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WhatsApp’s AI assistant used a real user’s phone number to fabricate an answer. Naturally it denied any responsibility. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Addictive smartphone 📱 use greatly increases suicide risk in children & teenagers, new study suggests. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

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Big Tech pushes for 10-year ban on US states regulating AI

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Whether through layoffs or resignations, Tesla has lost many of the employees that helped build the world's most valuable car company. Without them, Elon Musk is about to face his biggest challenge yet, writes Patrick George.

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He wasn’t wearing his security pin.

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Hey, Copilot, write something about #greenwashing.

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Great way to fight the deficit – forget tariffs, #crypto seizures rule!

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#innovation + #leadership? Black eye for #Meta and #Apple Details in this @economist.com analysis of #Glassdoor employee reviews on corporate culture: www.economist.com/interactive/...

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Remarkable chart showing that corporations have dramatically reduced white-collar jobs since 2021. “Managers on the chopping block”, the @wsj.com comments. #work #LaborMarket #management www.wsj.com/business/the...

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A doctor’s visit seems like a good time to remove your AirPods, even when they’re off. #tech #culture #society www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

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📰 🌐 The 2025 #DigitalNewsReport reveals why transparent journalism is urgent. "The current challenge for journalists is not how to become influencers or replace themselves with machines, but to meet audiences where they are with their integrity intact." Read our breakdown about trust in the media.

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two oil tankers caught fire after colliding in the golf of oman near the strait of hormuz maritime officials warning that navigational systems being jammed in the middle east bc of israel/iran

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Fact check: 37% of the increase in the national debt since 2001 has come from tax cuts. Source: www.crfb.org/papers/riche...

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Everything is tl;dr & AI summaries ‘cause nobody has time to read anymore. So let’s introduce puzzles & games…

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Disinformation is the greatest threat of all. It is the root cause of our inability to tackle climate change (the first Big Lie was climate change denial), the deterioration of democracies, the rise of corrupt populists like Trump.That‘s why the fight science and real journalism.

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Woah, that's a big ugy bill. And a recurring one, too. US Spending on Climate Damage Nears $1 Trillion Per Year The bill for impacts from rising temperatures exceeded 3% of US GDP, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg Intelligence. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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We don't know much about the Trump mobile phone -- but we do have several URGENT QUESTIONS and @brbarrett.bsky.social is here to lay them all out. www.wired.com/story/9-urge...

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Excellent, in-depth explainer why #Apple ’s new “Liquid Glass” #UI design is, well, broken. morrick.me/archives/10048 Discovered via @charlesarthur.bsky.social’s The Overspill blog: theoverspill.blog

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Autonomous, green energy-powered, surveillance sail drones to patrol the Baltic and North Sea www.stripes.com/theaters/eur...

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"I'm sorry, you're right to point out the mistake. I didn't bomb the target you asked for, I bombed something statistically resembling the target you asked for. I'll do better next time!"

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Researchers have grown pig embryos with beating human heart tissue for the first time 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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EU gas demand is set to FALL 7% by 2030 according to national plans, making new gas investments risky 📉 New gas infrastructure could become stranded assets as countries move towards a more electrified energy system. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/eu-national-targets-show-gas-in-decline

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This feels like the tech equivalent of eating your seed corn. Google's business is search and ads - paying to get rid of people who actually make you money, in favour of an uncertain AI future, seems highly risky

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"A leader who uses military force to suppress their political opposition forfeits the right to govern. You could call this the “tyrant test,” and Trump is already failing it." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Anyone willing to pay $500 for this atrocity deserves to be duped by a Trump phone made in China. 🤷‍♂️ www.wsj.com/tech/trump-t...

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Oops. #OpenAI #Microsoft www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

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#MetaAI makes search queries public when shared and… “the company’s share button doesn’t explicitly tell users where their conversations with Meta AI will be posted and what other people will be able to see…” #AI #NoPrivacy www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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AI-powered devices are everywhere, from electric razors to smartwatches. And these tools gather massive amounts of your personal data, often without you realizing it. A cybersecurity expert breaks down what's being collected and how:

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King Donald 🤴 and his minions: successfully isolating the US for 5 months and counting. More people leaving the country than coming: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... New travel bans planned: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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German carmakers, whose definition of derisking has been more (not less) China, are now scrambling in real-time to diversify from Chinese rare earth magnets. The lack of strategic vision is breathtaking. A replay of the Russian gas debacle on.ft.com/4l6hgR8

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There’s a good reason why interviews are typically edited for brevity and clarity. Try to read this podcast transcript, and you’ll see why. Solution? Write an article with key quotes, make the transcript optional. #journalism www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/m...

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Truly every sane and good thing they trash with malice

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Large language models “are not emotionally intelligent or ‘smart’ in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word,” Tyler Austin Harper writes. Understanding this is essential to avoiding AI’s most corrosive effects:

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With their extreme wealth, control over information infrastructures, and proximity to political power, the billionaire owners of Big Tech companies can shape the information ecosystems that democracies depend on to make decisions, writes Jamie Hancock, digital policy researcher at Demos:

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“Netanyahu felt that now was the time, even if the Americans don't like it.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The WSJ news pages expands on the NYT: since Stephen Miller demanded ICE increase its numbers, they’ve started grabbing people without even checking their immigration status, let alone their criminal history. Gift link: www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

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"My Mac Contacted 63 Different Apple Owned Domains in One Hour - While Not is Use" appaddict.app/post/my-mac-...

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Ah, too bad, I have mice only in my 5th and 7th house… Seriously, what kind of garbage #journalism is this from @nytimes.com? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/r...

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Sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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"Reducing US military aid to Ukraine will neither lead to a sustainable peace in Ukraine nor compel Russian President Vladimir Putin to reassess his theory of victory" understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

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How was the wheel invented? Engineers ran computer simulations to reinvent the wheel, revealing how nearly 6,000 years ago, the wheel may have evolved from wooden rollers, driven by the principle of mechanical advantage. An aerospace engineering professor explains: buff.ly/oM8otao

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…and all buyers should be aware that they are being milked for #mobility data flowing back to China.

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At Fort Bragg, Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line. Where are the generals who should be speaking up in defense of the military's rules and traditions, asks @radiofreetom.bsky.social? https://theatln.tc/eVGJfmoZ

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Families arrested in LA Ice raids held in basements with little food or water, lawyers say

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In today's @theoverspill: seeing faces in clouds, as humans do, resembles what LLMs do with text - mistaking unstructured content for content.

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We don’t know how close we are to triggering an Atlantic Ocean circulation #AMOC breakdown - but now we know a lot more about what it would mean for extreme temperatures in Europe. Good @carbonbrief.org piece on a new study just out by the Dutch colleagues! 🌊 www.carbonbrief.org/ocean-curren...

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How Musk & X.com are “strong-arming advertisers” into buying ads. Excellent investigative #journalism by @wsj.com reporter team. #media #socialmedia #business #law www.wsj.com/business/med...

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Even more polarizing? Tesla’s robotaxis crashing because Musk doesn’t believe in Lidar or other sensors beyond cameras…

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”even if industry returns, the old jobs will not…” @economist.com analysis on #manufacturing & Trump’s faulty tariff hopes. #work #automation economist.com/finance-and-...

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