Update: IRS successfully launches their own free Direct File - now ALL of my fellow 'murcans are eligible for 2025 (sh.itjust.works)
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Manifest V2 phase-out begins (blog.chromium.org)
Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts (www.engadget.com)
Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens (arstechnica.com)
IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax (apnews.com)
‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)
New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
Google won’t comment on a potentially massive leak of its search algorithm documentation (www.theverge.com)
A purported leak of 2,500 pages of internal documentation from Google sheds light on how Search, the most powerful arbiter of the internet, operates....
Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says (gizmodo.com)
Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft's newest tactic to convert Windows 10 users is giving them a big comparison list (www.xda-developers.com)
Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drones can fly even farther after FAA approval (www.cnbc.com)
UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
Spacetop G1 is a $1900 laptop that uses a pair of Augmented Reality glasses as a display - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
Colorado enacts right-to-repair law banning restrictions on parts pairing, mirroring Oregon's ban (www.cpr.org)
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Internet Archive is continuing to face DDoS attacks after several days, says “this attack has been sustained, impactful, targeted, adaptive, and importantly, mean” (www.neowin.net)
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges (news.slashdot.org)
Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account (arstechnica.com)
Earlier this month, Google Cloud experienced one of its biggest blunders ever when UniSuper, a $135 billion Australian pension fund, had its Google Cloud account wiped out due to some kind of mistake on Google’s end. At the time, UniSuper indicated it had lost everything it had stored with Google, even its backups, and that...
Google's Controversial Plan to Disable Older Chrome Extensions Starts June 3 (me.pcmag.com)
Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council (www.cnbc.com)
Twitch on Friday will end the contracts for all members of its Safety Advisory Council, a resource made up of industry experts, streamers and moderators, who consulted on trust and safety issues....
Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process (arstechnica.com)
Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real (www.theverge.com)
Someone Drove A BYD PHEV 1,497 Miles Without Stopping For Fuel (insideevs.com)
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