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Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big boost (www.technologyreview.com)

Cerabyte Ceramic Storage Poised to Usher in 'Yottabyte Era' (www.tomshardware.com)

Apple shares fall after China reportedly bans iPhone use by government officials | Apple (www.theguardian.com)

Apple shares fall after China reportedly bans iPhone use by government officials | Apple::The move suggests that China, which is one of Apple’s biggest markets, is unwilling to spare any US company in fight to boost homegrown technology

AOL Pretends to be the Internet - The History of the Web (lemmy.capebreton.social)

cross-posted from: lemmy.capebreton.social/post/497698...

UK government to back down on controversial end-to-end encryption provisions in Online Safety Bill (techmonitor.ai)

Almost like it was a non-starter. Who could have possibly foreseen that?

Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk — With institutional knowledge seeping out of the site, poor moderation could have real-world impacts as more misinformation is allo... (www.theverge.com)

Reddit’s replacement mods may be putting its communities at risk — With institutional knowledge seeping out of the site, poor moderation could have real-world impacts as more misinformation is allo…::Reddit’s moderator purge could have real impacts on reliability and information safety as it rushes to replace mods with...

Professor Caught Using ChatGPT When Scientific Paper Was Full of Errors (futurism.com)

A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don't exist.

Russian Chipmaker Baikal Goes Bankrupt, Assets Valued at Only $5 Million (www.tomshardware.com)

Hell freezes over as Apple supports right-to-repair bill (arstechnica.com)

'Solar leafs' outshine panels in UK breakthrough - Energy Live News (www.energylivenews.com)

Danish cloud host says customers 'lost all data' after ransomware attack | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Both CloudNordic and Azero said that they were working to rebuild customers’ web and email systems from scratch, albeit without their data....

Ad firm plans to use people’s data in a maneuver to sink data privacy bill (www.politico.com)

Internal emails highlight how an advertising company can use its in-house resources to oppose public policy proposals....

Beepy, a palm-sized Linux hacking playground (hackaday.com)

ChatGPT Has Liberal Bias, Say Researchers (www.forbes.com)

An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban. Official: "It is simply not feasible to read every book" for depictions of sex. (arstechnica.com)

An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban. Official: “It is simply not feasible to read every book” for depictions of sex.::Official: “It is simply not feasible to read every book” for depictions of sex.

School district uses ChatGPT to help ban library books (www.popsci.com)

Faced with new legislation, Iowa's Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books 'contain a description or depiction of a sex act.'

AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans (qz.com)

AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans::The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans

YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting ‘harmful or ineffective’ cancer cures (www.theverge.com)

Lina Khan: The most feared person in Silicon Valley is a 34-year-old in DC (finance.yahoo.com)

Lina Khan is a key architect of an aggressive attempt by Washington to rein in tech giants. Amazon may be next....

How the Kids Online Safety Act puts us all at risk (www.platformer.news)

Anti-speech laws are spreading from states to Congress, and the future of online speech could hang in the balance

Tesla exaggerating EV range for over a decade (arstechnica.com)

Tesla exaggerating EV range for over a decade::undefined

Reddit is removing your chat history from before 2023 (www.theverge.com)

Reddit is removing your chat history from before 2023::As part of a migration to a new architecture, Reddit chose not to migrate chat histories before 2023. Though it offers a way for users to request their old data, including chat histories, some users say they’re still missing messages.

AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 launch due to unspecified quality issue — new launch in August; chipmaker pulls back all units shipped globally for quality checks (www.tomshardware.com)

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