Bluesky opens up federation, letting anyone run their own server | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
*ACTION ROLL* (slrpnk.net)
Nato chief says Trump remarks may put US and EU lives at risk (www.theguardian.com)
A White House spokesperson put it the best, I think:...
Young adults set an earlier bedtime as they navigate economic fatigue, wellness trends, and a loneliness epidemic (fortune.com)
A Mississippi poultry plant is being sued by a woman whose 16-year-old son died working there (apnews.com)
Google’s use of student data could effectively ban Chromebooks from Denmark schools (www.theverge.com)
Suspect in father’s decapitation ‘went off the rails’ in college, those who knew him say (www.nbcnews.com)
Justin Mohn has “been ranting and railing about the government for 10 years now and how they’re out to get him,” a childhood friend told NBC News....
Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language (www.tomshardware.com)
The Bill Is Coming Due on a Record Amount of Commercial Real Estate Debt (www.wsj.com)
Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study (www.livescience.com)
Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn’t be taught to behave again in ‘legitimately scary’ study::AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and...
Me IRL (sh.itjust.works)
Plant communication captured on video for the first time ever (www.earth.com)
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)
Tesla charging stations become ‘car graveyards’ as batteries die in subzero temperatures, abandoned cars left in the lot after cars wouldn’t charge (www.kansascity.com)
Tesla charging stations become ‘car graveyards’ as batteries die in subzero temperatures, abandoned cars left in the lot after cars wouldn’t charge::undefined
New Biden rule cracks down on insurers’ use of prior authorization (thehill.com)
A new Biden administration rule released Wednesday aims to streamline the prior authorization process used by insurers to approve medical procedures and treatments....
Russian election candidate calls Ukraine war a ‘big mistake’ by Putin (www.nbcnews.com)
Boris Nadezhdin told the wives of Russia’s mobilized soldiers the war was “a big mistake by Putin, of course, and the consequences will be very grave.”...
SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community (insider-gaming.com)
SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community::SAG-AFTRA has approved AI voice actors and partnered with Replica Studios, enraging the voice acting community on a global scale.
Lauren Boebert denies allegations that she punched ex-husband in restaurant (www.theguardian.com)
Colorado police reportedly arrived after Jayson Boebert called and claimed he was ‘victim of domestic violence’ and punched in face...
Netflix might add in-app purchases and ads to its games no one plays (www.vg247.com)
Copy, Acquire, Kill— How Meta could pull off the most extraordinary pivot in tech history (www.fromjason.xyz)
What if Meta’s hidden objective behind the Threads-to-Mastodon initiative is a play on app.net? And, what if threads.net is a measured step towards what could be the greatest pivot in all of tech?
Was 2023 the Greatest Gaming Year of All Time? (www.theringer.com)
Israeli Evidence of Hamas Command Center in al-Shifa Hospital Falls Short: Report (www.rollingstone.com)
A Washington Post investigation found no proof of a Hamas command center under al-Shifa Hospital following Israel’s attack on the medical complex.
Twitch Will Shut Down Its Streaming Platform in South Korea (blog.twitch.tv)
Researcher has developed, at a cost of less than one dollar, a wireless light switch that runs without batteries, can be installed anywhere on a wall and could reduce the cost of wiring a house by ... (www.ualberta.ca)
Researcher has developed, at a cost of less than one dollar, a wireless light switch that runs without batteries, can be installed anywhere on a wall and could reduce the cost of wiring a house by …::A U of A engineering researcher has developed a wireless light switch that could reduce the cost of wiring a house by as much as...
