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Behold, Diablo is fully playable in your browser (arstechnica.com)

Congress asks Mark Zuckerberg to explain why drug dealers are advertising on Facebook and Instagram (www.engadget.com)

Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says the future of AI might mean friendship and marriage with chatbots (www.theverge.com)

Eco Wave Power launches first megawatt-scale wave energy project in Portugal (www.waterpowermagazine.com)

Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to the US (www.bbc.com)

The internet entrepreneur faces several criminal charges in the US, including copyright infringement.

Epic judge says he’ll ‘tear the barriers down’ on Google’s app store monopoly (www.theverge.com)

Meta just closed a vital online research tool. It’s bad news for the fight against misinformation. (theconversation.com)

Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes (techcrunch.com)

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption,...

Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting (blog.glyphdrawing.club)

It’s wild what some people come up with.

Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck (www.fastcompany.com)

Soon You Can Store a California State ID in Apple Wallet (gizmodo.com)

Waymo to double down on winter testing its robotaxis | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

“Waymo regularly takes its autonomous vehicles on winter road trips to test the cars in snowy environments. In 2017, it was Michigan....

X ordered to pay $600K to fired employee who didn’t click 'yes' on email ultimatum (www.engadget.com)

Google monopoly ruling: where the tech giant goes from here. (theconversation.com)

Instagram Isn’t Protecting Women Politicians From Hate Speech (www.wired.com)

Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads (www.windowscentral.com)

Musk’s new Grok upgrade allows X users to create largely uncensored AI images (arstechnica.com)

So his site that already doesn’t make money with let subscribers make porn at an astonishing rate of electricity. He has no clue how to run a business.

NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms (www.schneier.com)

Research AI model unexpectedly modified its own code to extend runtime (arstechnica.com)

Subvert wants to be ‘a collectively owned Bandcamp successor’ (musically.com)

The world's largest single-capacity floating wind platform has two turbines (electrek.co)

Is AI Going to Replace Software Engineers? (www.proofnews.org)

X’s new AI image generator will make anything from Taylor Swift in lingerie to Kamala Harris with a gun (www.theverge.com)

“Subscribers to X Premium, which grants access to Grok, have been posting everything from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a...

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