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Tesla pushes for $56bn pay deal for Elon Musk (www.bbc.com)

Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps (www.ghacks.net)

Google warns users of these apps that their experience may deteriorate soon. They may “experience buffering issues” or see errors such as “the following content is not available on this app” when trying to watch videos....

There is a school in Wisconsin that uses Linux (opensource.com)

If you guys are interested in hearing the IT directors Ted talk from 2014 here it is youtu.be/f8Co37GO2Fc

Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (mashable.com)

A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday:...

Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)

Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data (www.theverge.com)

Avast, the cybersecurity software company, is facing a $16.5 million fine after it was caught storing and selling customer information without their consent. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the fine on Thursday and said that it’s banning Avast from selling user data for advertising purposes.

Why Are You Still Rooting Your Android Phone? (www.droid-life.com)

Do you root or do you go straight to ROMs?

X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making (www.abc.net.au)

X is becoming a ‘ghost town’ of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making::The internet is filling up with machine-generated “zombie content” designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the “great AI flood”.

Reddit says it's made $203M so far licensing its data (techcrunch.com)

Meet the Super DVD: Scientists Develop Massive 1 Petabit Optical Disk (gizmodo.com)

Note: Unfortunately the research paper linked in the article is a dead/broken/wrong link. Perhaps the author will update it later....

China Vows to Centralize Tech Development Under Communist Party (www.bloomberg.com)

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Man dies mid-flight after breaking out in 'cold sweats' and losing 'liters of blood,' scaring his fellow passengers (www.businessinsider.com)

A 63-year-old man died on a Lufthansa flight on Thursday, according to Swiss-German outlet Blick....

Tucker Carlson interviews Putin and asks Zelenskyy for conversation (www.pravda.com.ua)

Notorious former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has conducted an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin – the reason for his visit to Moscow – and said he has requested an interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy....

Tobacco use declining despite industry interference: WHO (news.un.org)

For those who lurk on Reddit - my read-only, ad-free, open source Reddit viewer RDX is better than ever now (rdx.overdevs.com)

I am posting the updates here because most of the users of RDX came from this community only....

Federal judge blocks California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places (apnews.com)

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a California law that would have banned carrying firearms in most public places, ruling that it violates the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and deprives people of their ability to defend themselves and their loved ones....

The United States is producing more oil than any country in history (www.cnn.com)

As the world grapples with the existential crisis of climate change, environmental activists want President Joe Biden to phase out the oil industry, and Republicans argue he’s already doing that. Meanwhile, the surprising reality is the United States is pumping oil at a blistering pace and is on track to produce more oil than...

None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters (www.usatoday.com)

Channel 1 AI released a promotional video explaining how the service will provide personalized news coverage to users from finance to entertainment.

White House threatens to veto anti-EV bill just passed by US House (arstechnica.com)

White House threatens to veto anti-EV bill just passed by US House::The bill would prevent the EPA from enforcing tougher new pollution standards.

Tesla whistleblower calls cars with Autopilot “experiments in public roads” (arstechnica.com)

Human Rights Watch Under Fire For Allegedly Accepting Millions In Qatar Funds (www.i24news.tv)

In 2020, the online news organization The Intercept revealed that HRW’s then-Executive Director, Ken Roth, accepted a $470,000 donation from a Saudi billionaire based on the condition that HRW would not use the money to protect the rights of the persecuted LGBTQ-plus community in the Middle East....