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  Ken Yeung

  

  1 day ago

  AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?

  citationneeded.news - Molly White

  AI isn't useless. But is it worth it? Listen to a voiceover of this post, download the recording for later, or subscribe to the feed in your podcast …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  3 days ago

  Sextortion Scams Are Driving Teen Boys to Suicide

  Bloomberg - Olivia Carville

  I have ur nudes and everything needed to ruin your life Send me $2000 and I’ll delete I’m going to make it go viral 😡 You want your parents to see …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  2 days ago

  The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat

  The Verge - Josh Dzieza

  On the afternoon of March 11th, 2011, Mitsuyoshi Hirai, the chief engineer of the cable maintenance ship Ocean Link, was sitting in his cabin 20 miles off Japan’s eastern coast, completing the paperwork that comes at the end of every repair. Two weeks earlier, something — you rarely knew what — …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  6 days ago

  The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of Languages

  The Atlantic - By Matteo Wong

  English is the internet’s primary tongue—a fact that may have unexpected consequences as generative AI becomes central to daily life. Recently, Bonaventure Dossou learned of an alarming tendency in a popular AI model. The program described Fon—a language spoken by Dossou’s mother and millions of …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  $10 Billion Productivity Startup Notion Wants To Build Your AI Everything App

  Forbes - Kenrick Cai

  Notion cofounder Ivan Zhao captivated Silicon Valley investors and everyday consumers alike with a sleek productivity app that went so viral its servers crashed. Now, the profitable startup’s CEO sees a rare opening to break Microsoft and Google’s dominance in the workplace by going early and …

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  Ken Yeung

  

  Peloton is a media company now, with media company problems

  The Verge - Victoria Song

  Jessika Fernandez uses Peloton about two hours a day — maybe even four if she’s training for a marathon. In her house, you’ll find not one but two Peloton machines. There’s the bike that the company is known for, and in her garage, there’s the company’s smaller treadmill. A rack of running medals …