-leak-report.html
http://www.techmeme.com/230228/p17#a230228p17

#OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Corporate, #ClosedSource, and #ForProfit
OpenAI is today unrecognizable, with multi-billion-dollar deals and corporate partnerships.
OpenAI's #generativeAI is now big business. It wasn't always planned to be this way.
Will it seek to own its shiny #AI future?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3naz/openai-is-now-everything-it-promised-not-to-be-corporate-closed-source-and-for-profit

The latest version of Google Chrome for macOS (110.0.5481.100) includes new optimizations that increase battery life on MacBooks.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-optimizations-improve-battery-life-on-macs/

Blog Post: Why I Think California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) Is Unconstitutional http://bit.ly/3YaUXxP

The company published new details about a disastrous breach in which hackers stole customers' vaults. It's time to switch.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgye3k/lastpass-shouldnt-be-trusted-with-your-passwords
#CYBER #LastPassBreach #LastPassHack #worldnews #hacks #passwordmanagers #Breach

executives that routinely fail to properly secure their networks and consumer data should face jail time and meaningful, personal fines

Well, this is a bit disheartening.

I wanted to checkout KDE. Seems a lot of work has gone in lately and it sounds like it's in good shape.

Installed #Pop_os, installed KDE via System 76's instructions.

I assume this is because Pop is built on Ubuntu, but KDE installs snapd and defaults the Discover snapd backend but NOT the flatpak back end. Effectively Ubuntu has hijacked KDE and indirectly Pop (and presumably other distros based on ubuntu).

#linux #popos #ubuntu #hijacked

the "amusing" part is that none of this is new. T-Mobile has faced repeated criticism and (wrist slap) fines for being sloppy on SIM hijacking and rampant location data collection and they were STILL compromised 100 times in a single year.

good job everybody. great job regulators.

From the r/technology thread for our story on prompt engineers: "Use this in any way you can to help with your current job but keep it to yourself. Then also use it to help you make your next career step."

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/11cvrup/techs_hottest_new_job_ai_whisperer_no_coding/

Memo: Dish CEO Erik Carlson tells staff that data was stolen in a cyberattack that has kept its systems down for days; DISH falls over 7% in intraday trading (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23617347/dish-cybersecurity-incident-internal-outage-customer-support-employees
http://www.techmeme.com/230228/p21#a230228p21

Ford seeks patent for cars that ditch you if payments missed https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/28/ford_self_repossessing_patent/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.pussthecat.org/TheRegister/status/1630547947623415809

Ted Cruz (below) says wearing a Ukraine flag is “virtue-signalling” like wearing a Covid mask

Ted Cruz has been seen wearing an AR-15 pin, virtue signaling the celebration of the slaughter of 19 children and two adults in his state

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/377/293/707/?TAP=1181&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=828d8dc5-fb81-47b9-a838-8d078bb11476

“#COVID is being used as the gateway to go after all school-required #vaccines, and we’ve already started to see legislation proposing that.”

Senior Reporter Lise Olsen visits with Dr. Julie Boom and Rekha Lakshmanan of the Immunization Partnership to learn how they're supporting the health of Texans and fighting the return of rare disease:
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-vaccines-covid-preventable-diseases/

#TXlege #politics #news #Health #healthcare #science

Let's see who owns who ....

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/28/chinas-ccp-warns-elon-musk-against-sharing-wuhan-lab-leak-report.html

Jimmy Carter's most important legacy is probably his least well known. Before Carter, 3.6 million people per year were infected by Guinea Worm, a neglected tropical disease. Today, that's down to *13* cases per year, a reduction of 99.99%. And it throws his post-presidency into stark relief from Trump's who is golfing and ranting on social media while trying to get richer. https://brianklaas.substack.com/p/jimmy-carters-hidden-legacy

The next time someone accuses liberal employees or executives of "woke" Internet companies of trying to help elect Democrats, this might be germane http://bit.ly/41AMbfm

FRIENDS: We are MeidasTouch, the unapologetically pro-democracy organization many of you know from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.

With the chaos at Twitter, we want to build our platform here on Mastodon to make sure we can continue to spread our message.

Can you please BOOST this post, FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same?

1869: Congress refused to seat Congressman-Elect John Willis Menard from Louisiana District 2 b/c he was Black

Today: SCOTUS approves extreme gerrymandered Louisiana map that gives Black people only 16% rep even though they’re 33% of voters

Systemic white supremacy alive & well.