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Mustafa Suleyman says Microsoft is pursuing "true self-sufficiency" in AI by building enterprise- and healthcare-focused models and reducing reliance on OpenAI (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f1ec830c-2f08-4b1a-b70f-7330f260753c

On the Best Time to Fix Your Home Heating: Summer! - Do not wait until ice is forming on your bath to find out that your heating is broken! Upgrade or fix in summer, test early autumn. #OperationTuneup - https://www.

On the Best Time to Fix Your Home Heating: Summer!
Do not wait until ice is forming on your bath to find out that your heating is broken! Upgrade or fix in summer, test early autumn. #OperationTuneup

Last weekend I finished a good landing page for the "tokens" that I hand out to when I go out as-a-fox. I'm within sight of running out of business cards and I'm racing to make a new generation of cards that are all unique
https://gen5.info/fox/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Fuzz:
🎵 21st Century Schizoid Man
#Fuzz
https://fuzz-band.bandcamp.com/track/21st-century-schizoid-man
https://open.spotify.com/track/50Yksz3PN9YsaaAIrAvuHu

When I saw this screw my first reaction was "Oh, fuck that. Fuck You BMW!"
And my second reaction was "I hope someone publishes instructions for making your own version of a bit for this using nothing but an old screwdriver, a hack saw and a grinder."

Jesus, this administration can’t even source the weapons for their false flag attacks discretely?
Four drones stolen from Fort Campbell, army offers $5,000 reward
https://fox17.com/news/local/four-drones-stolen-from-f…

Four drones stolen from Fort Campbell, army offers $5,000 reward
Army investigators are offering a reward of up to $5,000 as they search for whoever stole four drones from Fort Campbell.

Pam Bondi lashes out as lawmakers press her on Epstein, cases against Trump foes
Attorney General Pam Bondi combatively defended her leadership at the Justice Department to House lawmakers on Wednesday
amid sharp criticism that she botched the release of the Epstein files and has wielded the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency to heed Donald Trump’s calls to prosecute his political foes.

In exchange after exchange,
Bondi lobbed brash insults when Democrat…

Pam Bondi lashes out as lawmakers press her on Epstein, cases against Trump foes
The attorney general lobbed insults when lawmakers questioned her decisions and portrayed the Justice Department as unfairly maligned by Democrats and Trump critics.

The US CBP signs a one-year Clearview AI deal, granting access to its facial recognition tool for "tactical targeting" and "strategic counter-network analysis" (Dell Cameron/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-signs-clea

CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’
US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.

US state department’s
Sarah B Rogers
has become face of
White House’s hostility to
European liberal democracies
As Donald Trump redoubled his war of words on the European Union and Nato in recent weeks,
a senior state department official,
Sarah B Rogers, was publicly attacking policies on hate speech and immigration by ostensible US allies,
and promoting far-right parties abroad.
Rogers has arguably become the public face of the Trump adm…

Q&A with NYT reporter Tiffany Hsu about AI-generated online influencers, how the volume of synthetic content produces exhaustion for users, and more (Charlie Warzel/The Atlantic)
https:…

How Fake People Became Real Influencers
AI avatars are redefining influence and trust online.