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Disney+ debuts a new logo and integrates Hulu content, offering joint subs in the US (alternativeto.net)

Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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Choose the planet, choose Ecosia: why you’re going to be asked to pick a search engine (blog.ecosia.org)

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Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)

Meta and the Fediverse: The Duopoly that could shape the Web to come (fungiverse.wordpress.com)

How to install the Intel i225/i226-V network card driver under Windows Server system? (www.hystou.com)

Overview: Intel network cards come in two product lines, with i225-V/i226-V belonging to the consumer-grade line. The -LM suffix denotes the commercial-grade product line. By default, Windows Server only installs network card drivers for the commercial-grade line. However, it’s possible to forcibly install them using modified...

Chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality (www.axios.com)

Grumbles about generative AI’s shortcomings are coalescing into a “trough of disillusionment” after a year and a half of hype about ChatGPT and other bots....

Master Efficiency: 'The 5S Game' - Gold Award-Winning Solution (www.learningeverest.com)

Master the art of efficiency with ‘The 5S Game’, honored with the prestigious LearnX Gold Award. Engage in immersive simulations, mastering 5S principles to optimize workflows and achieve operational excellence. Unlock your efficiency potential today!

The BBC Won't Use AI to Promote Doctor Who Again After Being Yelled at by Fans (gizmodo.com)

The backlash was immediate, but it didn’t stop the BBC from using text generated by LLMs—and purportedly checked and copy-edited by a human before approval—in two marketing emails and mobile push notifications to advertise Doctor Who. But now, the corporation will stop the experimentation entirely after a wave of official...

The Affinity and Canva Pledge (affinity.serif.com)

An update from Affinity and Canva on the acquisition of Affinity/Serif by Canva. They have made 4 pledges, including to maintain perpetual licenses.

Twelve years after the death of Steve Jobs, the cracks are starting to appear at Apple (www.notebookcheck.net)

The White House Puts New Guardrails on Government Use of AI (www.wired.com)

Hollywood Studios, Amazon & Netflix Sue 'Evasive' Pirate IPTV Operator From Texas. (torrentfreak.com)

How well can LLMs solve chess puzzles? (github.com)

Each LLM is given the same 1000 chess puzzles to solve. See puzzles.csv. Benchmarked on Mar 25, 2024....

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (techcrunch.com)

Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors. Given these apps’ use of encryption, Facebook needed to develop special technology to get around it....

Stability AI CEO resigns because you can't beat centralized AI with more centralized AI (techcrunch.com)

Korean researchers unveil new superconductor PCPOSOS [PbxCux(P(OySy)4)601.Sz, x = 3 ~ 6, y+z = 0.3~0.4] and said they will publish the synthesis method for PCPOSOS on arXiv an onlinepreprint repositry (www.koreatimes.co.kr)

A group of Korean researchers, known for its controversial claim of creating the room-temperature superconductor LK-99, has newly unveiled its discovery of a new superconductor.

Beijing issues list of approved CPUs – with no Intel or AMD (www.theregister.com)

Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way? (www.vox.com)

Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)

Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’...

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