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2025-02-17 08:52:03
Text to speech model capable of cloning your voice with as little as five seconds of sample #audio. In our testing, we generated realistic results with less than half a minute of recorded #speech.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/16/ai_voice_clone
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2025-02-14 11:16:18
#Meta will allow rival classified ads service providers to post listings of their ads on #Facebook Marketplace three months after it was hit with a 797-million euro ($828 million) #EU #antitrust fine for giving its own service an unfair advantage.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-show-rival-ads-providers-marketplace-after-eu-antitrust-fine-2025-02-13/
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2025-02-12 08:31:53
Good news for #EV drivers in #Europe :
#EU will support approximately 2,500 electric recharging points for light-duty vehicles and 2,400 for heavy-duty vehicles along the European TEN-T road network.
https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/news/alternative-fuels-eu422-million-eu-funding-boost-zero-emission-mobility-2025-02-06_en
Bad news for EV owners in the US:
https://thedriven.io/2025/02/10/trump-puts-a-halt-to-us5-billion-ev-charging-program/
Investments in charging infra halted.
Now also Europeans have to apply for an extra authorization to travel to the UK
2025-02-10 15:51:46
Think what you want about the European Union, but the fact is that it has succeeded in many things that has made traveling in Europe much easier than it used to be. Most countries have the common currency Euro, monstrous roaming fees of mobile … Read >
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2025-02-10 08:36:53
The court records reveal that #Meta used pirated #books - download of 81.7TB of data - from shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, and LibGen. It then used this information to train its #AI models.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/meta-staff-torrented-nearly-82tb-of-pirated-books-for-ai-training-court-records-reveal-copyright-violations
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2025-02-06 08:59:16
#Tesla has fallen out of top 10 in many European countries, but it doesn't necessarily mean #EV drivers (of European brands) would avoid #supercharger network.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/tesla-sales-plummet-in-the-uk-france-and-germany/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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2025-02-04 08:30:27
When the world moved online, so did criminals. They learned new tricks of the trade so well that today, large online travel and accommodation services like Booking.com and Airbnb are facing so skillful fraud schemes that both the services and travelers are worried for a reason. #travel #scam
https://klaava.com/booking-accommodation-has-high-risk-for-fraud-both-online-and-offline/
Booking accommodation has high risk for fraud both online and offline
2025-02-02 14:58:00
Scam artists have many ways to deceive travelers when they are booking accommodation. You might think that it is only online where the risk of becoming a victim of fraud is real, but that’s not the case. A survey discovered that making reservations … Read >
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2025-02-02 08:28:54
The European Union is planning to make e-commerce platforms such as #Temu, #Shein and #Amazon liable for dangerous or illegal products sold online.
Customs reforms would oblige online platforms to provide data before goods arrive in the EU, allowing officials to better control and inspect packages. #EU
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/eu-make-temu-shein-amazon-liable-unsafe-goods-ft-reports-2025-02-01/
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2025-01-31 08:29:25
Amazon obtained "backdoor access" to consumers' phones by providing tens of thousands of app developers with code known as #Amazon Ads SDK to be embedded in their apps. #tracking #adtech #privacy
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/lawsuit-accuses-amazon-of-secretly-tracking-consumers-through-cellphones/ar-AA1y51Wp
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2025-01-29 08:11:53
Yes, an #assembler level language is back with revenge. Only for real #programmers.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/deepseeks-ai-breakthrough-bypasses-industry-standard-cuda-uses-assembly-like-ptx-programming-instead
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2025-01-26 08:41:03
People with less knowledge about #AI are actually more open to using the technology. We call this difference in adoption propensity the “lower literacy-higher receptivity” link. #tech #knowledge
https://theconversation.com/knowing-less-about-ai-makes-people-more-open-to-having-it-in-their-lives-new-research-247372
