Google adds Android, iOS simulation to AI IDE Project IDX (www.theregister.com)
NYC Mayor Calls Social Media an 'Environmental Toxin,' Announces It on Social Media (gizmodo.com)
NYC Mayor Calls Social Media an ‘Environmental Toxin,’ Announces It on Social Media::Mayor Eric Adams says we should compare social media to guns and cigarettes, but don’t think that’s going to stop him from tweeting.
Elon Musk says Tesla workers will be sleeping on the factory floor when new $25,000 EV goes into production next year (www.techspot.com)
Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids under 16 (www.goodmorningamerica.com)
Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck (www.vice.com)
"These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users," the union representing the contractors said.
Tesla hacked again, 24 more zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Tokyo (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming. (www.vice.com)
Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.::Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.
After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
PlayStation has blocked hardware cheating device Cronus Zen, others may follow (arstechnica.com)
Apple says third-party app marketplace creators must have €1,000,000 'letter of credit' (9to5mac.com)
iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)
iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find::Security researchers say apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, and countless others collect data in surprising ways.
Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users | EFF (www.eff.org)
Tesla Bull Rues 'Train Wreck' Earnings Call, Slashes Price Target By 10%: 'Dead Wrong Expecting Musk And Team To Step Up Like Adults In The Room' - Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) (www.benzinga.com)
The explicit AI-created images of Taylor Swift flooding the internet highlight a major problem with generative AI (www.fastcompany.com)
Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU) (www.theverge.com)
Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4 (9to5mac.com)
Updated the link to a better source that gives a more detailed overview.
Feds will try Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey for a third time (reason.com)
Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can't Reverse It (futurism.com)
Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It::How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to Anthropic researchers, not very.
Fragging: The Subscription Model Comes for Gamers (www.eff.org)
Full text from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) article:...
NVIDIA Reverses Course on Donation Matching for Gaza Charities, Causing Internal Rift (www.vice.com)
OpenAI went back on a promise to make key documents public (arstechnica.com)
HP CEO says they brick printers that use third-party ink because of 'hackers'. (9to5mac.com)
HP CEO says they brick printers that use third-party ink because of ‘hackers’.::HP is pushing over-the-air firmware updates to its printers, bricking them if they are using third-party ink cartridges. But don’t…
Tesla stock drops on Q4 earnings miss, EV maker warns production growth rate will be 'notably lower' than 2023 (finance.yahoo.com)
I’m enjoying this. Also Musk went out and said that he wants barriers on trade or else the Chinese companies will dominate the market....
auDA wants police trained in how the internet works (www.itnews.com.au)
auDA manage the .au TLD in Australia, for anybody unaware
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (www.theverge.com)
