Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
An Interview With Jack Dorsey (www.piratewires.com)
OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. (www.nytimes.com)
Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter (comicbook.com)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant’s brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday....
Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. (www.theverge.com)
Dell warns of data breach, 49 million customers allegedly affected (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)
After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company’s return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....
Peter Thiel was trapped inside a student debating hall by pro-Palestine protesters accusing him of genocide (www.businessinsider.com)
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
Huyton Firm: Brutal organised crime group brought down by its own text messages (www.bbc.com)
Neuralink says its first in-human brain implant malfunctioned (nypost.com)
Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ (presearch.com)
Browsing the web I came across this (meta) search engine. From the first glance, it seems promising and giving quite a good results to my searches. Definitely better than Google, Bing or DDG, which tend to be full of SEO/ads/AI bullshit these days. Does anyone use it?...
Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is available for M1/M2 macs! (fosstodon.org)
On top of the great work that @AsahiLinux and the Fedora Asahi SIG do, they’ve also worked to line up releases with the rest of Fedora, so thank you for that!...
Qualcomm and Intel can't sell chips to Huawei anymore, report claims (www.gsmarena.com)
Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says (www.cnbc.com)
Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings (www.cnbc.com)
At an all-hands meeting last week, Google executives responded to employee questions about declining morale even with financial performance improving.