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Meta’s Open Source Llama Upsets the AI Horse Race (www.wired.com)

#Meta is giving its answer to OpenAI’s GPT-4 away for free. The move could intensify the generative AI boom by making it easier for entrepreneurs to build powerful new AI systems....

FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)

Why Protecting the Fediverse Matters Protecting user privacy is a vital priority for the Fediverse. Many fediverse instances, such as Kolektiva, are focused on serving marginalized communities who are disproportionately targeted by law enforcement. Many were built to serve as a safe haven for those who too often find themselves...

Introducing a new Play Store for large screens (android-developers.googleblog.com)

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Vaccine politics may be to blame for GOP excess deaths, study finds (www.washingtonpost.com)

Yale researchers found that registered Republicans in Ohio and Florida had a higher rate of excess deaths than Democrats.

India, Manipur genocide : Snatched from cops and lynched: Traumatic accounts spill out of violence-hit Manipur (www.telegraphindia.com)

We are in the dark about what the police and the other government agencies are doing about the Hanglalmuan’s murder, says father of the youth

HP-1973 is a Python simulator app for the retro HP-45 calculator and 5 other HP ROMs, written by Sarah K. Marr (beehaw.org)

The app was written in Python and started out for the HP-45 (ROM is included) but finally included also the HP-35 and the HP-80, as well as three others. For macOS and Windows you could just run the included executables, or with the Python code, this will run fine on Linux if you have Python installed. Nice thing is that you can...

Brain-computer interface easily slips in and out of ear canal (medicalxpress.com)

research team suggests development of applications that convert full thoughts into text, controlling objects in real and virtual worlds—and even perhaps augmented memory.

Train derailment in northern Montana spills freight, but hazmat car safe (abcnews.go.com)

A train derailment in northern Montana spilled freight and left cars tangled up along a major east-west railroad corridor

Samsung screen mirroring finally supports casting to a Chromecast (www.androidpolice.com)

Firmware vulnerabilities in millions of computers could give hackers superuser status (arstechnica.com)

Stability AI Releases FreeWilly, Fine-Tuned LLMs Based on LLaMA (stability.ai)

All 20 Episodes Of ‘Star Trek: Prodigy’ Season 1 Now Available Digitally (trekmovie.com)

Iran says EU sanctions linked to Russia's war in Ukraine are 'politically motivated' (www.reuters.com)

Italian farmer battles frost, floods, heat and hail in epic year (www.reuters.com)

Beethoven skull fragments return to Vienna (www.bbc.com)

A US businessman has donated fragments of what is believed to be Ludwig van Beethoven’s skull to a Vienna university for study....

Mistrial declared after federal jury deadlocks in trial of ex-officer in deadly Breonna Taylor raid (www.politico.com)

‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded (www.theguardian.com)

The end of the article jumped out at me:...

A City in Tennessee Banned Public Homosexuality—and We All Missed It (newrepublic.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/5591570...

Sweden’s Tesla Blockade Is Spreading (www.wired.co.uk)

Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch (www.eurogamer.net)

Turkey's Erdogan labels Israel a 'terror state', slams its backers in West (www.reuters.com)

UK top court says a plan to send migrants to Rwanda is illegal. The government still wants to do it (apnews.com)

In a major blow to one of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ‘s key policies, the country’s top court ruled that asylum-seekers sent to Rwanda would be “at real risk of ill-treatment” because they could be returned to the conflict-wracked home countries they’d fled....