A ton of job postings might actually be fake (qz.com)
A new survey found that almost 40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year — and 85% of those companies interviewed candidates for fake jobs...
CEO pay is rising faster than it has in a decade — and 3 times as fast as worker wages (qz.com)
A Ticketmaster hack spilled sensitive data for 560 million customers, hackers say (qz.com)
ShinyHunters posted on Tuesday night in a hacking forum that it obtained data from Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, including customers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order details, Cyber Daily wrote. The group is reportedly attempting to sell the stolen data for $500 million....
Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route (qz.com)
Those Silicon Valley geniuses have done it again!...
Google accidentally deleted a $125 billion pension fund's account (qz.com)
DVDs, Blu-rays, and VHS tapes: How long does physical media last? (qz.com)
A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald's is completely fake — and of course made by AI (qz.com)
A viral photo of a guy smoking in McDonald’s is completely fake — and of course made by AI::Look at the fingers. You always have to look at the fingers
Clean energy could be 'closer than ever' after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record (qz.com)
Clean energy could be ‘closer than ever’ after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record::JET’s final nuclear fusion experiment produced a record-breaking 69 megajoules of heat. Nice.
Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year (qz.com)
Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year (qz.com)
Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year::Worse than Etsy. Worse than Boeing. Simply the worst
AI girlfriend bots are already flooding OpenAI’s GPT store (qz.com)
AI girlfriend bots are already flooding OpenAI’s GPT store::OpenAI’s store rules are already being broken, illustrating that regulating GPTs could be hard to control
Ethiopian Airlines is buying the plane model that killed 346 people (qz.com)
The airline plans to purchase 41 more Boeing 737-8 Max planes...
Morale down, cronyism up after DeSantis takeover of Disney World government, ex-employees say (qz.com)
Since allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took over Walt Disney World’s government earlier this year, morale has deteriorated, the governing district has been politicized and cronyism permeates the organization
Why so many Hamas hostages are from Thailand (qz.com)
Israel’s dependence on migrant workers dates to previous conflicts with Palestine...
Apple may be quiet on AI, but it’s also the biggest buyer of AI companies (qz.com)
cross-posted from !apple...
Apple may be quiet on AI, but it’s also the biggest buyer of AI companies (qz.com)
cross-posted from !apple...
Stephen King blames Bill Maher for breaking the Hollywood writers’ strike (qz.com)
Bill Maher announced that his Real Time would be back "sans writers or writing"...
AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless (qz.com)
A $40,000 Nvidia chip has become the world's most sought-after hardware (qz.com)
A $40,000 Nvidia chip has become the world’s most sought-after hardware::Companies and governments want to deploy generative AI—but first they need access to Nvidia’s H100 chips
AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans (qz.com)
AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans::The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans
China's life expectancy is now higher than that of the US (qz.com)
This AI model took only five hours to design a functional computer (qz.com)
Researchers claim that was 1,000 times faster than what it takes humans to design a CPU
The music industry is waging war upon an AI server on Discord (qz.com)
This is just one action in a coming conflict. It will be interesting to see how this shakes out. Does the record industry win and digital likenesses become outlawed, even taboo? Or does voice, appearance etc just become another sets of rights that musicians will have to negotiate during a record deal?
The music industry is waging war upon an AI server on Discord (qz.com)
Db0’s note: Not quite about piracy, but very very close to be relevant to us....