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2% of kids and 7% of adults have gotten the new COVID shots, US data show (apnews.com)

A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot....

Europeans over 65 will outnumber those under 15 next year (www.irishexaminer.com)

Hamas blindsides Israel with most serious attack in a generation (www.bbc.com)

Israel was taken by surprise by the most ambitious operation Hamas has ever launched from Gaza....

Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages (www.theverge.com)

A partnership with OpenAI will let podcasters replicate their voices to automatically create foreign-language versions of their shows.

Hyprland is a toxic community (drewdevault.com)

Hyprland is an open source Wayland compositor based on wlroots, a project I started back in 2017 to make it easier to build good Wayland compositors. It’s a project which is loved by its users for its emphasis on customization and “eye candy” – beautiful graphics and animations, each configuration tailored to the unique...

Russia's Putin praises Elon Musk as an 'outstanding person' and 'talented businessman' (www.cnbc.com)

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday praised Elon Musk, calling the Tesla and SpaceX founder a “talented businessman.”...

People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse (www.wired.com)

People Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Make Daily Life Worse::A Pew survey finds that a majority of Americans are more concerned than excited about the impact of artificial intelligence—adding weight to calls for more regulation.

Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs and More (bethesda.net)

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The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon (gadgeteer.co.za)

Twitter Blue subscribers can now hide their blue checks (www.theverge.com)

Greta Thunberg found guilty of failing to obey police at climate protest (www.euronews.com)

She told Swedish media that she will not be appealing the verdict.

Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds. Researchers found wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s abi... (fortune.com)

Over just a few months, ChatGPT went from correctly answering a simple math problem 98% of the time to just 2%, study finds. Researchers found wild fluctuations—called drift—in the technology’s abi…::ChatGPT went from answering a simple math correctly 98% of the time to just 2%, over the course of a few months.

Ubuntu 23.10’s New Software App Will Demote DEBs (Apparently) (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

A new ‘app store’ is expected to ship as part of Ubuntu 23.10 when it’s released in October — and it’ll debut with a notable change to DEB support.

Fox News host Jesse Watters thinks men who vote for women ‘transition’ to women (www.advocate.com)

Court documents show that not only is Valve a fraction the size [only 336 employees in 2021] of companies like EA or Ubisoft, it's smaller than a lot of triple-A developers (www.pcgamer.com)

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong (futurism.com)

Google promised a better search experience — now it’s telling us to put glue on our pizza (www.theverge.com)

Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail (hackaday.com)

UN assembly approves resolution granting Palestine new rights and reviving its UN membership bid (apnews.com)

Black Kansas City teen Ralph Yarl sues white man who shot him for ringing the doorbell (www.kcur.org)

Secret document says Iran security forces molested and killed teen protester (www.bbc.com)

An Iranian teenager was sexually assaulted and killed by three men working for Iran’s security forces, a leaked document understood to have been written by those forces says....

Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? (www.theregister.com)

Teen deepfake victim pushes for federal law targeting AI-generated explicit content (www.nbcnews.com)

Rep. Joe Morelle, D.-N.Y., appeared with a New Jersey high school victim of nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes to discuss a bill stalled in the House.