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Pinterest is facing widespread user backlash over abrupt account suspensions and pin removals, with many reporting no clear reason or warning before being locked out. The Verge reports: The r/Pinterest subreddit is also currently dominated by posts from confused users who...
Friday May 2, 2025. 11:59 PM
Scientists discovered they could influence people's choices without offering better rewards – simply by offering them patterns. The research, published in Nature Communications by Haran Shani-Narkiss, Baruch Eitam, and Oren Amsalem (2025), emerged from an international...
Proposed cuts would mean: No Lunar Gateway, Artemis hardware to retire, ISS toast in 2030 The White House has proposed slashing NASA's budget by 24 percent, dropping it from $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion. If approved, it would mark one of the agency's deepest single-year...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: A European Union privacy watchdog fined TikTok 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday after a four-year investigation found that the video sharing app's data transfers to China put users at risk of spying, in ...
TL;DR: Get live weather updates with your own advanced radar when you get a Weather Hi-Def Radar lifetime subscription. What's the point of a weather app if it wouldn't get you accused of witchcraft during the Dark Ages? Gonna be honest, most weather apps are so laughably bad...
Despite growing adoption, a new study reveals that AI tools, including chatbots like ChatGPT, have had “no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours” across occupations, failing to meet expectations of workplace productivity. The study, led by Denmark researchers...
The 98th Academy Awards will make history as the first Oscars with official guidelines for AI use in filmmaking. The Awards ceremony will be held on March 15, 2026. Gen AI will not disqualify films for Oscars In the latest rule update from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts...
An anonymous reader shares a report: In the nearly two months since former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt acquired Relativity Space, the billionaire has not said much publicly about his plans for the launch company. However, his intentions for Relativity now appear to...
Google is now placing ads inside conversations with third-party AI chatbots, marking a major shift in how the search giant monetizes artificial intelligence. The move comes as AI-powered search tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Perplexity continue to gain traction,...
White House senior advisor Stephen Miller is on a mission to place America's federal court system under White House control. His lawsuit filed by the America First Legal Foundation directly targets Chief Justice John Roberts. While packaged as a routine records request, it...
The UK financial regulator is preparing to ban retail investors from using borrowed funds such as credit card balances to invest in cryptocurrency as it seeks to overhaul supervision of the fast-growing digital assets market. The Guardian: The soaring values of virtual...
A photo taken this week showed Mike Waltz using an app that looks like—but is not—Signal to communicate with top officials. 'I don't even know where to start with this,' says one expert.
Capex could jump by $7B to $72B, Zuckercorp says World War Fee Meta's AI ambitions are going to cost more than expected thanks to increased competition and — who could have seen this coming? — the Trump administration's obsession with tariffs, which is driving up the...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Apple is teaming up with startup Anthropic on a new 'vibe-coding' software platform that will use AI to write, edit and test code on behalf of programmers. The system is a new version of Xcode, Apple's programming software, that will...
In its push for “efficiency,” DOGE has leaned increasingly on AI—regardless of whether it makes any sense. And it's using it as an imperfect means to destructive ends.
Sweden, land of universal healthcare and furniture you can't pronounce, has delivered a flat-packed rejection to South Africa's biggest tantrum-thrower. As reported in Newsweek, Tesla sales crashed 80.7% in April, with registrations plummeting from 1,052 to just 203....
Shakeup in US higher education funding means FOSS incubator is short a quarter of a million bucks Higher education across the USA is facing federal funding cutbacks – and now the Oregon State University (OSU) Open Source Lab (OSL) is in trouble.…
Georgia county jail officials panicked, going into lockdown when an inmate convicted of murder disappeared — only to realize more than 12 hours later that the missing man was still at the courthouse. Apparently, the cops forgot to retrieve him. 'There was a mix-up of who...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Pinterest is having some weird moderation issues. Reports of sweeping pin removals and account suspensions have appeared across social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and X, with many users saying they received no warning or...
Although the nation’s overall unemployment rate held steady in April, technology worker hiring slowed and unemployment rose markedly. Tech sector companies reduced staffing by a net 7,000 positions in April, an analysis of data released today by the US Bureau of Labor...
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