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How to Download Your TikTok Videos - US lawmakers are considering banning the social video app. Whether that happens or not, i... - https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-download-your-tiktok-videos/ #gear/howtoandadvice #saveyourself #gear

Meta sues ex infra VP for allegedly stealing top-secret datacenter blueprints - Exec accused of using own work PC to swipe confidential AI and staffing docs for stealth ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/12/meta_vp_infrastructure_allegations/

Perplexity brings Yelp data to its chatbot - Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images

... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/12/24098728/perplexity-chatbot-yelp-suggestions-data-ai

Discord Opens Up To Games and Apps Embedded In Its Chat App - Tom Warren reports via The Verge: Discord will soon allow developers to build new ... - https://games.slashdot.org/story/24/03/12/2010235/discord-opens-up-to-games-and-apps-embedded-in-its-chat-app?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #games

Bluesky starts letting users pick their own moderation filters - Image: Bluesky

Bluesky will soon let users customi... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/12/24098920/bluesky-custom-moderation-filters-ozone

X-Men ’97 creator reportedly fired by Marvel weeks before premiere - Courtesy of Marvel Animation

Marvel Studios has fi... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/12/24098946/marvel-x-men-97-creator-fired-disney-plus-animated

The AI-generated hell of the 2024 election - Media manipulation meets technological innovation.

... - https://www.theverge.com/policy/24098798/2024-election-ai-generated-disinformation

Chicago battles measles with calls for vaccination—in contrast with Florida - Enlarge / A brightly colored transmission microscope image of measles v... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009758 #infectiousdisease #mmrvaccines #outbreak #vaccines #science #chicago #florida #measles #health #cdc

Apple iMac could be set to try out touchscreen - Apple could be set to introduce a touchscreen for the iMac, in what would be a rev... - https://readwrite.com/apple-imac-could-be-set-to-try-out-touchscreen/ #imactouchscreen #surfacestudio #philschiller #apple #news #tech #imac

Abysmal revenue stats of 30K mobile apps show why devs keep pushing for subs - Enlarge / Apple's App Store. (credit: Silas Stein/picture alliance via ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009677 #developers #mobileapps #tech

IRS has launched its free tax filing service, Direct File, in 12 states - Enlarge / Internal Revenue Service (IRS) headquarters building on Janua... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2009741 #irsdirectfile #policy

Epic Games updates Unreal Engine price point for non-game developers - Epic Games has announced a new price structure, which will charge non-game develo... - https://readwrite.com/epic-games-updates-unreal-engine-price-point-for-non-game-developers/ #unrealengineprice #unrealengine #epicgames #gaming #news

“Trump asked Elon Musk if he wanted to buy Truth Social” says report - According to reports in the Washington Post, former president Donald Trump asked E... - https://readwrite.com/trump-asked-elon-musk-if-he-wanted-to-buy-truth-social-says-report/ #thewashingtonpost #truthsocial #trumpmedia #platforms #elonmusk #trump #news #x

JetBrains unveils Ktor roadmap - JetBrains has unveiled a development roadmap for Ktor, the company’s Kotlin-based fram... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3714288/jetbrains-unveils-ktor-roadmap.html#tk.rss_all #developmentlibrariesandframeworks #softwaredevelopment #kotlin

DHS wants $101 million to upgrade its border surveillance towers - If the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gets its way,... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/12/24098881/dhs-border-ai-surveillance-towers-ist

New York Times Denies OpenAI's 'Hacking' Claim In Copyright Fight - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The New York Times has denied cl... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/03/12/204222/new-york-times-denies-openais-hacking-claim-in-copyright-fight?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #court

The AI-generated hell of the 2024 election - Media manipulation meets technological innovation.

... - https://www.theverge.com/policy/24098798/ai-generated-deepfake-2024-election

China Puts Trust in AI To Maintain Largest High-Speed Rail Network on Earth - China is using AI in the operation of its 45,000km (28,000-mile) high-speed rail n... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/03/12/1943208/china-puts-trust-in-ai-to-maintain-largest-high-speed-rail-network-on-earth?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

How Rivian Is Pulling Off Its $45,000 Electric SUV - WIRED talks to CEO RJ Scaringe about how the automaker’s engineering team learned to say ... - https://www.wired.com/story/how-rivian-is-pulling-off-its-45k-electric-suv/ #gear/gearnewsandevents #savingsplan #gear