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France grants police power to spy on citizens through phones (www.techradar.com)
VPN services and other security tools won’t be able to protect people from this kind of state-surveillance. What’s next for France’s justice reform bill?
TIl Rick James’ cameo in chappelle’s show was so successful it caused him to return to touring and performing. He died a few months into the tour. (en.wikipedia.org)
U.S. Offshore Wind Industry Is ‘Coming to Life’ (www.scientificamerican.com)
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Cyberpunk 2077 Players Protest Reddit By Posting Nudes (kotaku.com)
Reddit admins are reportedly angry that the Cyberpunk 2077 subreddit is now NSFW and demanding it change
DoorDash, UberEats, and Grubhub sue New York City over a new $18 an hour minimum wage for delivery driver (www.businessinsider.com)
Some drivers at DoorDash and Grubhub supported the New York City pay bump, but others say it will actually mean less pay and freedom.
In NYC, companies will have to prove their AI hiring software isn't sexist or racist (www.nbcnews.com)
New York City businesses that use artificial intelligence to help find hires now have to show the process was free from sexism and racism.
You Can't Look at Porn on Any Reddit Third-Party App Now (www.vice.com)
Following changes to its API access, users are forced to log in on the official Reddit app if they want to view NSFW content on mobile.
TIL of The Business Plot of 1933, a failed attempt to overthrow FDR and install a dictator. Led by a covertly bankrolled Wall Street coalition of affluent businessmen (explorethearchive.com)
In 1933, a coalition of businessmen dissatisfied with FDR’s economic policies surreptitiously planned a coup. The failed Business Plot aimed to depose FDR and install a dictator.
TIL Catherine Dior, youngest sister of Christian Dior, was in the French resistance in WW2. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944, she was tortured and sent to both Ravensbruck and Buchenwald concentrati... (en.wikipedia.org)
Ron DeSantis’s Ghoulish Embrace of American Psycho Patrick Bateman: The increasingly hopeless presidential candidate is now clinging to a weird right-wing meme in the hopes of winning over the miso... (newrepublic.com)
The increasingly hopeless presidential candidate is now clinging to a weird right-wing meme in the hopes of winning over the misogynistic-sociopath vote.
TIL After being named Marijuana Pepsi Jackson by her parents and enduring years of bullying as a result, Jackson refused to change her name and went on to earn her Ph.D. at the age of 46 for Higher... (www.npr.org)
Wind farms produce one third of Ireland's energy in first half of the year (www.breakingnews.ie)
Wholesale electricity prices fell by 35% in June compared to the same month last year
TIL: Many athletes are technically considered obese based on their BMI because the BMI can't differentiate between fat and muscle (www.npr.org)
TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the "Technocracy Movement." Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who ha... (en.wikipedia.org)
France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people (gazettengr.com)
A bill that would allow police in France to spy on suspects by remotely activating cameras, microphone including GPS of their phones has been passed.
TIL that Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford once encountered each other in the studio, drank heavily and inadvertently wrote a song together. It ended up being the highest charting US single of either of ... (en.wikipedia.org)
TIL: In 2002, Kenya formally donated 14 cows to the US as a way to show compassion to them after the 9/11 tragedy. (www.911memorial.org)
TIL of anchorites, medieval Christian ascetics who were walled into a cell ("anchorhold") attached to a church for their entire adult lives. Through small windows, they received sustenance, dispose... (en.wikipedia.org)
Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets (techcrunch.com)
Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.
TIL Two of Kurt Cobain's closest friends, Mark Lanegan and Dylan Carlson credit Courtney Love with saving their lives in the years after his death. She felt he would want them to be saved and decid... (www.ultimate-guitar.com)
‘What kind of friend am I? Because this guy used to look up to me.’
TIL That Chuck E. Cheese Secretly Sold Pizzas on Delivery Apps During the Pandemic Under the Name “Pasqually Pizza” (www.foxbusiness.com)
Chuck E. Cheese is now selling pizza under a different brand.
TIL in 2011 Abercrombie & Fitch offered Mike ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino (from ‘Jersey Shore’) $10,000 not to wear the company's clothes because they felt it would cause “significant damage” to ... (www.wikipedia.org)
AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war (arstechnica.com)
“Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably.”
Honeybees make rapid, accurate decisions and could inspire future of AI, study suggests (www.sheffield.ac.uk)
New research revealing how honeybees can make fast and accurate decisions, which could help to design more efficient robots and autonomous machines, has been published by scientists at the University of Sheffield.
Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation (apnews.com)
LONDON (AP) — The European Union is pushing online platforms like Google and Meta to step up the fight against false information by adding labels to text, photos and other content generated by artificial intelligence, a top official said Monday.
Honeybees make rapid, accurate decisions and could inspire future of AI, study suggests (www.sheffield.ac.uk)
New research revealing how honeybees can make fast and accurate decisions, which could help to design more efficient robots and autonomous machines, has been published by scientists at the University of Sheffield.
