House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel (www.nytimes.com)
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
The End of an Era: Women Who Code Closing - Women Who Code (womenwhocode.com)
Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” (spectrum.ieee.org)
…replacing the previously hydraulic version....
Humane AI Pin: much-hyped gadget rocked by bad reviews (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2686042...
Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record (www.404media.co)
Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain its latest app • The Register (www.theregister.com)
After 48 years, Zilog finally discontinues the Z80 (www.hackster.io)
The end of an era
Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging (chainstoreage.com)
Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students (www.theregister.com)
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices.
“Nanostitches” enable lighter and tougher composite materials (news.mit.edu)
New Boston Dynamics Robot (bostondynamics.com)
How long before I can fuck it?
Researchers develop paper battery that generates power from water, air - Interesting Engineering (interestingengineering.com)
OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022 | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Tesla seeks to award Elon Musk $56bn pay package | BBC (www.bbc.com)
Adobe's new generative AI tools for video are absolutely terrifying (mashable.com)
The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived (www.wired.com)
How to Turn Off Just Rolled Out Meta AI on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp (lifehacker.com)
Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site (www.theregister.com)
Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove....
Riley Testut launches Delta emulator on US App Store (free) - shows middle finger to Europe (payment required) (9to5mac.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14398634...
Best Buy plans to close 10 to 15 stores by 2025 (www.usatoday.com)
The Department of Justice is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation (www.theverge.com)
Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps (www.ghacks.net)
Google warns users of these apps that their experience may deteriorate soon. They may “experience buffering issues” or see errors such as “the following content is not available on this app” when trying to watch videos....
Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out (stackdiary.com)
The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.