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Saudi Arabia claims 'record' low price as Marubeni wind power deal hits $15/MWh (www.rechargenews.com)

Atari just bought Intellivision, putting an end to the very first console war (www.engadget.com)

Should I use Microsoft Copilot?

I have been using Micorsoft Bing for a few weeks and using the Rewards program and I’m still debating on whether or not I should be using their new digital assistant Copilot assuming it won’t replace everything else....

Bloomberg - Apple Says No Major App Developers Accept New Outside Payments (www.bloomberg.com)

According to Apple, only 38 developers have applied to add such links — out of roughly 65,000 that could.

Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme (restofworld.org)

FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data (arstechnica.com)

Although the fines were originally proposed when the FCC was controlled by Republicans, the vote to finalize the penalties was 3-2 with dissents from Republicans Brendan Carr and Nathan Simington....

US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio (www.theguardian.com)

Nas’ 'Illmatic' Was the Beginning of the End of the Album (www.wired.com)

I know it doesn’t sound like a tech article but it is!

Critical Rust flaw enables Windows command injection attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

The Hated One - "Ai Will Wage Wars Over Water" (piped.video)

The Hated One has been pretty solid in the past regarding privacy/security, imho. I found this video of his rather enlightening and concerning....

Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)

How the House revived the TikTok ban bill before most of us noticed (www.theverge.com)

Interesting to note here: getting preteens to confusedly call Congress with threats of self harm and questions like “what is Congress” with a push notification is not the best plan

YouTube is revamping its TV app to make videos feel way more interactive (www.theverge.com)

Apple is working to make it easier to switch from iPhone to Android because of the EU (www.theverge.com)

The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ (www.theguardian.com)

Employers are letting artificial intelligence conduct job interviews. Candidates are trying to beat the system....

Google takes aim at SEO-optimized junk pages and spam with new search update (techcrunch.com)

Phones which battery doesn't get swollen?

I do lots of testing of apps in real phones, not emulators....

What a bunch of A-list celebs taught me about how to use my phone (www.theverge.com)

Amazon Turkers Who Train AI Say They’re Locked Out of Their Work and Money (www.404media.co)

Google sued for $2.3bn by European media groups over digital ad losses (www.theguardian.com)

Judge rebukes law firm using ChatGPT to justify $113,484.62 fee as “utterly and unusually unpersuasive” (www.theregister.com)

Judge rebukes law firm using ChatGPT to justify $113,484.62 fee as “utterly and unusually unpersuasive”::Use of AI to calculate legal bill ‘utterly and unusually unpersuasive’

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes 'overcompensate' for diversity (apnews.com)

Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes ‘overcompensate’ for diversity::Google apologized Friday for its faulty rollout of a new artificial intelligence image-generator, acknowledging that in some cases the tool would “overcompensate” in seeking a diverse range of people even when such a range didn’t make...

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