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I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty (www.wired.com)

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety. (www.nature.com)

Generative AI Is Coming To Your Home Appliances (www.forbes.com)

Across all industries, organizations are rapidly embracing generative AI. Among them, makers of home appliances like fridges and ovens. Generative AI in your oven? Why not? Ater all, AI has been creeping into our homes for years (think smart lightbulbs and Alexa) – but thanks to generative AI, these interactions will become...

Admit it: ‘Artificial general intelligence’ may already be obsolete, Expecting OpenAI’s GPT and other large language models to beat humans at thinking like a human might be missing the point. (www.fastcompany.com)

Elon Musk filed a lawsuit in San Francisco’s Superior Court accusing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, of betraying the startup’s initial commitment to openness, the betterment of society, and lack of profit as a motive. Among other things, Musk’s 35-page complaint argues that OpenAI has violated its original deal to share...

Revealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade ago (www.theguardian.com)

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Cable company logic: "Our predatory anti-consumer practices are really pro-consumer" (discuss.tchncs.de)

Will anyone actually buy this argument?

Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms (www.theguardian.com)

Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email (www.usatoday.com)

Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to ‘work longer hours’ in year-end email::Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah sent a year-end note to employees, suggesting they work longer hours and do better at mixing work with their personal lives.

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound | WIRED (www.wired.com)

A WIRED investigation just revealed Mark Zuckerberg’s years-long construction of a lavish, bunker-equipped sprawling compound in Hawaii....

X may lose up to $75 mln by year-end on advertiser exodus - NYT (www.reuters.com)

NVIDIA CEO Huang urges faster AI development—to make it safer (www.goldmansachs.com)

Here comes the push.

Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower hereditary high cholesterol (arstechnica.com)

YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

YouTube’s plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers::People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube’s anti-ad blocking efforts.

New videos of Tesla Cybertruck off-roading appear to show it struggling to climb up a steep dirt hill (www.msn.com)

New videos of Tesla Cybertruck off-roading appear to show it struggling to climb up a steep dirt hill::One video showed a 1946 Jeep CJ-2A successfully navigating the same hill that the Cybertruck struggled to summit.

Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs (www.pcmag.com)

Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.

The US electrical grid is in desperate need of upgrades, watchdog warns (www.engadget.com)

"waves of technological innovation" have gotten faster over time, "students might now find themselves learning skills in college that are obsolete by the time they graduate" (www.businessinsider.com)

NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals (www.insider.com)

NYC police have spent millions on a tech company that claims it can use AI to monitor social media and predict future criminals::The New York Police Department paid Voyager Labs more than $8 million in 2018. The company says it uses AI to analyze criminal behavior online.

A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply (fortune.com)

What’s the Bare Minimum Number of People for a Mars Habitat? (www.universetoday.com)

A recent preprint paper examines the minimum number of people required to maintain a feasible settlement on Mars while accounting for psychological and behavioral factors, specifically in emergency situations. This study was conducted by a team of data scientists from George Mason University and holds the potential to help...

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