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NYT looks like it’s updated it’s robots.txt file to disallow the Open AI bot from scraping it’s data. Pretty interested to see if they just update their user agent string or if they’ll respect it

The Kids Online Safety Act Denies Young People’s Freedoms of Expression and Privacy.::Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.

Cellebrite asks cops to keep its phone hacking tech ‘hush hush’ | TechCrunch::For years, cops and other government authorities all over the world have been using phone hacking technology provided by Cellebrite to unlock phones and In a leaked video, a Cellebrite employee urges law enforcement customers to keep their use of...

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First, I’m not going to give any social media my ID....

Microplastics Found In Human Hearts For First Time, Showing Impact Of Pollution::A study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology for found microplastics in the hearts and blood of humans undergoing cardiac surgery.

Influencers are disgusted with Amazon’s paltry $25-per-video endorsement offer | It looks like full-time Amazon UCG creators are getting a 90-percent cut in pay::undefined

Most Americans have very little choice but to provide their personal information to credit bureaus. Hackers have found a way into that data supply chain, and are advertising access in group chats used by violent criminals who rob, assault, and shoot targets.

How Canada poached 10,000 tech workers from the U.S. — in just 48 hours::Canadian tech employers want the immigration ministry to extend the program launched last month — and it’s just common sense it should, David Olive writes.

Scientists recorded a Pink Floyd song from patients’ brain waves. The tech could eventually allow for communication without words::Listen here.

Meta’s news ban is preventing Canadians from sharing vital information about the wildfires ripping through western Canada::Canadians are calling on Meta to lift its news ban so they can share news about the wildfires in the Northwest Territories and British Columbia.

British microchip designing giant Arm has announced it has filed paperwork to sell its shares in the US....

Well, that was quick. We had just been discussing the encouraging news that Rockstar had scooped up Cfx.re, a community dedicated to roleplaying within GTA and Red Dead Redemption games, as well as several mods made within that community. The only thing that made this newsworthy at all is that Rockstar has had an awful...

Like… seriously, why every year is now the year of semiconductor deficiency, all thanks to the increase in GPU sales? First we had problems because of cryptomining boom, now everyone wants to train their own fucking AI. Fuck you Nvidia, fuck you AMD, I just want to buy the fucking computer!!...

Hospital bosses love AI. Doctors and nurses are worried.::undefined