Amazon is raising free-shipping minimums for customers without a Prime membership (nypost.com)
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Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing (www.reuters.com)
Canada demands Meta lift news ban to allow wildfire info sharing::The Canadian government on Friday demanded that Meta lift a “reckless” ban on domestic news from its platforms to allow people to share information about wildfires in the west of the country.
How to get past a paywall to read an article ... (lifehacker.com)
Zoom has “Zoom fatigue,” requires workers to return to the office (arstechnica.com)
Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows (www.businessinsider.com)
Many Americans think NASA returning to the moon is a waste of time and it should prioritize asteroid hunting instead, a poll shows::Americans like NASA, but don’t support their funding going towards moon missions, according to new polls.
First claimed successful replication of LK-99 (twitter.com)
"Accomplished by a team at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and posted 30 minutes ago....
WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly (www.computerweekly.com)
Uncovering Every Lie in MKBHD's Softball Interview; a scathing critique of 'brand safe' influencers (www.youtube.com)
Louis Rossman discuses many design flaws made by Apple over the years throughout their entire catalog....
McDonald’s Gives Up On ‘AI’ After Comedy Of Errors, Including Putting Bacon On Ice Cream (www.techdirt.com)
LLMs certainly hold potential, but as we’ve seen time and time again in tech over the last fifteen years, the hype and greed of unethical pitchmen has gotten way out ahead of the actual locomotive. A lot of people in “tech” are interested in money, not tech. And they’re increasingly making decisions based on how to drum...
This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI (www.wired.com)
When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the new Windows AI tool that can answer questions about your web browsing and laptop use, he said one of the “magical” things about it was that the data doesn’t leave your laptop; the Windows Recall system takes screenshots of your activity every five seconds and saves them on the...
Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get (arstechnica.com)
Neuralink looks to the public to solve a seemingly impossible problem (www.cbc.ca)
Elon Musk’s quest to wirelessly connect human brains with machines has run into a seemingly impossible obstacle, experts say. The company is now asking the public for help finding a solution....
Google's AI search feature suggested using glue to keep cheese sticking to a pizza (www.businessinsider.com)
Google Accidentally Deleted $125 Billion Pension Fund's Account (gizmodo.com)
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software (alinpanaitiu.com)
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Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors (english.elpais.com)
Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors (www.theverge.com)
Google is removing third-party apps and clock faces from all Fitbit watches in the EU (9to5google.com)
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (openrss.org)
Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Google’s use of student data could effectively ban Chromebooks from Denmark schools (www.theverge.com)
Anti-aging pill for senior dogs is now in clinical trials (www.freethink.com)
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Functional 16-bit CPU built and runs in Excel, 3Hz processor includes 128KB of RAM, 16-color display, and a custom assembly language (www.tomshardware.com)
Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn't be taught to behave again in 'legitimately scary' study (www.livescience.com)
Poisoned AI went rogue during training and couldn’t be taught to behave again in ‘legitimately scary’ study::AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and...
