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OpenAI backpedals on scandalous tactic to silence former employees (arstechnica.com)

Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (www.theverge.com)

My blog cost USD44 a year (merecivilian.com)

Didn’t know VPSs could get that cheap

Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt (techcrunch.com)

Amazon Kills Shareholder Proposals on Worker Protections and AI Oversight (www.404media.co)

ICQ messenger shuts down after almost 28 years (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study (gizmodo.com)

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says (gizmodo.com)

Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames (interestingengineering.com)

So here's a story of, by far, the weirdest bug I've encountered in my CS career. (threadreaderapp.com)

Along with @maciejwolczyk we’ve been training a neural network that learns how to play NetHack, an old roguelike game, that looks like in the screenshot. Recently, something unexpected happened.

Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination (gizmodo.com)

Google rolled out AI overviews across the United States this month, exposing its flagship product to the hallucinations of large language models.

iFixit is breaking up with Samsung. ‘Samsung’s approach to repairability does not align with our mission,’ says iFixit’s CEO. (www.theverge.com)

iFixit and Samsung are ending their partnership on a direct-to-consumer phone repair program....

EcoFlow’s $200 PowerStream is so clever, you might buy a $4,000 solar generator (www.theverge.com)

Title reads like at ad, but this is a new way to reach energy independence. I actually have a small EcoFlow device and it’s pretty good for the price....

Another US state repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition (arstechnica.com)

With Minnesota repeal, number of states restricting public broadband falls to 16.

Could this be the Start of a Trend? (arstechnica.com)

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Tack “&udm=14” on to the end of a normal search, and you’ll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.

EU industry chief calls on US to adopt new tech regulations, encourage shared digital market (cbnumy.blogspot.com)

Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while (newatlas.com)

Does One Line Fix Google? - A “Web” filter that presents what Google used to look like a decade ago | tedium.co (tedium.co)

Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add “udm=14” to the search URL....

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