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Companies that are now gathering emission measurements from planes, drones, ground sensors or infrared cameras on satellites face a significant obstacle: Those efforts are sporadic and cover only a sliver of the vast oil and gas industry. My story
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The method for detecting AI-written text “is imperfect and it will be wrong sometimes,” said Jan Leike, head of OpenAI’s alignment team. “Because of that, it shouldn’t be solely relied upon when making decisions."
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Elon Musk says he “had trouble sleeping last night and unfortunately I am not at my best,” as his testimony begins in a class action lawsuit filed by Tesla investors alleging he misled them with a tweet
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realizing this is a niche tweet so for reference
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The Burke Family chanting outside the disciplinary hearing but it’s performed by an Indie Band
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The new Twitter is you can't get chorus "Where is John Rogers on the morning of the meeting" out of your head but you have no idea who John Rogers is
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His new home in the suburbs of Orlando is made up of furnished rental homes with foosball tables, screening rooms, Disney decor on the walls and Mickey Mouse stuffed animals on beds
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Don't miss the latest on AI in education! NYC schools block controversial ChatGPT tool. Check out the AP story to learn more. (Yes, this tweet was written by ChatGPT).
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Video game testers at Bethesda/Zenimax form Microsoft's first U.S. labor union
Musk’s promise to let users decide his future role at Twitter through an unscientific online survey appeared to come out of nowhere Sunday, though he had also told a Delaware court on November 16 that a reorganization was happening in a week or so
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Some Twitter users included links to a new Mastodon profile and told ppl to go there. That's now banned on Twitter, as are attempts to bypass the blacklist such as by spelling out “instagram dot com backslash apnews" instead of instagram.com/apnews/
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Twitter's "prohibited platforms" include mainstream Facebook and Instagram, and upstart rivals Mastodon, Tribel, Nostr, Post and Trump's Truth Social. Twitter gave no explanation for why the blacklist included those 7 websites (4 of which host )
Kylian Mbappé scores two goals in less than two minutes to push the World Cup final between France and Argentina into extra time. apnews.com/hub/world-cup
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Many of the journalists banned by Musk are back today. An exception is
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OK how about Instagram instagram.com/apnews/?hl=en
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Nope just Mastodon!
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This is a test of whether Twitter blocks generalized links to social media sites besides Mastodon that run the tracker
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when the poll is not going how you want it
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“If confirmed as retaliation for their work, this would be a serious violation of journalists’ right to report the news without fear of reprisal,” says
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"I did not share any location data, as per Twitter's new terms," says journo , banned shortly after posting a screenshot from Twitter-banned showing LAPD statement about
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Where is the part about suspending news reporters. Will you be updating ?
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We’re committed to continuing to reduce safety risk on Twitter. Read the full policy here: help.twitter.com/rules-and-poli
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Nevada wildflower Tiehm’s buckwheat is on the brink of extinction, with just about 16,000 left. The only place it lives is "a high-desert ridge where a lithium mine is planned to help meet growing demand for electric car batteries" per
"AI knows"
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Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only 24 hours since Twitter had been at war with spambots and platform manipulation. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because of the @ mentions.
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UPDATE: Twitter has now suspended Sweeney's other flight-tracking accounts, as well as his personal account; Twitter still allows automated accounts so not clear what rule they are asserting has been broken
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No explanation yet provided to about why Twitter permanently suspended but not his similar flight-tracking bot accounts following jets used by Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and various Russian oligarchs
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Elon Musk's Twitter promised more transparency about suspending or suppressing accounts but @elonjet's Jack Sweeney told me he's been given no explanation for the jet-tracking bot's permanent ban: "He said this is free speech and he's doing the opposite"
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Elon Musk's Twitter promised more transparency about suspending or suppressing accounts but 's Jack Sweeney told me he's been given no explanation for the jet-tracking bot's permanent ban: "He said this is free speech and he's doing the opposite"
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What's the German (or Telugu) word for constantly making the automaton recognize its inadequacy
The FTC’s action to block the acquisition could be a test case for President Joe Biden’s mandate to scrutinize big tech mergers. Microsoft already signaling it will challenge it in court.
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Google, Oracle, Microsoft and Amazon will share in the Pentagon’s $9 billion contract to build its cloud computing network
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"It’s always a very risky endeavor to make an independent video game"
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