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)
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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,...
Can you guess the top 5 countries by IPv6 usage?
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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)
‘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...
Why does Asia scan to pay when the rest of the world taps? • The Register (www.theregister.com)
NewsBreak: Most downloaded US news app has Chinese roots and 'writes fiction' using AI (www.reuters.com)
Last Christmas Eve, NewsBreak, a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States, published an alarming piece about a small town shooting. It was headlined “Christmas Day Tragedy Strikes Bridgeton, New Jersey Amid Rising Gun Violence in Small Towns.”...
Jumblie is a challenging browser-based open-source puzzle game to guess the four words of the day (jumblie.com)
The game has a theme word for each day, so keep that in mind when guessing the words. It is more challenging than Wordle because there are no hints apart from the theme word. So, if one of the words is ‘landing’ and you guessed ‘land’ there is no confirmation you’re getting warm at all....
All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics - YouTube (youtube.com)
Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off (www.aalto.fi)
'Privacy. That’s Apple,’ the slogan proclaims. New research from Aalto University in Finland begs to differ....
Trump 'tried to sell Truth Social to Musk' as SPAC deal stalled (www.theregister.com)
Free to be Weird: Lowering barriers to Open Source contributions (blog.mkhoury.org)
Public code repositories like Github are currently being beset by a flood of LLM-generated contributions. It’s becoming a bit of a problem and is one of the facets of the Great Flood the web is currently experiencing....
Microsoft phases out WordPad (and Cortana) after 28 years of duty (alternativeto.net)
WordPad got into the shadow of MS Office and Notepad anyways.
Krebs on Security: "Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky" (krebsonsecurity.com)
Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. The malicious ads, which appear above organic search results and often precede links to legitimate sources of the same software, can make...
(15th of Dec) Element Discontinuing Hosted Matrix for Consumers
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