Commented - technology

After robotaxi dragged pedestrian 20 feet, Cruise founder and CEO resigns (arstechnica.com)

Google Books downloader?

I used to be able to download the available pages from books on Google Books with pysheng(3) and/or getxbook, but neither of them seem to work any more. On Firefox I can go into “More Information>Media Info” and download page images one by one, but this is slow and cumbersome. Any recommendations for a replacement?

Artificial intelligence guzzles billions of liters of water (feddit.de)

Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5792180...

A threat actor abuses Google Ads to distribute malicious CPU-Z app from fake Windows news site, Malwarebytes reports (feddit.de)

Cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5535431...

Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom (www.fsf.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7492853...

Facebook owner Meta faces EU ban on targeted advertising (www.reuters.com)

Western Digital is spinning off its flash memory business as sales decline (archive.ph)

The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio. (www.androidauthority.com)

The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio, so they can directly communicate with smart home devices. Old iPhones could probably be used as a smart home hub....

Everything announced at today's Apple event: iPhone 15, USB-C, Apple Watch Series 9 and more (www.engadget.com)

Say USB-C five times fast....

Apple unveils iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max - Apple (www.apple.com)

Telecom companies in India want tech firms to pay for network usage (techcrunch.com)

cross-posted from !technology...

The boiling frog of digital freedom (gazoche.xyz)

Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer and co-inventor of the PDF whose invention actually made the world better (techxplore.com)

Warnock, who died Saturday, was one of the leading computer scientists of his era and co-founder in 1982 of Adobe Inc.

The Best Free Apps for Spotify Users in 2023

Spotify is one of the most popular music streaming services in the world, but it can be even better with some free third-party apps that enhance your listening experience. Whether you want to discover new music, see your listening stats, or listen to songs from the past, there are apps for that. Here are some of the best Spotify...

PRQL — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement (prql-lang.org)

3nm Zen 5 by 2024? (lemmy.ninja)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ninja/post/138875...

Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse (www.wired.com)

China: Tech giant Baidu’s mass robotaxi rollout stirs heated debate after a vehicle ran into a pedestrian in Wuhan last Sunday (www.sixthtone.com)

Archived version...

[Palmer Luckey] created Oculus headsets as a teenager. Now he makes AI weapons for Ukraine (www.npr.org)

It’s so easy to sanitize tech stories about murder weapons. Just say “Ukraine” in the title!

Has Facebook Stopped Trying? (www.404media.co)

In spring, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg invited more than a dozen professors and academics to a series of dinners at his home to discuss how Facebook could better keep its platforms safe from election disinformation, violent content, child sexual abuse material, and hate speech. Alongside these secret meetings, Facebook was regularly...