Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address

Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers. The change is especially concerning to many sex workers, influencers and public…

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Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows

Lonely young people are likely better off texting a random stranger than talking to a chatbot, according to a new study. Researchers from the University of British Columbia found that first-semester college students who texted a randomly selected fellow first-semester college student every day for two weeks experienced around a nine percent reduction in feelings…

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Cybertruck Tried to Drive ‘Straight Off an Overpass’ Attorney Claims

A Cybertruck owner in Texas is suing Tesla for $1,000,000 in damages for “ grossly negligent conduct” following an accident on a Houston highway that involved the vehicle’s self-driving feature. According to the lawsuit, Tesla is to blame for the crash because CEO Elon Musk has oversold the truck’s ability to drive itself. As originally…

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Elon Musk’s Waste.gov Is Just a WordPress Theme Placeholder Page

A government website created by the Trump administration to “track government waste” has been left unupdated with a default WordPress sample page that includes language about an imaginary architecture firm.  “Waste.gov: Tracking government waste,” the tagline for the website, archived here, says. The rest of the webpage, however, is about an imaginary architecture firm called…

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