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UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s (www.theguardian.com)

Critical 'BatBadBut' Rust Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Attacks (thehackernews.com)

Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn (www.rollingstone.com)

In 2023, more deepfake abuse videos were shared than in every other year in history combined, according to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh. What used to take skillful, tech-savvy experts hours to Photoshop can now be whipped up at a moment’s notice with the help of an app. Some deepfake websites even offer...

Admit it: ‘Artificial general intelligence’ may already be obsolete, Expecting OpenAI’s GPT and other large language models to beat humans at thinking like a human might be missing the point. (www.fastcompany.com)

Elon Musk filed a lawsuit in San Francisco’s Superior Court accusing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of betraying the startup’s initial commitment to openness, the betterment of society, and lack of profit as a motive. Among other things, Musk’s 35-page complaint argues that OpenAI has violated its original deal to share...

AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey (www.theregister.com)

Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running (www.theverge.com)

Using your phone to pay is convenient, but it can also mean you spend more (www.npr.org)

Intel investigating games crashing on 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 processors (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple (www.theverge.com)

Thoughts on the xz backdoor: an lzma-rs perspective | Blog (gendignoux.com)

The Hacking Lawsuit Looming Over Truth Social (www.wired.com)

Microsoft Build will detail “next generation” of Windows on Arm and new AI features (www.theverge.com)

US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say (www.reuters.com)

Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying (www.wired.com)

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.

Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect (www.techradar.com)

Generative AI can turn your most precious memories into photos that never existed (www.technologyreview.com)

Dozens of people have now had their memories turned into images in this way via Synthetic Memories, a project run by Domestic Data Streamers. The studio uses generative image models, such as OpenAI’s DALL-E, to bring people’s memories to life. Since 2022, the studio, which has received funding from the UN and Google, has...

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