An interview with Jürgen Schmidhuber, whose neural network work in the 1990s went on to be used in Google Translate and Siri, on why many AI fears are misplaced (Josh Taylor/The Guardian) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 20:41 Rating: 5

Images of a Texas mall mass shooting go viral on Twitter, fueling criticism of its reduced moderation; Twitter allows some graphic posts like Ukraine war images (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:42 Rating: 5

Source: Volkswagen plans to fire most of the management team at Cariad next week, after the software unit missed its development goals and exceeded its budget (Jan Schwartz/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5

Pepecoin, a meme coin launched in April, has a $1B+ market cap despite concerns about concentrated ownership; Arkham: a trader turned $263 into $3.8M in profits (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

Elon Musk has latched onto "unregretted user-minutes", an undefined metric for measuring Twitter's success, after taking issue with mDAUs during the takeover (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 21:41 Rating: 5

A look at Art Blocks, an NFT marketplace for generative art whose sales reportedly dropped to $6.5M in April 2023 from $587M in August 2021 (Ryan Weeks/The Block) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:41 Rating: 5

The International Olympic Committee adds Fortnite to its Olympic Esports Series competition, which will also feature Just Dance and Gran Turismo (Tom Phillips/Eurogamer.net) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Scammers appear to be hacking verified Meta accounts to impersonate the company and run Facebook ads asking users to download shady tools likely with malware (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

An in-depth look at the regulatory risks for OpenAI under GDPR, including questions around future data scraping and handling "right to be forgotten" requests (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

In an email to users, Twitter acknowledges a bug that showed some Circle tweets to users outside of the Circle in April 2023 and says the issue has been fixed (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5