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OpenAI says Sky voice in ChatGPT will be paused after concerns it sounds too much like Scarlett Johansson ( www.tomsguide.com )

38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later ( www.pewresearch.org )

TII Releases Falcon 2-11B: The First AI Model of the Falcon 2 Family Trained on 5.5T Tokens with a Vision Language Model. ( www.marktechpost.com )

Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running ( arstechnica.com )

OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit ( www.businessinsider.com )

New Orleans Loses Bid to Tax Music Streaming Service ( natlawreview.com )

The New Orleans Collector of Revenue (“Collector”) failed in its attempts to subject music streaming services to the City’s sales tax. In* *Apple, Inc. v. Collector of Revenue of the City of New Orleans et. al., Docket No. L01283 (May 2, 2024), the Louisiana Board of Tax Appeals, Local Tax Division, analyzed the...

Students’ Leaf Blower Suppressor To Hit Retail ( hackaday.com )

The Mac vs. PC war is back on? ( www.theverge.com )

I find it hard to believe that, outside of work computers, many people would be choosing Windows over Mac or Linux, especially is AI is their goal....

This AI Paper from Huawei Introduces a Theoretical Framework Focused on the Memorization Process and Performance Dynamics of Transformer-based Language Models (LMs) ( www.marktechpost.com )

Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy ( fortune.com )

Ask HN: Can we create a new internet where search engines are irrelevant? ( news.ycombinator.com )

Minnesota Lynx Announce 2024 ( ttrpg.network )

Tale Year: David Kahn, Kurt Rambis and the Dumbest Intra-Business Drama At any time...

Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" ( www.eff.org )

A web version of Anthropic's prompt engineering interactive tutorial ( thenameless.net )

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The EV industry can’t shake its human rights abuse problem ( www.theverge.com )

ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t ( www.vox.com )

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads ( www.techradar.com )

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. ( www.theatlantic.com )

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