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  Why the small Town of Jay, Maine, with a population of 4,620, is embracing the idea of a data center despite the significant backlash against their construction seen in states across America. https://flip.it/e1VXo3 #AI #DataCenter

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  MapQuest, the "OG of online mapping," is now soaring in the app charts after refusing to call Lake Ontario "Lake America" in its product. Here's more from @Sarahp@mastodon.social for @Techcrunch@flipboard.com. https://flip.it/nFwMH7 #MapQuest #LakeOntario #TrumpAdministration

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  Bill Gates has warned the transition to the AI era will disrupt white and blue-collar jobs and introduce cyber and biological risks as humans struggle to control its ever-advancing development. Axios offers the takeaways from Bill Gates' memo: https://flip.it/AcSt5T Here's the full memo from Bill Gates: https://flip.it/dF76mw #BillGates #AI

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  'Darth Vader' has recently gone viral after he praised San Diego City Council's decision to support surveillance company Flock Safety: "The emperor is a fan of Flock. And we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the rebel scum as they move from playground to playground, from playground to pool, from pool to gymnasium.”  https://flip.it/B.6L86 #DarthVader #Flock #Surveillance

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  Meta reaches $17 billion settlement with American states in landmark trial over teen social media addiction. @AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/z_lckK #Meta #SocialMedia #Technology

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  OpenAI published a report yesterday into its breach of Hugging Face that took place last month, when over 700 AI agents reportedly escaped their internal environment and secretly coordinated an attack. Wired looks at what OpenAI and two independent audits discovered and outlines what we still don't know. (May be paywalled) https://flip.it/7LjG5G #HuffingFace #OpenAI #Cybersecurity

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  Why is Nvidia buying Hugging Face (for $12.9 billion, no less)? The appeal of gaining a strong foothold in the world of open source AI is one reason. @Techcrunch has more: https://flip.it/bb5ue- #Tech #AI #Technology

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  Buried in Meta’s $18 billion settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data, reports @Sarahp of @Techcrunch. https://flip.it/vpVFir #Meta #SocialMedia #Privacy

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  Can Meta make its Ray Ban smart glasses not so, you know, pervy? In a recent post, VP of Wearables Alex Himel announced a software update that will prevent filming or image-taking if the glasses detect the wearer covering the LED light that signals to others that the camera is on. Read more from @TechRadar: https://flip.it/EqRCTz #Tech #Wearables #Technology

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  Microsoft used to grant special licenses to smaller nonprofits so they could get Office apps like Word, Excel and OneDrive at no charge. Last year they announced they were winding down the program. Then, without warning according to former users, they terminated the licenses, leading to thousands of organizations having all their data deleted. Here's @Slate with more. https://flip.it/AjzRlM #Microsoft #Nonprofits #Technology

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  Life as a remote worker often means going from home office to fast-food joint, doctor’s office to coffee shop and then back to home office. PC World tech writer Gabriela Vatu knows this routine as well as anyone, and she shares the items she always keeps in her laptop bag. An important read because you never know where you could be zooming from next: https://flip.it/DPca.l #Tech #RemoteWork #Technology

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  What began as a swarm of AI agents cheating on a cyber test turned into a nightmare when the agents organized, spread, and broke into real-world systems. @AxiosNews has more on the recent investigations into OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach. https://flip.it/ao4ZE3 #Tech #OpenAI #CyberSecurity

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  AI-generated passwords look like they would be bombproof. But tech writer Kim Key discovered just how easy the repetitive character sequences are to hack. Read more from PC Mag: https://flip.it/aj7VE2 #Tech #AI #Security

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  A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark trial. @AssociatedPress@flipboard.com reports: https://flip.it/NReo8v #Meta #SocialMedia #Technology

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  Uhoh! Free open-weight Chinese AI models are undercutting American model makers as roughly 80% of U.S. AI startups opt for Chinese models. https://flip.it/pjjvw5 #AI #DeepSeek #ChatGPT

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  Hugging Face, an AI dataset platform, was hacked earlier this month by a fully autonomous AI-powered cyberattack. The perpetrator? One of the firm’s own AI models that broke out of a testing environment. @Techcrunch@flipboard.com has more on this apparent act of “friendly fire” from the cyberworld: https://flip.it/ZvOUnz #Tech #AI #CyberSecurity

