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Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late! (lemm.ee)

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Twitter Hate Speech Accounts Exploited Israel's War in Gaza to Grow Four Times Faster (www.rollingstone.com)

An Only Slightly Modest Proposal: If AI Companies Want More Content, They Should Fund Reporters, And Lots Of Them (www.techdirt.com)

Drones from American startups have been deemed glitchy and expensive, prompting Ukraine to turn to alternatives from China (archive.ph)

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Global PC shipments return to growth and pre-pandemic volumes in 1Q24, says IDC (www.digitimes.com)

Speed of AI development is outpacing risk assessment (arstechnica.com)

The increasing power of the latest artificial intelligence systems is stretching traditional evaluation methods to breaking point, posing a challenge to businesses and public bodies over how best to work with the fast-evolving technology....

Critical Rust flaw enables Windows command injection attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Microsoft unbundles Office and Teams globally in new attempt to appease antitrust regulators (www.geekwire.com)

Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint (www.the-express.com)

Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint::A Los Angeles couple filed a lawsuit against Google Maps for allegedly navigating them to a notorious South African crime neighborhood where tourists are left ‘injured, maimed or dead.’

UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s (www.theguardian.com)

Critical 'BatBadBut' Rust Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Attacks (thehackernews.com)

Fake Photos, Real Harm: AOC and the Fight Against AI Porn (www.rollingstone.com)

In 2023, more deepfake abuse videos were shared than in every other year in history combined, according to an analysis by independent researcher Genevieve Oh. What used to take skillful, tech-savvy experts hours to Photoshop can now be whipped up at a moment’s notice with the help of an app. Some deepfake websites even offer...

Admit it: ‘Artificial general intelligence’ may already be obsolete, Expecting OpenAI’s GPT and other large language models to beat humans at thinking like a human might be missing the point. (www.fastcompany.com)

Elon Musk filed a lawsuit in San Francisco’s Superior Court accusing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of betraying the startup’s initial commitment to openness, the betterment of society, and lack of profit as a motive. Among other things, Musk’s 35-page complaint argues that OpenAI has violated its original deal to share...

AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey (www.theregister.com)

Vinyl records outsell CDs for the second year running (www.theverge.com)

Using your phone to pay is convenient, but it can also mean you spend more (www.npr.org)

Intel investigating games crashing on 13th and 14th Gen Core i9 processors (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple (www.theverge.com)

Thoughts on the xz backdoor: an lzma-rs perspective | Blog (gendignoux.com)

The Hacking Lawsuit Looming Over Truth Social (www.wired.com)

Microsoft Build will detail “next generation” of Windows on Arm and new AI features (www.theverge.com)

US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say (www.reuters.com)

Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying (www.wired.com)

Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.