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Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and startup form body to regulate AI development (www.theguardian.com)

a body has been formed to regulate ai development

'It almost doubled our workload': AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree (www.cnn.com)

‘It almost doubled our workload’: AI is supposed to make jobs easier. These workers disagree::A new crop of artificial intelligence tools carries the promise of streamlining tasks, improving efficiency and boosting productivity in the workplace. But that hasn’t been Neil Clarke’s experience so far.

FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru to create a new superspecies, lawsuit says (www.cnbc.com)

‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)

A website called zleague.gg has been scraping Reddit threads, feeding them into an AI and publishing auto-generated summaries without proper oversight. World of Warcraft players on Reddit noticed this and created a fake thread about a made-up feature called Glorbo to trick the AI. The AI then published an article summarizing the...

Forbes: Reddit Protests Escalate As Rebel Mods Are Kicked Out (www.forbes.com)

Forbes: Reddit Protests Escalate As Rebel Mods Are Kicked Out::Fresh trouble for Reddit as users deface digital artwork with messages attacking the company’s embattled CEO.

Reddit has started assigning power mods to subs they took over. (imgur.com)

Not much else needs to be said tbh. Fuck Spez....

Biden picks female admiral to lead Navy. She'd be first woman on Joint Chiefs of Staff (apnews.com)

President Joe Biden has chosen Adm. Lisa Franchetti to lead the Navy, an unprecedented choice that, if she is confirmed, will make her the first woman to be a Pentagon service chief and the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

why don't airforces put backwards missiles on their planes? that way they can easily take down anyone who's behind them. (sh.itjust.works)

r*ddit

The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization (www.theguardian.com)

As the world recovers from the largest IT outage in history, it shows the danger of one point of failure in IT infrastructure...

Swimsuit wars heat up in an Olympic year (apnews.com)

65% of Democratic Voters Want Biden to Step Aside: Poll. (www.commondreams.org)

US military to dismantle ill-fated Gaza aid pier, saying it is ‘mission complete’ (www.theguardian.com)

Vice Adm Brad Cooper, deputy commander at US Central Command, told reporters in a Pentagon briefing on Wednesday that the pier had achieved its intended effect in what he called an “unprecedented operation”....

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reports (www.theatlantic.com)

Why Won't the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine? (www.jeffsachs.org)

For the fifth time since 2008, Russia has proposed to negotiate with the U.S. over security arrangements, this time in proposals made by President Vladimir Putin on June 14, 2024. Four previous times, the U.S. rejected the offer of negotiations in favor of a neocon strategy to weaken or dismember Russia through war and covert...

Senior North Korean diplomat defects to South (www.bbc.com)

A high-profile North Korean diplomat stationed in Cuba has defected to the South, Seoul’s spy agency has confirmed to the BBC....

Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service (arstechnica.com)

Inflation is cooling, yet many Americans say they're living paycheck to paycheck (www.cbsnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17601144...

Mirarr, a piracy first movie app. (github.com)

Found this on reddit and decided to share. Here’s the text from the author:...

Zoom exec calls in-office work mandate a ‘success’ — despite working remotely himself (www.kron4.com)

OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework (arstechnica.com)

German city bans ‘silent fox’ gesture in schools over similarity to far-right sign (www.theguardian.com)

A city in northern Germany has become the first to issue an all-out ban on the use of a hand gesture used to encourage silence in the classroom because of its close resemblance to a far-right Turkish gesture....