Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)
Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home (www.physics.ox.ac.uk)
The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...
Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? (locusmag.com)
How Subscription Services are designed to BANKRUPT you (piped.video)
Related: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok
"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." (pluralistic.net)
Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off (www.aalto.fi)
'Privacy. That’s Apple,’ the slogan proclaims. New research from Aalto University in Finland begs to differ....
I saved spreadsheet when Excel was glitching (corporate remote network), time stamp got updated however file reverted to original state with reboot - please help!
I am no stranger to Excel and Tech in general, however this stumped me! This all occurred on the corporate laptop where we connect to the network remotely using a security token ID. Any help is extremely appreciated as I would hate to have to do hours of re-work. Adulting is hard....
Why Large Language Models Like ChatGPT Treat Black- and White-Sounding Names Differently (hai.stanford.edu)
The race to decarbonise the world’s economy risks repeating the mistakes of the colonial era by building industries on forced and child labour, rights advocate warns (www.smh.com.au)
Almost 90 per cent of the global supply for polysilicon, a common raw material in electronic devices and solar panels, comes from China, and about half of that comes from Xinjiang, the north-western province that is home to the Uyghurs, says Grace Forrest, founder of Walk Free, a charity dedicating to fight forced labour....
DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers (www.wired.com)
Needs archive.is link!
Minuteman D-17b: The Desktop Computer Was Born in an ICBM (www.youtube.com)
A video about the Minuteman ICBM’s guidance computer by Alexander the ok....
Why I Lost Faith in Kagi (d-shoot.net)
follow-up Mastodon thread from the author: hackers.town/
Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 (jlai.lu)
Why the Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore (www.newyorker.com)
Beeper Messaging App That Irked Apple Is Acquired by WordPress.com Owner (www.bloomberg.com)
Automattic purchases Beeper in $125 million deal; CEO to join...
Beeper is now available, no waitlist! (blog.beeper.com)
T-Mobile's New AI "Profiling" Privacy Toggle Is On By Default (tmo.report)
Transparency advocates say that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's pursuit of “personal” connections with AI companies in China represents a concerning conflict of interest (www.wired.com)
Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13091735...
"Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives (blog.documentfoundation.org)
Schleswig-Holstein, the northern German federal state, will be a digital pioneer region and the first German state to introduce a digitally sovereign IT workplace in its state administration. With a cabinet decision to introduce the open-source software LibreOffice as the standard office solution across the board, the government...
Proton Mail finally gets a desktop app for encrypted email and calendar (www.theverge.com)
Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news (www.gsmarena.com)
As apparently, this move is made to target audiobook listeners and podcast listeners, can I recommend audiobookshelf.org...
Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)
A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....
This Asus PC case monitors your dust filter so you don't have to (www.xda-developers.com)
Traditionally, one would have to periodically check the status of the dust filtering on a PC case, but that’s not the case (pun intended!) with the Asus ProArt PA602. This chassis has a fancy infrared (IR) sensor behind the front-facing dust filter. Should this detect a set layer of dust covering the filter material, a small...
Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF (littlegreenfootballs.com)
Magnets are switching up the keyboard game with an additional keystroke setting (techcrunch.com)
These keyboards rely on magnets and springs and activate by sensing changes in the magnetic field. Popularized by Dutch keyboard startup Wooting, these switches rely on the Hall Effect and have actually been around since the 1960s....
