Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them (arstechnica.com)
I can’t imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot (arstechnica.com)
US airlines are suing the Biden administration over a new rule to make certain fees easier to spot (apnews.com)
U.S. airlines are suing to block the Biden administration from requiring greater transparency over fees that the carriers charge their passengers, saying that a new rule would confuse consumers by giving them too much information during the ticket-buying process....
UN says total number of deaths in Gaza remains unchanged after controversy over revised data (www.cnn.com)
The total number of dead also does not include the approximately 10,000 people who are still missing and trapped under the rubble, the officials added....
Israeli tanks push deeper into Rafah, battles rage in northern Gaza (www.reuters.com)
Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers (www.washingtonpost.com)
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In Coastal British Columbia, the Haida Get Their Land Back (hakaimagazine.com)
Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)
GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...
You can now bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts! (wedistribute.org)
Bridgy Fed’s Bluesky integration is now in beta, and makes it possible to connect your account from the Fediverse to Bluesky, and vice versa....
Man gets boat painted on fence meant to hide boat. (www.nbcnews.com)
Sony Xperia 1 vi presentation slides leaked - MyTechRoundUp (twitter.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/8833957...
Mumbai billboard collapse: Eight dead and dozens injured (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/15388716...
Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble (www.ign.com)
Great, can we get FF7 Rebirth on PC now?
New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June (www.gamespot.com)
Sharp to cease LCD plant operation, end Japan's large panel production (asia.nikkei.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/Japan/t/1027777...
Cybercriminals claim hack of EU police agency, posting data online (www.politico.eu)
Sensitive data from the EU’s police agency appeared for sale on a cybercrime forum....
Women are leading the charge for gig worker rights in Thailand (restofworld.org)
Biden bans China crypto-miner from land near nuclear missile base (www.bbc.com)
US President Joe Biden has ordered a Chinese-owned cryptocurrency miner and its partners to sell land they own near a US nuclear missile base, citing spying concerns....
Activists Attempt to Storm Tesla Gigafactory in Germany (unicornriot.ninja)
Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option (www.theverge.com)
Proton Mail provided user data that led to an arrest in Spain (www.techspot.com)
Proton Mail assisted Spanish authorities in identifying and arresting a member of the Catalan independence organization Democratic Tsunami....
EU completes migration reform, as Poland and Hungary vote against (www.euronews.com)
The European Union has completed the reform of its migration and asylum policy, a watershed moment that for a decade proved stubbornly elusive....
David McBride: Australian army whistleblower jailed for leaking documents (www.bbc.com)
David McBride pleaded guilty to stealing and sharing military secrets on the eve of his trial last year, after legal rulings sunk his defence....
Plant Virus Treatment Shows Promise in Fighting Metastatic Cancers in Mice (today.ucsd.edu)
