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Donald Trump Says He'll Stop All Electric Car Sales (Update: He Was Talking About Made-In-Mexico Chinese EVs) (gizmodo.com)

The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)

The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....

ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US (www.androidauthority.com)

Aldi plans to open 800 new locations in the US as Americans feel pinch of high food prices (www.cnn.com)

Reddit’s IPO Filing Shows Lots Of Losses After Nearly 20 Years (www.forbes.com)

Animal shelters overflow as Americans dump 'pandemic puppies' in droves. They're too broke to keep their dogs (fortune.com)

Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen 'significantly' (www.cnbc.com)

Top Apple analyst says MacBook demand has fallen ‘significantly’::A top Apple analyst said Wednesday that shipments for MacBook computers will decline around 30% year over year.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, an 'icon for women in politics,' dies at 90, source confirms (abc7news.com)

Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.

The technical merits of Wayland are mostly irrelevant (utcc.utoronto.ca)

In response to Wayland Breaks Your Bad Software...

Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’ (www.theguardian.com)

200,000 users abandon Netflix after crackdown backfires (www.forbes.com.au)

200,000 users abandon Netflix after crackdown backfires::Aussies have spoken, and the results are not looking good for Netflix. A new report reveals why users are turning to streaming competitors.

'Hell on wheels': Teen convicted of crashing car at 100 mph, killing boyfriend and friend (www.nbcnews.com)

“This was not reckless driving. This was murder,” the judge said before she read out Mackenzie Shirilla’s verdict Monday afternoon.

So, what's stopping you from getting a foldable? [Poll] (9to5google.com)

Foldable smartphones have reached their fifth major generation, as heralded by Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5......

Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st (www.techdirt.com)

Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st::Just when we didn’t think the state of Texas could get any more wacko on tech policy, this latest bill really suggests otherwise. House Bill 1181 is an age verification measure that is similar to what we’ve seen in the state legislatures across other...

Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service (www.techspot.com)

Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)

Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

Music Piracy Is Back in a Big Way (www.wired.com)

Visits to music piracy websites went up more than 13 percent last year, a new report says. The majority of those visits were to sites that allow users to download the audio from YouTube URLs.

Streaming giants have banded together for lobbying power (www.theverge.com)

Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec (www.businessinsider.com)

Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec::In an interview with Bloomberg, Dave Limp said that he “absolutely” believes that Amazon will soon start charging a subscription fee for Alexa