An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification - Cory Doctorow (DEF CON 31) (piped.video)
Apple and Google Are Introducing New Ways to Defeat Cell Site Simulators, But Is it Enough? (www.eff.org)
Colloquium: Zheshen Zhang - Entanglement-Enhanced Quantum Sensing and Communication (www.youtube.com)
2019 video but the applications for entanglement is so wide open for exploration.
Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates (blog.google)
Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employee (www.polygon.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/5340114...
France orders Apple to halt iPhone 12 sales due to high radiation levels (www.france24.com)
French regulators on Tuesday ordered Apple to halt sales of the iPhone 12 for emitting too much electromagnetic radiation, and to fix existing handsets....
Fake Cisco Webex Google Ads abuse tracking templates to push malware (www.malwarebytes.com)
A new malvertising campaign is targeting corporate users who are downloading the popular web conferencing software Webex. Threat actors have bought an advert that has been online for almost a week and that impersonates Cisco’s brand and is displayed first when performing a Google search. The malware being used in this campaign...
‘One of the Most Hated People in the World’: Sam Bankman-Fried’s 250 Pages of Justifications (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
California passes right-to-repair act guaranteeing seven years of parts for your phone (www.theverge.com)
The bill outlines three years for products costing $50 to $99.99 and seven years for products priced at $100 or more. The bill will cover electronics and appliances made and sold after July 1st, 2021.
The smart(shit)ification of TVs pisses me off.
I absolutely hate “smart” TVs! You can’t even buy a quality “dumb” panel anymore. I can’t convince the rest of my family and friends that the only things those smarts bring are built-in obsolescence, ads, and privacy issues....
Android App Pin Security Issue Allowing Unauthorized Payments via Google Wallet (github.com)
There is a possible way for a general purpose NFC reader to read the full card number and expiry details when the device is in locked screen mode due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation....
For the first time in 40 years, Windows will ship without built-in word processor (arstechnica.com)
Thus ending our long national nightmare of accidentally opening things in WordPad on a fresh install.
Apple now finally sells USB-C EarPods (www.theverge.com)
Apple’s new USB-C EarPods are compatible with a bunch of your Apple devices....
Hyperloop in 2023: Where Are They Now? (www.youtube.com)
Everything announced at today's Apple event: iPhone 15, USB-C, Apple Watch Series 9 and more (www.engadget.com)
Say USB-C five times fast....
We need [Gen AI] literacy like media literacy (jamesg.blog)
Thoughts from James who recently held a Gen AI literacy workshop for older teenagers....
Apple Discusses iPhone Repairability at Keynote for First Time in Its History (www.404media.co)
For the first time, Apple discussed repairability during its iPhone launch event. An engineer mentioned the new iPhone 15 Pro models were designed with a structural frame that makes the back glass easier to replace. This comes after the iPhone 14 introduced a design that allows removal of the front or back. Repair advocates...
A.I. usage fuels spike in Microsoft’s water consumption (fortune.com)
cross-posted from !microsoft
Heat pumps twice as efficient as fossil fuel systems in cold weather, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
www.cell.com/joule/…/S2542-4351(23)00351-3
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio. (www.androidauthority.com)
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio, so they can directly communicate with smart home devices. Old iPhones could probably be used as a smart home hub....
びぐわいとぺにす (lemmy.nz)
The War Thunder forum has once again been used to share restricted plane documentation - this time about the F-117 Nighthawk (www.techradar.com)
cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/1220527...
ALPHV Ransomware Group Hacked MGM By Making A 10 Minute Phone Call (twitter.com)
https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1701758864390050145