OpenAI Says Russia and China Used Its A.I. in Covert Campaigns (www.nytimes.com)
Iran and an Israeli company also exploited the tools in online influence efforts, but none gained much traction, an OpenAI report said....
Manifest V2 phase-out begins (blog.chromium.org)
No need for countries to issue new oil, gas or coal licences, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
Researchers say world has enough fossil fuel projects planned to meet demand forecasts to 2050 if net zero is reached...
Emigration from Canada to the U.S. hits a 10-year high as tens of thousands head south (www.cbc.ca)
Protesters expose another climate-wrecking corporation fueling Israel's genocide in Gaza (www.thecanary.co)
Michigan state trooper accused of fatally hitting a fleeing suspect with an SUV is charged with murder (www.cnn.com)
IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax (apnews.com)
US state department report absolving Israel on Gaza aid is false, says ex-official (www.theguardian.com)
Kdenlive 24.05.0 released - Kdenlive (kdenlive.org)
Chinese man arrested for allegedly running ‘largest ever’ malware network (www.aljazeera.com)
US officials say army of 19 million infected computers enabled fraud, identity theft and child exploitation....
Erdogan: Netanyahu is a ‘psychopath’ and a ‘vampire that feeds on blood’ (www.timesofisrael.com)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashes out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him a “psychopath” and a “vampire that feeds on blood,” following Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah that triggered a deadly fire in a camp for displaced people.
Euclid space telescope finds 1.5 trillion orphan stars wandering the Perseus cluster (images) (www.space.com)
The Green-Energy Revolution Shows What Real Innovation Looks Like (prospect.org)
Progress can be seen in all parts of life (sopuli.xyz)
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IRS opening free online tax filing program to all states (www.axios.com)
Third person infected in U.S. bird flu outbreak — but with a new symptom (www.nbcnews.com)
Number of Americans applying for jobless benefits inches up, but layoffs remain low (abcnews.go.com)
Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account (arstechnica.com)
Earlier this month, Google Cloud experienced one of its biggest blunders ever when UniSuper, a $135 billion Australian pension fund, had its Google Cloud account wiped out due to some kind of mistake on Google’s end. At the time, UniSuper indicated it had lost everything it had stored with Google, even its backups, and that...
Israel War Cabinet member Benny Gantz files motion to dissolve parliament (www.semafor.com)
Israeli War Cabinet member Benny Gantz announced Wednesday his centrist National Unity party has introduced a bill to dissolve the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, which would trigger an early election....
John Kirby likens Israeli airstrike that killed civilians to US bombings in Iraq, Afghanistan: ‘We did the same thing’ (nypost.com)
An Apple TV app could finally be coming to Android smartphones (www.androidauthority.com)
South Africa’s ANC on course to lose majority in early projections (www.semafor.com)
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s ruling African National Congress looks set to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time since coming to power after the end of apartheid 30 years ago, according to projections based on early election results....
