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Japan Passes Law to Allow Third-Party App Stores on the iPhone

macrumors.com/…/japan-passes-law-to-allow-third-p…

The OpenBSD folks are working on their own version control system, Game of Trees (gameoftrees.org)

I didn’t know about this and thought it interesting. Figured some others might as well.

Elon Musk’s X defeats Australia’s global takedown order of stabbing video (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft to spend $3.2B on expanding cloud and AI in green energy-rich Sweden (www.theregister.com)

NVIDIA Unveils Next-Gen Rubin, Rubin Ultra, Blackwell Ultra GPUs & Supercharged Vera CPUs (wccftech.com)

Rubin is coming: Jensen Huang announced the next generation GPU, Rubin, during his Computex keynote speech yesterday.

The Birth, Boom and Bust of the Hard Disk Drive (www.youtube.com)

NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket (arstechnica.com)

Tech workers should shine a light on the industry’s secretive work with the military (www.technologyreview.com)

Chuck Todd: The race to build a better internet — before it's too late (www.nbcnews.com)

The Affordable Connectivity Program Kept Them Online. What Now? (www.wired.com)

Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.today/post/10026267...

Japanese police create fake support scam payment cards to warn victims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

OpenAI Creates a Voice Cloning AI Tool, Not Available for the Public Yet. (iblnews.org)

Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick (www.nature.com)

OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022 | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Here's the column Meta doesn't want you to see: Read the Kansas Reflector's piece about Facebook's climate change ad policy (www.thehandbasket.co)

AI bots hallucinate software packages and devs download them (www.theregister.com)

Several big businesses have published source code that incorporates a software package previously hallucinated by generative AI....

The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore bridge collapse (www.vox.com)

How do I turn off Windows 10 & 11 automatic updates? (www.hystou.com)

Overview: Windows 11 and 10 offers less UI control over the updating behavior of the operating system than previous versions of Windows. There is no option to turn off Windows Updates using the Control Panel or Settings app in Windows 11 & 10, it checks for updates automatically and install any updates they find, whether you...

Say Hello to Biodegradable Microplastics (today.ucsd.edu)

How People Are Really Using GenAI (hbr.org)

I have unearthed Google Gemini's utopian vision for our future

The main risk currently is LLMs being incorporated within biological robots. Therefore all creators of LLMs need to have regulation under a treaty that states they will not permit use of their LLM within a biological robot and will take active measures to include in the source code a shutdown mechanism should it detect...