Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language (www.vice.com)
Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language::Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations that they propose are analogous to human speech, including vowels and pitch.
Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to lead new AI team | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Actors’ Union Says It Receives ‘Last, Best and Final’ Offer From Studios (www.nytimes.com)
What the fuck are the studios gonna do, make movies and shows without actors?...
Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO (arstechnica.com)
Baker’s testimony shows that Mozilla depends so much on its deal with Google for revenue that “the biggest loser of a DOJ win in the Google case would be Mozilla.”
Egypt official tells Europe to take in 1m Gazans if ‘you care about human rights so much’ (www.middleeastmonitor.com)
It is 'nearly unavoidable' that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says (www.businessinsider.com)
It is ‘nearly unavoidable’ that AI will cause a financial crash within a decade, SEC head says::undefined
Benjamin Netanyahu failed Israel (www.vox.com)
‘We can’t confuse Hamas with all Palestinians’: Spain says amid aid review (www.aljazeera.com)
Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives. (jlc.org)
The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died (12ft.io)
Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their deaths as US authorities have been asked to investigate Musk’s claims.
AP News: Hundreds of flying taxis to be made in Ohio, home of the Wright brothers and astronaut legends (apnews.com)
The iPhone 13 mini is dead, leaving small phone lovers in a lurch (arstechnica.com)
Jimmy Fallon apologises to Tonight Show staff after toxic workplace allegations - reports (www.theguardian.com)
Earlier on Thursday, Rolling Stone published allegations from two current and 14 former employees, including production crew and writers, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. Rolling Stone claimed they had approached an additional 80 current and former employees, but “not a single one agreed to speak on the...
America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow (www.nytimes.com)
F-Droid exploring to include paid apps, in-apps, subscription, and ads in app (f-droid.org)
cross-posted from: r.nf/post/1771956...
A manipulated video shared by Musk mimics Harris' voice, raising concerns about AI in politics (apnews.com)
A manipulated video that mimics the voice of Vice President Kamala Harrissaying things she did not say is raising concerns about the power of artificial intelligence to mislead with Election Day about three months away....
A $1 million starter home is now the norm in more than 200 US cities (www.cnn.com)
The number of US cities where first-time homebuyers are faced with at least a $1 million price tag on the average entry-level home has nearly tripled in the past five years, according to new research....
UK Climate Campaigners Get 'Utterly Disproportionate' Sentences (www.commondreams.org)
'We're close to the end': Biden world braces for the possibility that the president steps aside (www.nbcnews.com)
Netflix Starts Booting Subscribers Off Cheapest Basic Ads-Free Plan (www.macrumors.com)
John Deere lays off hundreds of employees, after a $10B profit year (franknez.com)
Poll: More than 60% of middle class say they’re ‘struggling financially’ and are not expecting things to turn around for the rest of their lives (www.thehill.com)
A heat dome will send temperatures into the triple-digits across the West as fires burn (edition.cnn.com)
Daily temperature records will tumble as sizzling early season heat from a summerlike heat dome sends thermometers skyrocketing into the triple digits in parts of California and the West this week....