Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women (arstechnica.com)
Google lets you edit sent Messages in latest Android feature drop (www.theverge.com)
Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council (www.cnbc.com)
Twitch on Friday will end the contracts for all members of its Safety Advisory Council, a resource made up of industry experts, streamers and moderators, who consulted on trust and safety issues....
US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges (news.slashdot.org)
Manifest V2 phase-out begins (blog.chromium.org)
IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax (apnews.com)
The Green-Energy Revolution Shows What Real Innovation Looks Like (prospect.org)
Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 (sh.itjust.works)
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Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account (arstechnica.com)
Earlier this month, Google Cloud experienced one of its biggest blunders ever when UniSuper, a $135 billion Australian pension fund, had its Google Cloud account wiped out due to some kind of mistake on Google’s end. At the time, UniSuper indicated it had lost everything it had stored with Google, even its backups, and that...
By Whose Authority? Pegasus targeting of Russian & Belarusian-speaking opposition activists and independent media in Europe - The Citizen Lab (citizenlab.ca)
Too Small to Police, Too Big to Ignore: Telegram Is the App Dividing Europe (www.bloomberg.com)
Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span (arstechnica.com)
US Officials: A Russian Rocket Launch Last Week Likely Deployed A Space Weapon (soylentnews.org)
Colorado enacts right-to-repair law banning restrictions on parts pairing, mirroring Oregon's ban (www.cpr.org)
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Why AI Search Blew Up in Google’s Face (nymag.com)
Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drones can fly even farther after FAA approval (www.cnbc.com)
Sand and CPU creation
So like, if sand can be used as the first “ingredient” of a CPU, is it possible to use other variants of sand? Or is there only a very SPECIFIC kind of sand used for CPU creation?...
Robotic 'Third Thumb' Makes Tasks Possible With One Hand; Can Be A Game Changer For The Disabled (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
This controllable prosthetic, the Third Thumb, attaches to the right hand, granting wearers the ability to perform a slew of one-handed tasks such as grasping objects, opening bottles, sorting cards, and even peeling a banana.
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know (www.wired.com)
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OpenAI board first learned about ChatGPT from Twitter, according to former member (arstechnica.com)
Media Companies Like Vox Are Feeding Their Journalists' Work Into An AI Wood Chipper (aftermath.site)
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors (www.phoronix.com)
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