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Second Boeing whistleblower dies suddenly (www.newsweek.com)

A little girl said monsters were in her bedroom. It was 60,000 bees (www.bbc.co.uk)

ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it (noyb.eu)

It’s clear that companies are currently unable to make chatbots like ChatGPT comply with EU law, when processing data about individuals. If a system cannot produce accurate and transparent results, it cannot be used to generate data about individuals. The technology has to follow the legal requirements, not the other way...

Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear (www.theguardian.com)

Plan to break up Noaa claims its research is ‘climate alarmism’ and calls for commercializing forecasts, weakening forecasts...

If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon (www.xda-developers.com)

Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2° (arstechnica.com)

Farmers warn of first year without harvest since Second World War (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF (littlegreenfootballs.com)

Sen. Bernie Sanders's office in Vermont caught fire. Arson is suspected, but the motive is unclear (apnews.com)

TIL: You can easily check eggs for being bad or fresh (slrpnk.net)

Looks like SEO chuds are now adding 'Reddit' to the titles. (www.marginalia.nu)

'We pay taxes so the corporations don’t have to': Amazon to get 100% tax cut for project in Mississippi — when the state has the ‘highest rate of poverty in America.' (finance.yahoo.com)

US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS (www.theguardian.com)

Conservative fifth circuit overturns EPA’s ban prohibiting Inhance from using manufacturing process creating toxic compound...

California set to hike wages for fast-food workers to industry-leading $20 per hour (www.cbsnews.com)

Starting Monday, most California fast-food workers will earn at least $20 an hour — the highest minimum wage across the U.S. restaurant industry. Yet the pay hike is sparking furious debate, with some restaurant owners warning of job losses and higher prices for customers, while labor advocates tout the benefits of higher...

Twitch Bans Using ‘Intimate’ Body Parts As Green Screens [Kotaku got you covered on the issue] (kotaku.com)

Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (arstechnica.com)

The attack has been dubbed GoFetch: gofetch.fail

Yep, defintely not a bad person (sh.itjust.works)

Neil deGrasse Tyson Complains That “Dune 2” Isn’t a Shining Beacon of Scientific Accuracy (futurism.com)

EA just added classics like Dungeon Keeper, SimCity 3000, and Populous on Steam (www.theverge.com)

There hasn’t been a lot of good news out of EA lately, but here’s some: the company just launched a bunch of classic games on Steam. The new (old) releases include nine games in total, spanning franchises like Dungeon Keeper, Populous, and SimCity....

Uvalde schoolchildren were massacred under a sheriff’s watch. He was still undefeated on Super Tuesday (www.independent.co.uk)

Sheriff Ruben Nolasco won re-election despite pressure from victims’ families to step down and a Justice Department report finding ‘cascading’ failures among the law enforcement response that day...

New Study Shows Kids Are Bullied For Not Spending Money In Free-To-Play Games (kotaku.com)

Rice covered in cow cells aims to provide nutritious, sustainable food (www.science.org)

Scientists develop game-changing 'glass brick' that could revolutionize construction: 'The highest insulating performance' (www.thecooldown.com)

Scientists develop game-changing ‘glass brick’ that could revolutionize construction: ‘The highest insulating performance’::The team of scientists developed an aerogel glass brick, which is a translucent and thermally insulating material.