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The FTC wants to ban tough-to-cancel subscriptions
The US Federal Trade Commission is proposing a formal ban on subscriptions that are simple to start but difficult to stop. This morning, it announced a notice of proposed rulemaking it dubs “click to cancel,” requiring companies to make ending a subscription equivalently simple to signing up for one. That includes letting people use the…
ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha
To enable the functionality described here, select and install the Wolfram plugin from within ChatGPT. Note that this capability is so far available only to some ChatGPT Plus users; for more information, see OpenAI’s announcement. In Just Two and a Half Months… Early in January I wrote about the possibility of connecting ChatGPT to Wolfram|Alpha. And today—just…
The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets
My phone pinged: “Tell Mark Essien they are coming for him.”I had no idea what that even meant. It was a forwarded WhatsApp message that someone had sent to a friend of mine.All I was doing was trying to convert PDFs from the 2023 Nigeria Presidential elections into spreadsheets.But let’s rewind a bit and give…
Block: Inflated user metrics and “frictionless” fraud facilitation
Block Inc., formerly known as Square Inc., is a $44 billion market cap company that claims to have developed a “frictionless” and “magical” financial technology with a mission to empower the “unbanked” and the “underbanked”. Our 2-year investigation has concluded that Block has systematically taken advantage of the demographics it claims to be helping. The…
Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat
Mathematics Aperiodic tiling, in which shapes can fit together to create infinite patterns that never repeat, has fascinated mathematicians for decades, but until now no one knew if it could be done with just one shape By Matthew Sparkes This single shape produces a pattern that never repeatsDavid Smith, Joseph Myers, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Craig…
Cheating is All You Need
Heya. Sorry for not writing for so long. I’ll make up for it with 3000 pages here. I’m just hopping right now. That’s kinda the only way to get me to blog anymore. I’ve rewritten this post so many times. It’s about AI. But AI is changing so fast that the post is out of…
Starbucks CEO will work a shift at the company’s cafes once a month
Laxman Narasimhan, incoming Starbucks CEO, Sept. 7, 2022.CNBCStarbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan told employees Thursday that he'll work a half day every month at one of the coffee giant's locations.Narasimhan took the helm on Monday and will lead the company's shareholder meeting Thursday. He joined Starbucks in October, spending months learning the business. That included 40…
Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister
Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Parikshit Mishra is the news editor for CoinDesk during the mid Asia and early European hours. He does not have any crypto holdings.Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He doesn’t own any…
The Framework Laptop 16
We’re excited to share our next major product category, a high-performance 16” notebook, the Framework Laptop 16. Not only does the Framework Laptop 16 carry forward all of the same design philosophy around upgrade, repair, and customization from the Framework Laptop 13 at a substantially higher performance point, but it also brings in two new…