New California Rule Would Ban Sale of Diesel Trucks by 2036

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Walrus Freya killed by Norway gets Oslo sculpture

The animal was a popular attraction, but euthanised in August out of public safety concerns.

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Thailand: Southeast Asia's 'weed wonderland'

Business booms in a free-for-all industry less than a year after Thailand legalised cannabis.

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Microsoft's Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI's text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Microsoft's Canva-like web app Designer, which leverages user-created content and OpenAI's text-to-image DALL-E 2 to ideate designs, launches in public preview  —  Microsoft Designer, Microsoft's AI-powered design tool, today launched in public preview with an expanded set of features.

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Wikimedia won't comply with the Online Safety Bill's age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation's "commitment to collect minimal data" (BBC)

BBC:
Wikimedia won't comply with the Online Safety Bill's age checks of its UK readers or contributors, citing the foundation's “commitment to collect minimal data”  —  Wikipedia will not comply with any age checks required under the Online Safety Bill, its foundation says.

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Turkey's President Erdogan back on campaign trail after illness

The Turkish leader holds a rally in the opposition stronghold of Izmir after falling ill on Tuesday.

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E.U. Extends Tariff Waiver for Ukrainian Grain, Despite Some Protests

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Synergy: enterprise cloud spending grew 19% YoY to $63B in Q1 2023, vs. 32% growth in Q1 2022; Amazon took 32% market share, Microsoft 23%, and Google 10% (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)

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Synergy: enterprise cloud spending grew 19% YoY to $63B in Q1 2023, vs. 32% growth in Q1 2022; Amazon took 32% market share, Microsoft 23%, and Google 10%  —  As expected, companies are continuing to cut back on their cloud spend where possible, as tech budgets continue to get careful scrutiny.

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Extending crackdown on dissent, Russia imposes harsher penalties for treason.

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Sudan fighting: No talks until bombing stops. Hemedti tells BBC

The RSF paramilitary leader says "We don't want to destroy Sudan" and denies blame for violence.

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ChatGPT is again available in Italy, after OpenAI met data watchdog's demands, including a form for EU users to object to having their data used for training (Kelvin Chan/Associated Press)

Kelvin Chan / Associated Press:
ChatGPT is again available in Italy, after OpenAI met data watchdog's demands, including a form for EU users to object to having their data used for training  —  ChatGPT's maker said Friday that the artificial intelligence chatbot is available again in Italy after the company met the demands …

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What Is Bluesky and Why Are People Clamoring to Join It?

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Coinbase offers a fiery response to the SEC's Wells notice from March 2023, saying enforcement action would present "major" risks to the SEC's regulatory model (CNBC)

CNBC:
Coinbase offers a fiery response to the SEC's Wells notice from March 2023, saying enforcement action would present “major” risks to the SEC's regulatory model  —  - Crypto exchange Coinbase told the SEC that any enforcement action against the exchange would “fail on the merits” …

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It’s OK to Be Single, the Church of England Says: So Was Jesus.

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Sudan crisis: Heavy fighting as ceasefire set to end

The three-day truce ends shortly despite continuing diplomatic efforts to extend it.

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Washington becomes the first US state to adopt sweeping safeguards for health data, including location records that could reveal visits to abortion clinics (Andrea Vittorio/Bloomberg Law)

Andrea Vittorio / Bloomberg Law:
Washington becomes the first US state to adopt sweeping safeguards for health data, including location records that could reveal visits to abortion clinics  —  Washington has adopted a first-of-its-kind state law with sweeping safeguards for consumer health data collected by companies …

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Do You Work in a Climate-Focused Job? Tell Us About It.

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Dyson Zone review: good noise cancelation, air quality monitoring, and makes users look like Bane, but it's $949, heavy, and air filtering kills the battery (Victoria Song/The Verge)

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Dyson Zone review: good noise cancelation, air quality monitoring, and makes users look like Bane, but it's $949, heavy, and air filtering kills the battery  —  The Dyson Zone is not the most practical device, but then again, did you really expect that from air-purifying noise-canceling headphones?

