These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump (www.wired.com)
These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump::You need a heat pump, ASAP. Now nine states are teaming up to accelerate the adoption of this climate superhero.
Sports betting is coming to X with BetMGM partnership | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone." (arstechnica.com)
200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | “There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”::“There’s wires everywhere, and it’s gone.”
OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion (decrypt.co)
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....
Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge (interestingengineering.com)
Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)
Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption::The U.S Energy Information Administration is now requiring large-scale cryptomining operations to report their energy consumption. Inevitably this will bring about new regulations that will restrict...
J&J, Merck, and Bristol Myers Squibb spend billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D — Senate report points to greed and ‘patent thickets’ as key reasons for high prices (arstechnica.com)
J&J, Merck, and Bristol Myers Squibb spend billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D — Senate report points to greed and ‘patent thickets’ as key reasons for high prices::Senate report points to greed and “patent thickets” as key reasons for high prices.
All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why (waitbutwhy.com)
Midjourney might ban Biden and Trump images this election season (www.engadget.com)
Clean energy could be 'closer than ever' after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record (qz.com)
Clean energy could be ‘closer than ever’ after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record::JET’s final nuclear fusion experiment produced a record-breaking 69 megajoules of heat. Nice.
How Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages (www.cnbc.com)
Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? (www.theregister.com)
The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse (gizmodo.com)
The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse::Deepfakes are blurring the lines of reality more than ever before, and they’re likely going to get a lot worse this year.
US Credit Union Service Leaks Millions of Records and Passwords in Plain Text (www.hackread.com)
WhatsApp Will Introduce 'Third Party Chats' Support Soon: Here's Why (www.gadgets360.com)
Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair (www.404media.co)
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‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything (www.ft.com)
‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything::The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” (arstechnica.com)
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”::Casualties afoot as Sony merges Funimation with 2021-acquired Crunchyroll.
That Electric Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Totally Fake (gizmodo.com)
AI Companies Take Hit as Judge Says Artists Have “Public Interest” In Pursuing Lawsuits (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
A federal judge rejected arguments from Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt that the suit is intended to suppress its free speech.
Apple is back to lobbying against right-to-repair bills (appleinsider.com)
Apple is back to lobbying against right-to-repair bills::While it may have supported a weaker right-to-repair bill in California, Apple is now lobbying against a stronger bill out of Oregon.
Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought (nymag.com)
Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought::Is the Vision Pro for watching movies? Working? Being alone? Collaborating? Nobody knows, really, writes John Herrman.
America tires of big telecom’s shit, driving boom in community-owned broadband networks (www.techdirt.com)
America tires of big telecom’s shit, driving boom in community-owned broadband networks::For decades, frustrated towns and cities all over the country have responded to telecom market failure by building their own fiber broadband networks. Data routinely shows that not only do these networks provide faster, better, and cheaper...