15-year-old social media influencer who claims her parents ripped her off inspires Illinois law allowing kids to sue::"The rise of social media has given children new opportunities to earn a profit. Many parents have taken this opportunity to pocket the money.”
Will I ever need math? A mathematician explains how math is everywhere – from soap bubbles to Pixar movies::Math is more than memorizing times tables and doing homework problems. It is woven into more aspects of your life than you might think.
AI hysteria is a distraction: algorithms already sow disinformation in Africa::Forget ‘AI doomerism’ hype over ChatGPT, big tech’s colonial attitude lets hateful electoral propaganda be fed to millions
Veilid is “an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first networked application framework, with a flagship secure messaging application named VeilidChat.” Application frameworks of this sort are flexible software packages that can be iterated on and changed by infusing new code into them. Developers who want to create new...
"By pulling information out of us, like therapists, and then having perfect recall of every detail we’ve ever told it, these companion chatbots can pattern match our behavior”
Call of Duty now shows you when a cheater has been booted right in the kill feed::Activision will let everyone know when a Call of Duty cheater has been booted from a lobby. It’s the latest in a multi-year crackdown on cheaters.
Internet providers that won FCC grants try to escape broadband commitments::“Coalition of RDOF Winners” lobbies FCC but won’t reveal its full member list.
Montana train derailment renews calls for automated systems to detect track problems::The NTSB is renewing its calls for major freight railroads to equip every locomotive with automated track inspection devices that it believes could have prevented a 2021 train derailment that killed three people in Montana.