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AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 launch due to unspecified quality issue — new launch in August; chipmaker pulls back all units shipped globally for quality checks (www.tomshardware.com)

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind (ea.rna.nl)

Intel denies RMA requests for its faulty 13th Gen, 14th Gen CPUs with instability issues (www.tweaktown.com)

Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shocked (arstechnica.com)

ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text (arstechnica.com)

Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet (futurism.com)

Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.

European Union regulators accuse Apple of breaching the bloc's tech rules (www.cnbc.com)

Petition | Meta has announced it will be abandoning CrowdTangle, its industry leading transparency tool, this August - in the middle of the biggest election year on record (foundation.mozilla.org)

TELL META: Don’t Kill Your Crucial Transparency Tool, CrowdTangle!...

Internet Service Providers Try to Stop Net Neutrality in Court | Cord Cutters News (cordcuttersnews.com)

Colorado enacts right-to-repair law banning restrictions on parts pairing, mirroring Oregon's ban (www.cpr.org)

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Here's How to Declutter Your Google Search Results (And Make It Your Default) (www.howtogeek.com)

Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button (www.theverge.com)

US races to develop AI-powered, GPS-free fighter jets, outpacing China (interestingengineering.com)

Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail (www.nature.com)

Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall (electrek.co)

Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Earlier this month, we wrote that some of Intel’s recent high-end Core i9 and Core i7 processors had been crashing and exhibiting other weird issues in some games and that Intel was investigating the cause....

Fake job interviews target developers with new Python backdoor (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers (www.cnn.com)

What is screen time doing to children? Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media. (www.economist.com)

Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces (proton.me)

"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI (arstechnica.com)

On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt “sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License,” and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.

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