Researchers claim GPT-4 passed the Turing test (bgr.com)
Indiana Weighs Hospital Monopoly as Officials Elsewhere Scrutinize Similar Deals (kffhealthnews.org)
Washington Post Publisher and Incoming Editor Are Said to Have Used Stolen Records in Britain (www.nytimes.com)
Snowden: OpenAI just went full mask off (x.com)
I personally don’t trust Snowden. Lookin at the difference between how he was treated and how Assange was treated. One guy gets to rot in prison, other guy gets movies made about him from Hollywood. Snowden is very much controlled opposition in my mind....
"People are angry": Mike Johnson faces bipartisan uproar over Intelligence Committee picks (www.axios.com)
Both picks were bound to be inflammatory:...
How Sierra On-Line and a Disgraced Cop Made the Most Reactionary Game of the 90s (www.vice.com)
Men-Only, Christian-Only Secret Society Gets More Secret (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Judge Orders Sale of Alex Jones’s Personal Assets but Keeps Infowars in Business (www.nytimes.com)
Murder conviction of Missouri woman overturned after 43 years in prison (www.theguardian.com)
Jewish students told "go back to Poland" at campus rallies (www.newsweek.com)
Jewish students told Newsweek they faced antisemitic abuse and intimidation at some of America’s most-prestigious universities.
93 Nations Back ICC as Israel Faces Charges for War Crimes in Gaza (www.commondreams.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16560683...
The Dutchman who gets Nike and Lego into wartime Russia’s stores (www.reuters.com)
COVID is coming for California, and it's already hitting the SF Bay Area the hardest (www.sfgate.com)
Who is the IDF general who ordered tank fire on a kibbutz home with 13 hostages inside? (www.haaretz.com)
Until she was taken out of the house, Porat identified nine living hostages. She wasn’t a witness to the close-range shooting of any of the hostages, or to any of them being hit in the exchange of fire. “I didn’t see anyone execute anyone,” she says. “I didn’t see a body.” That is compatible with what Hadas Dagan...
GOOD 2 BE BACK by CJ Fly & NasteeLuvzYou, Termanology (song.link)
cross-posted from: lemmyf.uk/post/10578429...
Meta says European regulators are ruining its AI bot (www.theverge.com)
Meta is putting plans for its AI assistant on hold in Europe after receiving objections from Ireland’s privacy regulator, the company announced on Friday....
Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has reinstated certain add-ons for Firefox that earlier this week had been banned in Russia by the Kremlin....
Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI (arstechnica.com)
Philippines files UN claim to extended continental shelf in South China Sea (www.reuters.com)
Don't disturb my sleep! (mastodon.social)
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EU to charge Apple under Digital Markets Act, impose a fine of up to $50 million per day - GSMArena.com news (m.gsmarena.com)
Myanmar's embattled military government cracks down on free flow of news by blocking VPNs (apnews.com)
US slaps sanctions on Tsav 9, Israeli group targeting humanitarian aid to Gaza (forward.com)
For months, Tsav 9 activists have organized to block convoys, harass aid workers and damage aid trucks as well as goods meant to alleviate pervasive hunger and suffering in Gaza. The group’s name means Order 9 in Hebrew, a reference to the military’s order calling up reservists....
Unsafe levels of E. coli found in Paris' Seine River under 2 months before Olympics (www.cbc.ca)
Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics, according to test results published Friday....