Scientists Are Trying to Coax the Ocean to Absorb More CO2 (e360.yale.edu)
Your Brain Waves Are Up for Sale. A New Law Wants to Change That. (www.nytimes.com)
The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data (restofworld.org)
Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. (www.brookings.edu)
Critical 'BatBadBut' Rust Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Attacks (thehackernews.com)
Tech titans assemble to decide which jobs AI should cut first (www.theregister.com)
Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web (blog.mozilla.org)
Been getting a lot of these emails lately (imgflip.com)
AI hustlers stole women’s faces to put in ads. The law can’t help them. (wapo.st)
Artificial intelligence is spurring a new type of identity theft — with ordinary people finding their faces and words twisted to push often offensive products and ideas
Stability AI CEO resigns because you can't beat centralized AI with more centralized AI (techcrunch.com)
How Teens and Parents Approach Screen Time: Most teens sometimes feel happy and peaceful when they don’t have their phone, but 44% say this makes them anxious. (www.pewresearch.org)
Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form (arstechnica.com)
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Apple is reportedly exploring a partnership with Google for Gemini-powered feature on iPhones (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI shares Elon Musk emails urging startup to raise $1 billion, see Tesla as a cash cow in its early years (www.cnbc.com)
The reproduced messages follow a starkly different point of view Musk represented last week, when he sued OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, alleging breach of contract and unfair competition.
Chinese-made phones are calling the shots in Africa as they beat global giants Samsung and Apple (www.scmp.com)
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Google cuts team of contractors who went on strike (www.theverge.com)
Google cuts team of contractors who went on strike::Google previously said the team of YouTube Music contractors were not employees since they were hired by Cognizant.
How Stupid Do They Think We Are: Media execs don’t want the sites, they just want the names (aftermath.site)
Biden signs executive order to stop Russia and China from buying Americans’ personal data | The bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial and health data will be off-limits to “countries of conc... (www.engadget.com)
Biden signs executive order to stop Russia and China from buying Americans’ personal data | The bulk sale of geolocation, genomic, financial and health data will be off-limits to “countries of conc…::President Joe Biden has signed an executive order that aims to limit the mass-sale of Americans’ personal data to...
Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative... (www.bloomberg.com)
Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative…::The Boring Company’s tiny Las Vegas Loop is all that’s come of Musk’s promises to build superfast mass-transit...
Rivian Follows Tesla’s Lead, Opens Charging Network to Other Brands (discuss.online)
According to shareholder letters, Rivian plans to allow charging of electric vehicles of other brands in the second half of the year.
Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy (arstechnica.com)
Court blocks $1 billion copyright ruling that punished ISP for its users’ piracy::“Cox did not profit from its subscribers’ acts of infringement,” judges rule.
Signal: Introducing usernames and phone number privacy (signal.org)
TLDR version as per Signal’s Mastodon:...
‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is a Trojan Horse For Digital Censorship. (consumerchoicecenter.org)
‘Kids Online Safety Act’ is a Trojan Horse For Digital Censorship.::Washington, D.C. - This week, a bipartisan cohort of US Senators unveiled a new version of the Kids Online Safety Act, a bill that aims to impose various restrictions and requirements on tech