Commented - kbin.life - A general use kbin instance with a slight emphasis on the technical

YSK How to Prepare Your Phone and Other Tech for a Natural Disaster (www.wsj.com)

Because it’s not totally intuitive how to prep and use tech in an emergency. Archived version: archive.fo/wk3fE

Martinet Stepping Away from Voicing Mario (www.cnn.com)

Charles Martinet is retiring as the voice of Mario (twitter.com)

Oh no... (lemm.ee)

Ad firm plans to use people’s data in a maneuver to sink data privacy bill (www.politico.com)

Internal emails highlight how an advertising company can use its in-house resources to oppose public policy proposals....

Beepy, a palm-sized Linux hacking playground (hackaday.com)

ChatGPT Has Liberal Bias, Say Researchers (www.forbes.com)

An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban. Official: "It is simply not feasible to read every book" for depictions of sex. (arstechnica.com)

An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban. Official: “It is simply not feasible to read every book” for depictions of sex.::Official: “It is simply not feasible to read every book” for depictions of sex.

Starfield install size reveal; it is now preload (www.gamescensor.com)

AI Isn’t Banning Books in Iowa Schools. Republicans Are. (theintercept.com)

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The Top 8 Best BitTorrent Clients for Linux in 2023 (www.geeksmint.com)

School district uses ChatGPT to help ban library books (www.popsci.com)

Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain a description or depiction of a sex act.'

AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans (qz.com)

AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans::The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans

YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures (www.theverge.com)

Mozilla allows desktop extensions on Firefox for Android (www.theregister.com)

Leave no trace: Finland removes litter bins from national parks (yle.fi)

Lina Khan: The most feared person in Silicon Valley is a 34-year-old in DC (finance.yahoo.com)

Lina Khan is a key architect of an aggressive attempt by Washington to rein in tech giants. Amazon may be next....

Refugees overqualified and underpaid in Germany (www.dw.com)

Obada Hijjo has not had an easy time since he arrived in Germany four years ago. Trained as a policeman in Turkey, the 30-year-old Palestinian initially worked for the police in the West Bank. But, when a case he was involved resulted in a threat to his life, he and his wife were forced to leave the country. Now he is stranded...

Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump allies were 'suppressed' (www.businessinsider.com)

The FBI agent's bombshell allegations of political bias appeared in a leaked statement made to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Just want a solid gaming laptop (reddit.com)

My mom likes to play No Man’s Sky and Valheim, but her Asus TUF started freezing on games. RMA found no problems and sent it back to her but it still happens. I ordered a Legion for her but now I see these posts about all Nvidia 40-series laptops freezing up. What’s a gaming mom supposed to do?