8. Amazon’s Ring to pay $5.8M after staff and contractors caught snooping on customer videos, FTC says
17. ChatGPT Fought the Law, and the Law Won - Here is an object lesson in how not to use generative A.I.
18. Cellulose film could help cool cars and homes without electricity | Exploiting plants natural cooling abilities with colorful home furniture or car sensors
19. Electric vehicle incentives for ‘gasoline superusers’ would have outsized benefits for the climate
25. Google quietly ends support for decade-old Chromecast - No more software or security updates are coming for Google’s first Chromecast. ‘Users may notice a degradation in performance.’
30. Chinese scientists are drilling a 10,000-meter hole into the Earth’s crust, explores new frontiers above and below the planet’s surface
32. Huge win for privacy: Record fine against Facebook thanks to Max Schrems. Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU regulation GDPR.
33. Supreme Court rejects lawsuit that sought to hold Reddit responsible for hosting child pornography
36. Scientists harvest electricity “from thin air”, Humidity could be a boundless source of energy, they say
46. Amazon is discontinuing Alexa’s celebrity voices, even if you paid for them - The voice of Samuel L. Jackson has already stopped working on Alexa devices.
52. OpenAI isn’t doing enough to make ChatGPT’s limitations clear | Users deserve blame for not heeding warnings, but OpenAI should be doing more to make it clear that ChatGPT can’t reliably distinguish fact from fiction.
56. ‘They’re afraid their AIs will come for them’: Doug Rushkoff on why tech billionaires are in escape mode
61. Intel inside? Chinese firm Powerleader’s ‘home-grown’ chip suspected of being a rebadged microprocessor from US giant, test results show
62. Leaked Tesla Documents Said to Disclose Thousands of Autopilot Complaints - 100GB of files cover issues with unintentional emergency braking, self-acceleration, and more
67. Asus is going to sell Nvidia AI servers for your business to rent | This could be good news for banking and hospitals looking to harness AI tools
74. Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI | Nintendo's Luigi has a chaos-causing alter ego. AI's shadow could put humanity at risk—but can be contained
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108. DeSantis signed bill shielding SpaceX and other companies from liability day after Elon Musk 2024
125. A 'Slavery Simulator' game on Google Play Brazil that allowed players to sell, torture, or sexualize enslaved people was downloaded more than 1,000 times before it was removed: report
127. VMware employees are increasingly concerned over Broadcom's pending $61 billion acquisition, predicting spinouts of business units, layoffs, and lost customers
131. There's a big debate over whether it's OK to use AI in your job search. Some companies say it's 'a definite dealbreaker.'
132. Digital Anthropology Meets Data Science - Analyzing online ecosystems in real time, teams of anthropologists and data scientists can begin to understand rapid social changes as they happen.
145. From Past Lessons to Future Protections: EFF's Advice to the EU Commission on Extended Reality Governance
147. [Blogpost] A Turkish-style Cambridge-Analytica Scandal: Bulk reach into the digital presence of Turkish citizens - The Arrested Lawyers Initiative
154. Amazon employees accuse the company of ‘actively accelerating’ the climate crisis, leaked email shows. Employees plan to walk out
160. in 2020, four laparoscopic procedures consisting of left nephrectomy, partial hepatectomy, cholecystectomy, and cystectomy were performed on 25 kg porcine models. The surgeons were located in Qingdao, PRC, while the porcine models were situated in Anshun PRC, with a distance of 3000 km between them
162. Microsoft is liberally using OpenAI to try to maintain software developers’ interest in its platforms.
163. Tesla instructed employees to only communicate verbally about complaints so there was no written record, leaked documents show
165. 'Hot Pixel' Attack Steals Data From Apple, Intel, Nvidia, and AMD Chips via Frequency, Power and Temperature Info | DVFS mechanisms can be exploited to steal data.
