“They’re programming you”: Twitter founder Jack Dorsey says social media algorithms aren’t serving you—they’re controlling you

Footage of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey warning social media users about what they become while scrolling resurfaced this ...
TheServerSide

Host your own Bluesky Personal Data Server (PDS) tutorial

Personal Data Servers are the persistent data stores of the Bluesky network. It houses a user's data, stores credentials, and if a user is kicked off the Bluesky network the Personal Data Server admin ...
Hosted on MSN

Easy Crochet Scrunchies Hair Tie Tutorial | How to Crochet Hair Tie

🌸 Turn Yarn into Magic! 🔑Tiny, cute, and totally beginner-friendly! 💕 Follow for crochet ideas that are fun, fast, and perfect for gifts or your keyring collection! 🧶💡#CrochetAddict #MiniCrochet ...
heise online

Stricter social media algorithms for children: green light in California

In California, stricter youth protection rules for social media algorithms are coming a step closer. The attempt to stop the relevant parts of a bill was unsuccessful. The "Protecting Youth from ...
IEEE

A Tutorial on Distributed Optimization for Cooperative Robotics: From Setups and Algorithms to Toolboxes and Research Directions

Abstract: Several interesting problems in multirobot systems can be cast in the framework of distributed optimization. Examples include multirobot task allocation, vehicle routing, target protection, ...
Finextra

Bank of England and BIS develop off-the-shelf module for analysing ISO 20022 data

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. The increased use of the ISO 20022 standard for payment ...
NBC4 Columbus

PUCO rejects bid to overturn AEP’s new rate structures for large data centers

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio rejected a bid from Amazon, Google and others to overturn AEP’s new tariff, or rate structure, specifically for data centers. Amazon and ...
WNCT

New data shows student performance, school grades in N.C.

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction has released the 2024-25 Accountability Data Sets and Reports, which include school performance grades, graduation rates, ...
Wall Street Journal

Data Centers That Don’t Exist Yet Are Already Haunting the Grid

Data centers are desperate to connect to the U.S. electric grid. What remains fuzzy is how many will ultimately be built and how much electricity they will require. U.S. utilities are reporting a ...
CSOonline

Attackers steal data from Salesforce instances via compromised AI live chat tool

A threat actor managed to obtain Salesforce OAuth tokens from a third-party integration called Salesloft Drift and used the tokens to download large volumes of data from impacted Salesforce instances.
The New York Times

In Battle Over D.C. Police, Federal Prosecutors Open Inquiry Into Crime Data

The same U.S. attorney’s office that praised a drop in crime in the capital in April has begun an investigation into the Police Department resisting President Trump’s takeover. By Devlin Barrett ...