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

Despite Spending $100 billion on AI Google is still no where close to a real ai assistant | Amazon Walkout failure and how no one making money with ai but with something else.. (www.arktrek.shop)

RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address (variety.com)

The EV industry can’t shake its human rights abuse problem (www.theverge.com)

Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" (www.eff.org)

Minnesota Lynx Announce 2024 (ttrpg.network)

Tale Year: David Kahn, Kurt Rambis and the Dumbest Intra-Business Drama At any time...

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

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads (www.techradar.com)

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower (hub.jhu.edu)

Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running (arstechnica.com)

The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. (www.theatlantic.com)

Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)

Microsoft PC Manager App 'Repairs' Your System by Making Bing the Search Default (uk.pcmag.com)

Microsoft is trying to restore Bing as the default search engine on users' browsers by spinning it as a "repair" through a utility app called PC Manager....

Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ (www.theverge.com)

Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? (news.ycombinator.com)

The Mac vs. PC war is back on? (www.theverge.com)

I find it hard to believe that, outside of work computers, many people would be choosing Windows over Mac or Linux, especially is AI is their goal....

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues Meta, citing chatbot’s reply as evidence of shadowban (arstechnica.com)

OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit (www.businessinsider.com)

Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more (www.tomshardware.com)

New Orleans Loses Bid to Tax Music Streaming Service (natlawreview.com)

The New Orleans Collector of Revenue (“Collector”) failed in its attempts to subject music streaming services to the City’s sales tax. In* *Apple, Inc. v. Collector of Revenue of the City of New Orleans et. al., Docket No. L01283 (May 2, 2024), the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals, Local Tax Division, analyzed the...

We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem (www.theverge.com)

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been cited for multiple safety violations with workers exposed to chemical sludge (medium.com)

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