The Whimsical Web: "a curated list of sites with an extra bit of fun" (whimsical.club)
Microsoft employees will keep free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate after complaints (www.theverge.com)
A weird storage bug in Android 14 is locking users out of their phones (www.techspot.com)
Automattic's Tumblr/ActivityPub integration reportedly shelved (notes.ghed.in)
China crackdown on cyber scams in Southeast Asia nets thousands but leaves networks intact (apnews.com)
Exclusive: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel (www.reuters.com)
Microsoft’s Nadella to Testify at Google Antitrust Trial Monday - Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com)
cross-posted from !google...
Russian zero-day seller offers $20M for hacking Android and iPhones | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from !android...
DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow (www.youtube.com)
Cisco beefs up cybersecurity play with $28 bln Splunk deal (www.reuters.com)
New high speed DRUM technology puts $100,000 cameras at risk (interestingengineering.com)
A.I. usage fuels spike in Microsoft’s water consumption (fortune.com)
cross-posted from !microsoft
Ford, Honda, and BMW create a new vehicle-to-grid company to help EV owners save money (www.theverge.com)
The new company, ChargeScape, will create a platform that can be used by both utilities and EV owners to benefit from the expected surge in mobile batteries plugged into the grid.
China's widening iPhone curbs roil US technology sector - Reuters (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from !apple...
Password-stealing Chrome extension smuggled on to Web Store (www.malwarebytes.com)
cross-posted from !google...
Amazoned! Online Vendors Abused and Screwed Over (particl.news)
Amazon is known for its anti-competition practices. While they aggressively charge you for every sale you make, they also get to see all of your sales data; valuable information to have if you want to launch products. Even better if you plan on launching copycats! In more than one way, just by selling on their platform, they get...
[News, Opinion] The 6 Best Encryption Apps for Windows (www.makeuseof.com)
Summary:...
Inside the FBI's Dashboard for Wiretapping the World [404 Media] (www.404media.co)
archive.today link to bypass the soft paywall.
No More Room In Hell: How Tech & Games Are Desperately Rotting (The Jimquisition) (youtu.be)
Warning for gore and zombies....
Palantir partners with Microsoft to sell AI to the government (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18985984...
Where Facebook's AI Slop Comes From (www.404media.co)
Leaked: Nvidia's AI Scraping Pipeline (www.404media.co)
Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats, emails, and documents obtained by 404 Media show....
Codeberg versus AI Evangelist - Mastodon (social.anoxinon.de)
An interesting little back and forth between Codeberg and someone advocating for them to spend resources on AI assistants....
Data breach exposes US spyware maker behind Windows, Mac, Android and Chromebook malware (techcrunch.com)
Archived version...
U.S. sanctions two members of a Russian government-aligned hacktivist group who breached water facilities (home.treasury.gov)
The two sanctioned persons are Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko, both key members of the Russia-aligned hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR), according to a US Treasury press release....