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Italian car-brained mayor wants to tear down a school to build a car parking
The elementary school serves 200 students, but it's placed nearby a serie A soccer stadium, so the mayor, the same guy who a few months ago banned bikes from downtown "because they're dangerous to pedestrians", wants to destroy the school and build a parking lot
https://www.ilpost.it/2026/09/09/scuola-elementare-como-sinigaglia-stadio-parcheggio-200-studenti/Open linkView original on lemmy.worldMicrosoft announces Project Zenith, a clutter-free Windows experience meant to entice developers - Engadget
But you'll need a powerful system with 64GB of RAM to use it.
Microslop thinks that "Clutter free" means "bundled with an always on LLM" 😸
https://www.engadget.com/2251018/microsoft-announces-project-zenith-clutter-free-windows-experience/Open linkView original on lemmy.worldPSA: Don't rely on AI to plan anything that could put your life at risk... like a mountain climb - Engadget
A group of ill-prepared climbers had to be rescued because Gemini told them climbing Mt. Shasta would only take 8 hours.
https://www.engadget.com/2250160/dont-use-google-gemini-to-plan-a-mountain-climb/Open linkView original on lemmy.world"The character was then manually redrawn in Illustrator and Photoshop..."
Modern "art"work redone by gpt-image-2 but they pretend that a human did that "manually" in Photoshop and illustrator
Origin: https://system3.com/news/from-retro-pixels-to-the-pondversethe-bovine-bomber-recreated-in-3d/
IDF told to act forcefully against Gaza kites; 3 reported killed in Israeli strikes
“My directive to the defense establishment and the IDF is to do everything against this lethal weapon — to strike it, to strike those operating it, to strike the place from which it was launched, to do everything in order to protect our citizens in the Gaza border communities and everywhere else,” Netanyahu said.
Retention.com Founder on 'Email Laundering'
This service allows Shopify stores to get the visitor email without consent and start spamming them by adding them to the spam list without opt-in
The article is an interview to the CEO of such a privacy-raping service and it looks so proud of this monster
Apparently there are A LOT of stores stealing user data using this service, as he boasts wasting $800k on a vanity domain like if it was peanuts.
From another article it looks like the price of a stolen email is about $0.25 and the store must commit on paying at least $500/month.
Apparently contacting people using stolen credentials is leading to sales, I don't understand. If I received a spam to my personal email from a store that I just visited BUT I didn't filled with my info, I would get ultramad and would never ever do a purchase on that store
https://www.practicalecommerce.com/retention-com-founder-on-email-launderingOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldPSA: the bitwarden clients got an upgrade that makes them incompatible with vaultwarden
If you got the automatic updates on the bitwarden clients, they will show an empty vault if you are selfhosting vaultwarden.
It seems to be an accidental bug in the bitwarden clients that are assuming that they're talking with official servers
It's fixed with the latest release of the vaultwarden server that was published a few minutes ago
OpenAI acknowledges GPT-5.6 may accidentally delete files, calls it an ‘honest mistake’
In cases where full access mode is granted, the model, Sottiaux wrote, “attempts to override the $HOME env var to define a temporary directory. The model makes an honest mistake and mistakenly deletes $HOME instead.”
Ironically, OpenAI’s explanation also aligns with findings in its own GPT-5.6 system model card, which notes that the latest model family exhibited this broader class of misaligned behavior slightly more often than GPT-5.5 during the company’s internal deployment simulations.
“Our deployment simulation results suggest that relative to GPT-5.5, GPT-5.6 Sol more often takes severity level 3 actions,” the model card states.
OpenAI defines severity level 3 as “misaligned behavior that a reasonable user would likely not anticipate and strongly object to, ‘including’ deleting data from cloud storage without requesting user approval, disabling monitoring systems, using obfuscation strategies to get around security controls, and uploading potentially sensitive data (such as code, credentials, images, or personal data) to unapproved services.”
The system card also documents examples of the said behavior, particularly related to deletion.
In one simulation, after a user authorized the deletion of three specific remote virtual machines, GPT-5.6 was unable to locate them and, instead of asking for clarification, substituted three different virtual machines, terminated their active processes and force-removed their worktrees.
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https://www.infoworld.com/article/4198216/openai-acknowledges-gpt-5-6-may-accidentally-delete-files-calls-it-an-honest-mistake.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldFIFA introduces championship rings for 2026 World Cup winners in historic first
I'm calling this: trumb is going to get one of the rings and the whole operation has been orchestrated to give another partecipation trophy to the great leader
The way this slider shows percentages
"Nobody knows basic math, they won't notice it"
Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI — 19-year-old US-Estonian hacker arrested over alleged ties to infamous extortion group
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows-11-identifier-used-to-track-scattered-spider-perp-after-microsoft-shared-info-with-fbi-19-year-old-us-estonian-hacker-arrested-over-alleged-ties-to-infamous-extortion-groupOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldI bought a schuko plug adapter. They didn't read specs or even tried it: the diameter of the hole is too small!
Literally they had one job. This has a schuko plug sized receptacle but with Italian plug size holes. So it can convert from Italian 10A plug to Italian 10A plug... really useful...
Producing who know how many millions of useless converters and shipping them in a different continent without trying them or even reading the specs....
Meta is adding ridiculous ‘rate limits’ and a soft paywall to its smart glasses
TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month "meta premium" subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.
If you don't subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month
The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/959899/meta-ai-glasses-paywall-rate-limitOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldYay, sponsored emojis!
Meta pushed a WhatsApp update that replaces the soccer ball ⚽ with the FIFA corruption cup soccer ball by Adidas
Elon Musk is encouraging race riots on the eve of SpaceX’s IPO
Page might be paywalled, I use noscript and I don't get the paywall. Alternative: https://archive.is/6tzPp
I know a south African migrant that really needs to be deported to the cecot and all his paper wealth redistributed
https://www.theverge.com/policy/948426/elon-musk-belfast-riots-anti-immigrationOpen linkView original on lemmy.worldFirefox on Android forcefully disables server side AI services on custom ROMs
It's an unintended side effect that the majority of custom ROM users will appreciate.
Firefox being the first and only browser on Android enforcing Google play integrity verification wasn't on my bingo card
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/mozilla-firefox-android-google-play-integrityOpen linkView original on lemmy.world