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UK government fails to grasp scale of UK's e-waste 'tsunami'
MPs accept recommendations but fail to act
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4184476/government-fails-grasp-scale-uks-waste-tsunami

Government fails to grasp scale of UK's e-waste 'tsunami'
A government committee responsible for auditing other departments' sustainability policies has said the government does not understand the scale of the e-waste problem facing the UK.

A look at the growing number of startups offering AI deepfake detection services, with some claiming startling levels of accuracy despite untested capabilities (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/4byxn55

Fooled by AI? These firms sell deepfake detection that’s ‘REAL 100%.’
A surge of companies now claim to offer hyper-accurate detection services, but their capabilities are largely untested.

Sources: the EU is set to issue new antitrust charges against Microsoft over concerns over undermining Teams competitors, despite Microsoft offering concessions (Javier Espinoza/Financial Times)
https://t.co/L5vsz8oIP6

Sources detail how Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell, who recently proposed a privacy bill, has undermined privacy negotiations for years (Cristiano Lima-Strong/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3JhWpt7

This senator wants an online privacy law. She’s slowed efforts for years.
Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell is closing in on a historic online privacy law, but many aides say she’s been one of its biggest obstacles for years.

Sources detail how Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell, who recently proposed a privacy bill, has undermined privacy negotiations for years (Cristiano Lima-Strong/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3JhWpt7

This senator wants an online privacy law. She’s slowed efforts for years.
Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell is closing in on a historic online privacy law, but many aides say she’s been one of its biggest obstacles for years.

Live stream of OpenAI's Spring Update event, where the company says it will demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates (OpenAI on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQacCB9tDaw

How GPS warfare is affecting civilian populations; an analysis finds ~40M people lived in areas with unreliable GPS for at least half of the past six months (Financial Times)
https://t.co/mvay7kTXBc

Sources: after shelling out billions to acquire US users, Temu is now focusing more on acquiring users in Europe and elsewhere, following TikTok's US issues (Wall Street Journal)
https://t.co/jw7Q1wU6bm

Q&A with Walt Mossberg and YouTuber Marques Brownlee on tech reviews, handling pushback, YouTube, the issues with paid content, earning people's trust, and more (New York Magazine)
https://t.co/dLS9OfeB1F

An experiment to see how a Threads feed would work on Mastodon, using lists and testing third-party clients, which shows the bright future of the fediverse (augment)
https://www.augment.ink/threads-on-mastodon/

Threads on Mastodon and The Bright Future of the Fediverse
This is my journey that started as an experiment to see how my Threads feed would look like on Mastodon and ended with me finding experiences that went above and beyond my expectations.