ReHacked vol. 284: The Hindenburg’s Interior: Vintage Photos, OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free and more

The Hindenburg’s Interior: Vintage Photos Reveal What Luxury Air Travel Was Like in the 1930s - Rare Historical Photos #history #photos #longread

Before modern air travel and first-class suites, the grandest thing in luxury air travel was the German Zeppelin airship.

The Hindenburg was designed to ferry passengers across the Atlantic in serenity, with the dirigible floating smoothly through the clouds. The airship was considered the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume.

During the 1930s, airships like the Hindenburg class were widely considered the future of air travel, and the lead ship of the class, LZ 129 Hindenburg, established a regular transatlantic service.

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EV owners face software blackouts as startups go under in China - Rest of World #copyrights #software #hardware

• Chinese EV owners are losing access to smartphone app updates and driving features when companies go bust.
• Chinese drivers’ frustrations point to the broader risks of “smartphones on wheels,” where reliability is contingent upon software maintenance and updates.
• Beijing has rolled out new EV subsidies to help keep struggling companies afloat.

Watch: Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money #economy

Slicing huge cruise ships in half, then welding in an extra segment to lengthen them, is more or less a license to print money for cruise operators – so this 'jumboization' surgery is becoming very common. Let's take a look at how it's done.

Humanity, it seems, can't get enough of cruise ships. In 1990, according to Cruise Market Watch, the global cruise industry treated some 3.7 million passengers to its familiar regime of buffet food, all-inclusive child supervision, shuffleboard, plentiful liquor and winking entertainers. In 2024, that number's tracking closer to 30 million.

Russian military hackers linked to critical infrastructure attacks #security

The United States and its allies have linked a group of Russian hackers (tracked as Cadet Blizzard and Ember Bear) behind global critical infrastructure attacks to Unit 29155 of Russia's Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (also known as GRU).

In a joint advisory published today, the Russian GRU military intelligence hackers, known for deploying WhisperGate data-wiping malware in Ukraine in January 2022, are described as "junior active-duty GRU officers" part of GRU's 161st Specialist Training Center and coordinated by experienced Unit 29155 leadership.

Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests #education

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that Turkish high school students who had access to ChatGPT while doing practice math problems did worse on a math test compared with students who didn’t have access to ChatGPT. Those with ChatGPT solved 48 percent more of the practice problems correctly, but they ultimately scored 17 percent worse on a test of the topic that the students were learning.

Canadian mega landlord using AI ‘pricing scheme’ as it massively hikes rents ⋆ The Breach #economy #society #longread

“Tenants in the building are furious about learning that Dream is using the same technology that corporate landlords use in the United States,” said Chiara Padovani, co-chair of the York South-Weston Tenants Union. “We have proof to validate what we had suspected all along, that it doesn’t actually give a damn about solving the housing crisis.”

These Stunning Portraits of Insects Reveal the Intricacies of an Amazing World | Smithsonian #nature #photography

OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free #copyrights

OpenAI is begging the British Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's supposedly "impossible" for the company to train its artificial intelligence models — and continue growing its multi-billion-dollar business — without them.

As The Telegraph reports, the AI firm said in a filing submitted to a House of Lords subcommittee that using only content from the public domain would be insufficient to train the kind of large language models (LLMs) it's building, suggesting that the company must therefore be allowed to use copyrighted material.

This Company Says It Uses Your Phone's Mic to Serve Ads for Facebook, Google, and More #privacy

In a pitch deck that has surfaced since the initial story broke out, Cox Media Group (CMG), a digital marketing outfit based out of Atlanta, Georgia, was spotted touting “the power of voice” in a pitch. In it, they outlined how they can use AI to collect and analyze voice data from users through more than 470 sources.

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