“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)
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)
Kim Dotcom to be extradited from New Zealand to US (www.theguardian.com)
Kim Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges relating to the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, is to be extradited to the US, the New Zealand justice minister has said....
AI ‘Friend’ Company Spent $1.8 Million and Most of Its Funds on Domain Name (www.404media.co)
The FCC wants to force carriers to unlock phones within 60 days (www.theverge.com)
'Gay furry hackers' disband after Project 2025 data theft (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI (arstechnica.com)
A New Study Investigates 'The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter' To Mastodon (arxiv.org)
Archived version...
Mysterious cyberattack took down more than 600,000 routers in the U.S. (thehackernews.com)
Archived link...
Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075
Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears (www.wired.com)
🤔Am I overdoing it with all the reddit-related posts? archive.is/SFcRn
Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok (archive.is)
Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list (arstechnica.com)
This made me so weirdly sad. I remember this guy; he was well known for being technically skilled but a huge pain in the ass for everyone to work with, and it's weird to see how resigned he is now to his prison life....
Atuin is an open-source shell command history app for Linux with syncing, unlimited history, and with contextual search (beehaw.org)
Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands. With this context, Atuin gives you faster and better search of your shell history!...