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Transparency advocates say that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's pursuit of “personal” connections with AI companies in China represents a concerning conflict of interest (www.wired.com)

Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13091735...

MPA: Site-Blocking Will Stop Pirate Site Owners Who Abuse Kids & Traffick Drugs * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

The studio behind Journey have brought their "peaceful" MMO Sky: Children Of The Light to PC (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

O.J. Simpson, former football star acquitted of murder, dies at 76. (abcnews.go.com)

Pompeii: Breathtaking new paintings found at ancient city (www.bbc.com)

Stunning artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption from Mount Vesuvius in AD79....

Mass use of guided bombs driving Russian advances, says Ukraine (www.theguardian.com)

Up to 500 ‘drop-and-forget’ bombs containing foreign components being fired every week, government analysis finds...

Turkey applies for China-Russia space programme to build base on the moon instead of US-led Artemis programme (www.scmp.com)

Turkey could play an influential role in the International Lunar Research Station, says space analyst...

Oh how romantic 🥰 (sopuli.xyz)

NY and Canada breweries (photos.app.goo.gl)

5 day road trip for the eclipse. Hit 33 breweries....

Humane AI Pin review: not even close (www.theverge.com)

Vietnam sentences real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death in its largest-ever fraud case (apnews.com)

Almost half of US prisons are likely contaminated by dangerous ‘forever chemicals,’ new Northeastern research shows (news.northeastern.edu)

In prisons, where health care is already poor, the danger posed by PFAS exposure is even greater, says Phil Brown, a Northeastern professor of sociology and health sciences....

‘An epidemic of loneliness’: How the pandemic changed life for aging adults (www.colorado.edu)

Years after the U.S. began to slowly emerge from mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns, more than half of older adults still spend more time at home and less time socializing in public spaces than they did pre-pandemic, according to new CU Boulder research....

Looking Back at When Star Trek Made Its Own Galaxy's Edge (gizmodo.com)

The Fallout Bible: a collection of lore documents compiled for use in the development of the original (cancelled) Fallout 3 (imgur.com)

PDF version...

Genealogy - Lemmy.World the recently revived community (lemmy.world)

Release v0.15.0 Shagadelic Sloth · superseriousbusiness/gotosocial (github.com)

The Associated Press: A mission of mercy, then a fatal strike: How an aid convoy in Gaza became Israel's target (apnews.com)

EU Parliament refuses decision on budget until members commit more Patriots to Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)

Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military (theintercept.com)

Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s mega-popular image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the Department of Defense build software to execute military operations, according to internal presentation materials reviewed by The Intercept. The revelation comes just months after OpenAI silently ended its prohibition against...