Android adware apps on Google Play amass two million installs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
A weird storage bug in Android 14 is locking users out of their phones (www.techspot.com)
Western Digital is spinning off its flash memory business as sales decline (archive.ph)
Toyota to invest $8 bln more in North Carolina EV battery plant (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks AI, closing the Activision Blizzard deal, and his best business decision so far (www.businessinsider.com)
Tesla warns that a federal probe into whether it exaggerated the range of its cars may lead to a 'material adverse impact on our business' (fortune.com)
Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank (www.theverge.com)
Let the community work it out: A throwback to early internet days could fix social media’s crisis of legitimacy (www.niemanlab.org)
[…]why should a few companies — or a few billionaire owners — have the power to decide everything about online spaces that billions of people use? This unaccountable model of governance has led stakeholders of all stripes to criticize platforms’ decisions as arbitrary, corrupt or irresponsible. In the early, pre-web days...
The contradiction of environmentally sustainable supercar manufacturing (arstechnica.com)
A mostly paper replacement for single-use RFID tags (hackaday.com)
Twitter's lost 13% of its daily users and its rebrand has failed (www.bigtechnology.com)
The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s...
Mastodon Is the Good One (www.404media.co)
Twitter's mayhem year (lemmy.eco.br)
What Happens When Ads Generate Themselves? (nymag.com)
2023 Solar Glass Breakthrough: Driving A New Era of Sustainability (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop - Jeff Geerling (www.jeffgeerling.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/330591...
Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93 (www.nytimes.com)
See also ESP Wiki’s entry on Martin Goetz.