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  Call for Proposals: Fediverse Multimedia Grants! Our intent with the Fediverse Multimedia Grants program is to bring more, and newer, rich content to the Fediverse for people to enjoy.

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  Brutal NIMBY Regulations Are Crushing the Kind of Solar Farms Researchers Say Are a Godsend for Local Ecology: "We're seeing a complete slowdown."

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  New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping: unlawfully distributed it to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere.

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  Intel Stock Is Cratering After Trump Poured Taxpayer Money Into the Chipmaker: Did the Trump administration get some bad Intel?

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  Hackers claim to have stolen 23TB of data from Russian statistics body, including Ukraine war casualty figures — Russian Federal State Statistics Service admits its servers were hit by cyberattacks.

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  Prisons Using AI to Predict When Incarcerated People Will Commit Future Crimes: It's going to "optimize placement of incarcerated individuals."

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  French lawmakers add $11.2 billion internet tax based on traffic usage to budget, costs $0.06 per gigabyte of content accessed — law still has to pass Senate approval.

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  Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People’s Mouths in Real Time: Talk about a new kind of filter.

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  Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows: Search advertising growth continued to decelerate, and Alphabet shares fell 8% following the results.

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  AI agent swarms unleashed in Minecraft to ‘build a thriving civilization’ — 50-agent teams fail after falling into paralyzing bureaucracy: It is hoped game testing can provide insight into recent AI.

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  Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate: "It's the stuff of Kafkaesque nightmares."

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  Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs — Darkbloom network sees earnings drop to $1.23 a day as Anthropic tokens fall 77%.

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  Relying on AI is rotting your brain. But here’s what you can do about it: Each new tech product is designed to make our lives easier and keep us mindlessly entertained. Switch off: embrace discomfort!

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  Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither. Both of these threats have the same roots: private entities seeking to cash in. We have the power to stand against them.

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  Defund Elon Musk: No private individual should have the power to determine US foreign policy, as Musk has attempted to do in Ukraine.

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  After Uber Destroyed Taxi Cabs, Drivers Now Face the Existential Threat of Self-Driving Cars: "It feels like every time I adjust to a new reality, another tech comes along & threatens my livelihood."

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  Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering — sweeping new restrictions also hit legitimate developers and basic troubleshooting tasks.

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  Intel’s woes wipe out $1 trillion of semiconductor market cap in one day — PC market bloodbath leaves few chip stocks unscathed: $1 trillion in semiconductor market capitalization wiped out.

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  Sam Altman Says Gen Z Are Lame for Not Worshipping AI: "They always want to go do the thing that was cool five years ago."

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  Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'.

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  Sam Altman Absolutely Hates the Idea of People Running Their Own AI Models at Home, Argues They Shouldn’t Own Computers: He'd prefer if we surrender all our RAM to data centers.

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  Google Starved Out Publishers With AI Search. Now, Its Pivot Is Blowing Up in Its Face: Its AI Mode isn't the cash cow it hoped it would be.

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  Trump ignored intel on China’s Nvidia spy to protect company’s stock, report says: Spy accused of exploiting Trump ties to Huang, funneling secrets to China.

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  Elon Musk is a 'real genius', Putin says after satellite talks with SpaceX boss: "We are in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk."

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  SpaceX no longer needs NASA, and that’s a problem for America’s space agency: “NASA desperately needs SpaceX, and SpaceX knows it, and Elon knows it.”

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  US data centers could wipe out 15 years' worth of progress in greenhouse gas emissions, report claims — buildouts could emit as much carbon dioxide as all of Mexico.

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  AI component hikes force the world's largest PC makers to return manufacturing capacity to China — brands to seek lower production costs and efficiency in established supply chain.

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  As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland: Europe’s Pan-Arctic Cable will bypass US to link Canada, Japan, and South Korea.

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  Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections: But the AI responses get more forthright when asked outside the US.

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  Data center gear is being hijacked in transit to the tune of hundreds of millions — grand-theft-GPU thieves hack accounts, perform hit-and-runs, spoof GPS signals, and funnel hardware to China.