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The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat (www.theverge.com)

ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say (arstechnica.com)

VPN by Google One is shutting down for good (www.androidauthority.com)

Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband (www.popsci.com)

Where there's a will, there's Huawei to develop one's own chipmaking kit (www.theregister.com)

Meta and Lavender (blog.paulbiggar.com)

A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?...

Tik-Tok Lite (www.reuters.com)

Wait, so now people are going to be monetarily rewarded for using tiktok?...

On Being an Outlier (www.goethe.de)

Proponents of AI and other optimists are often ready to acknowledge the numerous problems, threats, dangers, and downright murders enabled by these systems to date. But they also dismiss critique and assuage skepticism with the promise that these casualties are themselves outliers — exceptions, flukes — or, if not, they are...

Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung as iPhone shipments drop, research company says (www.nbcnews.com)

Tesla stops cybertruck deliveries—accelerator pedal may be to blame (arstechnica.com)

Owners will have to wait until April 20 for deliveries to resume.

Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government (www.wired.com)

Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy (www.theregister.com)

AI now beats humans at basic tasks — new benchmarks are needed, says major report (www.nature.com)

Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. (www.ghacks.net)

These changes are only applicable to users in the EEA. For those outside the region, Windows will continue to function as it is!...

Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up. (mashable.com)

A shocking story was promoted on the “front page” or main feed of Elon Musk’s X on Thursday:...

Google employees protest company’s work with Israeli government (thehill.com)

Report: TikTok’s efforts to silo US data are ‘largely cosmetic’ (www.theverge.com)

Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Jesus, again already?

The Tiny Ultrabright Laser that Can Melt Steel (spectrum.ieee.org)

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’ (www.vice.com)

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’::The New Zealand-based seller issued a notice to its Australian customers that shipments will continue regardless of the government’s vape reform.

OpenAI Announces that GPT-4 Turbo with Vision Is Now Available In The API (iblnews.org)

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some https://twitter.com/t3dotgg/status/1777425000133468582 began https://twitter.com/___frye/status/1777432913497465082 that posts https://twitter.com/__justplaying/status/1777433986500853845 via X for iOS were...

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