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China's tech crackdown cost over $1 trillion. But the economy is in such deep trouble that the country's cozying up to its tech firms again. (www.businessinsider.com)

China’s tech crackdown cost over $1 trillion. But the economy is in such deep trouble that the country’s cozying up to its tech firms again.::Local governments in China are wooing deals with tech giants to build on the so-called “platform economy,” per the SCMP.

A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)

Europe’s dark matter-hunting space telescope nabs its first test images (www.esa.int)

Montana train derailment renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems (apnews.com)

Montana train derailment renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems::The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana.

Some Apple users say its parental controls aren't working properly. A CEO who has 4 kids called it 'frustrating.' (www.businessinsider.com)

Some Apple users say its parental controls aren’t working properly. A CEO who has 4 kids called it ‘frustrating.’::Parents told The Wall Street Journal they have to continuously check their Screen Time settings to ensure their children’s usage is limited.

Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough (www.nytimes.com)

For the Love of God, Stop Microwaving Plastic (www.wired.com)

Milk-V's Pioneer Is a Tall Glass of Cold RISC-V with 64 Cores, Up to 128GB of RAM (www.hackster.io)

Hackers exploit BleedingPipe RCE to target Minecraft servers, players (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Hackers are actively exploiting a 'BleedingPipe' remote code execution vulnerability in Minecraft mods to run malicious commands on servers and clients, allowing them to take control of the devices.

Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make (arstechnica.com)

Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make::The AirPods Pro “could have been easily made repairable with minimal effort.”

The codified Library of Alexandria (madhakker.com)

For 10 days I learned like I have never learned before....

The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project (www.bbc.com)

The Blue Flash: How a careless slip led to a fatal accident in the Manhattan Project::One day in Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project, a brief, casual moment of carelessness killed one scientist and severely injured another.

Following the (Italian Competition) Authority's intervention, Google's data portability becomes easier (en.agcm.it)

The Italian Competition Authority has closed its investigation into an alleged abuse of dominant position by Alphabet Inc., Google LLC, Google Ireland Limited and Google Italy S.r.l (Google), by making the proposed commitments binding....

Cheap proton batteries compete with lithium on energy density (sopuli.xyz)

RMIT engineers say they’ve tripled the energy density of cheap, rechargeable, recyclable proton flow batteries, which can now challenge commercially available lithium-ion batteries for capacity with a specific energy density of 245 Wh/kg.

LK-99: The Live Online Race for a Room-Temperature Superconductor (eirifu.wordpress.com)

OpenAI just admitted it can't identify AI-generated text. That's bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models. (www.businessinsider.com)

OpenAI just admitted it can’t identify AI-generated text. That’s bad for the internet and it could be really bad for AI models.::In January, OpenAI launched a system for identifying AI-generated text. This month, the company scrapped it.

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