Unity will start charging developers each time their game is installed (www.engadget.com)
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (www.independent.co.uk)
CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | Some of the people said that when they went to redeem the offer, they got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled (techcrunch.com)
CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one....
The New York Times source code leaked by a 4chan user (stackdiary.com)
A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.
Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (www.cnbc.com)
Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad (www.theregister.com)
The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine’s unstoppable force.
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)
After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company’s return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....
Here’s How That Disney 360° Treadmill Works (hackaday.com)
Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility (www.theatlantic.com)
Discord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation (habr.com)
F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues (www.nytimes.com)
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The Absurdity of the Return-to-Office Movement (www.cnn.com)
The Absurdity of the Return-to-Office Movement::The return-to-office demands make little sense from an overall economic perspective, while working parents, in particular, benefit from not having to waste time commuting to an office, writes Peter Bergen.
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A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI (www.vox.com)
A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI::A list of authors and entertainers are also suing the tech company for damages that could total in the billions.
A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years (www.techradar.com)
A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years::A glowing horizon for phones
The first minds to be controlled by generative AI will live inside video games (www.cnbc.com)
'Your Turn': United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla (www.vice.com)
‘Your Turn’: United Auto Workers Launches Campaign to Unionize Tesla::After the UAW won contracts with the Big Three, it’s seeking to unionize 150,000 workers across a dozen companies including Tesla.
[misleading headline?] Nvidia Shield is getting Auro 3D audio support, full-screen ads (www.flatpanelshd.com)
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai Warns Android Users Not to Sideload Apps (www.gizmochina.com)
Second SpaceX Starship launch ends with explosion. What happens next? (www.nationalgeographic.com)
Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe (arstechnica.com)
Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe::Parents told the high school “believed” the deepfake nudes were deleted.
Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player "Useless" (futurism.com)
Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community (arstechnica.com)
Fees of up to $0.20 per install threaten to upend large chunks of the industry.
A disturbing number of TikTok videos about autism include claims that are “patently false,” study finds (www.psypost.org)
A disturbing number of TikTok videos about autism include claims that are “patently false,” study finds::A recent study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders found that a significant majority (73%) of informational videos on TikTok tagged with “#Autism” contain inaccurate or overgeneralized...
X wants permission to start collecting your biometric data and employment history (www.theverge.com)
“Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the privacy policy reads. It doesn’t include any details on what kind of biometric information this includes — or how X plans to collect it — but it typically involves fingerprints, iris...
