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Schools are trying to get more students therapy. Not all parents are on board (apnews.com)

Derry Oliver was in fifth grade when she first talked to her mom about seeing a therapist....

Clean energy could be 'closer than ever' after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record (qz.com)

Clean energy could be ‘closer than ever’ after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record::JET’s final nuclear fusion experiment produced a record-breaking 69 megajoules of heat. Nice.

FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls that can deceive voters (www.pbs.org)

Discovery returns to screens April 4th (universeodon.com)

Last season for DISCO, will we see it finally grow a beard and everyone be raging no 6?

Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint (www.the-express.com)

Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint::A Los Angeles couple filed a lawsuit against Google Maps for allegedly navigating them to a notorious South African crime neighborhood where tourists are left ‘injured, maimed or dead.’

The Russian Black Sea Fleet is getting bodied out there. (sh.itjust.works)

Tesla stock drops on Q4 earnings miss, EV maker warns production growth rate will be 'notably lower' than 2023 (finance.yahoo.com)

I’m enjoying this. Also Musk went out and said that he wants barriers on trade or else the Chinese companies will dominate the market....

The United States is producing more oil than any country in history | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)

First Bipedal Robots With Hands Coming to BMW Factory (gizmodo.com)

I’ve seen this movie and it doesn’t end well.

Modder Who Put Pokémon Into Palword Says 'Nintendo Has Come for Me' (sea.ign.com)

I'm a California restaurant operator preparing for the $20-an-hour fast-food wage by trimming hours, eliminating employee vacation, and raising menu prices (www.businessinsider.com)

FedEx is launching a new e-commerce platform as it competes with Amazon (www.theverge.com)

Artists are making creative companies apologize for using AI (www.theverge.com)

Businesses that rely on creatives should probably avoid angering them.

Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives (www.zdnet.com)

Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives::How fast do you want your Wi-Fi to go? How does 5.8 Gigabits per second sound? Fast enough for you?

Elon Musk's alleged drug use puts 13,000 jobs at risk, report suggests (www.euronews.com)

Elon Musk’s alleged drug use puts 13,000 jobs at risk, report suggests::Elon Musk’s possible use of illegal drugs is causing concern for bosses within his companies, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI (www.spacebar.news)

2024 might be the breakout year for efficient ARM chips in desktop and laptop PCs.

China’s Tesla-beating EV maker BYD has carmakers around the world ‘in a state of shock’ over its prices (fortune.com)

When China’s BYD recently overtook Elon Musk’s Tesla as the global leader in sales of electric vehicles, casual observers of the auto industry might have been surprised....

Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter (www.theguardian.com)

Xi says China will ‘surely be reunified’ with self-ruled Taiwan in New Year’s address (apnews.com)

Chinese President Xi Jinping said China would “surely be reunified” with Taiwan during his televised New Year’s address, renewing Beijing’s threats to take over the self-ruled island, which it considers its own....

Michael Cohen cites AI-generated court cases in his defense (www.theverge.com)

Michael Cohen, the former lawyer for Donald Trump, admitted to citing fake, AI-generated court cases in a legal document that wound up in front of a federal judge, as reported earlier by The New York Times. A filing unsealed on Friday says Cohen used Google’s Bard to perform research after mistaking it for “a super-charged...

Gentoo goes Binary (packages) (www.gentoo.org)

To speed up working with slow hardware and for overall convenience, we’re now also offering binary packages for download and direct installation! For most architectures, this is limited to the core system and weekly updates - not so for amd64 and arm64 however. There we’ve got a stunning >20 GByte of packages on our mirrors,...