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TIL After living in London for 14 years, Cillian Murphy moved back to his native Ireland in order to prevent his children from having posh English accents (www.yahoo.com)

The ‘Peaky Blinders’ star wanted his children to share their parents’ accents.

Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads (www.mediamatters.org)

TIL many US companies in the late 1800s-1938 would pay their employees in company scrip, a currency issued by the employer and can only be used in company owned stores where they upcharged exorbita... (en.wikipedia.org)

‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power (www.theguardian.com)

Tesla speculated electricity from thin air was possible – now the question is whether it will be possible to harness it on the scale needed to power our homes

TIL that 80% of Australian homes are colder than is recommended by the WHO safety standards for indoor air temperature. (www.theguardian.com)

Rentals in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and ACT dropped below 18C more than 80% of the time, report finds

Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's jet moves to Threads (www.reuters.com)

Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year.

ChatGPT users drop for the first time as people turn to uncensored chatbots (arstechnica.com)

Data shows ChatGPT use decreased by nearly 10 percent from May to June.

TIL in traditional Christian theology there are four sins "which cry out to heaven for vengeance" : murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and defrauding a worker of his wages. (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL Disney refused to let a father use a Spiderman headstone for his 4 year old son’s funeral. (www.bbc.com)

Disney is asked to show some compassion over the use of Spider-Man’s image on a child’s grave.

The USAF's New THOR Energy Weapon Demonstrates Its Effectiveness Against Drones (taskandpurpose.com)

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In – or out? Wimbledon considers replacing line judges with AI (www.theguardian.com)

Tournament director says tennis club needs to balance preserving traditions with technological innovation

France Passes New Bill Allowing Police to Remotely Activate Cameras on Citizens' Phones (gizmodo.com)

The bill will reportedly apply to suspects in crimes that are punishable by a minimum of five years in jail.

Robot assisted surgery: four arms are better than two (actu.epfl.ch)

French government wants the power to block social media and to tap into cellphones (www.businessinsider.com)

As protests spread across France over the police killing of a 17-year-old, its government is seeking more control.

What is Ryan Reynolds doing on LinkedIn? — Celebrities are taking their place alongside the site’s humblebraggers and ‘thought leaders’ (www.ft.com)

News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

TIL that honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3000 years old and still perfectly edible. (beemission.com)

Where was the world’s oldest honey found? We thought it would be fun to look at the three oldest known honey finds in the world as of September 2019. Just think, these honeys can still be eaten today because antimicrobial honey never goes bad. The world’s oldest known references to collecting honey are from the 8,000 y

New Priming Method Improves Battery Life by Up to 44% (scitechdaily.com)

Engineers from Rice University make advancements in prelithiation and unravel the mechanism of lithium trapping. The potential of silicon anode batteries to transform energy storage solutions is pivotal in addressing climate objectives and fully realizing the capabilities of electric vehicles. N

TIL that In 2018, A hacker broke into people’s routers (100,000 of them) and patched their vulnerabilities up so that they couldn’t be abused by other hackers. (www.zdnet.com)

Internet vigilante claims he patched over 100,000 MikroTik routers already.

Miffed ‘Rainbow Six Seige’ player sentenced for swatting Ubisoft Montreal’s offices (www.engadget.com)

A disgruntled Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Seige gamer who called in a fake emergency to Ubisoft’s Montreal office was sentenced this week to three years of community service, according to The Montreal Gazette.

TIL Alaska P. Davidson was the first female special agent hired by the Bureau of Investigation. Davidson was hired by director William J. Burns in 1922 but was forced to resign by Director J. Edgar... (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL Ludwig van Beethoven didn't get along with his brother Johann and was heavily opposed to his marriage to a housekeeper. After the purchase of an estate, Johann signed a letter to Ludwig "From y... (en.wikipedia.org)

Now that you've all tried it ... ChatGPT web traffic falls 10% (www.theregister.com)

Slow June, people voting with their feet amid this AI craze, or something else?

