Employees are spending the equivalent of a month's grocery bill on the return to the office–and growing more resentful than ever, new survey finds (fortune.com)
‘Your Product Is Killing People’: Tech Leaders Denounced Over Child Safety (www.nytimes.com)
Lawmakers on Wednesday denounced the chief executives of Meta, TikTok, X, Snap and Discord, accusing them of creating “a crisis in America” by willfully ignoring the harmful content against children on their platforms, as concerns over the effect of technology on youths have mushroomed....
the Mistral SIMBAD system is peak noncredible, two Manpads taped together and manually operated (sh.itjust.works)
2K pulls Spec Ops: The Line from digital stores without warning (www.polygon.com)
Americans rack up $19 billion in credit card debt in one month (www.newsweek.com)
ICANN proposes creating .INTERNAL domain (www.theregister.com)
MacKenzie Scott trims Amazon stake by $10B, philanthropist now owns about 1.9% of tech giant: 'I have a disproportionate amount of money to share' (fortune.com)
Musk brain implant company violated US hazardous material transport rules -documents (news.yahoo.com)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink was fined for violating U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) rules regarding the movement of hazardous materials, according to records from the federal agency reviewed by Reuters....
Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can't Reverse It (futurism.com)
Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It::How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to Anthropic researchers, not very.
TED Fellows Resign Over ‘Genocide Apologist’ Bill Ackman’s Speaker Invite (www.thedailybeast.com)
The fellows called Ackman a “genocide apologist.”
Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck (www.vice.com)
Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck::“These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users,” the union representing the contractors said.
Israeli minister renews call for striking Gaza with ‘nuclear bomb’ (www.aa.com.tr)
Computers make mistakes and AI will make things worse — the law must recognize that (www.nature.com)
Star Trek Online Will Now Let You Throw Asteroids at Other Ships, Picard-Style (gizmodo.com)
Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, 245,000 Jewish survivors are still alive (apnews.com)
Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries, a new report revealed Tuesday....
Was Ron Desantis Running on ChatGPT This Whole Time? (gizmodo.com)
Russia's Navalny says he is forced to listen to pro-Putin singer every morning (news.yahoo.com)
(Reuters) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has complained of being poisoned, assaulted and deprived of proper medical care, but on Monday he disclosed he faced a new challenge: being forced to listen to a pro-Putin pop singer at 0500 every morning....
The world will have its first trillionaire within a decade, but poverty won't be eradicated for another 229 years, report finds (www.cnbc.com)
Families condemn Koch brothers over ploy to avoid asbestos compensation (www.theguardian.com)
Georgia-Pacific, owned by Koch Industries, employ controversial legal tactic to circumvent paying millions to sickened workers...
West Must Be Prepared For War With Russia, NATO Official Warns Ahead Of Major Military Drills (www.rferl.org)
A Louisiana teen traveled to the West Bank to learn about his roots. He was shot dead. (www.nbcnews.com)
Delivery Firm’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue, Curses at Customer and Criticizes Company (time.com)
Delivery Firm’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue, Curses at Customer and Criticizes Company::An AI customer service chatbot for delivery service DPD used profanity and criticized the company after prompting by a frustrated customer.
'Silent majority' marches against Germany's far-right AfD (news.yahoo.com)
Revelations that members of Germany’s far-right AfD discussed mass deportation plans have pushed tens of thousands of people to protest and sparked debate on whether the anti-immigrant party should be banned....
EU’s top diplomat accuses Israel of funding Hamas (www.politico.eu)
Why the Guardian's 'Hamas mass rape' story doesn't pass the sniff test (jonathancook.substack.com)
