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Google Search can now help verify an image’s origins (news.retiolus.net)

That is actually quite cool!

Apple Releases macOS Sonoma With Interactive Widgets, Game Mode, and More For all Compatible Macs - Download Available (wccftech.com)

macOS Sonoma will bring significant improvements to Safari where you can create separate profiles and a personal account that will track your preferences and activities with all of your saved passwords for websites, and much more. Widgets are also part of the final release, allowing you to gain access to information at a glance....

The great AI "pause" that wasn't (www.axios.com)

The organizers of a high-profile open letter last March calling for a "pause" in work on advanced artificial intelligence lost that battle, but they could be winning a longer-term fight to persuade the world to slow AI down.

[Reuters] Tesla sues Chinese firm over tech secret infringement -Chinese state media (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/1171223

Texas Instruments plans up to $1 bln investment to expand Philippine facilities (www.reuters.com)

Canadians have little incentive to adopt central bank digital currency (techstory.in)

Debunking the Tech Hype Cycle with Dan Olson (www.youtube.com)

This interview is 2 months old, but I haven’t seen it discussed so far and given the news about reddit’s new cryptobeaniebabies, here it goes. This is a critique of the tech hype cycle, LLMs, VR, the metaverse failure, NFTs and cryptocurrencies with a refreshing historical awareness of past attempts that failed, like second...

motorized velomobile VM45 can cruise without pedaling using electric-assist function (www.designboom.com)

Czech company Katanga has created VM45, a motorized velomobile – a human-powered vehicle that combines elements of a bicycle and an enclosed aerodynamic shell – with four wheels and a body made of milled foam. Polyurethane foam was used for the body, which the design team had to mill into several smaller portions due to its...

Conspiracy theories: how social media can help them spread and even spark violence (theconversation.com)

Conspiracy theories: how social media can help them spread and even spark violence::Conspiracy theories may be baseless, but they can have a range of harmful real-world consequences, including spreading lies, undermining trust in media and government and inciting violence.

Waymo is bringing its robotaxi service to Austin (techcrunch.com)

Waymo is bringing its robotaxi service to Austin

Defective external SSDs from SanDisk: data rescuer Attingo explains possible cause - digitec (www.digitec.ch)

Western Digital to split flash memory business after Kioxia merger talks stall - CNA (www.channelnewsasia.com)

A new CGP Grey video, try to keep spoilers out of the comments for this one. (www.youtube.com)

I lost at 3/12 wins

NASA finds water and organics in asteroid sample—possible clues to origin of life (arstechnica.com)

Better authentication, session management and permissions in Matrix (matrix.org)

These Prisoners Are Training AI (www.wired.com)

Revealed: how US immigration uses fake social media profiles across investigations (www.theguardian.com)

Revealed: how US immigration uses fake social media profiles across investigations::Records from the Department of Homeland Security show it sought to expand undercover operations online despite pushback from Facebook

North Korea commences imports of Huawei gear for 4G upgrade - Developing Telecoms (developingtelecoms.com)

Tech layoffs are back with a vengeance | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Tech layoffs are back with a vengeance | TechCrunch::For my column this week, I told the story of how an ex-colleague was impersonated by an AI-powered spambot and almost tricked me.