169. China says South Korea agrees to boost semiconductor cooperation, while Seoul stays quiet on talks
172. Tesla leak reveals thousands of customer complaints about random acceleration and 'phantom braking,' report says
177. Is Social Media Making Us Stupid Not Because Of Content But Because Of "The Machinery Of Targeted Distribution"?
185. Netflix might ruin password sharing for everyone | The streamer’s password-sharing crackdown could have huge implications for the rest of the industry.
186. Shocking Leaked Tesla Documents Hint at Cybertruck Problems | The EV giant is under pressure to launch new products, but a huge dump of confidential files in Germany details a litany of technical failings
187. HP printers should have EPEAT ecolabels revoked, trade group demands | Complaint to EPEAT organizers spells out why Dynamic Security, HP+ suck
190. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz vetoes rideshare driver bill after Uber threatens to halt operations outside Twin Cities
193. Ex-Apple employee accused of stealing trade secrets is exec at Baidu self-driving car joint venture
198. Massive trove of Tesla files contains thousands of safety complaints — a Tesla employee gave more than 100GB of data to Germany's Handelsblatt
199. More Canadian privacy authorities investigating ChatGPT's use of personal information | Investigation will examine if OpenAI got 'valid and meaningful' information-sharing consent from Canadians
200. Captcha Is Asking Users to Identify Objects That Don't Exist - Discord's captcha asked users to identify a 'Yoko,' a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI.
202. HP has found an exciting new way to DRM your printer! | Where ‘HP Plus’ means ‘HP + permanent DRM.’
206. The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked | The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again
207. Electricity prices in Finland flipped negative - ; a huge oversupply of clean, hydroelectric power meant suppliers were almost giving it away
218. Elon Musk wants to do more streaming on Twitter, but DeSantis' launch was plagued with glitches and outages
224. Around 79% of American workers believe AI will threaten their salary and lead to pay cuts, new survey finds
227. Data breach at US debt collector exposes over a million users | NCB Management Services exposed sensitive payment data to an unknown threat actor
228. A retailer just blocked 42,000 customers from its site for returning too many items. It could trigger a new wave of returns backlash.
232. Solar investment outshines oil: IEA / Investment in solar power is expected to overtake oil for the first time this year as clean energy
234. Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads / Just when you thought maybe your phone wasn't spying on you …
236. Some Meta staff are making up their own tasks or avoiding work as layoffs leave them in an anxious and confused limbo, report says
240. Sam Altman says OpenAI will leave the EU if there's any real AI regulation — The man behind the company that made ChatGPT had just got done telling Congress he’s all for AI regulation, as long as he can keep selling his AI models
241. Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet, making it easier for towns to build their own
244. Ron DeSantis had trouble announcing his presidential bid because Twitter's servers were 'kind of melting'
252. Everyone is fed up with robocalls. Now 48 states are suing one company that they say made 7.5 billion of them.
253. Apple is investing billions in US-made 5G components as it looks to move manufacturing out of China
260. Microsoft’s Surface Pro X cameras have stopped working for everyone - Owners of Microsoft’s flagship Arm-powered tablet are struggling to dial in to video calls this week.
264. Social media presents ‘profound risk of harm’ for kids, surgeon general says, calling attention to lack of research
266. Pegasus spyware found on phones of Mexican president's close ally | There are concerns the Mexican military may be snooping on leaders.
267. Amnesty International Report: Palestinians in Hebron Regularly Subject to an Experimental Surveillance System That Stores Facial Recognition Data Without Consent
268. Paralysed man walks again thanks to 'digital bridge' that wirelessly reconnects brain and spinal cord
270. Do not call: States sue telecom company over billions of robocalls - Attorneys general across the U.S. have joined a lawsuit against a telecommunications company accused of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls to people on the national Do Not Call Registry
283. Fake Pentagon explosion photo caused a real dip in the stock market — Authorities confirm the suspected AI image is fake
293. Tesla plummets 50 spots in a survey of the US's most reputable brands. It's now No. 62 — 30 places below Ford.
295. Congress wants AM radio in all new cars—trade groups say that’s a mistake | Congress wants to force AM into every new car for emergency alerts.
298. Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M after buying it for $400M
