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GitHub Profile Roast - roasts you based on what's in your profile. (github-roast.pages.dev)

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Disturbed by tragic deaths, Indian students are raging against celebrity YouTube teachers. (restofworld.org)

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Have you noticed ‘5.5G’ spreading across Macao? (macaonews.org)

Data centers got a huge tax break to create WA jobs. Is it paying off? (www.seattletimes.com)

In 2010, as the country still reeled from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, tech companies, real estate developers and rural lobbyists went to the state Capitol in Olympia to press for a tax break for data centers....

There's Light at The End of The Tunnel (a new form of UV light... could change public health forever) (www.okdoomer.io)

OpenAI has a 99.9% accurate ChatGPT AI text detector, but won't release it. (the-decoder.com)

Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and AI plans (www.bbc.com)

The new Labour government has shelved £1.3bn of funding promised by the Conservatives for tech and Artificial Intelligence (AI) projects, the BBC has learned....

I researched the dark side of social media − and heard the same themes in ‘The Tortured Poets Department’. (theconversation.com)

Hackers hope to democratize laser-based processor hacking — $500 RayV Lite relies on 3D printing, a laser pen, and a Raspberry Pi to bring costs down (www.tomshardware.com)

… “The first of two versions of the RayV Lite will focus on laser fault injection (LFI). This technique uses a brief blast of light to interfere with the charges of a processor’s transistors, which could flip them from a 0 value to a 1 value or vice versa. Using LFI, Beaumont and Trowell have been able to pull off things...

OpenAI’s Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. We should be very afraid (www.theguardian.com)

How a Washington Tax Break for Data Centers Snowballed Into One of the State’s Biggest Corporate Giveaways (www.propublica.org)

Apple now sending up to $395 payments to butterfly keyboard MacBook owners - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)

Framework looking for unpaid workers to be 'Linux Community Ambassadors' (community.frame.work)

Bronze Age technology could aid switch to clean energy (sustainability.stanford.edu)

Been working on Organic Maps today. (lemmus.org)

Review of Ente Photos, A Private Google And iCloud Photos Alternative (jwestall.com)

Sam Altman accused of being shady about OpenAI’s safety efforts (arstechnica.com)

Silicon plus perovskite solar reaches 34 percent efficiency (arstechnica.com)

Snowflake Drives Open-Source AI Development and Access Through Meta Partnership (freedomproject.pages.dev)

We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing. (thegradient.pub)

Intel was once a Silicon Valley leader. How did it fall so far? (www.vox.com)

Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Intel's stock drops 30% overnight —company sheds $39 billion in market cap | As of now, Intel's market value is a fraction of Nvidia's worth and less than half of AMD's (www.tomshardware.com)

Intel’s stock dropped around 30% overnight, shaving some $39 billion from the company’s market capitalization since rumors of a pending layoff first emerged. The devastating results come after the chip giant reported a loss for the second quarter, complained about yield issues with the Meteor Lake CPU, provided a modest...

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