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• ⚡ Alby: Your Boost companion for the web — Create an Alby Account to get a lightning wallet for payments wherever you go.
• 🎉 Coder Radio on the Podcastindex.org — Boost from the Web. Once you have Alby topped off, you can Boost from our page on the Podcast Index.
• Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups? — Is there any specific reason why startups, at least here in India, don’t tend to use dotnet for backend especially now dotnet is also open source and cross-platform.
• Almost Half of Grindr’s Employees Quit — Grindr seems to have played itself by giving its employees a return-to-office ultimatum — and nearly half of those employees responded by quitting.
• Santiago on X: "I fired somebody cheating" — Around that time, I stumbled upon the idea of overemployment. A whole movement dedicated to helping people work several full-time jobs at once.
• Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly — Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
• Google Chrome pushes browser history-based ad targeting
• The Privacy Sandbox — Billions of people around the world rely on access to information on sites and apps. To provide this free resource without relying on intrusive tracking, publishers and developers need privacy-preserving alternatives for their key business needs, including serving relevant content and ads.
• Major programming faults discovered in Starfield's code by VKD3D dev - performance issues are *not* the result of non-upgraded hardware — What really grinds my gears is the fact that the open source community has figured out and came up with workarounds to try to make this game run better.
• Starfield Is Great—Unless You're on Nvidia or Intel
• Venn on X — While it may not be optimized for PC, it will be optimized for #Linux.
• Todd Howard Tells Starfield Players To Upgrade Their PCs
• Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water — In a paper due to be published later this year, Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water (close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions. The range varies depending on where its servers are located and the season. The estimate includes indirect water usage that the companies don’t measure — such as to cool power plants that supply the data centers with electricity.
• Nissan, Kia 'collect data about drivers' sexual activity' — The foundation said most car companies can comb through a variety of sources to glean personal information about drivers after they pair their smartphones with a vehicle’s connected services.

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• Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used — It turns out that their terms state that you're buying the ability to print x pages and the ink is actually always owned by HP, even when in your possession.
• LIVE: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies during Senate hearing on AI oversight — 05/16/23 - YouTube — The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing examining the rules for artificial intelligence.
• ChatGPT creator Sam Altman reflects on the Senate's A.I. regulatory hearing - YouTube — ChatGPT creator Sam Altman remarks on the The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing about the "Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence.”
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman To Congress: Regulate Us, Please!
• OpenAI's Sam Altman tells senators: regulate us
• Sam Altman, ChatGPT Creator and OpenAI CEO, Urges Senate for AI Regulation - The New York Times
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman calls for regulation amid fears AI could cause ‘significant harm to the world’ | Euronews
• OpenAI CEO calls for laws to mitigate ‘risks of increasingly powerful’ AI | ChatGPT | The Guardian
• ChatGPT chief says artificial intelligence should be regulated by a US or global agency | AP News
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman urges AI regulation in Senate hearing | The Seattle Times
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of AI's potential harm, wants regulations - The Washington Post
• ChatGPT’s Sam Altman Warns Congress That AI ‘Can Go Quite Wrong’ - WSJ
• Sam Altman: CEO of OpenAI calls for US to regulate artificial intelligence - BBC News
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Congress he wants regulation | Fortune
• Senate hearing highlights AI harms and need for tougher regulation
• Mr. ChatGPT goes to Washington: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testifies before Congress on AI risks | CNN Business
• OpenAI chief concerned about AI being used to compromise elections | Reuters
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Pleads for AI Regulation
• Spooked by ChatGPT, US Lawmakers Want to Create an AI Regulator | WIRED
• Mohegan ₿TC 🟠 on Twitter — Today we got the first glimpse of the dangers of AI and social media An image was released on twitter stating there was an explosion near the Pentagon 🤦‍♂️ News spread quickly and over $500 million was sold off from the S&P 500 in minutes This is just the beginning 🫣
• More Recent Apple Trademark Activity: 'realityproOS'
• Reality Pro launch and pricing: Making sense of the speculation — The consensus view so far has been that Apple will announce the Reality Pro AR/VR headset at WWDC on June 5, and that pricing will be around $3,000. But some are questioning both …

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• America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s — Even San Francisco’s tech chops can’t save it from relying on computers that belong in a museum.
• Intel Optane Persistent Memory starts at $850 for 128GB — The pitch is simple, in case a mission-critical system fails, whatever data was in the memory isn’t lost; and for memory intensive applications, it offers shockingly high capacity at low prices.
• How to Emulate Persistent Memory Using Dynamic Random-access Memory — If you’re a software developer who wants to get started early developing software or modifying an application to have persistent memory (PMEM) awareness, you can use emulation for development before Intel Optane DC PMMs are widely available.
• DAX: Direct Access for files — For block devices that are memory-like, the page cache pages would be unnecessary copies of the original storage. The DAX code removes the extra copy by performing reads and writes directly to the storage device. For file mappings, the storage device is mapped directly into userspace.
• Persistent Memory Wiki — These pages contain instructions, links and other information related to persistent memory in Linux.
• The kernel’s command-line parameters — The Linux Kernel documentation — See memmap=nn[KMG]!ss[KMG] section.
• Using Persistent Memory Devices with the Linux Device Mapper
• AI “adversarial attacks” can trick self-driving cars, medicine, and the military — In a recent report, Tencent’s Keen Security Lab showed how they were able to bamboozle a Tesla Model S into switching lanes so that it drives directly into oncoming traffic.
• Linux Mint's Sobering Update: A Rare Glimpse Into The Personal Struggles Developers Face — Reading the latest Monthly News update from Linux Mint leader Clement Lefebvre is a sobering experience. While users do get updated on the status of Linux Mint 19.2, a considerable portion of the update deals with feelings of defeat, uncertainty and frustration.