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A Popular Sweetener Was Linked to Increased Anxiety in Generations of Mice (www.sciencealert.com)
Zelenskiy makes 11th hour plea for Ukraine war funds in Washington (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk's luck has finally run out (www.businessinsider.com)
This is why using Tesla stock to source cash all the time gets hairy. If Tesla shares fall below a certain level, the banks can call in those personal loans — leaving Musk on the hook. And the quickest way for Tesla’s stock to drop off a cliff is for investors to get wind of a big Musk sale. And of course, he needs to make...
Google Podcasts is gone — and so is my faith in Google (www.theverge.com)
The Podcasts app is just the latest product to go through a process I’ve come to call The Google Cycle. It always goes the same way: the company launches a new service with grandiose language about how this fits its mission of organizing and making accessible the world’s information, quickly updates it with a couple of neat...
New Boeing whistleblower alleges serious structural flaws on 787 and 777 jets (www.seattletimes.com)
A Boeing quality engineer went public Tuesday with damaging allegations that the jet-maker took manufacturing shortcuts to increase production rates that leave potentially serious structural flaws on its 787 and 777 widebody planes....
Has anyone seen zipper merging work in America?
I went on a trip yesterday and I tried it, it sure didn’t seem to work at all, one person who is stubborn, slow or whatever can mess the whole thing up.
Jeff Bezos foresees a trillion people living in millions of space colonies. Here's what he's doing to get the ball rolling. (www.nbcnews.com)
Trump Unable To Come Up With Own Material, Keeps Ripping Off Hitler (www.wonkette.com)
Elon Musk bashed by heavy metal drummer who cost him $56 billion (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk suffered one of the biggest legal losses in U.S. history this week when the Tesla CEO was stripped of his $56 billion pay package in a case brought by an unlikely opponent, a former heavy metal drummer.
With so many conspiracy theories, why isn't there one where Jeffrey Epstein lives?
I understand why there are the ones where he didn’t kill himself, but the cameras were destroyed, how come no one thought to think he just walked out? This has been bugging me since it happened....
He did NOT want to be filmed 😳 (www.youtube.com)
TIL that Maya Rudolph's mom is this lady and the song 'Lovin' You' is for Maya. She says Maya at the end over and over. (www.youtube.com)
I was listening to Emma Stone on Smartless trying to figure out how to explain who she is and don’t ask me how it lead down this insane path.
How to save culture from the algorithms, with Filterworld author Kyle Chayka (www.theverge.com)
Seven years later, Kyle’s argument is that AirSpace has turned into what he now calls Filterworld, a phrase he uses to describe how algorithmic recommendations have become one of the most dominating forces in culture, and as a result, have pushed society to converge on a kind of soulless sameness in its tastes.
Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber (www.theverge.com)
Today, I’m talking to Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky Social, which is a decentralized competitor to Twitter, er, X. Bluesky actually started inside of what was then known as Twitter — it was a project from then-CEO Jack Dorsey, who spent his days wandering the earth and saying things like Twitter should be a protocol and not...
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to...
TIL John Lennon made a song "Working Class Hero" that was intended to jolt the system (www.youtube.com)
I was reading this article from 1970 and he’s obviously a complicated dude: archive.is/POtvB...
Cardinal convicted of embezzlement in Vatican financial trial sentenced to 5 1/2 years (www.nbcnews.com)
Reddit stock slated to start trading on NYSE (www.npr.org)
Investors have upvoted Reddit in droves....
Rupert Murdoch and new 'Washington Post' CEO accused of cover-up in hacking scandal (www.npr.org)
For the first time, media titan Rupert Murdoch was accused in court of personally knowing about phone hacking and other illegal acts by his British tabloids stretching back nearly two decades, far earlier than he admitted, and giving “knowingly false” evidence under oath in an official inquiry....
Japan's Nippon Steel to acquire U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion (www.reuters.com)
'You know who I am?': Congressional candidate Martin Hyde threatens cop's career during traffic stop (www.youtube.com)
Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook (arstechnica.com)
The tool is nearly ready to be released, Zuckerman told Ars, but the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor is afraid that Facebook owner Meta might threaten legal action if he goes ahead. And his fears appear well-founded. In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow...
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
Monica joined Glassdoor about 10 years ago, she said, leaving a few reviews for her employers, taking advantage of other employees’ reviews when considering new opportunities, and hoping to help others survey their job options. This month, though, she abruptly deleted her account after she contacted Glassdoor support to...
ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says (arstechnica.com)
ChatGPT is leaking private conversations that include login credentials and other personal details of unrelated users, screenshots submitted by an Ars reader on Monday indicated....
Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat (gizmodo.com)
Thus, Project Ghostbusters was born. It’s Meta’s in-house wiretapping tool to spy on data analytics from Snapchat starting in 2016, later used on YouTube and Amazon. This involved creating “kits” that can be installed on iOS and Android devices, to intercept traffic for certain apps, according to the filings. This was...