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Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as X (www.cnn.com)

OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity (futurism.com)

Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show (1ft.io)

Tens of thousands of Tesla owners have had the suspension or steering of their vehicles — even in practically brand new ones — fail in recent years. Newly obtained documents show how Tesla engineers internally called these incidents “flaws” and “failures.”...

Tech Billionaires Launch Fund to Create New Libertarian Societies (www.vice.com)

More efforts from tech bros to build Rapture....

Mastodon Is the Good One (www.404media.co)

Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras (www.wired.com)

They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.

RAM issues help please (beehaw.org)

hey all. I’ve tried different ram, a different windows version, I’ve messed around in bios and updated it as well. How can i get my pc to register the rest of my ram??...

You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

Um, yay?

Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating (www.spacebar.news)

Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment (arstechnica.com)

Archived version: archive.ph/9WPwx...

Spotify is about to cost more with a price increase planned for next week (9to5mac.com)

According to the report, Spotify will raise its standard subscription rate by $1 next week, bringing the monthly cost from $9.99 to $10.99.

Tumblr says it’s going to “fix” its “core experience” to appeal to new users (www.theverge.com)

Tumblr plans to make changes to appeal to new users and improve growth. The post states that Tumblr is currently difficult for new users to use and curates content poorly. Tumblr aims to improve how users discover and sign up, encourage frequent engagement, and boost creators’ ability to attract audiences. Specific changes...

Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program Mac users run, and when and where they ran it (sneak.berlin)

Edit: Guys I didn't write the headline; the subtitle that I added, I've now fixed tho...

DisplayPort: A Better Video Interface (hackaday.com)

‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon (www.404media.co)

Many mushroom identification and foraging books being sold on Amazon are likely generated by AI with no human authorship. These books could provide dangerous misinformation and potentially lead to deaths if people eat poisonous mushrooms based on the AI’s inaccurate descriptions. Two New York mushroom societies have warned...

Apple now endorses Right to Repair legislation (www.404media.co)

I believe this is genuine support of the bill from Apple. Between Right to Repair winning in Massachusetts and the EU demanding compliance, I think Apple decided to flip the script. They would want to continue the illusion of customer friendly tech.

ULTRARAM will allow you to close your laptop, come back a thousand years later and pick up where you left off (www.techradar.com)

Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla (lunduke.locals.com)

The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.

He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies (www.npr.org)

Company he works at eternos.life

"We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic) (pluralistic.net)

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