Threads: Ten million join Meta's Twitter rival, Zuckerberg says (www.bbc.com)
Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
Actively exploited vulnerability threatens hundreds of solar power stations (arstechnica.com)
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (www.theverge.com)
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app – report (www.theguardian.com)
Instagram Threads vs Mastodon: Looks like an easy choice (social.heise.de)
Plasma-based noise cancellation could silence rooms, cars and planes (newatlas.com)
Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking (arstechnica.com)
Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars (www.theguardian.com)
Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes
Meta launches Twitter rival Threads but faces delays in Europe over privacy concerns (www.france24.com)
Threads: Which of the “Data Linked to You” is Actually Required (apps.apple.com)
I know it has been posted over and over again on what type of data Facebook is collecting for Threads, but so far the discussion has been incredibly reddit-like....
What to know about Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)
By Eugen Rochko (CEO/Founder @ Mastodon)...
Deleting your Threads profile will also kill your Instagram account (www.androidauthority.com)
A buggy Windows 11 update keeps slowing down SSDs (www.techspot.com)
USPS ad scam captures banking credentials (www.malwarebytes.com)
We all think we’re too savvy to fall for stuff like this, and maybe that’s true, but I know some technophobes who’d be prime victims for this. I’m interested in discussion about how to prevent this sort of thing from happening beyond just telling Grandpa to never click on ads.
Twitter refuses to pay for arbitration for ex-employees (arstechnica.com)
Introducing the Orange Pi 5B: A Powerful and Affordable Single-Board Computer (www.orangepi.org)
The Orange Pi 5B is a versatile single-board computer that offers impressive performance at an affordable price. With its Rockchip RK3588S 8-core 64-bit processor, it delivers a powerful computing experience, making it an excellent alternative to the Raspberry Pi 4^2^....
Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly went live on the web - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Meta briefly made Threads available on the web before pulling profiles offline a few hours later. The Verge was able to access Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s first thread (is that what we call them?!) using the web app, and many other brands and creators including Netflix, Gary Vee, and Instagram....
No Instagram Threads app in the EU (for now) (www.independent.ie)
Irish DPC says Meta’s new Twitter rival won’t be launched here – But that’s just because it hasn’t been approved for GDPR. It’ll come here of course, just not now.
Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI (gizmodo.com)
An update to Google’s privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for it’s AI projects.
Wunderkind builds 'fully compliant RISC-V computer' entirely inside Terraria, then plays Pong on it (www.pcgamer.com)
Schneier: Self-Driving Cars Are Surveillance Cameras on Wheels (www.schneier.com)
Police are already using self-driving car footage as video evidence:...
A Scientific Breakthrough in Noise Reduction (nautil.us)
100K Users - Revolt (revolt.chat)
End-to-end encryption; the will of the British people (element.io)
Today marks the first day of the Report Stage of the Online Safety Bill. As this Bill progresses through the Houses of Parliament, we hope to (once again) raise the alarm around the risks to encryption posed by this Bill.
