New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens (arstechnica.com)
Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women (arstechnica.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....
US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges (news.slashdot.org)
Google lets you edit sent Messages in latest Android feature drop (www.theverge.com)
Manifest V2 phase-out begins (blog.chromium.org)
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)
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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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...
The Green-Energy Revolution Shows What Real Innovation Looks Like (prospect.org)
US Officials: A Russian Rocket Launch Last Week Likely Deployed A Space Weapon (soylentnews.org)
Chinese man arrested for allegedly running ‘largest ever’ malware network (www.aljazeera.com)
US officials say army of 19 million infected computers enabled fraud, identity theft and child exploitation....
By Whose Authority? Pegasus targeting of Russian & Belarusian-speaking opposition activists and independent media in Europe - The Citizen Lab (citizenlab.ca)
Too Small to Police, Too Big to Ignore: Telegram Is the App Dividing Europe (www.bloomberg.com)
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
When you picture the tech industry, you probably think of things that don’t exist in physical space, such as the apps and internet browser on your phone. But the infrastructure required to store all this information – the physical datacentres housed in business parks and city outskirts – consume massive amounts of energy....
Ozempic Defined a TikTok Era. Now the App Wants It Gone (www.rollingstone.com)
