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The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide::The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British...

Video game studios are so scared of AI they’re offering $7K bonusus for AI ideas::They’re forcing employees to study machine learning and offering $7,000 bounties for A.I. ideas: ‘Every week, we feel that we are going to be eliminated’

Apple hit with $1B UK lawsuit over ‘abusive pricing’ in App Store::undefined

‘Android’s now better than iOS’: Instagram boss weighs in on the age-old iPhone vs. Android debate::Instagram head Adam Mosseri’s best tech “hot take”? He believes Google’s Android platform has surpassed Apple’s iOS.

Gem Hunters Found the Lithium America Needs. Maine Won’t Let Them Dig It Up::Gem hunters in Maine found one of the richest lithium deposits in the U.S. State laws are preventing them from being able to mine it.

‘Breakthrough’ geothermal tech produces 3.5 megawatts of carbon-free power | Fervo Energy’s Nevada site is slated to power Google data centers.::An energy company called Fervo says it has achieved a breakthrough in geothermal technology.

Google’s AI Chatbot Is Trained by Humans Who Say They’re Overworked, Underpaid and Frustrated::(Bloomberg) – Google’s Bard artificial intelligence chatbot will answer a question about how many pandas live in zoos quickly, and with a surfeit of confidence.Most Read from BloombergTesla Investor Rode a 14,800% Gain Thanks...

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the owner of the now-defunct BreachForums website, has pleaded guilty to charges related to his operation of the cybercrime forum as well as having child pornography images.

‘This risk is real and could be exploited by adversaries of the US,’ warned the Dutch whistleblower who discovered them.

Meta faces a $100,000 daily fine if it doesn’t fix privacy issues in Norway | ‘It is so clear that this is illegal that we need to intervene now and immediately.’::Meta’s practice of tracking Instagram and Facebook users violates their privacy, Norway’s data protection regulator said…

Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey are suing OpenAI and Meta over violation of their copyrighted books. The trio says their works were pulled from illegal “shadow libraries” without their consent.

Apollo founder Christian Selig said he’s “heartbroken” about pulling the plug on the third-party app following Reddit’s API pricing changes.

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