TIL the co-founder of Encyclopædia Britannica was a 4'6" tall Scot with crooked legs and an enormous nose that he would sometimes augment with a papier-mache version. He deliberately rode the talle... (en.wikipedia.org)
Massive Norwegian phosphate rock deposit can meet fertilizer, solar, and EV battery demand for 100 years (www.techspot.com)
Norwegian mining company Norge Mining said the 70 billion tonnes of phosphate rock was uncovered in the southwest of Norway, where it sits alongside other minerals such…
US aims to restrict China's cloud computing development, close AI chip loopholes: report (www.foxbusiness.com)
The Department of Commerce is expected to roll out sweeping restrictions on cloud computing services in Chinese markets, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
TIL tanning salons have been banned in Australia since 2016. (www.abc.net.au)
Melissa Sheldon’s melanoma spread to her lungs and her brain, and her doctors said it was probably because of her sunbed use. Now she has issued a warning to others thinking of using one of Australia’s illegal solariums - “stop”.
Judge blocks federal officials from contacting tech companies (www.engadget.com)
A judge has blocked the Biden administration and other federal officials from communicating with social media companies in a case that could have far-reaching consequences for the country…
TIL Many hotels including Hilton and Marriott collect guests’ used soaps, scrape the hair and stuff off, then melt them down to make new soaps. (www.cnn.com)
Used soap from Hilton Hotels is getting a second life.
ChatGPT pauses Bing integration to stop people from bypassing paywalls (www.windowscentral.com)
OpenAI has disabled the Browse with Bing feature in ChatGPT to prevent users from bypassing paywalls and accessing website information without making a subscription first.
You Up? Mars Helicopter Finally Makes Contact After Two Months of Silence (gizmodo.com)
A hilly terrain on Mars stood between Ingenuity and Perseverance, interrupting their communication for over 60 days.
AI can pick top-performing private equity funds better than many institutional investors, Oxford study finds (www.businessinsider.com)
The top quartile of funds selected by the AI model generated 2.1x the original investment versus an industry average of 1.85x.
TIL that the BBC had no archival policy until 1978, and many of its old broadcasts were only aired live. A number of BBC broadcasts are lost, including a show featuring a then-unknown Bob Dylan; 97... (en.wikipedia.org)
Mobile phones and other devices to be banned from Dutch classrooms (www.theguardian.com)
Education ministry in the Netherlands says tech is a distraction from learning and will only be allowed if specifically needed
TIL the design of the guillotine was intended to make capital punishment more reliable and less painful in accordance with new Enlightenment ideas of human rights. (en.wikipedia.org)
Removing Carbon From the Air Enters Its Awkward Teen Years (www.bloomberg.com)
“Fascists Go Home!”: Philadelphians Reject Far Right “Moms for Liberty” | Over 50 local and national organizations joined to counter the harmful messaging from the far right group’s conference. (truthout.org)
TIL: The Greek intellectual Hypatia was accused of witchcraft in March 415 CE where a mob seized her from her carriage, dragged her into a church, carved out her eyes and her living flesh with oyst... (lithub.com)
In the early fifth century, a time when the increasingly powerful Catholic Church clashed with the remainders of the pagan world, Hypatia of Alexandria was a renowned pagan mathematician, scientist…
Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases (www.popsci.com)
Twelve of the largest drug stores in the U.S. sent shoppers’ sensitive health information to Facebook or other platforms.
TIL a full-grown person can eat 70 to 80 hot dogs in a 10-minute space before their body starts to shut down (www.popsci.com)
Hot dogs are dangerously good. Beyond high fat and sodium content and the choking hazard, there’s a limit to how many your body can digest.
World's 1st 'tooth regrowth' medicine moves toward clinical trials in Japan (mainichi.jp)
OSAKA – A Japanese research team is making progress on the development of a groundbreaking medication that may allow people to grow new teeth, with c
TIL that in the 1980s, Tom Fogerty, rhythm guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival, underwent back surgery, and was given a blood transfusion that was not screened for HIV causing him to become ... (www.grunge.com)
It was reported that Fogerty’s tuberculosis was a complication from the AIDS virus, which he acquired from a tainted blood transfusion during back surgery.
TIL that the words "lesbian" and "sapphic" both come from this legendary woman named Sappho who lived on the island of Lesbos (en.wikipedia.org)
Reddit's API protest just got even more NSFW (mashable.com)
TIL bee suits are customarily white because by wearing white, a beekeeper can approach and open the hive without the bees becoming defensive and attacking as bees dislike dark coloured animals. (www.manukavet.com)
Have you ever wondered why beekeepers wear white? Is it to see when a bee lands on them, to stay cool when its hot or is it a fashion trend that has stuck?The answer is simple and evolutionary. In ord