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Nikki Haley walks back her demand that social media ban anonymous posters after facing GOP backlash (abcnews.go.com)

Sounds like ones demands have changed, or atleast they got a hold of themselves. whatever lead to them walking back on this, it’s the end of another battle for internet privacy, but not the end of the war. As apps continue to track you in new mysterious ways behind their closed sourced software, and the governments continue to...

Signal tests usernames so you can avoid sharing your phone number (www.theverge.com)

National Association of Realtors CEO steps down, days after the trade group was found liable for conspiracy to inflate rates (www.cnn.com)

Bob Goldberg, chief executive officer of the National Association of Realtors, the nation’s largest trade association, is stepping down, the organization announced Thursday.

Dozens of states sue Meta over addictive features harming kids (www.politico.com)

More than 30 states filed a federal lawsuit against Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, alleging the platforms’ apps are designed to be addictive and harm children’s mental health....

BBC journalists held at gunpoint by Israeli police (www.bbc.com)

Muhannad Tutunji, Haitham Abudiab and their BBC Arabic team were driving to a hotel when their car was intercepted....

California governor rejects bill to give unemployment checks to striking workers (apnews.com)

Dallas mayor switches parties to join GOP (www.cnn.com)

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced Friday that he is switching parties and will serve as a Republican-affiliated mayor of the blue-leaning city....

Confused Automakers Braced for Strike at the Wrong Plants (theintercept.com)

Republican Texas AG Ken Paxton is acquitted of corruption charges at historic impeachment trial (apnews.com)

WHAT DO THESE BUTTONS EVEN DO?!? (loot.buckodr.ink)

Robotic dog-mounted rifles are now a thing thanks to US Army (interestingengineering.com)

Japanese ministers eat Fukushima fish to show it's safe after nuclear plant wastewater is discharged (apnews.com)

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers ate Fukushima fish sashimi at a lunch meeting Wednesday, in an apparent effort to show that fish is safe following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that began last week....

Apple to Buy TSMC's Entire Supply of 3nm Chips for 2023 (www.macrumors.com)

Apple to Buy TSMC’s Entire Supply of 3nm Chips for 2023::Apple will receive all of TSMC’s first-generation 3-nanometer process chips this year for upcoming iPhones, Macs, and iPads, according to…

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead in plane crash (scrippsnews.com)

Microsoft released the first version of QuickBASIC on August 18, 1985 on a single 5.25-inch 360 KB floppy disk (en.wikipedia.org)

Not everything should be connected to the Internet (www.theverge.com)

This is a good example, why not all devices should be connected to foreign servers. Errors can happen everywhere. But it could end badly, if some Corporations make errors and creating trouble, which would otherwise not happen....

A former executive says he was fired by Salesforce after raising concerns about software said to process and organize customer data in milliseconds: 'It was all a lie.' (www.businessinsider.com)

A former executive says he was fired by Salesforce after raising concerns about software said to process and organize customer data in milliseconds: ‘It was all a lie.’::The lawsuit alleged Salesforce retaliated against the executive after raising concerns about the product claims.

Florida officials tell state schools to teach AP Psychology 'in its entirety' (abcnews.go.com)

Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz, Jr. has instructed Florida school officials to teach College Board’s AP Psychology course “in its entirety,” according to a letter obtained by ABC News from the state Department of Education.

‘World Of Warcraft’ Players Trick AI-Scraping Games Website Into Publishing Nonsense (www.forbes.com)

A website called zleague.gg has been scraping Reddit threads, feeding them into an AI and publishing auto-generated summaries without proper oversight. World of Warcraft players on Reddit noticed this and created a fake thread about a made-up feature called Glorbo to trick the AI. The AI then published an article summarizing the...

Texas troopers told to push back migrants into Rio Grande River and ordered not to give water amid soaring temperatures, report says (www.cnn.com)

Emails shared with CNN by the Texas Department of Public Safety detail a trooper-medic expressing concerns to a supervisor over the inhumane treatment of migrants along the border in Eagle Pass, Texas.