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Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses

High Diesel Prices Bankrupted 16 Trucking Companies in Just 30 Days

Tech Overlord Peter Thiel Is Going Viral For Word Salad On Why Evil Can Be 'Kind Of Good

NYC is now the first city in America that bans sketchy subscriptions / As of Thursday, the city's click-to-cancel rule has taken effect, which requires businesses to make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up.

Google Is Accused of Destroying Nearly 500 Football Fields of Forest for New Data Center Project

Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

Bernie Sanders introduces bill to ban the federal government from using Flock

One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police

Retailers are pulling back from self-checkout after years of theft, errors, and questionable time savings

Elizabeth Warren probes $19B in tax breaks for Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft as AI drains $96B in federal revenue

Federal judge calls Flock search unconstitutional, as AOC and Bernie Sanders introduce bill to ban license plate readers

McDonald’s Hit With Antitrust Suit Over AI-Assisted Menu Pricing

Dem Candidate Sends “Cease and Desist” Order to Republican Over Deepfake Ads

Judge calls warrantless Flock search unconstitutional mass surveillance, throws out drug evidence

PewDiePie unveils ‘uncensored’ Ajax AI model built to run on home PCs — creator says OpenAI banned him twice over model distillation used to build his product

A Florida county discovered 14 Flock cameras nobody authorized, and 11 remain unclaimed

Parents are using AI to generate pictures of their kids to save money on school photos

Chick-fil-A takes a stand against fast-food drive-thru AI trend

US Senate kills bill that could potentially shield Americans from skyrocketing power bills due to AI data centers — opponents say bill is 'toothless' and doesn't do enough to protect citizens

Wikimedia Foundation: OpenAI agents tried to edit pages and compromise notes tool

Texas gay bar says Meta deactivated account without explanation

People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms

Improper redaction reveals Lincoln’s Google Data Center water and electricity usage

'It felt like the Hunger Games had started': Employees are 'loud working' in an effort to secure their jobs

OpenAI unleashes hundreds more math results upon a field already in shock

Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs

'Things may get ugly': Meta's new AI Muse is about to make the internet more annoying

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’

Hackers: We Stole Data From 3,615 Trump Mobile Customers

A court just ruled that training an AI on someone else's editorial work isn't fair use

USPS Is Turning Mail Trucks Into Rolling Surveillance Cameras

Overnight, Meta deleted all her accounts. AI customer service won’t let her reach a human | It's part of a trend that experts say won't end until regulation is introduced

The Netherlands is building its own Linux OS to break free from Microsoft

Tirzepatide cuts fat mass by 35% while preserving skeletal muscle

Paul Rudd Says He Stopped Bringing His Phone to Film Sets Because He’s "Addicted Like Everybody Else": "They’re Facilitating Our Own Destruction"

'Looks Like They're Firing Whistleblowers': Alarm as OpenAI Reportedly Ousts Safety Experts

Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift | 54-year-old North Carolina man, Michael Smith, gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.

GameStop Is Selling Used PS5 Pros for $1499, Likely Due To GTA 6 Release

Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional / Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

Microsoft is using wetlands and native gardens to 'camouflage' 20-plus data center sites by blending them into nature — critics blast the 'biomimicry' effort as 'lipstick on a pig' amid a 20-year gas power deal

Utah will become first state to let AI examine patients and prescribe medication without direct human oversight

An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS / ‘RemoveMacAI’ switches off Apple’s AI features, deletes its AI models, and blocks them from being downloaded again.

HBO Max and Paramount+ set to merge under ‘Skydance’ brand

A Texas woman is fighting to preserve land that was supposed to become a public park. Now it may be a data center instead

US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court

Why do tech CEOs sound like doomsday cult leaders?

ICE Put Protester Photos Into Palantir’s Surveillance Database

Mark Ruffalo Decries Paramount Job Losses, Says Anti-Merger Movement Won’t “Fade Away”: "This merger will stifle creativity, weaken free speech, and cost people their jobs."
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