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Google shifts Android news to a virtual event ahead of its I/O developer conference
News about Android is being relegated to a side show at Google's annual developer conference, Google I/O, next month. On Monday, the company announced it
Unveiling Trae: Chinese Tech Giant ByteDance's AI IDE and Its Extensive Data Collection System
Explore the hidden telemetry architecture of Trae, ByteDance's AI coding assistant, and its significant security implications for developers.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/31995242
Unveiling Trae: ByteDance's AI IDE and Its Extensive Data Collection System
Trae - the coding assistant of China's ByteDance - has rapidly emerged as a formidable competitor to established AI coding assistants like Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Its main selling point? It's completely free - offering Claude 3.7 Sonnet and GPT-4o without any subscription fees. Unit 221B's technical analysis, using network traffic interception, binary analysis, and runtime monitoring, has identified a sophisticated telemetry framework that continuously transmits data to multiple ByteDance servers. From a cybersecurity perspective, this represents a complex data collection operation with significant security and privacy implications.
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Both governments cited concerns that the proposed regulations could stifle innovation and fail to address national security challenges
Well, not this one. But this one is! How? Let’s take a closer look at Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins it. Note: I communicated with the Bluesky team prior to the publishing of this post. While the functionality described is not the intended use of the application, it is known behavior and...
Well, not this one. But this one is! How? Let’s take a closer look at Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins it.
How tech lets you hack your biology
CNN’s Anna Stewart explores biohacking, which utilizes technology to help us live a longer and healthier life.
Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating? I Tried Them for Myself. - NYT
A New York Times reporter tested a handful of chatbots to see if they could help improve his dating life. The results were decidedly mixed.
As chatbots like ChatGPT improve, their use in our personal and even romantic lives is becoming more common. So much so, some executives in the dating app industry have begun pitching a future in which people can create A.I. clones of themselves that date other clones and relay the results back to their human counterparts
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Modern AI rewards being very weird.
Opinion | Our Kids Are Living In a Different Digital World - NYT (gift link)
Enormous numbers of kids follow social media influencers who boost addictive drugs to audiences who are too young to legally buy them.
