Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/0KvTq
How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion ( www.arktrek.shop )
Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more ( www.tomshardware.com )
Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping company ( www.reuters.com )
May 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform....
Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon ( english.elpais.com )
Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED ( www.wired.com )
Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.
iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air ( 9to5mac.com )
On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.
1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog ( blog.mozilla.org )
The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...
Tesla accused of union buster bluster at Buffalo factory ( www.theregister.com )
Apple Unleashes the M4: A Powerhouse for the New iPad Pro ( www.arktrek.shop )
Color coding crops ( www.cell.com )
Using genomic techniques to change the color of plants to make it easier for robots to harvest them.
Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ ( www.theguardian.com )
More than half a million UniSuper fund members went a week with no access to their superannuation accounts after a “one-of-a-kind” Google Cloud “misconfiguration” led to the financial services provider’s private cloud account being deleted, Google and UniSuper have revealed.
Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors [using generative AI] ( www.nytimes.com )
Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter ( www.engadget.com )
NASA wants a cheaper Mars Sample Return—Boeing proposes most expensive rocket ( arstechnica.com )
Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says ( arstechnica.com )
Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs ( www.theverge.com )
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability ( simonwillison.net )
Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad ( www.theregister.com )
The ad itself depicted a mechanical crusher destroying artifacts of human creativity. A trumpet, guitar, sculpture, piano, drawing board, paints, a metronome, several analog cameras, a turntable, and hi-fi equipment were among the much-loved items yielding to the machine's unstoppable force.
EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again ( www.techspot.com )
EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...
First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says ( thehill.com )
The first Neuralink implant in a human malfunctioned after several threads recording neural activity retracted from the brain, the Elon Musk-owned startup revealed Wednesday....
Labor Certification for Permanent Employment of Foreign Workers in the United States; Modernizing Schedule A To Include Consideration of Additional Occupations in Science, Technology, Engineering, and ( www.federalregister.gov )
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This Week in AI: OpenAI considers allowing AI porn | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )
Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help power his AI ambitions ( www.cnbc.com )
Cyberattack forces major US health care network to divert ambulances from hospitals ( www.cnn.com )
