Well hello, there, LA; State of the AI Union: staggering amounts of money, power & water for what; COPPA 2, electric boogaloo; no phone searches without warrants by border agents; TikTok data collection; DMV on the blockchain; AI doppelgängers no one wants; Grok gone wild; Tesla recall & deadly self-driving crash; AI Taco Bell; Cloudflare says 7% of all internet traffic is malicious; Aquaman & the Lost Kingdom; Confess, Fletch; Loot; Ted Lasso; Shrinking; Battle of the Brothers; new Star Wars, Star Trek, Dexter, Silo & Squid Games; I just can't quit you, Photoshop; drone shark tracking; StubHub deceptive practices; First Contact series; Peter Hook's books; Discworld easter eggs.
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APPS & DOODADS
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AT THE LIBRARY
The Simulacrum (First Contact) by Peter Cowdron
The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club by Peter Cook
Galactic Exploration (First Contact) by Peter Cowdron
Substance: Inside New Order by Peter Cook
Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery by Scott H. Young
From the discworld community on Reddit: "I was today years old, when...
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