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ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US (www.androidauthority.com)

Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. (www.texasmonthly.com)

The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.

Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users' photos to train AI if they don't delete them (techcrunch.com)

WhatsApp Must Act to Protect Elections | foundation.mozilla.org (foundation.mozilla.org)

The link above is for the petition...

Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages (www.404media.co)

Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers and what voice channels they joined, 404 Media has learned. The move comes after https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/, called Spy Pet, last week and...

Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)

A Baltimore-area teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist (www.npr.org)

YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' (www.androidauthority.com)

YouTube first spoke about pause ads last year when it started trialing them in select regions. At the time, the company said that when you pause a video, it will shrink, and an ad will appear next to it....

AI CloudFlare: Access different LLM models over API (ai.cloudflare.com)

A System to Remove Real-World Reflections from RAW Photos (arxiv.org)

“We describe a system to remove real-world reflections from images for consumer photography. Our system operates on linear (RAW) photos, with the (optional) addition of a contextual photo looking in the opposite direction, e.g., using the selfie camera on a mobile device, which helps disambiguate what should be considered the...

Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say (www.reuters.com)

Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not (arstechnica.com)

Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way....

Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. (www.tomshardware.com)

OpenAI Creates a Voice Cloning AI Tool, Not Available for the Public Yet. (iblnews.org)

Nintendo vs. Garry's Mod: Dissecting the 'Fake' Domain Behind All the Chaos (torrentfreak.com)

Cybersecurity researchers spotlight a new ransomware threat – be careful where you upload files (theconversation.com)

Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick (www.nature.com)

TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 (www.theregister.com)

Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas (timesofsandiego.com)

Offline llama3 says it sends corrections back to Meta's server; I was not aware of it (jeena.net)

Passkeys: A Shattered Dream (fy.blackhats.net.au)

CEO Alarmed to Discover That Laying Off 1,500 Workers Had Consequences (futurism.com)

Raspberry Pi CM5 Forward Guidance released (pip.raspberrypi.com)

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 will have the following features....

HMD Pulse trio unveiled: affordable phones with 'Gen 1 repairability' (www.gsmarena.com)

HMD is betting that consumers are moving to more environmentally-conscious products and are placing an emphasis on repairability. HMD says the Pulse range is built to “Gen 1 repairability” and that users can pick up self-repair kits from iFixit. Repairs include changing the battery, but also swapping the screen.