Nature - A European agency is considering sweeping restrictions on fluorinated chemicals used in jet engines, electric cars, refrigeration systems, semiconductors and many consumer products.

The U.S. Senate has approved a large-scale defense bill that includes provisions to bar intelligence agencies like the CIA and NSA from denying security clearances to applicants solely due to their past marijuana use. Senators adopted a number of amendments…

Open-source tools for prompt testing and experimentation, with support for both LLMs (e.g. OpenAI, LLaMA) and vector databases (e.g. Chroma, Weaviate, LanceDB). - hegelai/prompttools

The CEO of one of Infosys' other major clients, Shell, also joined Rishi Sunak's new business council two weeks ago.

The city attorney of Durham, North Carolina, attempted to coax the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) to reveal the identities of three editors and to prohibit the placement of certain verifiable and truthful content on Wikipedia pages of city officials, Indy Week…

Ford claims its EVs are too expensive for customers as the automaker makes record profits

A bold reform effort hasn’t gone as planned.

Energy storing building materials could make on-demand power from renewables affordable worldwide

Splitting the Web par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Export iMessage data + run iMessage Diagnostics. Contribute to ReagentX/imessage-exporter development by creating an account on GitHub.

Brave strongly opposes Google's "Web Environment Integrity" proposal, the latest in Google's efforts to prevent users from being in control of how they use the Web.

Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and NVIDIA today announced the Alliance for OpenUSD to promote the standardization of Universal Scene Description.

Food plays an important role in Studio Ghibli animated films.