First Phone 2, now the Nothing Phone 1 is getting ChatGPT integration (www.androidauthority.com)
UFS 4.0 isn't quite as groundbreaking as you'd think (www.androidpolice.com)
Do you agree? There are also phones (motorola edge 50 pro) running UFS 2.2 that equal if not surpass phones running UFS 3.1 in file transfers and random read/write tests....
WTF Happened In 1971? (wtfhappenedin1971.com)
(kinda) A great website to share if you have no idea how to explain the downfall of the US economy....
At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off. Why pro-Palestinian protests have not blown up on UC campuses (www.latimes.com)
Why the Swedes love doing something that Americans hate (www.bbc.com)
Sweden is infamous for having some of the highest taxes in the world, and yet the country’s tax agency is still one of Sweden’s most trusted institutions....
Russian soldier murder rate soars 900% on return from Ukraine war (www.independent.co.uk)
Up to 113 active Russian servicemen were convicted in 2023 - a near 900 per cent increase on just 13 in 2022...
Google Play Store rolling out simultaneous Android app downloads (9to5google.com)
Daughter of prominent Palestinian poet killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza (www.cnn.com)
Shaima Refaat Alareer, the daughter of a prominent Palestinian poet, was killed alongside her family in an Israeli airstrike on a house west of Gaza City on Friday, according to multiple sources, four months after her father died in a similar attack....
Chinese jets fly sorties over Taiwan strait in show of force as US delegation departs (www.theguardian.com)
Taiwan has reported that a dozen Chinese warplanes flew sorties close to the island on Saturday, in a sudden surge of military activity just hours after the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, left Beijing following talks with President Xi Jinping and top Chinese officials.
Evergreen content gardens - blog Open Indie (blog.erlend.sh)
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Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash (www.theverge.com)
Humans cannot recognize AI-written reviews - human reviews were often mistaken for AI-generated reviews, and even more frequently, AI-generated reviews were mistaken for human reviews (link.springer.com)
Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)
[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it’s building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”
Some US officials say in internal memo Israel may be violating international law in Gaza (www.reuters.com)
Some senior U.S. officials have advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they do not find “credible or reliable” Israel’s assurances that it is using U.S.-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law, according to an internal State Department memo....
Evidence shows recent presidential elections most rigged in Russia’s modern history (kyivindependent.com)
Another sign of rigging is that 2024 election results peaked at round figures, Shukshin wrote. This distribution of results looks like a saw on graphs, which led to the nickname “Putin’s saw.”
Pope will attend G7 meeting to discuss AI (www.euronews.com)
How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status (www.cnbc.com)
U.S. Voter Turnout (www.presidency.ucsb.edu)
Why is voter turnout in the U.S. consistently within the 50-60% range? I’m specifically curious if anyone has specific reasons they can’t or typically choose not to vote in presidential elections.