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Killed by Google / #Keen | Expand your interests (staykeen.com)

Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform (alternativeto.net)

After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 (www.theregister.com)

Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing (futurism.com)

China and Norway Lead the World’s EV Switchover (spectrum.ieee.org)

Globally, according to research by the Rocky Mountain Institute, EVs will comprise two-thirds of the world’s car sales by 2030. However, according to the World Resources Institute, “EVs need to account for 75 percent to 95 percent of passenger vehicle sales by 2030 in order to meet international climate goals aimed at...

The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals (www.engadget.com)

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/7669534...

McDonald’s stores hit by global IT failure (www.cnn.com)

From the article –...

How the House revived the TikTok ban bill before most of us noticed (www.theverge.com)

Interesting to note here: getting preteens to confusedly call Congress with threats of self harm and questions like “what is Congress” with a push notification is not the best plan

ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots (arstechnica.com)

Retiring the Mozilla Location Service (web.archive.org)

Patent infringement threat(Skyhook Holdings, Inc), lack of further investment seems to have been the reason of killing the service around 2021. It seems google location service seems to be the only player in town(other than OpenCellID, which I do not have experience with).

Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit (mashable.com)

From the article: “Unsurprisingly, this skyrocketed searches for the best VPNs. According to a SlashGear report sent to Mashable, searches for “Texas VPN” jumped by 1,750 percent in the past day. It also spotted a 1,600 percent increase for the phrase “How to access Pornhub.””

Can anyone help with my VLC issue?

I have set up VLC to grab screengrabs and it isn’t doing it. It did do it a few days ago but today with the same settings and same file, nothing. Even made a new folder....

Leading adviser quits over Instagram’s failure to remove self-harm content (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/13207517...

Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved (techcrunch.com)

OpenAI’s GPT Is a Recruiter’s Dream Tool. Tests Show There’s Racial Bias (www.bloomberg.com)

Code used in the analysis is here

Oregon Passes 'Right to Repair' Law With Extra Cojones: Oregon’s “right to repair” bill, which now only needs the governor’s signature before it becomes law, has teeth not found in similar legislation (fossforce.com)

In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From (futurism.com)

Radical New Discovery Could Double The Speed of Existing Computers - simultaneous and heterogeneous multithreading (www.msn.com)

Does anyone know more about this? Sounds like distributing tasks to other processors that are not really designed for the job? Articles are making it out to be a miracle and not sure whether to believe it

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