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Online Ratings Are Broken | Companies aren’t asking for your feedback. They’re begging you for data.::Companies aren’t asking for your feedback. They’re begging you for data.

A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens of thousands of acres of land for more than $800 million to build a new city near San Francisco::A company called Flannery Associates has been buying up land in Solano County for up to $15,000 per acre, court documents show.

Gizmodo's tests find the College Board website shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other information with Facebook and TikTok via tracking pixels. The College Board has a years-long history of sharing and selling student data.

Wildlife officials say SpaceX launch left behind significant damage::undefined

X (formerly Twitter) is rolling out its X Hiring Beta, which like LinkedIn, lets employers post job openings on the social media platform.

Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars::undefined

New study shows large language models have high toxic probabilities and leak private information::Generative AI may be riddled with hallucinations, misinformation, and bias, but that didn’t stop over half of respondents in a recent global study from saying that they would use this nascent technology for sensitive areas …

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Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on::Starting Friday, Europeans will see their online life change.

The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests::Researchers say the results stem from biases present in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely.

Naomi Brockwell makes it easy and interesting to learn about how our personal lives are being spied on by potentially anybody. Share it with your friends and family so maybe one day every country won’t have a social credit score or other dystopian outcomes.

ChatGPT generates cancer treatment plans that are full of errors — Study finds that ChatGPT provided false information when asked to design cancer treatment plans::Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that cancer treatment plans generated by OpenAI’s revolutionary chatbot were full of errors.

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A detailed examination of Python 3.12’s internal changes featuring the concept of ‘immortal’ objects, for performance enhancements

BSO: 2 men scammed UberEats out of more than $1 million::Broward Sheriff’s Office stated that the men created several fake accounts by using phony and stolen names.

Cambridge study says carbon offsets are not nearly as effective as they claim to be.

Apptronik unveiled a new workforce robot today.

New material provides clean water and electricity using nothing but the Sun::The material isn’t especially efficient, but improvements should be possible.

Tesla is facing issues with the bare metal construction of the Cybertruck, which Elon Musk warned was as tricky to do as making Lego bricks