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This war shows just how broken social media has become — The global town square is in ruins (www.theatlantic.com)

This war shows just how broken social media has become — The global town square is in ruins::The global town square is in ruins.

Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” (arstechnica.com)

Deepfake celebrities begin shilling products on social media, causing alarm (arstechnica.com)

Deepfake celebrities begin shilling products on social media, causing alarm::Hanks and other celebrities have recently become targets of AI-powered ad scams.

4chan Uses Bing to Flood the Internet With Racist Images (www.404media.co)

This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more! (arstechnica.com)

GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack (arstechnica.com)

GPUs from all six of the major suppliers are vulnerable to a newly discovered attack that allows malicious websites to read the usernames, passwords, and other sensitive visual data displayed by other websites, researchers have demonstrated in a paper published Tuesday....

Two Vegas casinos fell victim to cyberattacks, shattering the image of impenetrable casino security (apnews.com)

IBM Software mandates in-office work for employees living within 50 miles | "Software Executive Focals" will be laying down the law (www.techspot.com)

IBM Software mandates in-office work for employees living within 50 miles | “Software Executive Focals” will be laying down the law::undefined

The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient (www.wired.com)

The Inventor Behind a Rush of AI Copyright Suits Is Trying to Show His Bot Is Sentient::Stephen Thaler’s series of high-profile copyright cases has made headlines worldwide. He’s done it to demonstrate his AI is capable of independent thought.

Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech (www.wired.com)

Grindr’s Return-to-Office Ultimatum Has Gutted a Uniquely Queer Space in Tech::Two weeks after staff at queer dating app Grindr unionized, bosses ordered employees back to the office. Nearly half the app’s workers refused and have been laid off.

Robotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Army (interestingengineering.com)

iFixit tears down a McDonald’s ice cream machine, demands DMCA exemption for it (arstechnica.com)

McDonald’s soft-serve ice cream machines are regularly broken, and it’s not just your perception. When repair vendor and advocate iFixit was filming a video about the topic, it checked tracking map McBroken and found that 34 percent of the machines in the state of New York were reported inoperable. As I write this, the...

How AI is bringing film stars back from the dead (www.bbc.com)

[James] Dean has been cast as the star in a new, upcoming movie called Back to Eden.

Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail (www.bbc.com)

Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves (www.theguardian.com)

Sound clip is pretty creepy.

PornHub owner MindGeek is threatening a kebab shop in NYC with trademark infringement (www.theverge.com)

PornHub owner MindGeek is threatening a kebab shop in NYC with trademark infringement::If you’ve been listening to the Vergecast you know the standard for trademark infringement is “likelihood of confusion,” and while it’s true the Hub is known for ⚫️🟠, something tells me the folks walking into Doner Haus aren’t...

Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit - AiO devices won't scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers (www.theregister.com)

Judge denies HP’s plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit - AiO devices won’t scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers::AiO devices won’t scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers

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