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Meta closes nearly 9,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to Chinese ‘Spamouflage’ foreign influence campaign

Company says users targeted in Australia, UK, US and elsewhere by political spam network across more than 50 platforms

The Guardian - AU

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

A daring deep sea search has found tiny pieces of a mysterious meteor that crashed to Earth in 2014. The ‘alien hunter of Harvard’ tells Bevan Hurley the discovery may be evidence of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization visiting Earth

The Independent UK

Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft

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Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific

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Why a Harvard professor thinks he may have found fragments of an alien spacecraft at the bottom of the Pacific

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Smart Home System = Home System That Amazon Can Mess With If It Doesn't Like What You Say?

From a Medium post by Brandon Jackson, a Microsoft engineer: Wednesday, May 31, 2023, I finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unwarranted lockout that lasted nearly a week, from Thursday, May 25. This wasn't just a simple inconvenience, though. I have a smart home, and…

Reason

Raspberry Pi Pico W Gives Your Plant Emotions with Face Animations

Penguin Pranav is using a Raspberry Pi Pico W to give his plant emotions and facial expressions based on environmental factors.

Tom’s Hardware

Army of fake social media accounts defend UAE presidency of climate summit

Sultan Al Jaber – Cop28 president and CEO of state oil firm – is ‘ally the climate movement needs’, posts say

The Guardian - UK

Google released a .zip web domain and people can't decide if it's the phishing apocalypse or just as bad as any other dodgy link

Nowadays .zip can denote a file or web page. That's confusing, at the very least, but also potentially downright dangerous.

PC Gamer

AI journalism is getting harder to tell from the old-fashioned, human-generated kind

I rumbled a chatbot ruse – but as the tech improves, and news outlets begin to adopt it, how easy will it be to spot it next time?

The Guardian - UK

Plaintiff, Who Had Published an Article Describing Herself as Escort, Sues Newspaper for Calling Her an Escort

Plaintiff "asserts that her published work and other accounts describing life as an escort were part of an effort to build a career in writing and were entirely fictional. As for the websites and other internet advertisements cited by defendants, she claims that they were produced for the purpose of…

Reason

The AI arms race highlights the urgent need for responsible innovation

The recent frenzy over language processing tools such as ChatGPT has sent organizations scrambling to provide guidelines for responsible usage. The online publishing platform Medium, for example, has released a statement on AI-generated writing that promotes “transparency” and “disclosure.”

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The Independent UK

George Santos and the fascinating psychology of compulsive liars

He seems to have lied about everything, from the straightforward to the utterly absurd. This week, he was charged in New York with fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and making false statements. Holly Baxter speaks to experts on lying — and reports on why we all become complicit…

Fortune

Mackenzie Scott wasn't the only one giving away her fortune in 2022

From Mackenzie Scott to her ex-husband Jeff Bezos, here are the people who have committed billions to charity in 2022

The Guardian - US

Canadian journalist’s memoir accused of depicting sexual assault as consensual

Film-maker Zoe Greenberg says she raised concerns with Penguin Random House Canada over Leah McLaren’s book

The Independent UK

MacKenzie Scott donates another $2bn as ex Jeff Bezos complains it is ‘hard’ to give away money

‘I gave $1,990,800,000 to 343 organizations supporting the voices and opportunities of people from underserved communities,’ Scott wrote on Medium on Monday

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‘Weaponised app’: Is Egypt spying on COP27 delegates’ phones?

Security analysts warn Egypt’s ‘highly intrusive’ app for Sharm el-Sheikh climate talks can monitor communications.

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s powerful’: how John Fetterman’s hoodie won the popular vote in Pennsylvania

Even as detractors portrayed him as a ‘bum’, senator-elect’s clothing summed up beliefs, says sociologist

The Guardian - UK

Cop27 wifi in Egypt blocks human rights and key news websites

Attendees say they are unable to visit Human Rights Watch and other sites needed during climate talks

The Conversation

Doomsday bunkers, Mars and 'The Mindset': the tech bros trying to outsmart the end of the world

Douglas Rushkoff’s newest book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, grew out of a brilliant 2018 Medium article of the same name, which went viral and had people (aka his US editor) clamouring for a full-length treatment.

Tribune News Service

Pete Buttigieg opens up about twins’ difficult first year, early health issues in heartfelt essay

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten, are reflecting on the difficulties and rewards of their first year as the father of twins.

The Guardian - AU

High stakes: the cryptocurrency casino king who bought the most expensive house in Victoria

Edward Craven, whose online gambling business has processed billions of dollars worth of bets, reportedly plans to raze the $80m property and rebuild

Daily Mirror

Google's AI chatbot hires lawyer as engineer put on leave after 'sentient' claim

Google scientific engineer Blake Lemoine claims an AI chatbot is displaying human emotions, but was suspended after sharing a transcript on online platform Medium

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