Palantir bags £330M NHS data bonanza despite privacy fears (www.theregister.com)
Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College (themarkup.org)
An investigation by the media organization The Markup found the pixel by Facebook and Instagram-parent Meta on dozens of popular websites targeting kids from kindergarten to college, including sites that students are all but required to use if they want to participate in school activities or apply to college....
Broadcom planning to complete deal for $69 billion acquisition of VMWare after regulators give OK (apnews.com)
Plastic Waste in the Fuel Tank? (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
Consumer societies produce enough plastic waste to power at least 10% of motorized road traffic. Dutch designer Gijs Schalkx grabbed the opportunity and now drives his car on the plastic waste he collects.
Sodium-ion battery breakthroughs may be key to our electric future (www.techspot.com)
After robotaxi dragged pedestrian 20 feet, Cruise founder and CEO resigns (arstechnica.com)
Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)
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Ransomware Awareness Part 3— Fixing (medium.com)
Judge finds evidence that Tesla, Musk knew about Autopilot defect that led to killing of Florida man (www.reuters.com)
Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor, called the judge’s summary of the evidence significant because it suggests “alarming inconsistencies” between what Tesla knew internally, and what it was saying in its marketing....
Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman (www.theverge.com)
Well, this escalated quickly. So is this the end, or will the mods create an OpenAI megathread? ;)
Why does this kind of screen chenge color at different angles? (lemmy.zip)
Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social (www.wired.com)
The North Atlantic Fella Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.