Commented

France says Telegram CEO has been freed, will appear in court (www.voanews.com)

OpenBSD has reached OpenBSD of Theseus (marc.info)

Pakistan blames users for slow internet as firewall rumours grow (www.bbc.com)

Eco Wave Power launches first megawatt-scale wave energy project in Portugal (www.waterpowermagazine.com)

Sineng Electric launches world’s largest sodium-ion battery storage project (www.pv-magazine.com)

AI helps lighten the load on the electric grid – without skimping on people’s energy use. (theconversation.com)

Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From (www.404media.co)

My investigation reveals that the AI images we see on Facebook are an evolution of a Facebook spam economy that has existed for years, driven by social media influencers, guides, services, and businesses in places like India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam, where the payouts generated by this content, which seems...

GitHub Profile Roast - roasts you based on what's in your profile. (github-roast.pages.dev)

Found this on news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41154560

Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and AI plans (www.bbc.com)

The new Labour government has shelved £1.3bn of funding promised by the Conservatives for tech and Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects, the BBC has learned....

NVIDIA's Dominance In ADAS Chips Under Threat From Chinese OEMs, Huawei's HiSilicon All Set To Announce A Breakthrough Development (wccftech.com)

Google Wallet now works for California driver’s licenses (www.theverge.com)

Google avoids “link tax” bill with deal to fund California journalism and AI (arstechnica.com)

'Football fields' of batteries have helped Texas's grid when electricity demand is highest (www.wfaa.com)

AltStore PAL drops its annual subscription thanks to a grant from Epic (www.theverge.com)

WD loses hard drive patent lawsuit, owes $262M damages – Blocks and Files (blocksandfiles.com)

Stratasys sues Bambu Lab over patents used widely by consumer 3D printers (arstechnica.com)

Stratasys is claiming infringements on patents it owns (included ones acquired from Makerbot) on things like purge towers, heated beds, and force detection. Many of them things common to most FFF/FDM 3D printers....

We found the Missing Performance: Zen 5 Tested with SMT Disabled (www.techpowerup.com)

USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation (www.wired.com)

Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry. (www.vox.com)

[L]ately, Anthropic has been in the headlines for less noble reasons: It’s pushing back on a landmark California bill to regulate AI. It’s taking money from Google and Amazon in a way that’s drawing antitrust scrutiny. And it’s being accused of aggressively scraping data from websites without permission, harming their...

technology