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Sources: ~270 US Apple Stores held staff meetings on unionization risks in the past two weeks, using a unionized store in Towson, Maryland as a cautionary tale (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: ~270 US Apple Stores held staff meetings on unionization risks in the past two weeks, using a unionized store in Towson, Maryland as a cautionary tale  —  Apple is continuing its push to keep retail stores from unionizing.  Also: A deep look inside efforts to diversify the company’s product …

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Tired of Web Scraping? Make The AI Do It

[James Turk] has a novel approach to the problem of scraping web content in a structured way without needing to write the kind of page-specific code web scrapers usually have to deal with. How? Just enlist the help of a natural language AI. Scrapeghost relies on OpenAI’s GPT API to parse a web page’s content,

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Tired of Web Scraping? Make The AI Do It

[James Turk] has a novel approach to the problem of scraping web content in a structured way without needing to write the kind of page-specific code web scrapers usually have to deal with. How? Just enlist the help of a natural language AI. Scrapeghost relies on OpenAI’s GPT API to parse a web page’s content,

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An ML scientist writes about the extreme strain of working in an AI industry collectively shaken up by ChatGPT, as he oscillates between motivation and burnout (Nathan Lambert/Democratizing Automation)

Nathan Lambert / Democratizing Automation: An ML scientist writes about the extreme strain of working in an AI industry collectively shaken up by ChatGPT, as he oscillates between motivation and burnout  —  Fear, FOMO, and the scientific exodus driven by ChatGPT  —  Every single person I know working in AI these days …

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Tests show Twitter has lifted restrictions on Kremlin-linked accounts, including Putin’s, with some appearing in For You feeds, reversing an April 2022 policy (James Titcomb/Telegraph)

James Titcomb / Telegraph: Tests show Twitter has lifted restrictions on Kremlin-linked accounts, including Putin’s, with some appearing in For You feeds, reversing an April 2022 policy  —  Elon Musk’s social media site lifts restrictions on Kremlin-linked tweets  —  Twitter has removed restrictions on Kremlin-linked accounts …

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Revisiting Borland Turbo C and C++

Looking back on what programming used to be like can be a fascinatingly entertaining thing, which is why [Tough Developer] decided to download and try using Turbo C and C++, from version 1.0 to the more recent releases. Borland Turbo C 1.0 is a doozy as it was released in 1987 — two years before

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South Korean prosecutors identify ~$314M in illicit assets associated with Do Kwon and associates, and say Kwon converted most of the ~$69M linked to him to BTC (Prashant Jha/Cointelegraph)

Prashant Jha / Cointelegraph: South Korean prosecutors identify ~$314M in illicit assets associated with Do Kwon and associates, and say Kwon converted most of the ~$69M linked to him to BTC  —  South Korean prosecutors have contacted Binance to request a halt on withdrawals linked to Do Kwon.  —  6397 Total views

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The leaked Pentagon Ukraine documents seem to have first appeared on Discord, followed by 4chan, before appearing on Telegram, Twitter, and major media outlets (Aric Toler/bellingcat)

Aric Toler / bellingcat: The leaked Pentagon Ukraine documents seem to have first appeared on Discord, followed by 4chan, before appearing on Telegram, Twitter, and major media outlets  —  In recent days, the US Justice Department and Pentagon have begun investigating an apparent online leak of sensitive documents, including some that were marked “Top Secret”.

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Homemade Scope Does Supercapacitor Experiments

We’ve always been a little sad that supercapacitors aren’t marked with a big red S on a yellow background. Nevertheless, [DiodeGoneWild] picked up some large-value supercapacitors and used his interesting homemade oscilloscope to examine how they worked. You can watch what he is up to in his workshop in the video below. Supercapacitors use special

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How the gambling industry has kept up with decades of computer-assisted tech developed to beat roulette, like wearable devices, timers, and predictive software (Kit Chellel/Bloomberg)

Kit Chellel / Bloomberg: How the gambling industry has kept up with decades of computer-assisted tech developed to beat roulette, like wearable devices, timers, and predictive software  —  One spring evening, two men and a woman walked into the Ritz Club casino, an upmarket establishment in London’s West End.

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Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded” (Aidan McLaughlin/Mediaite)

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: Twitter replaces the week-old “US state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account with a new label describing the nonprofit media company as “Government Funded”  —  Twitter removed the “state-affiliated media” label it had affixed on NPR’s account this week …

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Russia’s New Mystery Shortwave Station

The Buzzer, also known as UVB-76 or UZB-76, has been a constant companion to anyone with a shortwave radio tuned to 4625 kHz. However, [Ringway Manchester] notes that there is now a second buzzer operating near in frequency to the original. Of course, like all mysterious stations, people try to track their origin. [Ringway] shows

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