Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement (www.theverge.com)
“I am ASTOUNDED that the face-eating leopards have eaten my face!” (universeodon.com)
The First Social-Media Babies Are Growing Up—And They’re Horrified (www.theatlantic.com)
How would you feel if millions of people watched your childhood tantrums?
Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement (www.engadget.com)
A Canadian judge has ruled that the popular “thumbs-up” emoji not only can be used as a contract agreement, but is just as valid as an actual signature. The Saskatchewan-based judge made the ruling on the grounds that the courts must adapt to the “new reality” of how people communicate, as originally reported by The...
Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's jet moves to Threads (www.reuters.com)
July 8 (Reuters) - Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.>...
2 authors say OpenAI 'ingested' their books to train ChatGPT. Now they're suing, and a 'wave' of similar court cases may follow. (www.businessinsider.com)
Two award-winning authors recently sued OpenAI, accusing the generative-AI bastion of violating copyright law by using their published books to train ChatGPT without their consent....
New plasma-based noise cancelling tech may silence rooms, planes, and even cars (bgr.com)
Threads backtracks flagging right-wing users for spreading disinformation (mashable.com)
Supercomputer makes calculations in blink of an eye that take rivals 47 years (www.telegraph.co.uk)
What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (www.theatlantic.com)
Recently started using a LightPhone II when out of the house, and I found the article captured my current experience pretty well. It’s not so bad to be bored sometimes.
Explore academic papersin a visual graph (www.connectedpapers.com)
Android spyware with over 1.5 million downloads sends your data to China (www.yahoo.com)
Two file management apps on the Google Play Store have been discovered to be spyware that quietly sends user data to servers in China.
Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads (www.mediamatters.org)
France Passes New Bill Allowing Police to Remotely Activate Cameras on Citizens' Phones (gizmodo.com)
The bill will reportedly apply to suspects in crimes that are punishable by a minimum of five years in jail.
Police using live facial recognition at British Grand Prix (www.theguardian.com)
Police are using live facial recognition (LFR) to scan the faces of people attending the British Grand Prix at Silverstone this weekend....
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes
Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's jet moves to Threads (www.reuters.com)
Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.
Reddit Gives Final Warning to Subreddits Using NSFW Protest Tactic (www.pcmag.com)
Google’s medical AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals (www.theverge.com)
What Have We Learned from the PDP-11? | Dave Cheney (dave.cheney.net)
GitHub - m1guelpf/threads-re: Reverse-engineering Instagram's Threads private APIs. (github.com)
The Race to Destroy Two Nobel Prizes (medium.com)
During World War II, Nazi soldiers were searching for Niels Bohr, a Danish scientist who had helped two German physicists escape. The Gestapo believed that the two Nobel Prizes left behind by the physicists would serve as evidence against Bohr, potentially leading to his execution....
Toyota claims battery with range of 745 miles, charges in 10 minutes (www.theguardian.com)
The Other Way To Fight Software Rental (hackaday.com)
“The art and design communities, in particular, are feeling the pinch from Adobe Suite going towards a rental model, and now the artist and perennial thorn in the side of anyone who seeks to own a colour, [Stuart Semple] is doing something about it. He’s launching a competing suite called provocatively, Abode, which will...
Sacramento Sheriff sharing automated license plate reader data with anti-abortion states (news.yahoo.com)
Sheriff’s Office shared license plate reader data with law enforcement in states that passed laws banning abortion, including Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas
