Touching the Sun, Fake Spotify Artists, Banished Words

• AI Needs So Much Power, It's Making Yours Worse
• How many billions Big Tech spent on AI data centers in 2024
• NASA Spacecraft 'Touches Sun' In Defining Moment For Humankind
• Elon Musk Calls Out NASA's Moon Ambitions: 'We're Going Straight to Mars'
• Elon Musk and the right's war on Wikipedia
• Trump Asks Supreme Court to Pause Law Threatening TikTok Ban
• US Treasury says Chinese hackers stole documents in 'major incident'
• Judge blocks parts of California bid to protect kids from social media
• Finland probes Russian shadow fleet oil tanker after cable-cutting incident
• US appeals court blocks Biden administration effort to restore net-neutrality rules
• The Ghosts in the Machine (fake spotify artists)
• Massive VW Data Leak Exposed 800,000 EV Owners' Movements, From Homes To Brothels
• Banished Words | Lake Superior State University 2025
• Public Domain Day 2025
• Happy Birthday, Bitcoin! The top cryptocurrency is old enough to drive
• End of the lines? QR-style codes could replace barcodes 'within two years'

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