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Opinion | Not Everything We Call Cancer Should Be Called Cancer (www.nytimes.com)

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The New York Times prohibits AI vendors from devouring its content (arstechnica.com) German

The Yandex Leak: How a Russian Search Giant Uses Consumer Data (www.confiant.com)

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A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good? (www.theguardian.com)

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Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)

Stanford Scientists Find That Yes, ChatGPT Is Getting Stupider - Technology - kbin.social (kbin.social)

While looking into artificial intelligence “behavior,” researchers affirmed that yes, OpenAI’s GPT-4 appeared to be getting dumber.

Best Linux laptop for 2023

I’m in the market for a new Linux laptop. My current machine is a 2018 i7 with 64GB of RAM, a 4K screen, 1TB of storage, 2x USB-C and 1x USB-A....

Somebody has made an affordable, good quality wireless finger trackball - Review of Nulea m505/m505b (clickque.codeberg.page)

I wanted to share this thing I found because it is great....

Tinder now lets mom pick your next date (www.theverge.com)

Linux distros vulnerable to 'Looney Tunables' root bug (www.theregister.com)

“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale (arstechnica.com)

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We can leave the Solar System, but arriving anywhere is not happening soon (arstechnica.com)

The post demonstrates how infeasible it is to travel to a location outside our solar system anytime in the next several generations....

Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)

Reporters visited booths of Worldcoin, a global blockchain project championed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong to get a better sense of who was signing up for the service and why. In all three cities, the surge of interest for registering their biometrics to the blockchain was driven primarily by...

You can make top LLMs break their own rules with gibberish (www.theregister.com)

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Windows won't dominate enterprise in a decade, says outgoing Jamf CEO (appleinsider.com)

.io considered harmful (www.beep.blog)

This story really got my blood boiling. CW: involves a forced expulsion of people

Discord file links will expire after a day to fight malware (www.theverge.com)

Apple is cutting off social media support! (en.shiftdelete.net)

What’s the Matter with the smart home? (www.theverge.com)

The article discusses expectations for smart home announcements at the upcoming IFA tech show in Berlin. While companies may unveil new smart speakers, cameras and robot vacuums, the smart home remains fragmented as the Matter interoperability standard has yet to fully deliver on integrating devices. The author argues the...

“Instead of blocking sanctioned companies, Google could stop spreading Kremlin propaganda,” says ex-Yandex News head (theins.ru)

Lev Gershenzon, founder of The True Story news aggregator and former head of Yandex.News (Yandex.Novosti), explained why Google spreads Kremlin propaganda. Having consistently highlighted the free circulation of false propaganda news through the Google Discover service, pointed out that Google pays attention to what makes money...

Will the European Cyber Resilience Act Kill Open Source Software? (fossforce.com)

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A Quick Look into Microsoft’s New Default Font (jdsalaro.com)

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Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)

The configuration of the device allows water to circulate in swirling eddies, in a manner similar to the much larger “thermohaline” circulation of the ocean. This circulation, combined with the sun’s heat, drives water to evaporate, leaving salt behind. The resulting water vapor can then be condensed and collected as pure,...

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