AltStore PAL drops its annual subscription thanks to a grant from Epic (www.theverge.com)
WD loses hard drive patent lawsuit, owes $262M damages – Blocks and Files (blocksandfiles.com)
Stratasys sues Bambu Lab over patents used widely by consumer 3D printers (arstechnica.com)
Stratasys is claiming infringements on patents it owns (included ones acquired from Makerbot) on things like purge towers, heated beds, and force detection. Many of them things common to most FFF/FDM 3D printers....
We found the Missing Performance: Zen 5 Tested with SMT Disabled (www.techpowerup.com)
USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation (www.wired.com)
Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry. (www.vox.com)
[L]ately, Anthropic has been in the headlines for less noble reasons: It’s pushing back on a landmark California bill to regulate AI. It’s taking money from Google and Amazon in a way that’s drawing antitrust scrutiny. And it’s being accused of aggressively scraping data from websites without permission, harming their...
NASA official acknowledges internal “disagreement” on safety of Starliner return (arstechnica.com)
How the Frontal Lobotomy Won the Nobel Prize in 1949 (youtu.be)
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic (www.cnbc.com)
Secretaries of state urge Elon Musk to fix AI chatbot spreading election misinformation on X. (www.voanews.com)
Google Loses Federal Antitrust Case (politicalwire.com)
Google Gemini ad controversy: Where should we draw the line between AI and human involvement in content creation? (theconversation.com)
The real risk of AI (youtu.be)
'Unacceptable': Court Blocks Net Neutrality Rules During Legal Battle (www.commondreams.org)
Samsung is marketing Galaxy Z Flip phones as police bodycams (www.engadget.com)
Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook. (themarkup.org)
AI achieves silver-medal standard solving International Mathematical Olympiad problems (deepmind.google)
Today, we present AlphaProof, a new reinforcement-learning based system for formal math reasoning, and AlphaGeometry 2, an improved version of our geometry-solving system. Together, these systems solved four out of six problems from this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), achieving the same level as a silver...
We made a cat drink a beer with Runway’s AI video generator, and it sprouted hands (arstechnica.com)
Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet (www.howtogeek.com)
Hands On with Spacetop the AR Laptop (www.youtube.com)
Mark Zuckerberg says Trump’s fist pump was ‘one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen in my life’ (www.theverge.com)
Google is close to making its biggest acquisition ever | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Google owner Alphabet is in advanced discussions to buy fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN....
The Future of Odysee (odysee.com)
AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream (www.wired.com)
New Mastodon feature will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their articles are being shared
You will notice that underneath some links shared on Mastodon, the author byline can be clicked to open the author’s associated fediverse account, right in the app. This highlights writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse, and makes it easier than ever to follow them and keep up with their future...