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ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen will disable humanlike and user-created agents before July 15, as China's anthropomorphic AI interaction rules take effect (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/ar…

Are we human? Why ByteDance and Alibaba are disabling AI agents in China
With Beijing’s rules on humanlike AI interaction services taking effect on July 15, Doubao and Qwen move to disable customised features.

“The ‘Disability Dongle’: Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you.” by @…:
https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/
I’ve attac…

For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities
— rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration.
Last month, the Department of Education announced it would shift oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
whose comments on the limits of disabilities such as autism have drawn sharp rebukes from advocates and …

Could Trump's actions put more people with disabilities in institutions?
For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities. Now, they fear those rights could be losing ground under the Trump administration. Most notably, the Department of Justice recently released guidance that lowered the barrier to institutionalizing any person with a disability. Critics argue this undermines decades of progress in integrating disabled people into schools and communities. And last month, the Education Department…

Props to my "Lenovo ThinkVision M14t Gen2 14" Monitor".
My display fried in the middle of a Teams presentation. I grabbed this portable #display (USB-C, touchscreen) out of my backpack, switched it out in seconds & kept right on presenting.

#GitHub disabled 73 #Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations — the entire #Azure Functions org, the whole

The Blight Reaches Microsoft: 73 Repos Disabled in 105 Seconds
GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations — the entire Azure Functions org, the whole Durable Task family, and a row of AI sample apps — in a 105-second sweep on June 5. The recompromised durabletask package sits at the center, and the fingerprints point at the open-sourced Miasma worm.

PSA: In #kde Meta(Windows)-P brings up the menu to switch display configuration; so meta-P, enter switches you to external display only; Meta-P, Meta-P, enter brings you back to internal only. (enabling the HDMI on a laptop with a broken display)
Bonus advice: Label which monitor input your HDMI cable is going to so you can select it on the menu without trying all 3 of them, 6 times.

Stefon Diggs' acquittal clears path for return to the field but he could still face NFL discipline https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/stefon-diggs-acquittal-clears-path-for-return-to-the-field-but-he-c…

Fittingly for #DisabilityPrideMonth I got an announcement e-mail by my favourite LBS for an organized bicycle ride—without any text, neither in the text-only part 🙄 nor in the HTML part 🤬, just a picture embedded in the HTML part and of course without image description, too. 🤌
Do you think I should make them aware of this or should I ignore it 'cause "blind people don…

Spiele, Youtube, Fitness: Entwickler machen Meta Ray-Ban Display vielseitiger
Von YouTube über „Ghost Runs“ bis zur Smart-Home-Steuerung: Erste Entwickler-Apps erweitern die Möglichkeiten der Meta Ray-Ban Display.

Spiele, Youtube, Fitness: Entwickler machen Meta Ray-Ban Display vielseitiger
Von YouTube über „Ghost Runs“ bis zur Smart-Home-Steuerung: Erste Entwickler-Apps erweitern die Möglichkeiten der Meta Ray-Ban Display.