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I’ve always wanted someone to tell me I autocomplete them.
:awesome:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/aral
(That feeling when someone makes a Node package with your name. Hey, at least it’s not a German petroleum company…)

aral
An Agnostic Resources Access Layer system. Latest version: 0.2.58, last published: a year ago. Start using aral in your project by running `npm i aral`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using aral.

At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/…

A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise
Silicon Valley chiefs are swarming the Capitol to try to sway lawmakers on the dangers of falling behind in the artificial intelligence race.

In the "Where's My Flying Car?" Department:
Rust to riches? Ohio city’s fortunes set to rise with flying taxi startup
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/29/flying-taxi-joby-aviation-ohio

Check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Coffee County shut down access to state voter registration system following cyberattack
--Okta warns of unprecedented spike in credential stuffing attacks,
---Spy.pet crumbles after Discord ban,
--Ukraine hacking group claims attack on Russian telecom provider,
--Belarus hacktivists claim attack on country's security agency,
--UK bans devices that come with weak passwords,
--Canada's London Drugs temporarily shutters 79 stores following cyber incident,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/coffee-county-shut-access-state-voter-registration-system-following-cyberattack

Biden publishes watered-down gas stove efficiency rule (Rachel Frazin/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4435569-biden-gas-stove-efficiency-rule/

Biden publishes watered-down gas stove efficiency rule
The Biden administration has published a rule aimed at requiring some gas and electric stoves to be more efficient — but, following immense political blowback, the requirements for gas stoves is significantly weaker than what it initially proposed.  The Energy Department said in a press release that 97 percent of gas stoves and 77 percent…

Lower numbers in Flensburg🇩🇪 are always desirable - whether it's points for German drivers (traffic fines) - or district heating temperatures. By reducing the need for 95°C heat from 10 > 1%, it's much easier to let heat pumps take over most of the heat supply. That's what the local utility will do.

Transformation in Flensburg: low temperatures for efficient heat pumps
As an innovative public utility company, Stadtwerke Flensburg is committed to decarbonisation and CO2 neutrality. To achieve this goal, the municipal utility company is working with Gradyent to reduce temperatures in the district heating system. As part of the partnership, the two companies have found a way to reduce the necessary annual heat share with a temperature above 95°C from around 10% to 1%. This means that heat pumps can be used to a higher extent and operated efficiently.

2024 NFL undrafted free agent tracker: Full team-by-team list of player signings following NFL Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nf…

2024 NFL undrafted free agent tracker: Full team-by-team list of player signings following NFL Draft
The complete list of undrafted free agents signed

GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts that call for violence against trans people and describe trans and gender nonconforming people as "satanic" and more (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/27…

Meta is failing to curb anti-trans hate, new report says
In the report, GLAAD catalogued dozens of anti-trans posts, many by high-profile influencers and media outlets, that it said Meta had not acted against.

NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishri…

Feeling Sad, Excited Or Bored? This Startup Claims Its AI Can (Mostly) Tell
The company, which is building “empathic” conversational AI, is now valued at $219 million.

Filing: Applied Materials discloses "multiple subpoenas" as recently as February from US agencies, including the SEC, about the company's Chinese business (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

US Renews Inquiry Into Applied Materials’ Chinese Business
US government agencies have issued a new round of requests for information about Applied Materials Inc.’s shipments to Chinese customers, reviving a sensitive topic as Washington tries to sever sales of advanced chipmaking gear to its geopolitical rival.