Colorado enacts right-to-repair law banning restrictions on parts pairing, mirroring Oregon's ban (www.cpr.org)
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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)
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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Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women (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)
A Marriage Made in Hell: An Introduction to Microsoft’s Complicity in Apartheid and Genocide (medium.com)
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"Maybe This is Too Cool" - After years of layoffs and pay/resource freezes, Amazon execs treat themselves to a private Foo Fighters concert worth millions (radarblog.substack.com)
Is Firefox still good ?
To the people, is Firefox still the go to browser? Is there something better out there for the average person? I’ve heard good things about internet explorer.
Report: Apple and OpenAI have signed a deal to partner on AI (arstechnica.com)
Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process (arstechnica.com)
Tesla recalling more than 125,000 vehicles to fix seat belt warning system (apnews.com)
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Anker launches new KVM Switch for desktop and laptop (www.notebookcheck.net)
AI's Transformative Impact on Software Development (www.ft.com)
There has been a bottleneck in the development of complex applications in the past due to coding limitations. With Builder.ai, launched by Sachin Dev Duggal, people with no coding experience can now create a website using predefined templates and code generation. App development becomes a creative and innovative process, making...
Robotic 'Third Thumb' Makes Tasks Possible With One Hand; Can Be A Game Changer For The Disabled (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
This controllable prosthetic, the Third Thumb, attaches to the right hand, granting wearers the ability to perform a slew of one-handed tasks such as grasping objects, opening bottles, sorting cards, and even peeling a banana.
Phanpy: probably the best mastodon minimal webclient (phanpy.social)
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Estonia | The Digital State (youtu.be)
Most states rely on paper bureaucracy to ensure that the state can function and provide services. Paper bureaucracy has been part and parcel of how we maintain states and corporations since the Chinese invented the first paper bureaucracy systems of management 3000 years ago. But as you all probably know, bureaucracy kinda...
Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up (www.wired.com)
TikTok preparing a US copy of the app’s core algorithm, sources say (www.reuters.com)
OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation (www.theguardian.com)
Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences...
Japanese Man Arrested for GenAI Ransomware as AI Jailbreak Concerns Grow (thecyberexpress.com)
OpenAI says it stopped multiple covert influence operations that abused its AI models (www.engadget.com)
