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Vueling Airlines Manage Booking service that allows passengers to conveniently modify their reservations. Customers can access this feature through the airline’s website or mobile app. Once logged in, travelers can make changes like updating contact details, adding extra baggage, selecting seats, or changing flight dates, all...

Business owner ‘hires’ ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans::Experts divided on whether a new wave of call centre automation will make for better jobs for people, or merely throw millions out of work

YouTube isn’t happy you’re using ad blockers — and it’s doing something about it::undefined

A lawsuit filed by more victims of the sex trafficking operation claims that Pornhub’s moderation staff ignored reports of their abuse videos....

The final 11 seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash::undefined

Musk refused to testify in Twitter stock probe — After being sued by SEC, says he wants US regulators to be punished::After being sued by SEC, Musk says he wants US regulators to be punished.

X is testing new paid membership tiers to compensate for poor ad revenue::X (formerly Twitter) is looking to split its premium subscription service into three membership tiers to vary subscription pricing based on how many ads are shown to the user.

The delay was only 4 seconds. This time. But with 30,000 trackable objects in orbit and more every day, this is going to become commonplace and the delays are going to be worse.

At least a million data points from 23andMe accounts appear to have been exposed on BreachForums. While the scale of the campaign is unknown, 23andMe says it's working to verify the data.

After shunning scientist, University of Pennsylvania celebrates her Nobel Prize — School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work::School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work

So the US wants to ban US companies from working with the Chinese on Risc-V technology. I believe this is the reason why the RISC-V Foundation based itself in Switzerland, to avoid the US government from interfering with the spirit of open source. Your thoughts?

Great news — social media is falling apart::I don’t know where to post: there are too many social platforms, and the old giants are dying. The age of social media is splintering.

Hi, I’ve recently purchased this vacuuming baby, but cleaning is…not all I desire. I wish my robot to also throw Warcraft or other games dialogues, and I know that is possible - Does anybody know how to do that without breaking the robot?

San Francisco says tiny sleeping ‘pods,’ which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code::The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

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Shell called out for promoting fossil fuels to youth via Fortnite game::Climate activists condemn oil giant for paying influencers to showcase marketing game from new gasoline campaign

Elon Musk’s Twitter stock purchases under probe by SEC::Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is being sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is trying to compel him to testify as part of a probe into his $44 billion takeover of social media giant Twitter, a Thursday court filing showed.

Here’s something that appears slightly unsettling to me these days....

[A]n INI configuration file in the Windows Canary channel, discovered by German website Deskmodder, includes references to a “Subscription Edition,” “Subscription Type,” and a “subscription status.”

US ad revenue at Musk’s X declined each month since takeover -data::Monthly U.S. ad revenue at social media platform X has declined at least 55% year-over-year each month since billionaire Elon Musk bought the company formerly known as Twitter in October 2022, according to third-party data provided to Reuters.

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