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At the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival, the China Film Foundation and partners launched two major AI-driven initiatives under the Kung Fu Film Heritage Project: a large-scale effort to restore 100 classic martial arts films using artificial intelligence, and the unveiling of a brand-new animated feature, “A Better Tomorrow: Cyber Border,” billed as the world’s first fully AI-produced animated feature film.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

mittelhochdeutsch (mitteldeutsch) vunke, althochdeutsch funcho, entstanden aus den mit -n- gebildeten Formen des Feuer zugrunde liegenden Substantivs

https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Funke#Bedeutung-1

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[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

“Knallfunkensender”

Literally "Bang-Sparks-Sender".

Are you sure it's because of the radio spectrum bang? I always thought it was because of the audible bang.

If someone operated such a thing today, any guesses what the death zone for electronic devices would be?

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

It really is from "Funkentechnik": "Spark technology". I wonder how many people appreciate the post for the cute etymology and how many because it sounds funny.

Good information for ham radio people, too. Hobby sounds too geeky? Just say you're into Über-Funk-Parties.

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And you think you're so clever and classless and free

But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

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In contrast, recent trends do differ by education group. Until 2012, Americans with the most formal education (Bachelor+) were the most pro-business. By 2024, they became the most pro-union. On the other hand, Americans with the least formal education (less than high school) were historically among the most pro-union but recently became the least pro-union. High school graduates, some college, and bachelor-plus all expressed record-high pro-union sentiment in 2024. Even those without a high school degree remained near their record high.

(Repost. The original was removed because the URL was in the body and not the proper field. Oh well, I still appreciate the unpaid labor by the mods.)

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago

Useless article, but at least they link the source: https://localmess.github.io/

We disclose a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes.

These native Android apps receive browsers' metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica scripts embedded on thousands of web sites. These JavaScripts load on users' mobile browsers and silently connect with native apps running on the same device through localhost sockets. As native apps access programatically device identifiers like the Android Advertising ID (AAID) or handle user identities as in the case of Meta apps, this method effectively allows these organizations to link mobile browsing sessions and web cookies to user identities, hence de-anonymizing users' visiting sites embedding their scripts.

📢 UPDATE: As of June 3rd 7:45 CEST, Meta/Facebook Pixel script is no longer sending any packets or requests to localhost. The code responsible for sending the _fbp cookie has been almost completely removed.

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[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 68 points 9 months ago

To be honest, I wouldn't have been much impressed by the HTML specifications, either. An open source alternative for gopher? Oh, how cute. Be sure to tell all your geek friends.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 60 points 9 months ago

Today, LSD would never be discovered. Guy didn't even use gloves and lived to 102.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 101 points 10 months ago

[French media] said the investigation was focused on a lack of moderators on Telegram, and that police considered that this situation allowed criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.

Europe defending its citizens against the tech giants, I'm sure.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 88 points 11 months ago

This is a brutally dystopian law. Forget the AI angle and turn on your brain.

Any information will get a label saying who owns it and what can be done with it. Tampering with these labels becomes a crime. This is the infrastructure for the complete control of the flow of all information.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 66 points 1 year ago

The FTC is worried that the big tech firms will further entrench their monopolies. They are doing a lot of good stuff lately; an underappreciated boon of the Biden Presidency. Lina Khan looks to be really set on fixing decades of mistakes.

I guess they just want to know if these deals lock out potential competitors.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

Despite the fact that Nvidia is now almost the main beneficiary of the growing interest in AI, the head of the company, Jensen Huang, does not believe that additional trillions of dollars need to be invested in the industry.

*Because of

You heard it, guys. There's no need to create competition to Nvidia's chips. It's perfectly fine if all the profits go to Nvidia, says Nvidia's CEO.

[-] General_Effort@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

Arrows pointing out from Germany indicating a pointless quest for more space. Why do I feel like I have seen that before?

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