🌐 Meta's Threads Join ActivityPub, Tesla's Massive Recall, Polish Hackers Unbrick Train

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Meta starts testing Threads integration with ActivityPub. Mark Zuckerberg said today that Meta has started testing a feature to show Threads posts on Mastodon and other ActivityPub protocol-supported networks. “Making Threads interoperable will give people more choice over how they interact and it will help content reach more people. By Ivan Mehta via TechCrunch

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Tesla recalls nearly all vehicles sold in US to fix system that monitors drivers using Autopilot. Tesla is recalling nearly all vehicles sold in the U.S., more than 2 million, to update software and fix a defective system that’s supposed to ensure drivers are paying attention when using Autopilot. By Tom Krisher via AP NEWS

𝕏: Maybe the CEO of an auto company shouldn't also be a full-time shitposter. Something for the board to consider. - Tim Miller (@Timodc)

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Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them. In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. By Jason Koebler via 404 Media

𝕏: New from 404 Media: you may have seen that a group of Polish hackers repaired trains the manufacturers had bricked (hackers were successful and helped). Now the train company is threatening to sue them. We spoke to the hackers. - Joseph Cox (@josephfcox)

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Axel Springer, OpenAI strike "real-time news" deal for ChatGPT.  ChatGPT parent OpenAI has struck a deal with Axel Springer, parent to a slew of German and U.S. media outlets, to “help provide people with new ways to access quality, real-time news content through our AI tools,” OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap announced Wednesday. By Sara Fischer via Axios

𝕏: NEW: @axelspringer & @OpenAI strike "real-time news" deal for #ChatGPT - Sara Fischer (@sarafischer)

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How Meta's New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance. For the past two weeks, I've been using a new camera to secretly snap photos and record videos of strangers in parks, on trains, inside stores and at restaurants. (I promise it was all in the name of journalism.) I wasn't hiding the camera, but I was wearing it, and no one noticed. By Brian X. Chen via The New York Times

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