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How Autonomous Vehicles Could Help People with Disabilities (www.scientificamerican.com)

Apple wins bid to pause Apple Watch ban at US appeals court (www.reuters.com)

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Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’ (www.404media.co)

Verizon Gave Her Data to a Stalker. ‘This Has Completely Changed My Life’::A stalker haphazardly posing as a cop demanded sensitive data from Verizon. Verizon complied, and the stalker drove to an address armed with a knife. 404 Media spoke to the victim.

Police to be able to run face recognition searches on 50m driving licence holders | Facial recognition | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Child sex abuse images found in dataset training image generators, report says (arstechnica.com)

The report: …stanford.edu/…/ml_training_data_csam_report-2023…

Amazon Fires Up Its Space Lasers (spectrum.ieee.org)

30 Years After Doom’s Release, These Are the 30 Best-Worst Ways to Play the Game That Started It All (gizmodo.com)

How to take ‘forever’ out of forever chemicals (www.nature.com)

Israel is using an AI system to find targets in Gaza. Experts say it's just the start (www.npr.org)

Archived at web.archive.org/…/israel-is-using-an-ai-system-to…

Evidence mounts that China has sanctions-defying 5nm tech (www.tomshardware.com)

Evidence mounts that China has sanctions-defying 5nm tech::Huawei’s next-generation Ascend 910B AI accelerator purportedly uses SMIC’s N+2 process technology.

Google’s best Gemini AI demo video was fabricated (arstechnica.com)

DoorDash, delivery apps remove tipping prompt at checkout in NYC (abcnews.go.com)

DoorDash, delivery apps remove tipping prompt at checkout in NYC::DoorDash and Uber Eats have adjusted tipping policies in response to the minimum pay increase for app-based food delivery workers in New York City.

Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos (arstechnica.com)

"Imagine with Meta AI" turns prompts into images, trained using public Facebook data.

Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data (arstechnica.com)

Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data::Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests.

America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds (www.vice.com)

America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds::The Southern California-to-Las Vegas route makes total sense and involves no wishful thinking in order to be a resounding success.

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AI could mean free doctors and lawyers for everybody in 10 years, OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla believes / There will even be a billion bipedal robots in 25 years, Khosla said (archive.ph)

AI could mean free doctors and lawyers for everybody in 10 years, OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla believes / There will even be a billion bipedal robots in 25 years, Khosla said::undefined

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers (futurism.com)

Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.

Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files (www.theregister.com)

Google Drive misplaces months’ worth of customer files::The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished

Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft offers to match pay of all OpenAI staff (www.bbc.com)

Microsoft offers to match pay of all OpenAI staff::The tech giant offers jobs to any workers who want to leave over Sam Altman’s sacking.

Flipboard stops tweeting, launches new podcast about decentralized social apps | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the "fediverse" -- the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on those ambitions with an announcement that it will stop tweeting while also launching a new podcast devoted to exploring the topic of decentralized social...

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