ChatGPT’s Atlas: The Browser That’s Anti-Web: Bad UI, doesn’t actually let you see the web, and uses you as a way to snaffle up data it otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

AI eats leisure time, makes employees work more, study finds: “their effect has been to make people work more while benefiting less from their labor.”

The Job Market Is Hell: Masses of people using AI being filtered with AI when applying to rather fewer jobs whose descriptions have been written by AI.

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement: For their use of pirated books in training their AI.

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world: Open source technologies built by the community that solves real problems,

Spotify CEO invested in AI weapons, now bands are pulling their music: Yet another reason.

More than half of top 100 mental health TikToks contain misinformation, study finds

The World’s Largest Search Engine Doesn’t Want You to Search: Google would just love you to stay on its own site.

The Government Has Already Won the Meta Case: ‘Facebook is being watched, and it cannot be as cavalier about its efforts to monopolize markets.’

Parents must make tough choices on smartphones, says children’s commissioner for England: ‘As adults we are ourselves dopamine-addicted, stuck in a cycle of scrolling yet we still have no idea of what our children are seeing.’

Barking at female staff and blocking doorways: Teachers warn of rise in misogyny and racism in UK schools: ‘A rise in misogyny and racism is flooding UK schools as pupils ape the behaviour of figures such as Donald Trump and Andrew Tate after exposure through social media and online gaming, teachers have warned.’

She was chatting with friends in a Lyft. Then someone texted her what they said: Is your cab listening to you?

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill: Why do I feel this won’t end well?

‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams : ‘Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the content, taking fees and commission of up to 70%.’

Norwegian files complaint after ChatGPT falsely said he had murdered his children

Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances: Fixed but admins would need to update.