OTR Backup 06/01/2025

• Cartoon: But, you see, Biden was old!

  A cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

• Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy - Ars Technica

  Research firm blames outdated DRM tech, Facebook ads, Amazon hardware, and more.

• I Spoke With Some of the Most Private People Online, and Here's What They Sacrifice | Lifehacker

• Google Veo 3 AI video is dangerously lifelike, and we're not ready. | Mashable

  Google's new Veo 3 AI video generation model is a huge leap forward, and the world isn't ready.

• The 4 best AI image generators of 2025 | Mashable

  To find the best AI image generator, we tested the top models head-to-head. See how ChatGPT, Imagen 4, Midjourney, Grok, and others compare.

• This hidden Google Earth slider lets you travel up to 80 years back in time. Here's how to try it | ZDNET

• ‘This is someone’s livelihood’: Ontario woman mistakenly charged $7K for pizza | Globalnews.ca

  A Toronto woman posted a TikTok describing her “distressing” experience after being charged over $7K for Domino's Pizza and struggling to get a refund from Scotiabank.

• 27 Pictures From This Twitter Account Dedicated To Finding Older Pictures Of Musicians Turned Legends | Bored Panda

  The creators of this Twitter account scan the Internet for the best old pics of legendary music artists, and here are 40 of them.

• ChatGPT has its own “App Store” - 5 awesome custom GPTs to get you started | TechRadar

• Microsoft investigates nasty Windows 11 bug that leaves PCs unable to boot – here’s what you need to know | TechRadar

• This is the process that lets managers get the most from their team

• This 14-Year-Old Built an App That Detects Heart Diseases in Seconds

• Prime numbers, the building blocks of mathematics, have fascinated for centuries − now technology is revolutionizing the search for them

  Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians were running these calculations by hand.

• What’s the Best Way to Measure a School’s Quality? 5 Factors to Consider – The 74

  Olson & Toch: More than test scores, a comprehensive set of research-based metrics would provide a richer understanding of a school's success.

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