The Tech Coup: A new book shows how the unchecked power of companies is destabilizing governance
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Library asks users to verify that books actually exist before making a loan request because AI invents book titles
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Superintelligence—ten years later
8 votes -
Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win
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Publishers sue Google over pirate sites selling textbooks
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How one author pushed the limits of AI copyright | US Copyright Office grants copyright for work made with AI, with caveat
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Former Twitter employees give advice to companies who want to replace it
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Spotify has added audiobooks to its subscription model – reaching millions of people, it may revolutionise the already booming audiobooks business
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Database containing nearly 200,000 pirated books being used to train AI - authors were not informed
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We know who you are
20 votes -
How Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen—four billionaire techno-oligarchs—are creating an alternate, autocratic reality
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Two authors file a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT unlawfully ‘ingested’ their books
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The inner beauty of basic electronics
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Apple introduces new AI-based audiobook narration service
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A tech worker is selling a children's book he made using AI, then the death threats started
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company does not have plans to stop selling the antisemitic film that gained notoriety recently after Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving tweeted out an Amazon link to it
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Off the Mark
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Thinking about calibre
18 votes -
You are the product
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Mycroft and the Patent Trolls
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How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem
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Book review: The Revenge of Analog
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Book Review: Human Compatible
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Meet the mad scientist who wrote the book on how to hunt hackers
8 votes -
Book review: ‘The AI Does Not Hate You’ by Tom Chivers
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The story of Caroline Calloway and her ghostwriter Natalie
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Spotify Untold – Inside Spotify's ill-fated flirtation with TV and hardware
8 votes -
I have forgotten how to read: For a long time Michael Harris convinced himself that a childhood spent immersed in old-fashioned books would insulate him from our new media climate. He was wrong.
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Thieves of experience: How Google and Facebook corrupted capitalism
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How a hacker proved cops used a secret government phone tracker to find him
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Free Ebook - Distributed Systems Observability
Haven't read this book on Distributed Systems Observability, but it seems like it might be interesting. You'll need to fill in a form to get the eBook.
5 votes