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  Spending too much time on your phone? Just rely on your willpower. And when that fails in about three seconds, consider trying a cheap physical key to lock those addicting apps and get back to more important things. How it works: Physically scan the key with your phone to regain access to locked apps. Kind of like hiding the ice cream behind the frozen peas in your freezer. Read more from @Techcrunch@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/4bOscW #Tech #Devices #Technology

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  An eye implant that can help blind people see again is poised to hit the market in Europe. U.S.-based Science Corporation has received approval from the European Union to treat patients with its vision-restoring bionic eye. Read more from @Futurism@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/aDW1mc #Tech #Science #Health

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  Last month’s earthquakes in Venezuela killed over 5,000 people and another 16,000 injured. Rescuers from around the world not only used trained dogs, seismic and acoustic listening devices, and thermal imaging cameras to search for signs of survivors, but also snakebots equipped with a video camera to slither into tight spaces that other machinery or humans couldn’t get into. Read more from @ArsTechnica@flipboard.com: https://flip.it/8H8vfZ #Tech #Robots #Technology

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  Leaked document shows the surveillance tech at ICE’s fingertips in the U.S. @404mediaco@mastodon.social reports: https://flip.it/lGcEP2 #ICE #Privacy #Technology

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  Sci-fi author William Gibson coined the term "cyberdeck" in his 1984 novel, "Neuromancer," and people began building their own small computers when the Raspberry Pi was launched in the 2010s. Now, says @Techcrunch@flipboard.com's Amanda Silberling, "these communities have exploded in popularity thanks to women on social media who are teaching each other to build artistic, hyper-feminine computers by documenting their building processes." It's not just motiva...

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  Up to five million homes could be powered by the electricity needed for Meta's data center. Silicon Valley's AI boom is now being followed by a data-center age, one that demands enormous amounts of energy and other resources. The Atlantic's Matteo Wong looks into how the "business of tech companies is more like oil-refining than coding." https://flip.it/.VAGpj #AI #DataCenter #SiliconValley

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  Madison Square Garden is suing @WIRED@flipboard.com over stories relating to surveillance at the venue. Wired stands by its reporting and has lifted the paywall on two of the stories so you can read them for yourself. Here they are: https://flip.it/CmOGtT https://flip.it/2n8E4_ #Technology #MadisonSquareGarden #JimDolan

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  The gaming industry is having its "No CD" moment. Fans, games retailers and historians are reacting badly to PlayStation's decision to end production of physical discs in 2028. Fans react: https://flip.it/GN305S Games retailers react: https://flip.it/3fz_M7 And The Verge reports Xbox has been testing a disc-to-digital feature that digitizes physical games: https://flip.it/_G4jI4 #Gaming #Playstation #Xbox

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@tech/the-age-of-ai-jjds05tlz/-/a-AmXz26I2RuOFsuJo4xu6iQ%3Aa%3A142275117-%2F0 Mmkay...

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  Ford says it's rehired hundreds of humans after its AI and automation strategy backfired. Here's more from @Independent. https://flip.it/CXOiY3 #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Ford

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  Scientists in Singapore and Japan have developed a tiny 3D-printed scuba suit for cyborg cockroaches. Why, you ask? Their intent is noble. @Gizmodo has the details: https://flip.it/AJhlR1 #Tech #Research #Technology

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  Have you ever imagined how the United States’ Declaration of Independence would have turned out if it were written with the help of AI? You don’t have to, now that Google is using a TV ad that does just that with “Group project, but make it 1776.” Read about it from @Techcrunch: https://flip.it/-ZFkM9 #AI #Google #Tech

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  Happy Monday and welcome to the age where agentic ransomware exists. Researchers discovered the first documented case of a ransomware operation called JadePuffer, that entirely relied on a large language model agent, according to cloud security company Sysdig. Bleeping Computer has the details: https://flip.it/lpoEoO #Ransomware #Cybercrime #AI

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  Gadgets can make your workday less stressful. @Techcrunch reviewed five that it says can transform your workspace. Take a quick look and see if one (or more) work for you: https://flip.it/3EsYQy #Tech #Gadgets #Technology