Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable (www.404media.co)
Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools? (www.aljazeera.com)
Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws (www.engadget.com)
YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes (www.youtube.com)
Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)
ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself (www.techradar.com)
Finally a useful feature (no) (jlai.lu)
4chan Is Using TikTok Owner ByteDance's Hidden AI App to Generate Porn (www.404media.co)
Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates (arstechnica.com)
A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)
Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....
don't use ladybird browser lol (cyberpunk.lol)
github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)
Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is “dangerous malware” that’s secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....
Google Says AI Could Break Reality (www.404media.co)
Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data (Project 2025) (cyberscoop.com)
Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Musk is lightyears away from a self-driving car (archive.ph)
AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent (arstechnica.com)
Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable (www.tomshardware.com)
Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app (www.bbc.com)
Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say (gizmodo.com)
Nvidia becomes the most valuable public company - GSMArena.com news (m.gsmarena.com)
Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services (www.bbc.com)
They say it has left them unable to access bank accounts and job offers - and stopped them using Skype, which Microsoft owns, to contact relatives in war-torn Gaza....
Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town (time.com)
STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus (www.wired.com)
archive.is link...
First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards (arstechnica.com)
