Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation (www.wired.com)
The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions....
OpenAI’s GPT Is a Recruiter’s Dream Tool. Tests Show There’s Racial Bias (www.bloomberg.com)
Code used in the analysis is here
As a precaution, houses of worship in New Jersey are getting bleeding control kits (whyy.org)
They encourage all worshipers to understand how to stop the bleeding if someone is shot or stabbed.
Proton 9.0 Beta 15 released and Proton Experimental updated (www.gamingonlinux.com)
‘Massacre’: Israel forces attack crowds waiting for aid in Gaza, killing 21 (www.aljazeera.com)
Former Mormon bishop highlighted in AP investigation arrested on felony child sex abuse charges (apnews.com)
A former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was featured in an Associated Press investigation into how the church protects itself from allegations of sexual abuse was arrested by police in Virginia this week after being indicted on charges he sexually abused his daughter while accompanying her on a...
Russians cast ballots on Day 2 of an election preordained to extend Putin's rule (apnews.com)
Voters across Russia cast ballots Saturday on the second day of an election set to formalize six more years of power for President Vladimir Putin, who faces no serious challengers after crushing political dissent over his nearly 25 years of rule....
Helldivers 2 has likely sold over 8m, it’s claimed, ‘well ahead of expectations' (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Gangsters, Money and Murder: How Chinese Organized Crime Is Dominating America’s Illegal Marijuana Market (www.propublica.org)
A quadruple murder in Oklahoma shows how the Chinese underworld has come to dominate the booming illicit trade, fortifying its rise as a global powerhouse with alleged ties to China’s authoritarian regime....
Mike Pence will not endorse Donald Trump’s presidential campaign (www.theguardian.com)
Former Indiana governor and candidate for Republican nomination tells Fox News decision ‘should come as no surprise’...
Palworld Dev Says Massive Profits Are ‘Too Big for a Studio With Our Size to Handle’ - IGN (www.ign.com)
Nearly half of the planet suffers from a neurological disease (english.elpais.com)
Is my voice annoyingly high? (drive.google.com)
I try to stream my favorite games, and I will get small audiences because I do events in the online games. But whenever I try to edit or listen back I feel like I’m in pain....
Uber and Lyft are quitting Minneapolis over a driver pay increase (www.engadget.com)
The city has just 39 licensed cab drivers.
ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots (arstechnica.com)
ArtPrompt is what’s known as a jailbreak, a class of AI attack that elicits harmful behaviors from aligned LLMs, such as saying something illegal or unethical. Prompt injection attacks trick an LLM into doing things that aren’t necessarily harmful or unethical but override the LLM’s original instructions nonetheless.
Stardew Valley's 1.6 Update Will Fix Your [ingame] Marriage (kotaku.com)
Ark of Charon is a mix of Rimworld style colony sim, tower defense, and cozy vibes (www.pcgamesn.com)
Stargazer’s paradise: Oregon area named world’s largest dark sky sanctuary (www.theguardian.com)
Certification awarded for 2.5m acres offering pristine views of night sky, with hopes for expansion to 11m acres...
Teen gets 40 years in prison for Denver house fire that killed 5 from Senegal (apnews.com)
One of three teenagers charged with starting a Denver house fire that killed five people — apparently out of revenge for a stolen cellphone that was mistakenly traced to the home — was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison....
Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones: Oregon’s “right to repair” bill, which now only needs the governor’s signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislation (fossforce.com)
Jess Bush: Koons on the Moon? Artists’ crucial role in shaping humanity’s image on Earth and beyond (spacenews.com)
This week in KDE: Dolphin levels up (pointieststick.com)
In addition to lots and lots of Plasma 6 stability work and the beginning of Plasma 6.1 feature work, Dolphin received large amount of development this week, resulting in some nice improvements. Check it out!
Black Focus - Yussef Kamaal (open.spotify.com)
Food Airdrops Are Falling Short in Gaza (time.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/17490070...