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First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says (thehill.com)

The first Neuralink implant in a human malfunctioned after several threads recording neural activity retracted from the brain, the Elon Musk-owned startup revealed Wednesday....

Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Disabled members of Congress are using apps to do their jobs while paving a path for others (www.sfchronicle.com)

Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED (www.wired.com)

Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

A global plastic treaty will only work if it caps production, modeling shows (phys.org)

BBC World Service - lite (mastodon.social)

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Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings (berthub.eu)

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Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android (www.apple.com)

Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.

Comcast to Launch Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ Bundle at a ‘Vastly Reduced Price’ (variety.com)

Comcast later this month will launch a streaming bundle with Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ at a deep discount, Comcast chief Brian Roberts said.

Everything happening at Google’s I/O developer conference 2024 (www.theverge.com)

Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...

Major ChatGPT-4o update allows audio-video talks with an “emotional” AI chatbot (arstechnica.com)

Air Force is “growing concerned” about the pace of Vulcan rocket launches (arstechnica.com)

Read the memo: Meta is shutting down Workplace, cutting back enterprise ambitions (techcrunch.com)

Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says (arstechnica.com)

Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon (english.elpais.com)

US races to develop AI-powered, GPS-free fighter jets, outpacing China (interestingengineering.com)

Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)

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Color coding crops (www.cell.com)

Using genomic techniques to change the color of plants to make it easier for robots to harvest them.

Sharp to cease LCD plant operation, end Japan's large panel production (asia.nikkei.com)

cross-posted from: kbin.social/m/Japan/t/1027777...

Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option (www.theverge.com)

Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs (www.theverge.com)

1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog (blog.mozilla.org)

The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...

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