Reddit Gives Final Warning to Subreddits Using NSFW Protest Tactic (www.pcmag.com)

TIL King Louis XI plotted to kill a court astrologer who correctly predicted a death in his court fearing he'd done it himself. Before giving his guards the signal he asked if he knew when he'd die... (www.heritage-history.com)

TIL During the shooting event of the 1965 World Pentathlon Championships, Herbert Polzhuber drank 10 glasses of beer and a bottle of cognac, stepped onto the shooting platform, shot all his bullets... (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL that there are approximately 299 people cryogenically frozen in Scottsdale, Arizona (www.smithsonianmag.com)

The human cryopreservation project faces skepticism from medical and legal authorities

TIL the notion that lactic acid is the reason we experience muscle soreness after a workout has been debunked in the 1980s. Research suggests the soreness is a result of a cascade of physiological ... (www.pfizer.com)

Companies Think Their Idiot Customers Will Accidentally Cancel Their Subscriptions if It's Too Easy | Trade groups told the FTC a simple "Click-to Cancel" proposal to easily quit subscriptions coul... (gizmodo.com)

Trade groups told the FTC a simple “Click-to Cancel” proposal to easily quit subscriptions could actually lead customers to miss out on hot new deals.

TIL 50-80% of the population has herpes (www.hopkinsmedicine.org)

OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available (news.yahoo.com)

Starting this afternoon, all existing OpenAI API developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4. GPT-4 can generate text (including code) and accept image and text inputs – an improvement over GPT-3.5, its predecessor, which only accepted text – and performs at “human level” on various...

TIL Prince was a huge Bangles fan. He wrote then gave them their breakout hit, "Manic Monday". (www.npr.org)

Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub sue New York City over $18 minimum-wage law (www.engadget.com)

Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub are suing for an injunction to stop New York City’s new $18 minimum wage law for food delivery app workers…

Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits (www.techzine.eu)

Reddit isn’t profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform’s API

You will later be able to delete your Threads account w/o losing Instagram (9to5mac.com)

One of the more… interesting discoveries yesterday is that there’s no way to delete your Threads account without also deleting…

TIL Shirley Temple hated the mocktail of lemon-lime soda/ginger ale and grenadine named after her, declaring it "too sweet". In 1988, she won a lawsuit to stop a bottled version from using her name. (www.wikipedia.org)

Smuggler Caught With 420 M.2 SSDs Strapped to His Stomach (www.tomshardware.com)

Chinese publication HKEPC reported that Chinese authorities caught a smuggler trying to sneak almost $32,000 worth of SSD through customs.

TIL Upon the death of the Dalai Lama, a search for his reincarnation is conducted where a child is identified through a series of 'tests' before being recognized as the succeeding Dalai Lama. The c... (en.wikipedia.org)

Tech execs are stressed out. Half are heavy drinkers and 45% take painkillers, a new study says (www.businessinsider.com)

High stress and job insecurity have many tech executives turning to alcohol and controlled substances to cope, a new survey says.

TIL: Tommy Thompson was an American treasure hunter who successfully found millions of dollars worth of gold coins from the SS Central America. However, he went on the run due to refusing to pay of... (en.wikipedia.org)

Trump reacts to being called a "loser" by Fox News analyst (www.newsweek.com)

Political analyst Brit Hume said during an appearance on Fox News Wednesday that the “the case can be made that [Trump’s] a loser.”

Louisiana Outlaws Sexual Deepfakes of Children (gizmodo.com)

Violators found to create or possess deepfaked material of minors engaged in sexual acts could face 5 to 20 years in prison.

Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (www.theverge.com)

Reddit is sending strongly-worded messages to moderators of certain subreddits that are marked as NSFW (Not Safe For Work), telling them to remove the tag or face being removed.

TIL that according to an FBI report, Elvis Presley believed the Beatles had led young people astray “by their filthy unkempt appearances and suggestive music” (www.theguardian.com)

Meta’s Threads app is a privacy nightmare that won’t launch in EU yet (techcrunch.com)

Meta’s planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn’t yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare…

TIL in 1969, concert promoter Bill Graham was asked to help organize the Woodstock Festival. He agreed under one condition: that Santana would be included in the lineup. After Bill persisted, Santa... (en.wikipedia.org)

TIL The percentage of Neanderthal DNA in modern humans is zero or close to zero in people from African populations, and is about 1 to 2 percent in people of European or Asian background. (medlineplus.gov)

Some direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies report how much DNA a person has inherited from prehistoric humans. Learn what this information means.

Threads already has over 95 million posts, 30 million signups (www.theverge.com)

Instagram’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is off to a rocket start. Mark Zuckerberg announced 30 million activated profiles, while internal data shows over 95 million posts and 190 million likes in less than one day,