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A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months::Former Gizmodo writer Tom McKay managed to stay in the company’s workplace Slack even after leaving. All he had to do was change his name to “Slackbot.”

KUMAMOTO, Japan/TAIPEI – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has inaugurated its first plant in Japan, paving the way for it to begin making smartphone and auto-related chips for top local clients Sony and Renesas by the end of this year.

As if face, fingerprints, and iris scan weren’t enough for Identification. Now the Vietnamese government wants its citizens DNA too.

Some serious engineering makes for a pretty compelling voxel display. Plus the whole build saga is on Mastodon! Go Fediverse!

US considering more than $10 billion in subsidies for Intel, Bloomberg reports::The Biden administration is in talks to award more than $10 billion in subsidies to Intel Corp , Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

EU to fine Apple about $500 million for anticompetitive App Store policy in music streaming market::Apple is about to be hit with its first-ever fine from the EU commission, according to a report this morning…

There’s an enormous and largely invisible campaign to use fraudulent notices under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act to remove critical articles from the internet. We don’t know who is running the campaign, but we do know it’s facilitated by Google’s amazingly trustworthy approach to DMCA complaints made by...

Meta tells Instagram, Facebook users how to avoid Apple’s fees::Meta is adding the infamous Apple tax to its paid Instagram and Facebook boosts later this month, but is also telling buyers how to avoid those pesky App Store fees.

New York City files a lawsuit saying social media is fueling a youth mental health crisis::New York City, its schools and public hospital system are suing the tech giants that run Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube

Judge rejects most ChatGPT copyright claims from book authors::OpenAI plans to defeat authors’ remaining claim at a “later stage” of the case.

Paramount Global Laying Off 800 Employees as CEO Bakish Cites Need to Trim Costs::Paramount Global, amid a swirl of M&A discussions, is laying off about 800 employees worldwide as it looks to trim costs.

The device provides a realistic sense of hot and cold in the missing “phantom” hand by delivering thermal information to nerve areas on the amputee’s residual limb that the brain believes are still connected to the missing hand.

Armies of bots battled on Twitter over Chinese spy balloon incident::Large proportions of users posting on Twitter – now X – about the Chinese balloon that drifted over the US and Canada in 2023 were bots attempting to shape the debate

Reddit chooses New York Stock Exchange for long-stalled IPO::Social media platform’s valuation is expected to have tumbled from $10bn in 2021

New Study Says Artificial Intelligence Still Too Costly To Replace Most Human Jobs::Artificial intelligence is still costly to replace most human jobs, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The MIT Beyond AI Exposure study said, “Machines will steal our jobs” is a sentiment frequently expressed...

Misinformation spreads in China on ‘civil war’ in Texas::Chinese social media cheers intensifying standoff between Texas and the White House over illegal migrants.

U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried | Trader Joe’s, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting worker…::Trader Joe’s, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting workers and consumers—the NLRB...

Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes::Bipartisan measure introduced in the US senate will allow victims in ‘digital forgeries’ to seek civil penalty against perpetrators

Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages::New warning as AI suddenly targets billions of private messages on smartphones…