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Matt Simpson on 2026-07-16 01:07 pm

It absolutely sucks being in the server infrastructure buying market right now. The costs are completely out of control. No one can afford this. It's almost all BS they're blaming it on the #AI industry. No, this is simply capitalism gone wrong and an aggressive push by industry to force organisations into renting everything.

Matt Simpson on 2026-07-07 11:30 pm 🚀

Slashdot :verified: on 2026-07-07 10:38 pm

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos In AI Images https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/07/2239255/meta-now-lets-anyone-use-your-instagram-photos-in-ai-images?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos In AI Images - Slashdot

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos In AI Images - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Meta launched its inaugural AI image model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI's GPT Images 2.0 and Google's Nano Banana 2 in the AI image generation race. The new model, called Muse Image, ro...

Matt Simpson on 2026-07-06 05:33 pm 🚀

Xavier Ashe :donor: on 2026-07-06 04:54 pm

The arrest of a teenage hacker has revealed that #Microsoft can track a Windows PC and its online activity through a “Global Device ID" that seems to have no easy opt-out, sparking fears about potential #surveillance.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/a-hackers-arrest-reveals-microsoft-can-track-users-via-a-windows-device
#privacy #digitalsovereignty #infosec #gdid

Matt Simpson on 2026-07-06 05:13 pm 🚀

Electronic Frontier Foundation on 2026-07-06 03:04 pm

RSS is a secret trick to making the internet more usable. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one-tools-youve-been-looking

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For

Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our feeds and networks. Good news: there’s a tool that’s been around for decades that can help wrangle many of your feeds into something manageable: Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known as RSS.

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