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Rest of World receives a $200K grant from Luminate to support its coverage of elections worldwide, including AI's effects and social media platforms' roles (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/inside/luminate-sponsorship-ai-technology/

Rest of World receives $200,000 from Luminate to expand coverage of AI technology
Rest of World, an award-winning global nonprofit publication, has received a $200,000 sponsorship from Luminate to support its coverage of the ways social media platforms and AI technology are…

“Unlike Google which took years to make its search really shitty, OpenAI plans to have outright false search results and dangerous answers to health questions from day one.”
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-…

OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say
OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google.

Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing "political content" (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/

Content creators ask Meta to reverse politics limits on Instagram, Threads
Meta announced in February that it no longer would recommend content about politics and social issues on the two social media platforms.

Remote Scheduler Contention Attacks
Stefan Gast (Graz University of Technology), Jonas Juffinger (Graz University of Technology), Lukas Maar (Graz University of Technology), Christoph Royer (Graz University of Technology), Andreas Kogler (Graz University of Technology), Daniel Gruss (Graz University of Technology)
https://arxiv.…

Remote Scheduler Contention Attacks
In this paper, we investigate unexplored aspects of scheduler contention: We systematically study the leakage of all scheduler queues on AMD Zen 3 and show that all queues leak. We mount the first scheduler contention attacks on Zen 4, with a novel measurement method evoking an out-of-order race condition, more precise than the state of the art. We demonstrate the first inter-keystroke timing attacks based on scheduler contention, with an F1 score of $\geq$ 99.5 % and a standard deviation below…

💧 Advances in Research and Technology of Hydrothermal Carbonization: Achievements and Future Directions
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Advances in Research and Technology of Hydrothermal Carbonization: Achievements and Future Directions
Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) has emerged as a pivotal technology in the battle against climate change and fosters circular economies. Operating within a unique reaction environment characterized by water as a solvent and moderate temperatures at self-generated pressures, HTC efficiently converts biomass residues into valuable bio-based products. Despite HTC’s potential—from the management of challenging biomass wastes to the synthesis of advanced carbons and the implementation of bioref…

Apple says owners of the iPhone 15 or newer will be able to fix broken devices with used parts, including screens, batteries, and cameras, starting in fall 2024 (Chris Velazco/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/0…

Apple will approve used parts in iPhone repairs, in long-awaited reversal
Starting this fall, you may be able to pay less for a fully functioning fix if you have an iPhone 15 or newer.

Hundreds of political and news content creators ask Meta to reverse its default Threads and Instagram setting opting accounts out of seeing "political content" (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/

Content creators ask Meta to reverse politics limits on Instagram, Threads
Meta announced in February that it no longer would recommend content about politics and social issues on the two social media platforms.

GM, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, and others added optional features in their apps to rate people's driving in recent years, offering the data to brokers like LexisNexis (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.n…

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies
LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars, including when they sped, braked too hard or accelerated rapidly.

Bugcrowd, which offers crowdsourced bug bounty tools, raised a $102M Series E led by General Catalyst to expand internationally, and has ~1,000 global customers (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/bugcrowd-rais…

EU privacy watchdog EDPS says the EU Commission's use of Microsoft's software breached privacy rules and the EU failed to implement data transfer safeguards (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-comm<…