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A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. (slate.com)

New York Times takedown domino effect hits nearly 2000 Wordle clones (www.eurogamer.net)

The New York Times has used a DMCA take down notice to remove an open source Wordle clone called Reactle

Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees (80.lv)

According to a recent tweet shared by AI enthusiast Nick St. Pierre, the alleged theft occurred last Saturday. It is claimed that employees from Stability AI infiltrated Midjourney’s database and stole all prompt and image pairs, an action that also caused a 24-hour outage. In response, MJ reportedly banned all Stable...

Photographer steps inside Vietnam’s shadowy ‘click farms’ | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam (www.theregister.com)

House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok (edition.cnn.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12876226...

Russia’s Starlink use sparks probe into SpaceX compliance with US sanctions (arstechnica.com)

Democratic lawmakers are probing SpaceX over Russia’s reported use of Starlink in Ukraine, saying that recent developments raise questions about SpaceX’s “compliance with US sanctions and export controls.”...

After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private (arstechnica.com)

Astra’s long, strange trip in the space business is taking another turn. The company announced Thursday that it is going private at an extremely low valuation....

Attack wrangles thousands of web users into a password-cracking botnet (arstechnica.com)

Attackers have transformed hundreds of hacked sites running WordPress software into command-and-control servers that force visitors’ browsers to perform password-cracking attacks....

Apple is working to make it easier to switch from iPhone to Android because of the EU (www.theverge.com)

AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead (developers.slashdot.org)

A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine (www.wired.com)

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Compact Rivian R3 EV Makes Surprise Debut With Awesome Hot Hatch Styling And Opening Rear Glass (jalopnik.com)

US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users (arstechnica.com)

A Google AI Watched 30,000 Hours of Video Games—Now It Makes Its Own (singularityhub.com)

The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ (www.theguardian.com)

When Ty landed an introductory phone interview with a finance and banking company last month, they assumed it would be a quick chat with a recruiter. And when they got on the phone, Ty assumed the recruiter, who introduced herself as Jaime, was human. But things got robotic....

Google just took down IPAs (Apple equivalent of APKs) of popular YouTube tweaks (github.com)

Only the downloads were taken down...

Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms (techcrunch.com)

HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It (www.extremetech.com)

In addition to tracking the printer’s online or offline status, page count, and ink levels, your rented printer will look at the types of documents you’re printing (e.g., PDF, JPG, Word), the types of devices that initiated the print job, “peripheral devices,” and other “metrics” related to the service, the All-In...

Apple's Epic ban is questioned by EU regulators; more details (9to5mac.com)

How Hackers Dox Doctors to Order Mountains of Oxy and Adderall (www.404media.co)

Hackers and fraudsters are gaining access to sensitive drug ordering tools and then advertising some of the most tightly controlled drugs in the country, including fentanyl....

You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on (matrix.gvid.tv)

It’s sort of a different concept. Posts and users also have position in addition to age and score. The sorting algorithm gives you complete control over how much to weight each one. It’s like if new and hot existed on a continuous spectrum. It’s sort of like what Aaron Swartz initially wanted to do with Reddit where what...

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