Researchers just discovered a massive 'jacuzzi bubbling with almost pure hydrogen' — a lucrative source of clean energy (www.businessinsider.com)
The Biden Campaign Fills Out Its Digital Team Ahead of Super Tuesday (www.wired.com)
The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle (www.humblebundle.com)
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Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud's 5GB limit (9to5mac.com)
Apple hit with class action lawsuit over iCloud’s 5GB limit::A newly-proposed class action lawsuit alleges that Apple has “marked up its iCloud prices to the point where the service…
Chinese-made phones are calling the shots in Africa as they beat global giants Samsung and Apple (www.scmp.com)
Chinese-made phones are calling the shots in Africa as they beat global giants Samsung and Apple::undefined
Court orders maker of Pegasus spyware to hand over code to WhatsApp (www.theguardian.com)
Israeli company NSO Group is accused in lawsuit by Meta’s messaging app of spying on 1,400 users over a two-week period.
‘He checks in on me more than my friends and family’: can AI therapists do better than the real thing? | Counselling and therapy | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
It’s cheap, quick and available 24/7, but is a chatbot therapist really the right tool to tackle complex emotional needs?
Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad (www.theverge.com)
Elon Musk’s legal case against OpenAI is hilariously bad::Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company breached a contract that does not appear to exist
A Deep Dive into the Underlying Architecture of Groq's LPU (codeconfessions.substack.com)
A.I. Is Making the Sexual Exploitation of Girls Even Worse (www.nytimes.com)
A.I. Is Making the Sexual Exploitation of Girls Even Worse::Parents, schools and our laws need to catch up to technology, fast.
Researchers create AI worms that can spread from one system to another | Worms could potentially steal data and deploy malware. (arstechnica.com)
Researchers create AI worms that can spread from one system to another | Worms could potentially steal data and deploy malware.::Worms could potentially steal data and deploy malware.
Nvidia CEO says AI could pass human tests in five years (www.reuters.com)
Nvidia CEO says AI could pass human tests in five years::Nvidia Chief Executive Jensen Huang on Friday said that artificial general intelligence could - by some definitions - arrive in as little as five years.
Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’ (www.vice.com)
Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’::The New Zealand-based seller issued a notice to its Australian customers that shipments will continue regardless of the government’s vape reform.
YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions (www.businessinsider.com)
YouTube Music team laid off by Google while workers testified to Austin City Council about working conditions::Some workers learned of the YouTube Music layoffs while testifying to the Austin city council about Google’s refusal to negotiate with the union.
HP is in the rent-a-printer business now (www.theverge.com)
Friends don’t let their friends buy HP.
Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB 4 2.0 | Faster USB4 devices could start appearing in 2024 (www.techspot.com)
Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB 4 2.0 | Faster USB4 devices could start appearing in 2024::undefined
Lawyers who sunk Elon Musk's big pay package are now asking for nearly $6 billion worth of Tesla stock. Musk doesn't seem happy. (www.businessinsider.com)
Lawyers who sunk Elon Musk’s big pay package are now asking for nearly $6 billion worth of Tesla stock. Musk doesn’t seem happy.::After sinking Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package, lawyers are now asking a Delaware court for about 11% of those Tesla shares for their fee.
AI-generated articles prompt Wikipedia to downgrade CNET’s reliability rating (arstechnica.com)
Futurism report highlights the reputational cost of publishing AI-generated content.
Many Gen Z employees say ChatGPT is giving better career advice than their bosses (www.cnbc.com)
Many Gen Z employees say ChatGPT is giving better career advice than their bosses::Nearly half of Gen Z workers say they get better job advice from ChatGPT than their managers, according to a recent survey.
1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that's curbed oil demand – IEA (electrek.co)
User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke” (cybernews.com)
Did Reddit year-end recaps expose Russian interference in Alberta? (www.stalbertgazette.com)
Did Reddit year-end recaps expose Russian interference in Alberta?::Online anti-LGBTQ+ harassment and engaging with small communities are documented foreign interference tactics, but they have so far not been observed in Canada.
AI-generated content and other unfavorable practices have put longtime staple CNET on Wikipedia's blacklisted sources (www.tomshardware.com)
In the wave of AI controversies and lawsuits, CNET has been publicly admonished since it first started posting thinly-veiled AI-generated content on its site in late 2022— a scandal that has culminated in the site being demoted from Trusted to Untrusted Sources on Wikipedia....