to prevent undeletion, dont delete your posts, tamper with them.
EDIT: I want to encourage being destructive to reddit, however I will be less provocitive because thats not whats needed. want to finally put it to rest? dont word things how i did....
Texas power use hits record high as heatwave lingers (www.reuters.com)
Texas power use hits record high as heatwave lingers::Demand for power in Texas hit a record high on Monday as homes and businesses kept air conditioners cranked up to escape a heatwave.
AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway (youtu.be)
Twitter owes ex-employees $500 mln in severance, lawsuit claims (www.reuters.com)
1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk. (en.wikipedia.org)
a.k.a. the 90–9–1 principle. Does the Fediverse follow this rule, or are there more creators here as early adopters? Are you a creator, a participator or a lurker?
KOSA is dead! (US) (www.fightforthefuture.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/20332183...
CrowdStrike shareholders sue over global outage, say company concealed info - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Google Begins Testing 50 Gig Fiber Internet (www.howtogeek.com)
Researchers from Nokia and GFiber Labs (the experimental arm of Google Fiber) successfully achieved 41.89 Gbps download speeds on a live Google Fiber network. This marks the first time that Nokia’s 50G PON (passive optical network) technology has been used on a Google-owned network, and its one of the only examples of live 50...
Wearables linked to ‘pathologic’ heart disease symptom monitoring (mhealthintelligence.com)
AFib patients using wearable devices are more likely to engage in high rates of symptom monitoring and experience anxiety than non-users, a study shows.
CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft (www.theverge.com)
CrowdStrike Update Causes Global Microsoft Outage Affecting Banks, Airlines And More (www.forbes.com)
A global Microsoft Windows outage, caused by a CrowdStrike software update, has disrupted airlines, banking services, and 911 lines, leading to grounded flights and long queues....
Not a single video wants to be played. · Issue #11255 · TeamNewPipe/NewPipe (github.com)
Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women (arstechnica.com)
Question about Active Noise Cancellation alternatives (fedia.io)
I've got a audio/tech question, maybe someone here might have some insight into....
Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn (techcrunch.com)
A feature Google demoed at its I/O confab yesterday, using its generative AI technology to scan voice calls in real time for conversational patterns associated with financial scams, has sent a collective shiver down the spines of privacy and security experts who are warning the feature represents the thin end of the wedge. They...
Microsoft offers to relocate nearly 10% of China-based staffers to the US or allied nations — AI and cloud engineering exodus from China begins (www.tomshardware.com)
Prepare to Get Manipulated by Emotionally Expressive Chatbots (www.wired.com)
FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks (arstechnica.com)
“[Razer] falsely claimed, in the midst of a global pandemic, that their face mask was the equivalent of an N95 certified respirator,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement....
Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash (www.theverge.com)
Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac (www.theverge.com)
Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)
A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....
Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders (www.theverge.com)
Elon Musk requires 'FSD' demo for every prospective Tesla buyer in North America (www.cnbc.com)
UK starts early trials of World's first pothole preventing robot (www.youtube.com)
Driverless vehicle that uses sensors to measure road surface quality and repair small cracks to stop them turning into potholes and hopefully decreasing the cost of road maintenance while improving average surface quality.