People are put in a VR workspace with some AI agents doing work, test subjects are asked how much theyd pay for the work the AIs were doing. Despite having identical models and being considered to do the same amount and type of work by the subjects, the subjects still offered the female bot less money.

this is an experiment that replicates how the pay gap is maintained with a non-human proxy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76516412

https://youtube.com/shorts/kOoD85gynhc

I did Bazzite because it seemed the easiest to get gaming stuff set up on but may change later. Played Valheim with my partner for a couple hours and basically had no issues!

Hoping someone gets drivers up and running for psvr2 because that’s the only thing I can’t get working. Really don’t want to set up a Windows partition for it but I also want to play Beat Saber.

Any tips/software recs/etc. from the wise Linux Elders around here?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76486627

What just happened? Another incident has taken place that illustrates the need to be careful what you tell AI. A Florida woman is facing felony charges after she used Claude as a diary and allegedly wrote that she planned to "shoot up" the Sheriff's office. After a human reviewer examined the statements, they were reported to police.

According to the arrest report, Carli Michelle Heller, of Bonita Springs, Florida, wrote on September 26 that she would attack the Sheriff's office. She later said that she uses Anthropic's chatbot like a "diary."

Claude's safety systems flagged the entry and it was escalated to a human reviewer. After deciding it was a credible threat, the reviewer reported it to law enforcement.

The company says it may share user information in limited emergencies if it believes disclosure is necessary to prevent death or serious physical injury.

Deputies identified Heller and visited her home. She was detained without incident before an LCSO intelligence detective took over the investigation.

Heller faces a charge of making a written threat of violence under Florida law. Florida Statute 836.10 makes it a second-degree felony to send, post, or transmit a written or electronic record threatening to kill or injure someone, carry out a mass shooting, or commit an act of terrorism. The communication must be made in a manner in which another person may view it.

Anthropic isn't going to be taking any chances when it comes to anything it deems a potential threat. Last month, it was reported that OpenAI and Sam Altman are being sued by British Columbia over claims that the company could have prevented a mass shooting in the Canadian province.

The shooter, eighteen-year-old former pupil Jesse Van ⁠Rootselaar, had previously been flagged by OpenAI's safety team for her conversations about gun violence, but OpenAI never alerted police because the conversations did not meet the threshold for legal referral.

In June, Florida also sued OpenAI and Altman, alleging that ChatGPT had contributed to real-world harms, including the 2025 Florida State University shooting.

The latest incident is another reminder to think before you enter something into a chatbot that could get you into trouble. It's certainly not a private diary whose contents are for your eyes only.

Reports last month revealed that human contractors reviewing Microsoft Copilot's image editor can see users' prompts, uploaded photos and AI-generated edits. Documents show that some of those assignments contain sexual, disturbing or potentially illegal material, though the reviewers are not there to flag the content – only to assess whether the output is accurate.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9717195

For the first time in recorded history, global unit sales of gas vehicles are under 50%, as pure electrics and hybrids soar in popularity.

In the beginning of 2026, Chinese EV carmakers forecast double-digit sales growth, as they hoped exports would ramp up

But energy prices skyrocketed after the War on Iran began, and demand for Chinese electric cars boomed. The goals for the expansion of Chinese exports were achieved years ahead of schedule.

Now Chinese firms are targeting the hybrid car industry, where lower tariffs may be a boon to models from China.

Our new tech billionaire overlords love fiction, especially science fiction, while completely missing the point. From building real-life dystopias to ignoring the warnings in their favorite books, here is how Silicon Valley fundamentally misunderstands science fiction.

command    "SEND_MESSAGE_TO_WEB"
id    "pentest-probe-1790751196567"
userId    "000000000000000001"
username    "PENTEST_PROBE"
avatar    "https://xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/logoxxxx.png"
content    "[PoC] Unauthenticated message injection â\u0080\u0094 no session required"
color    "#FFFFFF"
timestamp    "2026-xx-xxXXX:XX:XX.XXXX"

Shows up as a previous message in the websocket, I've xxx'd info. Spoopy. A bunch of shit got broken and had to reinstall.

Subprime mortgage your GPU.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/76356893

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/7960#issuecomment-5433758829

What is the best alternative?

Why does no tech journalist ever ask a single followup question.

Not sure if this is welcome here, if not could I please be directed to a good place to ask this? Usually I'd ask reddit but kinda avoiding that when possible.

Some months ago I accidentally deleted a partition in my drive where I have a bunch of old important files, I managed to recover it and mostly everything was fine except a folder of my art stuff (mostly images and blender files). The files seem to have the exact same size as they did when they worked (I have some of that backed up online) but I can't seem to be able to open them. I looked online but it's a bit overwhelming tbh and some options I tried just made a mess and are more work than it's worth. I'm using Linux Mint but I also have access to Windows 10.

Is there something I could run in specific folders/files to try to un-corrupt them?

Here's a blend and png file as an example: https://drive.proton.me/urls/5572C99S9R#OYmMv4Ek8wPF

Thank you!

Why is everything purple and my vertical tabs are oval, it genuinely looks like vibecoded slop

There was literally nothing wrong in the previous design that "Nova" fixed, it's either a side-grade or made worse. I guess liking legible interfaces is a crime . You will learn to love gradients.

Firefucked again why do tech companies do this shit?

PSA
Turn this shit off in about:config with browser.nova.enabled set to false.

I want something bigger than a phone screen, no Amazon/Android

ideally something not locked to a specific store and something I can side load "public domain" books on. Would be cool to be able to sync my book library/progress to a reader on my phone as an alternative reading surface