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On the Origin of Emacs in 1976 (onlisp.co.uk)

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind (ea.rna.nl)

Reproductive rights are under attack using online data. These tools help people protect themselves (www.salon.com)

Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized (www.theverge.com)

Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled (www.tomshardware.com)

Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.

What's Going On With Trump Media & Technology Stock On Tuesday? (orino.pages.dev)

Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis (www.wired.com)

AI companies promised the White House to self-regulate one year ago. What’s changed? (www.technologyreview.com)

Google scraps plans to deprecate third-party cookies in Chrome (www.campaignlive.com)

In a blog post released on Monday, VP of Privacy Sandbox Anthony Chavez said that Google is “proposing an updated approach that elevates user choice” by allowing users to select whether or not they want to enable cookies on Chrome and adjust that choice “at any time.”...

Windows 11 is nagging users to try OneDrive to "fully backup" your PC (www.windowslatest.com)

Windows 11 and Windows 10 were recently updated with “Windows Backup”, which has now become a system app. While the feature initially appeared as “optional” or something that could be easily dismissed, Microsoft is slowly getting aggressive with its new OneDrive backup campaign on Windows 11....

VOA investigates accused Russian hacker at center of Ukraine cyber plot. (www.voanews.com)

In Indonesia, social media is a “hunting ground” for religious minorities. (restofworld.org)

Google’s new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics. (www.technologyreview.com)

Europe must end its quantum technology research with China over security and military risks of collaboration, researcher says (www.merics.org)

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Doing unit test generation better with LLMs and mutation testing (github.com)

Anime music piracy website closes after industry goes to court (asia.nikkei.com)

Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI (www.wired.com)

Google Open-Sources ‘Project Oscar’, An AI Agent that Enriches Issues Reports. (iblnews.org)

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Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting (www.techdirt.com)

Parents Sue Gaming Companies Over ‘Video Game Addiction’, Because That’s Easier Than Parenting::Video game addiction. Sigh. Big sigh, even. Like, the biggest of sighs. We’ve talked about claims that video game addiction is a documentable affliction in the past, as well as the pushback that claim has received from...

Supreme Court Dodges Key Question in Murthy v. Missouri and Dismisses Case for Failing to Connect The Government’s Communication to Specific Platform Moderation. (www.eff.org)

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