Congress’s push to protect kids online is at a crossroads (KOSA, US-focused) (www.washingtonpost.com)
Legislators are considering attaching KOSA (the anti-LGBTQ+ censorship bill, aka the Kids Online Safety Act) to must-pass legislation authorizing the FAA. As EFF points out, the latest version of KOSA is still a censorship bill....
Exchange Server Roadmap Update (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
Powerful New Chatbot Mysteriously Returns in the Middle of the Night (gizmodo.com)
Israeli Weapons Firms Required to Buy Cloud Services From Google and Amazon (theintercept.com)
Google and Amazon are both loath to discuss security aspects of the cloud services they provide through their joint contract with the Israeli government, known as Project Nimbus. Though both the Ministry of Defense and Israel Defense Forces are Nimbus customers, Google routinely downplays the military elements while Amazon says...
ChatGPT shows better moral judgment than a college undergrad (arstechnica.com)
Newspapers Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement and ‘Fake News’ Hallicunations (torrentfreak.com)
A storybook designed to teach kids about how computers work (www.lostlanguageofthemachines.com)
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A coffee roastery in Finland has launched an AI-generated blend. The results were surprising - KVIA (kvia.com)
By JARI TANNER Associated Press
'Women Who Code' Shuts Down Unexpectedly (tech.slashdot.org)
Women Who Code (WWC), a U.S.-based organization of 360,000 people supporting women who work in the tech sector, is shutting down due to a lack of funding.
STATEMENT from Google workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign on Google’s mass, retaliatory… (web.archive.org)
Elon Musk Doubles Down on Mars Dreams and Details What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship (singularityhub.com)
Google removing links to California news websites as part of test in response to pending legislation (www.cnbc.com)
Mozilla Pushes Feds to Embrace Truly Open, Transparent AI Models (www.pcmag.com)
Mozilla and a host of other researchers are urging US officials to see value in open-source AI models when considering future regulation....
Indeed Adds Generative AI to Help People Write Better Resumes (iblnews.org)
How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. (www.nytimes.com)
If the linked article has a paywall, you can access this archived version instead: archive.ph/aeQhP...
Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more (www.theregister.com)
Quantum Internet: No One Needs This (www.youtube.com)
Korean researchers unveil new superconductor PCPOSOS [PbxCux(P(OySy)4)601.Sz, x = 3 ~ 6, y+z = 0.3~0.4] and said they will publish the synthesis method for PCPOSOS on arXiv an onlinepreprint repositry (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
A group of Korean researchers, known for its controversial claim of creating the room-temperature superconductor LK-99, has newly unveiled its discovery of a new superconductor.
The first ‘Fairly Trained’ AI large language model is here (venturebeat.com)
Can anyone help with my VLC issue?
I have set up VLC to grab screengrabs and it isn’t doing it. It did do it a few days ago but today with the same settings and same file, nothing. Even made a new folder....
Brazil is fighting dengue with bacteria-infected mosquitos (www.technologyreview.com)
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The feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman – explained | Technology (www.theguardian.com)
Apple backtracks, reinstates Epic Games’ iOS developer account in Europe (arstechnica.com)
Apple has agreed to reinstate Epic Game’s Swedish iOS developer account just days after Epic publicized Apple’s decision to rescind that account. The move once again paves the way for Epic’s plans to release a sideloadable version of the Epic Games Store and Fortnite on iOS devices in Europe.