Technology

cross-posted from: https://metawire.eu/post/5948

Since January 2024, Wikimedia has seen a 50 percent increase in Wikipedia’s bandwidth usage. However, this enormous increase is not due to human users suddenly reading Wikipedia articles or watching videos but to AI crawlers that automatically scrape content to train AI models. This creates new challenges for the foundation. The sudden increase in traffic […]

Creator: Coen van Eenbergen Publish Date: 07.04.2025, 17:28 Categories: Infrastructure, AI, AI crawlers, Artificial Intelligence, bandwidth, content scraping, Wikimedia, Wikipedia

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/119675

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27700093

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27609050

• A jetlagged Troy Hunt accidentally clicked a link and logged into an account only to realise he had been phished.
• Despite reacting quickly, attackers were able to export a mailing list for Hunt’s personal blog.
• Hunt has detailed the attack and warned his subscribers in a timely fashion.

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/46849

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27255738

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27360624

I don’t usually like to call out the bad behaviour of specific companies, but the egregious mis-design and lack of acknowledging it justify this case.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/37534963

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/30774194

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9508044

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/27434840

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27223116

What’s the context?

Women's groups worry Big Tech algorithms suppress words and products related to women's health.

Google, Meta, others accused of blocking health content Algorithms fail to differentiate between content Concerns amid rollback of diversity, rights policies

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27079878

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27222808

It may someday be possible to listen to a favorite podcast or song without disturbing the people around you, even without wearing headphones. In a new advancement in audio engineering, a team of researchers led by Yun Jing, professor of acoustics in the Penn State College of Engineering, has precisely narrowed where sound is perceived by creating localized pockets of sound zones, called audible enclaves. In an enclave, a listener can hear sound, while others standing nearby cannot, even if the people are in an enclosed space, like a vehicle, or standing directly in front of the audio source.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/206387

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27210361

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9342063

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27143191

Why I recommend against Bluesky.

Have you ever heard of the term federation-washing?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27137484

• A bug in the most recent Windows 11 update removes Copilot from systems entirely.
• Microsoft is currently working on a fix but those who need the app can simply redownload and install it from the Windows Store.
• The update also introduced a bug for Roblox players on Arm hardware.

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/21548869

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26992665

Paywall removed: https://archive.is/3a9rv