Police using live facial recognition at British Grand Prix (www.theguardian.com)
Police are using live facial recognition (LFR) to scan the faces of people attending the British Grand Prix at Silverstone this weekend....
Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads (www.mediamatters.org)
‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes
The Race to Destroy Two Nobel Prizes (medium.com)
During World War II, Nazi soldiers were searching for Niels Bohr, a Danish scientist who had helped two German physicists escape. The Gestapo believed that the two Nobel Prizes left behind by the physicists would serve as evidence against Bohr, potentially leading to his execution....
Sacramento Sheriff sharing automated license plate reader data with anti-abortion states (news.yahoo.com)
Sheriff’s Office shared license plate reader data with law enforcement in states that passed laws banning abortion, including Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas
Toyota claims battery with range of 745 miles, charges in 10 minutes (www.theguardian.com)
France Passes New Bill Allowing Police to Remotely Activate Cameras on Citizens' Phones (gizmodo.com)
The bill will reportedly apply to suspects in crimes that are punishable by a minimum of five years in jail.
Tracking AI-enabled Misinformation: Over 300 ‘Unreliable AI-Generated News’ Websites (and Counting), Plus the Top False Narratives Generated by Artificial Intelligence Tools (www.newsguardtech.com)
New Priming Method Improves Battery Life by Up to 44% (scitechdaily.com)
Engineers from Rice University make advancements in prelithiation and unravel the mechanism of lithium trapping. The potential of silicon anode batteries to transform energy storage solutions is pivotal in addressing climate objectives and fully realizing the capabilities of electric vehicles. N
The US Military Is Taking Generative AI Out for a Spin (www.bloomberg.com)
The long-term aim of such exercises is to update the US warhorse so it can use AI-enabled data in decision-making, sensors and ultimately firepower.
Now that you've all tried it ... ChatGPT web traffic falls 10% (www.theregister.com)
Slow June, people voting with their feet amid this AI craze, or something else?
Telegram has become a window into war (www.theverge.com)
The messaging app has become a key channel for news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But the government’s relationship with it is complicated.
Companies Think Their Idiot Customers Will Accidentally Cancel Their Subscriptions if It's Too Easy | Trade groups told the FTC a simple "Click-to Cancel" proposal to easily quit subscriptions coul... (gizmodo.com)
Trade groups told the FTC a simple “Click-to Cancel” proposal to easily quit subscriptions could actually lead customers to miss out on hot new deals.
Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub sue New York City over $18 minimum-wage law (www.engadget.com)
Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub are suing for an injunction to stop New York City’s new $18 minimum wage law for food delivery app workers…
Deleting your Threads account also deletes your Instagram, Meta working quickly on the fix (www.engadget.com)
Louisiana Outlaws Sexual Deepfakes of Children (gizmodo.com)
Violators found to create or possess deepfaked material of minors engaged in sexual acts could face 5 to 20 years in prison.
How Tom Brady’s Crypto Ambitions Collided With Reality (www.nytimes.com)
The superstar quarterback is among the celebrities dealing with the fallout from the crypto crash. Others, like Taylor Swift, escaped.
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the new Threads app (www.engadget.com)
A better list of Mastodon servers that have pre-emptively defederated from Threads.net (fedipact.veganism.social)
Wind farms produce one third of Ireland's energy in first half of the year (www.breakingnews.ie)
Wholesale electricity prices fell by 35% in June compared to the same month last year
The US is building factories at a wildly fast rate (www.businessinsider.com)
OpenAI: Introducing SuperAlignment (openai.com)
TL;DR: OpenAI announces a new team dedicated for researching superintelligence
In the Age of A.I., Tech’s Little Guys Need Big Friends (www.nytimes.com)
Creating a new A.I. system requires lots of money and lots of computing power, which is controlled by the industry’s giants.
The slow, sad death of Twitter (www.theneweuropean.co.uk)
Massive Norwegian phosphate rock deposit can meet fertilizer, solar, and EV battery demand for 100 years (www.techspot.com)
Norwegian mining company Norge Mining said the 70 billion tonnes of phosphate rock was uncovered in the southwest of Norway, where it sits alongside other minerals such…
