YouTuber sues Google Spain for alleged wrongful dismissal (www.reuters.com)
Swedish company Northvolt develops new state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery produced with locally sourced materials, entirely independent of traditional battery value chains (feddit.de)
Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5922898...
Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal (arstechnica.com)
Optus network outage affects millions of Australians (www.reuters.com)
Pebble Shuts Down...But Starts a Mastodon Instance? (wedistribute.org)
'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of FTX fraud (www.bbc.co.uk)
Google Paid How Much to Be the Default Search Engine? (gizmodo.com)
One executive revealed the number, and it’s more than the GDP of Haiti.
Internet artifacts (neal.fun)
A fun sort of online museum with exhibits on the early internet. From the first mp3, to the dancing baby gif, to the first webcam feed of a coffee maker and more. This was really cool!
Amazon adds AI-generated review summaries so you don’t have to read the comments (www.theverge.com)
It’s been there for a while and the article is also a bit older, but I only recently saw this.
Instagram ‘Sincerely Apologizes’ For Inserting ‘Terrorist’ Into Palestinian Bio Translations (archive.ph)
original page (paywalled): www.404media.co/instagram-palestinian-arabic-bio-…
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)
The configuration of the device allows water to circulate in swirling eddies, in a manner similar to the much larger “thermohaline” circulation of the ocean. This circulation, combined with the sun’s heat, drives water to evaporate, leaving salt behind. The resulting water vapor can then be condensed and collected as pure,...
EU hits Intel with $400 million antitrust fine in long-running computer chip case (apnews.com)
FTC Blames Microsoft for Devastating Xbox Court Document Leak - IGN (www.ign.com)
“Microsoft was responsible for the error.”
A giant leap forwards for encryption with MLS (matrix.org)
The New York Times prohibits AI vendors from devouring its content (arstechnica.com) German
The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google (arstechnica.com)
It is perhaps another sign of how bad things have become with Google’s search results—full of algorithmically generated junk sites—that publications like CNET are driven to such extremes to stay above the sea of noise....
This Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track (spectrum.ieee.org)
FTC Seeks Comment on New Parental Consent Mechanism Under COPPA (www.ftc.gov)
Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix (arstechnica.com)
The bug allows attackers to swipe data from a CPU’s registers. […] the exploit doesn’t require physical hardware access and can be triggered by loading JavaScript on a malicious website.
Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API, [aka googles drm the web stuff from last week] (github.com)
Mozilla opposes this proposal because it contradicts our principles and vision for the Web....
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin token to launch Monday (www.semafor.com)
The token has been controversial in Silicon Valley for its ambitious and unorthodox approach to trying to solve two vexing problems: Online identity authentication and income inequality....
CalcKey Officially Rebrands as Firefish (wedistribute.org)
Bluesky’s growing pains strain its relationship with Black users (techcrunch.com)
‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’: Carissa Véliz, expert in ethics applied to technology, advocates for a system of digital anonymity (english.elpais.com)
Addition for the Archived link...