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A mostly paper replacement for single-use RFID tags (hackaday.com)

Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism (apnews.com)

Japan startup develops 'Gundam'-like robot with $3 mln price tag (www.reuters.com)

Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs (apnews.com)

“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated] (arstechnica.com)

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....

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.

Mastodon's Next Major Release Enables Full-Text Search (wedistribute.org)

"Test for Ricardo" Notification?

Any other Motorola phone users get this notification pop-up? I found a post on the forum that shall not be named and it seems like a worldwide Motorola glitch but no official word yet....

AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7700 XT & RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards (www.phoronix.com)

Finally getting some (closer to) mainstream video cards from AMD. Still feels overpriced but a lot better than $750 for a 7900xt.

"Automated Racism": China's Hikvision still sells Uyghur-tracking surveillance cameras, powered by America's Nvidia (ipvm.com)

Despite assurances for years that Hikvision has stopped minority analytics, just 7 months ago local PRC authorities awarded a $6 million contract that explicitly requires Hikvision analytics to identify Uyghurs (维族), powered by NVIDIA hardware, security specialist IPVM says.

Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data (arstechnica.com)

Kevin Mitnick, Hacker Who Once Eluded Authorities, Is Dead at 59 (archive.is)

Let the Platforms Burn (doctorow.medium.com)

Instagram Threads vs Mastodon: Looks like an easy choice (social.heise.de)

Would you buy a new battery for a very old laptop?

I just got a pretty good deal on an old ThinkPad (think 10 years old now) to use as a beater for screwing with ArchLinux and hopefully to find a real use for. It’s in great shape like it was never really used, but big shock, the battery is at 50% effective capacity and what’s there disappears in less than an hour....

Technology Connections talks about a red fridge from Walmart for an hour (youtu.be)

In a video by @Techconnectify, Alec goes into a deep dive into the simplicity of his particular model, its shortcomings and variety of data logging tests in an attempt to fix them....

ELI5: What's the differences between Lemmy and kbin?

I’m out of the loop.

Alternative YouTube clients having issues loading videos

It seems YT started another attempt at blocking alternative clients. They changed something in their API and both SmartTube and Tubular (NewPipe fork) are completely broken. Apparently it started happening this past week, but we personally just felt it today....

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