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Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites (arstechnica.com)

KOSA is dead! (US) (www.fightforthefuture.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/20332183...

Blocking AI bots from Microsoft, others has been “pain in the a**”: Reddit CEO | Huffman says companies must pay to scrape Reddit data even though Reddit itself relies on free, user-generated content

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is standing by Reddit’s decision to block companies from scraping the site without an AI agreement....

Intel class action lawsuit investigation begins for the company's CPU crashing and instability issues (www.tomshardware.com)

Roses are red, Meta is blue, Reality Labs lost $4.5 billion during Q2 (www.gamedeveloper.com)

What the hell are they even spending all this money on when they don’t have much to show for it?

Nigeria’s economic crisis is fueling a stunt philanthropy boom. (restofworld.org)

Several Nigerian content creators are mimicking American superstar YouTuber MrBeast by publishing charitable deeds as content online.

Data Centers Demand a Massive Amount of Energy. Here’s How Some States Are Tackling the Industry’s Impact. (www.propublica.org)

CrowdStrike shareholders sue over global outage, say company concealed info - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)

Artificial intelligence is taking the consulting industry by storm – should we be concerned? (theconversation.com)

Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI (futurism.com)

Intel allegedly plans imminent lay off of thousands of employees to fuel turnaround (www.tomshardware.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/38509017

China is restricting export of drones that can be used for military purposes and some drone features (apnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/38508922

As Its CPU Scandal Deepens, Intel Plans to Cut Thousands of Jobs (gizmodo.com)

Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧 (gs.statcounter.com)

SEC Charges Founder of Social Media Company “IRL” with $170 Million Fraud. (www.sec.gov)

Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Gone Too Far (www.theatlantic.com)

Non-paywall link: 12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/…/679302/

Meta Has Run Hundreds of Ads for Cocaine, Opioids and Other Drugs (www.wsj.com)

Google Cracks Down on Explicit Deepfakes (www.wired.com)

Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site (www.theverge.com)

Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

KOSA passes Senate | ACLU: This bill would not keep kids safe, but instead threaten young people’s privacy, limit minors’ access to vital resources, and silence important online conversations for all (arstechnica.com)

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) easily passed the Senate today despite critics’ concerns that the bill may risk creating more harm than good for kids and perhaps censor speech for online users of all ages if it’s signed into law....

Is Palworld a “dead game”? Who cares, says the game’s developer (arstechnica.com)

Amazon forced to recall more than 400,000 products that could kill, electrocute people | Instead of recalling the products, Amazon sent messages to customers that "downplayed the severity" of hazards (arstechnica.com)

Amazon failed to adequately alert more than 300,000 customers to serious risks—including death and electrocution—that US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) testing found with more than 400,000 products that third parties sold on its platform....

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