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Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy ( fortune.com )

TikTok sues the US government over ban ( www.theverge.com )

TikTok is taking the US government to court.

Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs ( arstechnica.com )

Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app ( bitwarden.com )

Bitwarden Authenticator is a standalone app that is available for everyone, even non-Bitwarden customers....

YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers ( 9to5google.com )

Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2 ( www.macrumors.com )

First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says ( thehill.com )

The first Neuralink implant in a human malfunctioned after several threads recording neural activity retracted from the brain, the Elon Musk-owned startup revealed Wednesday....

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” ( arstechnica.com )

Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico ( www.cnbc.com )

Google is laying off more employees and hiring for their roles outside of the U.S.

Used VPN for cheaper YouTube Premium? Congrats, your subscription has been canceled ( www.androidauthority.com )

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )

Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles ( arstechnica.com )

Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters ( www.wired.com )

Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web ( www.theverge.com )

HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware ( www.tomshardware.com )

On May 26, a user on HP's support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study ( gizmodo.com )

The research from Purdue University, first spotted by news outlet Futurism, was presented earlier this month at the Computer-Human Interaction Conference in Hawaii and looked at 517 programming questions on Stack Overflow that were then fed to ChatGPT....

Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats ( stackdiary.com )

Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.

Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business ( edition.cnn.com )

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity ( ludic.mataroa.blog )

How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can't manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn't laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically...

Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail ( hackaday.com )

Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. ( mainichi.jp )

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