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Oklahoma Panel Declines to Spare Death Row Prisoner Richard Glossip

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Jasmine Hartin: Socialite pleads guilty over death of police officer

The former "daughter-in-law" of billionaire Lord Michel Ashcroft pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

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Mexico-based Clara, which sells corporate spend management tools in Latin America, raised a $60M Series B+ led by GGV, after a $70M Series B in December 2021 (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch:
Mexico-based Clara, which sells corporate spend management tools in Latin America, raised a $60M Series B+ led by GGV, after a $70M Series B in December 2021  —  Clara, a Mexico-based spend management company, closed on $60 million in equity in a round led by GGV Capital.

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A ‘Steak’ Dinner With Vegetarians in Mind

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Nazi camp guard Josef Schütz dies at 102

Josef Schütz was convicted last June for his role in the killing of thousands at a concentration camp.

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Who is the lawyer representing E. Jean Carroll?

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Older Americans weigh in on President Joe Biden's age

The US president is running for re-election in 2024, do people think his age is a problem?

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Sources: Apple is working on emotion tracking tools, coming to the Health app this year, and an AI-powered health coaching subscription service codenamed Quartz (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on emotion tracking tools, coming to the Health app this year, and an AI-powered health coaching subscription service codenamed Quartz  —  Apple Inc. is working on an artificial intelligence-powered health coaching service and new technology for tracking emotions …

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A jury of nine people has been chosen to hear the case.

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British American Tobacco to pay $635m for North Korea sanctions breaches

British American Tobacco says it regrets the misconduct that took place between 2007 and 2017.

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OpenAI now lets ChatGPT users turn off their chat histories, excluding them from the company's models, and plans to launch ChatGPT Business in the coming months (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg:
OpenAI now lets ChatGPT users turn off their chat histories, excluding them from the company's models, and plans to launch ChatGPT Business in the coming months  —  OpenAI is letting people opt to withhold their ChatGPT conversations from use in training the artificial intelligence company's models.

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Google updates Google Authenticator for Android and iOS with a new icon and Google Account synchronization, letting users back up their 2FA codes to the cloud (Abner Li/9to5Google)

Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google updates Google Authenticator for Android and iOS with a new icon and Google Account synchronization, letting users back up their 2FA codes to the cloud  —  Google is finally addressing a big gap of its 2FA (two-factor authentication) code app by adding sync capabilities …

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Men in Military Uniforms Killed at Least 60 People, Burkina Faso Says

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Sudan crisis: UK citizens 'abandoned' as evacuations fail to materialise

UK citizens in Sudan say they have been left behind, as other nations ramp up evacuations.

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Sources: to avoid an official antitrust probe by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, following a complaint from Slack to the EU (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Sources: to avoid an official antitrust probe by EU regulators, Microsoft agrees to stop bundling Teams with Office, following a complaint from Slack to the EU  —  Tech giant makes concession in an attempt to avoid formal EU antitrust investigation and follows complaint by rival Slack

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Britain and the Netherlands Agree on a North Sea Power Link

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A Ship’s Maiden Voyage

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Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall

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Jeff Shell, C.E.O. of NBCUniversal, Steps Down After Inquiry

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Biden Opens a New Back Door on Immigration

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Twitter restores gold badges to some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay (Zoe Kleinman/BBC)

Zoe Kleinman / BBC:
Twitter restores gold badges to some news organizations, including the BBC, The New York Times, and Bellingcat; the BBC and Bellingcat say they did not pay  —  Some Twitter accounts with more than one million followers have had their blue tick badges re-instated by Twitter without paying to subscribe.

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Six Cattle Found Dead in Texas With Their Tongues Missing

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Report: cheap Chromebooks, due to their short lifespans and lack of repairability, are less sustainable and more expensive for schools than pricier devices (Monica Chin/The Verge)

Monica Chin / The Verge:
Report: cheap Chromebooks, due to their short lifespans and lack of repairability, are less sustainable and more expensive for schools than pricier devices  —  Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops …

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Basketball and Hockey Fans in New York Are Busy This Spring

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The Anti-Abortion Messages Haunting Florida’s Highways

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Will Biden Face a Democratic Challenger?

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Filing: Sundar Pichai received compensation of ~$226M in 2022, including stock awards of ~$218M; Alphabet announced plans to cut 12,000 jobs in January, 2023 (Rishabh Jaiswal/Reuters)

Rishabh Jaiswal / Reuters:
Filing: Sundar Pichai received compensation of ~$226M in 2022, including stock awards of ~$218M; Alphabet announced plans to cut 12,000 jobs in January, 2023  —  Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) Chief Executive Sundar Pichai received total compensation of about $226 million in 2022 …

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