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Supermarket AI Offers Mom's Famous Mustard Gas Recipe (gizmodo.com)

Are people interested in multi-client stress tests on routers?

I asked this same question on Reddit and I got zero engagement, so perhaps Lemmy has people that care more about their hardware....

ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfone, Updated (www.androidauthority.com)

Update from Asus...

Slack Vs Microsoft Teams — Which App Is Better For Your Privacy & Security? [Mozilla Foundation] (foundation.mozilla.org)

TLDR: they’re both bad, but it might be interesting to know what each one does

Cadillac reveals the 2025 Escalade IQ - Electric version of the Escalade (arstechnica.com)

Zoom Changes TOS to Say It Won't Train AI on Your Calls 'Without Your Consent' After Backlash (www.vice.com)

Zoom Changes TOS to Say It Won’t Train AI on Your Calls ‘Without Your Consent’ After Backlash::Zoom added a line to its terms of use on Monday, after concerns that the company was using calls to train artificial intelligence algorithms went viral.

Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm (newsroom.ucla.edu)

Planetary defense test deflected an asteroid but unleashed a boulder swarm::A UCLA-led study of NASA’s DART mission determined that the strategy presents previously unanticipated risks.

Writing with AI help can shift your opinions (news.cornell.edu)

Once Again, Dirty Energy is not in the Public Interest (www.nrdc.org)

Once Again, Dirty Energy is not in the Public Interest::It’s time for a New Mexico utility to invest in clean energy over dirty coal and gas.

Critical thinking education trumps banning and censorship in battle against disinformation, study suggests (www.psypost.org)

Critical thinking education trumps banning and censorship in battle against disinformation, study suggests::A new study conducted by researchers from Michigan State University suggests that the battle against online disinformation cannot be won by mere content moderation or banning those who spread fake news. Instead, the key...

YouTube forcing users to enable 'Watch history' to show video recommendations (piunikaweb.com)

Open Steno Project (Plover): Typing At 300 WPM? (www.openstenoproject.org)

Court reporters have used stenography for over a century to write at over 200 words per minute, faster than most people speak...

The first hydrogen-powered planes are taking flight (www.canarymedia.com)

The first hydrogen-powered planes are taking flight::undefined

The only way to avoid Grammarly using your data for AI is to pay for 500 accounts (yiffit.net)

Source: front-end.social/...

Beijing Superconductor Levitation Video Author Admits Fraud, Takes it Down (www.tomshardware.com)

Artificial Influence: An Analysis Of AI-Driven Persuasion (arxiv.org)

BBC News and BBC Sounds launched a Discord server in late June for the Newscast podcast, letting the audience influence the news; the server has 3,700 members (pressgazette.co.uk)

The emergence of prompt engineers: The next in-demand role in AI - DataScienceCentral.com (www.datasciencecentral.com)

Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon (arstechnica.com)

Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon::Amazon resisted a removal request, citing lack of “trademark registration numbers.”

Veilid Framework - A New Decentralized Application Framework by cDC members (Cult of the Dead Cow) (veilid.com)

Presented by Christien ‘DilDog’ Rioux and Katelyn ‘Medus4’ Bowden at DefCon 31...

Running DOOM In A Keycap Takes Careful Work (hackaday.com)

CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking (www.theverge.com)

New research visualizes the political bias of all major AI language models (www.technologyreview.com)

New research visualizes the political bias of all major AI language models:...

End of an era: Zoom tells employees to return to office for work (nypost.com)

End of an era: Zoom tells employees to return to office for work::Zoom is asking all of its employees to return to the office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, when the tech company blew up as one of the main means of communication when people were forced to work from home.