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From gaming with your eyes to coding with AI: New frontiers for accessibility (github.com)

Learn about assistive technology enabling more people to do software development, such as:...

Tech makers must provide repairs for up to 10 years under proposed EU law (arstechnica.com)

Not only TikTok: France bans also Twitter, Instagram, Netflix and other apps from government staff phones (techxplore.com)

The move follows similar restrictions on TikTok in democratic countries amid fears about the popular video-sharing app's Chinese connections. But the French decision also encompassed other platforms widely used by government officials, lawmakers and President Emmanuel Macron himself.

"TikTok is part of China’s cognitive warfare campaign", says researcher Nita Farahany (theguardian.com)

"We [...] need to raise public awareness of the risks associated with digital platforms and neurotechnology devices by giving the public concrete information about the risks to themselves and national security. Educating users about potential dangers and promoting digital literacy will empower individuals to make informed...

Flipboard joins the Fediverse with a Mastodon integration and community, plans for ActivityPub (techcrunch.com)

Gordon Moore, Intel co-founder and creator of 'Moore’s Law', dies at 94 (theverge.com)

Moore also predicted the rise of the PC and the smartphone decades before they became reality. He died on Friday surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii.

Odilia team working to make Linux on the desktop more viable for screen reader users (odilia.app)

Great news for users who are fans of FOSS and also are blind, have low vision, have various cognitive disabilities, or otherwise have a critical need for screen reader software....

Apple is threatening to take action against staff who aren't coming into the office 3 days a week, report says (businessinsider.com)

Here's what TikTok's CEO told Congress about the app's ties to China and teen safety (archive.is)

ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”! (writings.stephenwolfram.com)

The Human Web (jasongullickson.com)

Search Engine for Human-created pages

Page builders might not be a good idea | S.Bistrović (silvestar.codes)

Introducing the Framework Laptop 16 and both Intel and AMD-powered (frame.work)

Product annoucements...

OpenAI Confirms Leak of ChatGPT Conversation Histories (pcmag.com)

And what do they blame?...

Framework Next Level Event | 2023 Launch Event (youtube.com)

Stanford's Alpaca shows that OpenAI may have a problem (the-decoder.com)

These new tools let you see for yourself how biased AI image models are (technologyreview.com)

New tools built by researchers at AI startup Hugging Face and Leipzig University and detailed in a non-peer-reviewed paper allow people to examine biases in three popular AI image-generating models: DALL-E 2 and the two recent versions of Stable Diffusion....

Raja Koduri Departing Intel To Start New Software Company (phoronix.com)

Android Private Browser with Real-Time Push notifications options (dev.karab.in)

Hello good people of beehaw. I'm looking for an android browser that works with push notifications for something like calckey but wont outright be a spyware in itself, is there anything that would satisfy this need for me in case firefox fails so?

Titanic: Project 401 (titanichg.com)

History, Evolution and Future of Public Access Unix Systems (cmccabe.sdf.org)

Khan Academy announces GPT-4 powered learning guide (youtube.com)

In depth demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnIgnS8Susg

It's time for open-source users to open their wallets (zdnet.com)

Pay - if you can - for that password manager, the pro version of your favorite browser, buy some Steam games on Linux. Do what you can to help support the cause you hold dear. Not only are you thanking a developer for their hard work, you're showing companies that there is, in fact, a market for Linux software.

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