AI robots could play future role as companions in care homes (www.reuters.com)
DoorDash, UberEats, and Grubhub sue New York City over a new $18 an hour minimum wage for delivery driver (www.businessinsider.com)
Some drivers at DoorDash and Grubhub supported the New York City pay bump, but others say it will actually mean less pay and freedom.
How Tom Brady’s Crypto Ambitions Collided With Reality (www.nytimes.com)
The superstar quarterback is among the celebrities dealing with the fallout from the crypto crash. Others, like Taylor Swift, escaped.
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the new Threads app (www.engadget.com)
Amazon’s iRobot Roomba acquisition under formal EU investigation (www.theverge.com)
Amazon’s $1.7 billion purchase of Roomba manufacturer iRobot enters a new phase of scrutiny in Europe.
Canadian judge rules thumbs-up emoji can represent contract agreement (www.theguardian.com)
Microsoft Announces: LongNet - Scaling LLM Transformers to 1,000,000,000 Tokens & Context Length
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1115513...
Sex workers worry that Threads could kill their business (www.fastcompany.com)
Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech” (arstechnica.com)
Missouri and Louisiana sued Biden over attempts to limit COVID misinformation.
Volkswagen will start testing its driverless ID. Buzz in Austin, Texas (arstechnica.com)
The program will start with 10 ID. Buzzes with autonomous tech from Mobileye.
I just found out that most people still use default cursors so here are some of the ones i made myself in the download link.
cursors| Settings > Personalisation > Mouse cursor (on windows)
To Delete a Threads Account, You'll Need to Nuke Your Instagram Account Too (www.pcmag.com)
News: OpenAI Introduces Superalignment
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1102882...
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app – report (www.theguardian.com)
Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off (news.ycombinator.com)
Its acquirer (Bending Spoons) has taken over operations. They’ve also hiked subscriptions prices and told customers they intend to use new revenues to pay for new features. How they intend to do that without any staff is something I would like to know about....
Wind farms produce one third of Ireland's energy in first half of the year (www.breakingnews.ie)
Wholesale electricity prices fell by 35% in June compared to the same month last year
Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
Edit: This article was already posted here yesterday....
In NYC, companies will have to prove their AI hiring software isn't sexist or racist (www.nbcnews.com)
AI-infused hiring programs have drawn scrutiny, most notably over whether they end up exhibiting biases based on the data they’re trained on.
People Hire Phone Bots to Torture Telemarketers (www.wsj.com)
People are using Chatgpt as voice bots to torture telemarketers
Received this an a email your thoughts? (ploum.net)
how to block meta from mastodon
mastodon.moule.world/
The US is building factories at a wildly fast rate (www.businessinsider.com)
You cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymore
Apparently deleting one's thread account will also delete ones Instagram account. (www.androidauthority.com)
Very sly of meta in deed