Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds

Jury in Los Angeles awards plaintiff damages of $6m, with Meta to pay 70% and YouTube the remainder

German court ruled that TCL misled consumers by marketing certain TVs as "QLED" when they "do not deliver the color reproduction expected from QLED TVs." It has ordered the company to stop advertising or selling those models in Germany

AI Isn’t Coming for Everyone’s Job

The rise and fall of the player piano indicates a robust demand for human labor that machines cannot replace

Binance is hoping that suing (PDF) The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency exchange failed to detect $1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror groups

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Facebook is absolutely cooked

And I don't just mean that nobody uses it anymore

Automattic and the Internet Archive have released a free, open-source WordPress plugin that automatically detects broken outbound links on a site and redirects visitors to archived Wayback Machine copies instead of serving them a 404 error

This article by a former NASA engineer and Google veteran argues that building datacenters in space is a terrible idea due to challenges with power, thermal regulation, radiation tolerance, and communication

This article from IEEE Spectrum discusses the CRASH Clock, a warning system that predicts the time before a catastrophic satellite collision in low Earth orbit

Almost eight in ten of the biggest news websites in the UK and US are now blocking AI training bots. A recent analysis by Buzzstream shows that 79% of the top 100 news websites are blocking at least one crawler used for AI training, such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot

article argues that Elon Musk's social media platform X must be banned due to its enabling of AI-generated explicit images, including child pornography, and its promotion of far-right content. It criticizes the lack of swift action by regulators and politicians, despite the clear harm being caused to women and children

12 Real-Life Inventions That Were Inspired By Science Fiction

‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far | Photography | The Guardian

I've argued for some time that AI models are at an interesting cul-de-sac. There are least three reasons

Poland’s parliament has debated a government report showing that most Ukrainian refugees in the country are working and contributing more to public finances than they receive in support

A study from University College Cork reveals that AI-generated writing, despite being polished and fluent, displays distinct stylistic patterns that set it apart from human prose. Using literary stylometry, researchers found that AI systems like GPT-3.5, GPT-4, and Lama 70B produce uniform styles, while human authors show greater stylistic range and individuality

This article discusses the invention of a new type of plant-based plastic by researchers in Japan that fully degrades in seawater without leaving behind any microplastics

California administrative law judge has ruled that Tesla's marketing of its 'Autopilot' and 'Full Self-Driving' systems was deceptive, leading to a 30-day suspension of the company's licenses to sell and manufacture cars in the state

Study is first to show how tanning beds mutate skin cells far beyond the reach of ordinary sunlight. This new study “irrefutably” challenges claims that tanning beds are no more harmful than sunlight

Researchers found that life expectancy growth in wealthy nations has dramatically slowed since 1939. The study suggests no generation since 1939 will live to 100 on average, reshaping how societies must plan for aging and pensions