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    Apple’s China ties under Congressional scrutiny after Jon Stewart cancellation

    And you get 12 down votes so far for expressing a simple honest position. I also cancelled. Apple simply proved that no documentary, news, politics or other similar content it ever produces going forward is worth funding.
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    Google, Meta, TikTok defeat Austria’s plan to combat hate speech

    Ireland took the hand it was dealt. It's a small island, with no natural resources, an undersized population (mass migration in the 19th/20th centuries), and none of the UK's historical wealth. It uses tax policy to attract investment and employment, something that should be noted is extremely...
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    Google argues iMessage should be regulated by the EU’s Digital Markets Act

    Being from Europe, that there's even a Google messenger to adopt is nearly a surprise... Whatsapp is cross platform and used by everyone. One of the many reasons why the EU was so badly stung by Facebook outright lying about their ability to harvest its data into Facebook to get approval to take...
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    Elon Musk fights SEC’s Twitter-stock probe, claims it “reeks of McCarthyism”

    He very clearly broke the law several times. Obviously that makes him a high risk, high priority for investigation.
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    One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion

    It might be, if Musk stopped undermining it every two minutes. He was on just the last day or so with some anti-Trans and anti-Woke one liners. I think it was a temper tantrum over the valuation.
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    Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?

    I think the article is fascinating in that I imagine many of us struggle a little with just how revolutionary multicellular life was on Earth, and would appreciate this dive into the topic. The usual summation in popular science rarely does it justice preferring to leave the incredible...
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    The UK’s problematic Online Safety Act is now law

    I think we can take it for granted that their next slate of proposed legislation will be significantly worse, in every conceivable way, as they desperately try to find anything that could set people against Labour. My guess they'll go completely nuts proposing items that even they never expect...
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    Elon Musk’s chaotic first year at Twitter leaves X Corp. with shaky finances

    It's not called X. Everyone knows the name is "X (formerly Twitter)" or some variant otherwise nobody has a clue what you are talking about. It's not a good social media platform. It's become depressing, overrun by blue tick assholes who create a toxic environment driving engagement elsewhere...
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    SCOTUS: Biden admin can keep pressuring social media firms to remove content

    The Supreme Court has a few members who don't appear to see the obviousness of this also...
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    SCOTUS: Biden admin can keep pressuring social media firms to remove content

    Of interest, Twitter and Facebook operate on Planet Earth. The US Supreme Court has no sway beyond US borders where a lot of nations do and will require Twitter, Facebook, etc. to remove misinformation, hate speech, etc. Sure, Elon is ignoring that right now while claiming not to, but none of...
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    Report: Apple’s cancels The Problem with Jon Stewart over China, AI topics

    Apparently Apple fully expected to censor Jon whenever it was convenient. This pretty much ensures that Apple will never ever host a news program worth watching.
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    TED AI 2023: A historic symposium on benefits, risks, and applications of AI

    Is the appearance of intelligence, in itself, intelligence? It's trained on human content, will presumably continue to harvest all human content (copyright is irrelevant to some jurisdictions), and see improvements in how well it emulates intelligence. The artists are correct - it's an...
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    Elon Musk launches test to see if users are willing to pay $1 a year for X

    The problem is that in the short term it will. Musk will be able to point at a success rate. In time, of course, the spammers will adapt their tactics or refocus their return vs risk. As we've had to explain over and over, paying any fee is NOT verification. Also, I find it really hard to...
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    Elon Musk’s X fined $380K over “serious” child safety concerns, watchdog says

    Community Notes is also desperately tooting its own horn recently. Feeling the pressure of the Aussies, and the EU not far behind...
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    Inspector general on NASA’s plans to reduce SLS costs: “Highly unrealistic”

    They are in the panic room, and SpaceX is working on the door hinges...
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    Report: Apple is already designing a lighter Vision Pro to fix “neck strain”

    I see often see folk underestimating how bad the neck strain issue is with VR/AR headsets. Pain is a powerful disincentive to spend your hard earned cash on this technology. Extra straps will change nothing about the actual mass or its center of gravity. Headsets need to find a way to...
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    SEC sues Musk, saying he refuses to testify in Twitter stock investigation

    Why did we ever believe that this moron was a genius? His silence was golden. His actual speech, radioactive.
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    Musk makes news links on Twitter (aka X) less useful by removing headlines

    It's clearly an unfriendly move, and one destined to backfire as regular users now have to put in work when posting their own links too... Maybe he just wants no regular and offsite news at all? Let the amateurs nobody can trust rule the roost...
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    US may pay 3x more than EU for Moderna’s US-funded COVID shot

    The other option definitely doesn't work... A more valid view is that capitalism is a useful but inherently risky tool for a democracy. It leverages greed to motivate innovation, and benefit society, but it requires reams of regulations to manage the risk of that power being abused to the...
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    Disney starts crackdown on “significant” amount of password sharing

    Can only speak for myself, but the "flagship series" approach where a few incredibly expensive weekly episodic series swallow the budget has led to me cancelling Disney+. Having them spend less on fewer projects? Sounds even worse. They really need to strike a better balance of quality/quantity...