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)
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...
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)
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)
Twitter's short link service, t.co, is adding a five-second delay to some domains. Like threads.net (news.ycombinator.com)
Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs (beehaw.org)
Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times (www.axios.com)
Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
See also twitter:...
What’s next for Mozilla? (techcrunch.com)
one passage of note:...
If AI is making the Turing test obsolete, what might be better? (arstechnica.com)
Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
Are you smarter than a scammer? Take this quiz. (wapo.st)
Take this quiz to find out if you can spot what’s real and what’s fake...
Court ordered penalties for 15 teens who created naked AI images of classmates (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)
AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To) (www.tomshardware.com)
Avram Piltch is the editor in chief of Tom’s Hardware, and he’s written a thoroughly researched article breaking down the promises and failures of LLM AIs.