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Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" ( www.eff.org )
Brazil’s Lula government ousts Petrobras chief after dispute over dividends ( www.ft.com )
Archive link...
Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them ( arstechnica.com )
I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.
How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion ( www.arktrek.shop )
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.
Meet My A.I. Friends | Our columnist spent the past month hanging out with 18 A.I. companions. They critiqued his clothes, chatted among themselves and hinted at a very different future. ( www.nytimes.com )
Germans fear migration more than climate change, study finds ( www.dw.com )
Europeans — especially Germans — are increasingly keen on curbing immigration and are less focused on climate change, according to a study by a Danish-based think tank....
TikTok sues the US government over ban ( www.theverge.com )
TikTok is taking the US government to court.
Meta AI is obsessed with turbans when generating images of Indian men ( techcrunch.com )
Israeli Weapons Firms Required to Buy Cloud Services From Google and Amazon ( theintercept.com )
Google and Amazon are both loath to discuss security aspects of the cloud services they provide through their joint contract with the Israeli government, known as Project Nimbus. Though both the Ministry of Defense and Israel Defense Forces are Nimbus customers, Google routinely downplays the military elements while Amazon says...
Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership was born from Google envy ( www.engadget.com )
For 'Cheap' Labour, Google Fires Its Entire Python Team: Report ( www.freepressjournal.in )
‘Political arrest’ of Palestinian academic in Israel is civil liberties threat, say lawyers ( www.theguardian.com )
Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days ( www.arenaev.com )
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V ( www.theregister.com )
The Man Who Killed Google Search ( www.wheresyoured.at )
Edward Zitron has been reading all of google's internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ's antitrust case against google....
Tesla slashes vehicle and self-driving-ish software prices as shares plummet ( www.theregister.com )
Modi Calls Muslims ‘Infiltrators’ Who Would Take India’s Wealth ( www.nytimes.com )
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'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad
I've enjoyed Mark Rober's videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn't sitting right with me...
Meta says you can’t turn off its new AI tool on Facebook, Instagram ( globalnews.ca )
Russia, Iran turning Israel and Ukraine into ‘battlefield laboratories,’ experts say ( thehill.com )
Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and Israel as “battlefield laboratories” to probe at Western military vulnerabilities, experts told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Wednesday. ...
STATEMENT from Google workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign on Google’s mass, retaliatory… ( web.archive.org )
Chaos in Dubai as UAE records heaviest rainfall in 75 years ( www.cnn.com )
Chaos ensued in the United Arab Emirates after the country witnessed the heaviest rainfall in 75 years, with some areas recording more than 250 mm of precipitation in fewer than 24 hours, the state’s media office said in a statement Wednesday....
US seeking to deter Iran from strike on Israel, officials say ( www.theguardian.com )
Tim Kaine: Biden knows Netanyahu ‘played’ him in early months of Gaza war ( www.theguardian.com )
Senator Tim Kaine, a former vice-presidential nominee and leading foreign policy voice in the Democratic party, has said Joe Biden now understands that Benjamin Netanyahu “played” him during the early months of the war in Gaza but “that ain’t going to happen any more”....
Israeli MK says secret plans underway for Gaza resettlement ( www.newarab.com )
Satellite images reveal extent of devastation in Gaza after six months of war ( english.elpais.com )
Nearly six in 10 buildings in the Strip have been damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks and its largest medical complex is an ‘empty shell,’ according to the WHO...
Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening? ( www.nytimes.com )
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/924278bf-d525-4611-85a6-467f376cbbab.webp...
Code quality can be measured in fucks per minute ( sopuli.xyz )
Women-only social media app Giggle for Girls taken to court by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle after her account was restricted ( www.abc.net.au )
**In short: **Transgender woman Roxanne Tickle is suing social media platform Giggle for Girls after she was excluded from the women-only app....
Elon Musk just gave another Mars speech—this time the vision seems tangible ( arstechnica.com )
Brazil judge opens inquiry into Musk after refusal to block accounts on X ( www.reuters.com )
A standoff between Elon Musk and Brazil escalated on Sunday when a Supreme Court judge opened an inquiry into the billionaire after Musk said he would reactivate accounts on the social media platform X that the judge had ordered blocked....
Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling ( arstechnica.com )
[Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites ( retrododo.com )
I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community....
Anyone have favorite Final Fantasy characters? (including FFVII)