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‘Qantas can’t guarantee flights’, airline says, after allegedly selling 8,000 flights that were already cancelled — arguing what it did was reasonable and that “airlines can’t guarantee specific fl…::Qantas has launched its legal defence in the ACCC "“ghost flights”" case — allegedly selling 8,000 flights...

Infosys co-founder calls for youth to work 70-hour weeks — Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems::Do it for India, says Narayana Murthy, seemingly unaware that China, Japan, and South Korea all have overworking problems

BP buys $100 million worth of Tesla chargers::Oil and gas company BP has agreed to purchase $100 million worth of electric vehicles from Tesla. This marks the first time Tesla has ever sold chargers to another company, according to an announcement from BP.

Friday is the one-year anniversary of Elon Musk's $44 billion takeover of Twitter, which he subsequently renamed X....

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Meta’s harmful effects on children is one issue that unites Republicans and Democrats::A bipartisan group of 42 attorneys general sued Meta over addictive features aimed at kids and teens.

Researchers have devised an attack that forces Apple’s Safari browser to divulge passwords, Gmail message content, and other secrets by exploiting a side channel vulnerability in the A- and M-series CPUs running modern iOS and macOS devices....

Okta cybersecurity breach wipes out more than $2 billion in market cap::Okta shares continued their fall Monday after the company said client files had been accessed by an unknown hacker, the latest attempt involving the company.

Instagram sorry for adding ‘terrorist’ to some Palestinian user bios::It says it fixed a problem “that briefly caused inappropriate translations” in some Instagram profiles.

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‘Groundbreaking’ bionic arm that fuses with user’s skeleton and nerves could advance amputee care::The bionic arm has been working for years, reducing the user’s level of pain. The first person to receive it tells how life changing it has been.

Colorado upheld a warrant’s reverse keyword search for directions to a house. They claim the search warrant, which was overly broad and without individual probable cause, did not violate Google’s millions of US users’ fourth amendment protections, because the court said the police were acting in good faith under what was...

EU opens investigation into X over alleged disinformation - The European Union announced today it is opening an investigation into X for allegedly spreading illegal content and disinformation, incl…::The European Union is cranking up the heat on Elon Musk-owned X. Late Thursday, the Commission sent the company a formal request...

A world of AI-assisted writing and reviewing might transform the nature of the scientific paper.

Amazon’s Alexa fumbles its facts by falsely claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen::Alexa cited Rumble to claim the 2020 election was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud,” The Washington Post reported.

When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.

Sam Bankman-Fried would readily choose a Brooklyn jail cell with internet access over a $39 million Bahamas penthouse that doesn’t have Wi-Fi, author of FTX book says::“Now that sounds crazy, but I do think that if he had the internet, he could survive jail forever,” author Michael Lewis said of Sam Bankman-Fried.