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Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck (www.vice.com)

Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck::“These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users,” the union representing the contractors said.

Computers make mistakes and AI will make things worse — the law must recognize that (www.nature.com)

Was Ron Desantis Running on ChatGPT This Whole Time? (gizmodo.com)

Delivery Firm’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue, Curses at Customer and Criticizes Company (time.com)

Delivery Firm’s AI Chatbot Goes Rogue, Curses at Customer and Criticizes Company::An AI customer service chatbot for delivery service DPD used profanity and criticized the company after prompting by a frustrated customer.

Japan's lunar lander is dying before our eyes after setting down on Moon (www.theregister.com)

Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage (arstechnica.com)

Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage::Samsung says Galaxy S24 AI features are “free until the end of 2025.”

Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10904853...

Apple Watches with blood oxygen tech are banned again (www.theverge.com)

Apple Watches with blood oxygen tech are banned again::A ban on selling the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 will be reinstated after the US Court of Appeals lifted its stay.

OpenAI Eliminates Ban on Use for Warfare and Military Purposes (truthout.org)

OpenAI Eliminates Ban on Use for Warfare and Military Purposes::undefined

TikTok Shop sellers say its AI moderation has gone rogue, doling out 'bogus' violations and freezing products without a clear explanation (www.businessinsider.com)

Google lays off hundreds in Assistant, hardware, engineering teams (www.reuters.com)

Google lays off hundreds in Assistant, hardware, engineering teams::undefined

Kagi search engine releases a "lens" to search lemmy/kbin instances (kagifeedback.org)

Kagi is a commercial search engine with some pretty awesome features. This one helps Lemmy users.

X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (www.vice.com)

X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation::Ken Klippenstein, Steven Monacelli, and Alan MacLeod were all suspended from the platform.

FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data (techcrunch.com)

After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients (www.theregister.com)

After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients::Remember the good old days when ransomware crooks vowed not to infect medical centers?

Kagi is now partnering with Brave (chaos.social)

Quite a controversial decision… I love Kagi though, but I don’t understand why they would want to drag Brave into this.

Supreme Court chief justice warns of dangers of AI in judicial work, suggests it is “always a bad idea” to cite non-existent court cases (www.independent.co.uk)

Supreme Court chief justice warns of dangers of AI in judicial work, suggests it is “always a bad idea” to cite non-existent court cases::Mr Roberts suggested there may come a time when conducting legal research without the help of AI is ‘unthinkable’

UK firm develops jet fuel made from human poo | The starting material is generated in excess and available in plenty. It is a win-win for everyone that the waste is repurposed. (interestingengineering.com)

UK firm develops jet fuel made from human poo | The starting material is generated in excess and available in plenty. It is a win-win for everyone that the waste is repurposed.::undefined

Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times (edition.cnn.com)

Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times::Scientists in California make a significant step in what could one day be an important solution to the global climate crisis, driven primarily by burning fossil fuels.

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