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FYI to all the VS Code peeps out there that malicious extensions can gain access to secrets stored by other VS Code extensions as well as the tokens used by VS Code for Microsoft/Github....

The fight for who will own your Thread mesh network is creating an even more fractured smart home.

Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket....

Of course, there are lots of industries whose product engineers would love to translate this finding into intentional engineering approaches to create metals that automatically heal themselves in our structural applications," lead-author Brad Boyce, a materials scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New...

The “Kids Online Safety Act” (KOSA) is one of the Bad Internet Bills EFF is asking for help trying to stop. KOSA sounds like a good bill. Who doesn’t want kids to be safe online? But KOSA wouldn’t actually make kids safer – and the way it’s written would be especially harmful to LGBTQIA2S+ people....

Recycling mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes::New research shows recycling all mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes.

Finland introduces the world’s first phone-free tourist island::A short digital fast could improve your wellbeing, according to psychologists

YouTube announced two new experimental generative AI features today. Premium subscribers can soon try AI-generated comment summaries organized by topic, and a chatbot that answers questions about videos....

tldr- Using the robots meta element or HTTP header to say that content of this page should not be used for machine learning, in case some actors make their search UA indistinguishable from their machine learning efforts.

Netflix jacks up the price of its premium plan to $23 a month::Netflix raised prices on two of its subscriber tiers today during its earnings report.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal peril deepens as his defense comes up short::undefined

I’m kinda surprised.

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‘The most stunning demo I’ve ever seen in my life’: ChatGPT impressed Bill Gates by acing AP Bio exam::ChatGPT’s AP Biology score demonstrates near human-level competency, according to tech billionaire Bill Gates.

Grindr employees are unionizing::undefined

Tech bros and Wall Street billionaires are indulging anti-vaxxer RFK Jr.'s presidential dreams::Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and hedge fund Bill Ackman have both shown support for the controversial candidate.