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YouTube and Substack are targeting AI slop (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: youtube, substack, ai assistants

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Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here are the growing number of other countries doing the same (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-24 | by Aisha Malik | tags: vietnam, social media bans, reuters

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ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | by Jul | tags: thomson reuters, immigration and customs enforcement, voter fraud

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ICE Is Using Data Broker Tools to ‘Identify Unaccompanied Minors’ and ‘Fraud’ (wired.com)

2026-07-17 | by Caroline Haskins | tags: ice, thomson reuters, data broker

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Meta Used Its Own Flawed AI to Pick Which Employees to Lay Off, Lawsuit Claims (futurism.com)

2026-07-14 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: leave, meta, plaintiffs

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Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-14 | by Jowi Morales | tags: colossus, nitrogen oxide, reuters

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Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact Black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-14 | by Jowi Morales | tags: colossus, nitrogen oxide, reuters

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New York bans data center construction for a year, rattling AI industry (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-14 | tags: centers, data centers, new york

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Meta’s AI Detector Can’t Detect Images It Generated Itself, Report Finds (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-11 | tags: according reuters, began, began struggle

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The Download: your stake in OpenAI, and the Treasury’s AI warning (technologyreview.com)

2026-07-07 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: market, mit technology, reuters

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Elon Musk categorically denies SpaceX is making an AI device with proprietary OS — says rumors of a handheld thinner than an iPhone are 'utterly false' (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-02 | by Anton Shilov | tags: device, handheld, musk

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Spain To Require Carriers To Keep Mobile Networks Live During Power Outages (slashdot.org)

2026-06-26 | get Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) → | tags: mobile networks, spain, reuters

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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-21 | get Mindfulness Meditation App → | tags: reuters institute, digital news report, smartphones

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Will America still be here in another 250 years? More than a third of us don’t think so (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-18 | tags: america, reuters/ipsos, july 4th

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Mark Zuckerberg Admits Meta ‘Made Mistakes’ as AI Reshapes 20% of Its Workforce (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-06-15 | by Jonathan Small | get Meta AI Developer Kit → | tags: meta, reuters, hackathon

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US states are reportedly planning to sue to block Paramount's Warner Bros. takeover (engadget.com)

2026-06-06 | by Cheyenne Macdonald | get Warner Bros. Studio Tour → | tags: according reuters, bonta, california

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The future of science communication is not an article like this (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-02 | get Science Communication Toolkit → | tags: nature, tiktok, instagram

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Starbucks Scraps Disastrous AI Tool (futurism.com)

2026-05-22 | by Frank Landymore | get AI Barista Coffee Maker → | tags: starbucks, ai tool, inventory management

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Amazon's Alexa can now generate podcasts on whatever topic you want. But, will anyone listen? (techspot.com)

2026-05-18 | get Echo Dot (5th Gen) → | tags: amazon alexa, washington post, jeff bezos

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GoPro explores sale after falling from $11 billion giant to $187 million company (techspot.com)

2026-05-14 | get GoPro HERO11 Black → | tags: gopro, reuters, strategic options

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LinkedIn Planning To Lay Off 5% of Staff In Latest Tech-Sector Cuts (slashdot.org)

2026-05-13 | get LinkedIn Learning Course → | tags: cuts, linkedin, microsoft

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SpaceX may build its own GPUs to reduce chip supply risks (techspot.com)

2026-04-23 | get NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: spacex, gpus, ipo

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Gates Foundation To Cut 20% of Staff, Review Epstein Ties (slashdot.org)

2026-04-22 | get Microsoft Surface Laptop → | tags: gates foundation, reuters, wsj

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Meta will record employee screens, clicks, and keystrokes to train AI that may replace them (techspot.com)

2026-04-22 | get Workplace Monitoring Software → | tags: meta, model capability initiative, reuters

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Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models (techcrunch.com)

2026-04-21 | by Lucas Ropek | get Keystroke Recording Software → | tags: meta, ai models, keystrokes

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Thomson Reuters Fired Worker for Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-15 | by Apr | tags: thomson reuters, clear database, immigration and customs enforcement

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I asked 5 data leaders about how they use AI to automate - and end integration nightmares (zdnet.com)

2026-04-09 | by Mark Samuels | get AI Integration Automation Toolkit → | tags: thomson reuters, data integration, software engineering

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Oscar Reutersvärd (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-29 | get Reversible Mobius Strip Puzzle → | tags: oscar reutersvärd, impossible triangle, bruno ernst

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OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora, ending $1 billion Disney deal in sudden pivot (techspot.com)

2026-03-25 | get OpenAI API Developer Kit → | tags: openai, sora, disney

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Amazon is trying smartphones again after the Fire Phone flop with Alexa-first "Transformer" (techspot.com)

2026-03-22 | get Amazon Fire HD Tablet → | tags: amazon, fire phone, alexa