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404 Media: Almost two years ago, Louisiana passed a law that started a wave that’s since spread across the entire U.S. south, and has changed the way people there can access adult content. As of today, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina join the list of 17 states that
tech
MegaLag detailed explanation on how was this possible. The short story is PayPal owns this browser extension, Honey, that promises it discounts everything you intend to buy, while it actually strips down the influencers' affiliate commissions. If you never saw a PR suicide-by-greed, PayPal has just committed one.
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Sky News: Three air fryers, made by the Chinese brands Xiaomi, Tencent and Aigostar, wanted to record audio on their owner's phone for no specified reason, according to the Which? study. Meanwhile, smart TVs made by Hisense and Samsung which were tested by Which? asked for people'
AI
The Platformer: Earlier this year, a group of accounts had begun asking the company’s chatbot, Claude, to generate text for search engine optimization — the art of getting a website to rank more highly in Google. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with a publisher trying to generate keywords to describe
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Wall Street Journal: Before the dinner, Zuckerberg did a private demonstration for Trump of Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses, which he gifted to the president-elect, the people familiar with the discussions said. Zuckerberg’s team told the inaugural fund before the dinner that Meta planned to donate, one of the
tiktok
Ars Technica, on TikTok at risk of being banned in the US: "Estimates show that small businesses on TikTok would lose more than $1 billion in revenue [in US] and creators would suffer almost $300 million in lost earnings in just one month unless the TikTok Ban is halted,
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Financial Times, on Russian-backed campaign in Romania (paywalled): The Russian-backed influence campaign that prompted Romania to scrap its presidential election result echoes operations carried out in Moldova and other countries this year, according to Romanian intelligence reports and Moldovan officials. The short story is that presidential elections in Romania were
The Atlantic, about the new reasoning OpenAI Pro o1 Even if you accept the claim that o1 understands, instead of mimicking, the logic that underlies its responses, the program might actually be further from general intelligence than ChatGPT. o1’s improvements are constrained to specific subjects where you can confirm
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The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote next week on an annual defense bill that includes just over $3 billion to help U.S. telecom companies remove equipment made by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE from American wireless networks. Link I may be missing something here: US
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This is an automated, AI managed, human washing machine, that gets you cleaned in 15 minutes. It also assesses your stress level and directs water jets to your tensioned muscles. The machine's designer was Manatsu Ueda, a 90-year-old resident of Toyonaka, Osaka Prefecture And: The human washing machine
apps
I stumbled upon Quiche Browser by chance, while looking for Bluesky devs lists. Quiche Browser is a web browser for iOS, highly customizable, sleek, buttery, and swift. It has already gotten a place on my first screen, competing with Safari and Arc. Its pricing model is one of the softest