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X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn't want to emulate Reddit (techcrunch.com)

OpenAI seeks NYT source material for copyright defense (stackdiary.com)

OpenAI, which is co-defendant with Microsoft, is seeking an informal discovery conference to compel the Times to produce documents demonstrating the originality and ownership of the copyrighted works in question. According to OpenAI’s court filing, the information is critical to their defense against claims of copyright...

Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers (www.newscientist.com)

In case of paywall: archive.is/kZAgI

Most Precise Atomic Clock Ever Built Will Only Lose a Second Every 30 Billion Years (gizmodo.com)

Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen (appleinsider.com)

Threads hits 175 million users on first anniversary (www.rawstory.com)

A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too (www.nytimes.com)

Sony won't phase out Blu-ray movie and game discs, only ceasing production on consumer BD-R (www.tweaktown.com)

Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven and grill. (www.autoblog.com)

I wish I got to do fun little projects like this at my job. Anyway, this proof of concept shows that hydrogen would be a great alternative to propane and natural gas for cooking. Hat tip to @hypx.

noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (techcrunch.com)

Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta Europe (novayagazeta.eu)

Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app (www.theverge.com)

Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet (futurism.com)

Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.

My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore (www.howtogeek.com)

Cloudflare launches a tool to combat AI bots (techcrunch.com)

Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models....

Best Crypto Youtube channels (coinfomania.com)

Crypto YouTube channels are invaluable resources for learning about the assets. They help you learn different aspects of crypto coins, ranging from fundamentals to market insights and technical stuff. The best part is that this educational content is available for free.

384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Japan's government finally moves on from floppy disks (www.xda-developers.com)

Google’s carbon emissions soar by 48% due to AI (www.climateaction.org)

The leap in emissions is largely due to energy-guzzling data centers and supply chain emissions necessary to power artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The report estimated that in 2023, Google’s data centers alone account for up to 10% of global data center electricity...

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