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Elon Musk’s Rebranded Twitter Cuts Ad Prices (www.wsj.com)

Amazon claims it isn’t a “Very Large Online Platform” to evade EU rules (arstechnica.com)

That mom-and-pop Seattle operation just can’t catch a break.

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

Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year (electrek.co)

Elon is the gift that keeps on giving. He’s decided that because it’s Friday, we should all have a pile in....

ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan (www.bloomberg.com)

ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have ways to disable the world’s most sophisticated chipmaking machines in the event that China invades Taiwan, according to people familiar with the matter....

Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface (futurism.com)

Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals (citizenlab.ca)

Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13390116...

Generative AI is still a solution in search of a problem (www.axios.com)

Lemmy's Image Problem (wedistribute.org)

Decentralized networks/ISPs, are they even possible? A talk and my idea

So I was thinking about what if we could make a network that the only thing you needed to connect to it is to directly connect ( through wires or directed wireless antennas ) to at least 1 computer that takes part in it, with no centralized node of any kind. For that we would need a whole new protocol and address system. THIS IS...

Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (arstechnica.com)

Google's monopoly in the ad industry lets them profit off allowing scam ads to flourish, with no consequences (checkmyads.org)

Google is spoon-feeding fake “Shark Tank approved” weight loss gummy candies to innocent people — and making money doing it.

Is Google deliberately slowing down YouTube video buffering for adblock users? (www.ghacks.net)

Where have all the websites gone? (www.fromjason.xyz)

YouTube Premium says the price party is over for grandfathered accounts (www.androidauthority.com)

X sues watchdog group Media Matters after report on ads next to Nazi posts (www.theguardian.com)

Microsoft pulls OneDrive update that would quiz you before letting you quit (arstechnica.com)

Sharing here because of the post from 14 hours ago....

It feels like we're on the cusp of the first reimagining of CPUs since multicore and a real shot at relegating towers to the extreme high end, but I've not seen any good coverage about it (beehaw.org)

Not quite there yet … from left on surface, 5G internet, WireGuard router, pihole on a Zero W and 4x4 N95 HTPC, plus 1080p projector. When a computer that size (actually smaller, since I don’t need a SATA bay) can outperform my tower, though …...

Trump’s Truth Social facing a key funding deadline (wapo.st)

The ‘blank check’ ally of former president Donald Trump’s media start-up was once a stock-market star. It’s now days away from potential liquidation....

Question about newer Intel CPUs in Notebooks

TLDR: CPU frequency on newer notebooks always at 1.6+GHz; fans are always on and loud; Is it a CPU problem?...

Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones (www.wired.com)

IT DIDN’T TAKE long. Just months after OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot upended the startup economy, cybercriminals and hackers are claiming to have created their own versions of the text-generating technology. The systems could, theoretically at least, supercharge criminals’ ability to write malware or phishing emails that trick...

Roblox Accused of Concocting Illegal Gambling Ring for Minors - Bloomberg Law (news.bloomberglaw.com)

The complaint outlined the process by which minors can use the Roblox platform to gamble. After purchasing Robux through the platform, they can navigate to one of the gaming website defendants’ “virtual casinos” outside the Roblox ecosystem and link their Robux wallet to the gambling website, meaning Roblox can still keep...

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