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Snap is recalling and refunding every drone it ever sold (www.theverge.com)

AirDrop cracked by China, revealing phone number and email (9to5mac.com)

First working graphene semiconductor could lead to faster computers (www.newscientist.com)

The worst technology failures of 2023 (www.technologyreview.com)

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New malware restores cookies to break into your Google Account (9to5google.com)

You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk --- [Opinion] (defector.com)

Memory Cache: local AI for Firefox that you feed (www.ghacks.net)

Operation Triangulation - stealthy iOS malware (securelist.com)

Hell of an exploit chain, really interesting to dissect.

Stackoverflow Mod proposes prohibiting questions from being closed as duplicates to catch-all questions (meta.stackoverflow.com)

The original post uses "roll-up" instead of "catch-all" for some reason....

Amazon slams Microsoft’s business practices in UK cloud industry probe (www.theverge.com)

USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide (arstechnica.com)

Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social (www.wired.com)

The North Atlantic Fella Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.

Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project (www.theverge.com)

Google’s 36% search revenue share with Apple is 3x what Android OEMs get (arstechnica.com)

YouTube is going to start cracking down on AI clones of musicians (www.theverge.com)

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Satellite for smartphones fails to take off (liliputing.com)

Apple suffers setback in fight against EU order to pay £11bn tax bill in Ireland (www.theguardian.com)

This Is A Very Serious Situation... (By SomeOrdinaryGamers) ~ NFT Party fail, eyes and skin burned (odysee.com)

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at a situation where one of the biggest brands in the world of NFTs, Bored Apes Yacht Club hosted an event in Hong Kong that left it's attendees potentially blind for the rest of their lives....

After Suspending Its Self-Driving Cars, Cruise Takes Steps to Win Back Trust (www.nytimes.com)

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EU Tries To Slip In New Powers To Intercept Encrypted Web Traffic Without Anyone Noticing (www.techdirt.com)

NASA’s Voyager Team Focuses on Software Patch, Thrusters (www.jpl.nasa.gov)

Meta now lets you block Instagram from collecting your data - SamMobile (www.sammobile.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2378301 (!android)...

Longer Commutes, Shorter Lives: The Costs of Not Investing in America - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

Why the US is falling behind- a lack of R&D, particularly around computers, emerging technologies, and education. And how we are starting to reinvest in critical R&D again for things like vaccines and chips....

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