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Humane AI Pin Owners Told to Stop Using Charging Cases Due to ‘Fire Safety Risk’ (gizmodo.com)

United Airlines passengers to see targeted ads on seat-back screens (www.cbsnews.com)

Tesla chair says Elon Musk needs $46 billion pay plan to stay motivated (arstechnica.com)

Google avoids jury trial by sending $2.3 million check to US government (arstechnica.com)

Microsoft Sued For AI Article Accusing Innocent Man of Sexual Misconduct (futurism.com)

Microsoft moves to resolve privacy concerns over its Recall feature (www.engadget.com)

GPS interferences affecting tractors on Finland's eastern border | Yle News (yle.fi)

Where the CHIPS Act money has gone (www.theverge.com)

Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is reworking Recall after researchers point out its security problems (arstechnica.com)

the company says that Recall will be opt-in by default, so users will need to decide to turn it on

The New York Times source code leaked by a 4chan user (stackdiary.com)

A user on the online forum 4chan has leaked a massive 270GB of data purportedly belonging to The New York Times. This leak includes what is claimed to be the source code for the newspaper’s digital operations.

Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms (techcrunch.com)

Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...

Facebook, Instagram in EU crosshairs for election disinformation (archive.is)

Facebook and Instagram have failed to tackle disinformation and deceptive advertising in the run-up to European Parliament elections, the European Commission said on Tuesday as it opened an investigation into suspected breaches of EU online content rules.

Petition | Meta has announced it will be abandoning CrowdTangle, its industry leading transparency tool, this August - in the middle of the biggest election year on record (foundation.mozilla.org)

TELL META: Don’t Kill Your Crucial Transparency Tool, CrowdTangle!...

Solar modules deployed in France in 1992 still provide 75.9% of original output power (www.pv-magazine.com)

Robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and painted cardboard (www.theregister.com)

A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...

Humane is said to be seeking a $1 billion buyout after only 10,000 orders of its terrible AI Pin (www.engadget.com)

How Much Energy Would It Take to Pull Carbon Dioxide out of the Air? (www.wired.com)

This Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected by Windows’ New Recall AI (www.wired.com)

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the new Windows AI tool that can answer questions about your web browsing and laptop use, he said one of the “magical” things about it was that the data doesn’t leave your laptop; the Windows Recall system takes screenshots of your activity every five seconds and saves them on the...

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