Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process (arstechnica.com)
Ultra Accelerator Link is an open-standard interconnect for AI accelerators being developed by AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Google, Microsoft, others (www.tomshardware.com)
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New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens (arstechnica.com)
Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women (arstechnica.com)
TikTok preparing a US copy of the app’s core algorithm, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council (www.cnbc.com)
Twitch on Friday will end the contracts for all members of its Safety Advisory Council, a resource made up of industry experts, streamers and moderators, who consulted on trust and safety issues....
US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges (news.slashdot.org)
Manifest V2 phase-out begins (blog.chromium.org)
OpenAI says it stopped multiple covert influence operations that abused its AI models (www.engadget.com)
IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax (apnews.com)
Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 (sh.itjust.works)
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iOS 18 (and AI) will give Siri much more control over your apps (www.theverge.com)
Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span (arstechnica.com)
US Officials: A Russian Rocket Launch Last Week Likely Deployed A Space Weapon (soylentnews.org)
Colorado enacts right-to-repair law banning restrictions on parts pairing, mirroring Oregon's ban (www.cpr.org)
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Google lets you edit sent Messages in latest Android feature drop (www.theverge.com)
Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drones can fly even farther after FAA approval (www.cnbc.com)
Why AI Search Blew Up in Google’s Face (nymag.com)
Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account (arstechnica.com)
Earlier this month, Google Cloud experienced one of its biggest blunders ever when UniSuper, a $135 billion Australian pension fund, had its Google Cloud account wiped out due to some kind of mistake on Google’s end. At the time, UniSuper indicated it had lost everything it had stored with Google, even its backups, and that...
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
Japanese Man Arrested for GenAI Ransomware as AI Jailbreak Concerns Grow (thecyberexpress.com)
Ozempic Defined a TikTok Era. Now the App Wants It Gone (www.rollingstone.com)
Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know (www.wired.com)
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EU approves Italian aid for $5.4 bln STMicro energy chip plant (www.reuters.com)
CATANIA, Italy May 31 (Reuters) - The European Commission on Friday approved Italian state aid for chipmaker STMicroelectronics (STMPA.PA), to build a 5 billion euro ($5.4 billion) plant in Catania, Sicily, to make specialist microchips that boost energy efficiency in electric cars....
