Commented - technology

NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media' (www.npr.org)

Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating (www.wired.com)

They knew when to hold em. Knew when to fold 'em. Just not when to walk away and when to run.

Concerns over DNS Blocking (medium.com)

“Concerns over DNS Blocking” by Vinton Cerf

Google’s Web Environment Integrity project raises a lot of concerns (siliconangle.com)

Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home (www.physics.ox.ac.uk)

The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...

“Job Creator” Elon Musk Has Fired Over 6000 Employees in the Last 4 Years, Some for Trying to Unionize (medium.com)

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Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable (www.niemanlab.org)

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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)

Threads Launches in the European Union (www.macrumors.com)

Chinese automaker BYD goes after Tesla’s throne with more than 300,000 electric cars sold in a month (english.elpais.com)

Tesla threatened to sue buyers who resell Cybertruck without written permission (arstechnica.com)

Why Do Teens Use TikTok for Mental Health Diagnoses? (theluddite.org)

Wikipedia Admin Unmasks As Alt Account Of Admin Who Was Extremely Banned In 2015 To The Great Bewilderment Of Everyone (en.wikipedia.org)

What?????? What the hell??? — arbitrator Moneytrees, arbitration request for Lourdes...

When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media (bfi.uchicago.edu)

Those findings are crazy. I’ve never been social media addicted, been into luxury or general show-off brands (I pay extra to not look like I’m an advertisement… for anything but metal bands), so I don’t really know much about those issues.

Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 (www.raspberrypi.com)

Element X preview is now on Android too! (element.io)

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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led...

WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)

AI language models are rife with political biases (www.technologyreview.com)

From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.656.pdf

Scientists vacuumed animal DNA from the air in a forest and the results are amazing (www.earth.com)

How a start-up built the search engine of the future — and then died (www.theverge.com)

Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name (www.reuters.com)

Corsair acquires mechanical keyboard specialist Drop (www.theverge.com)

Corsair has acquired Drop, an online retailer known for its mechanical keyboards and keyboard accessories. Drop will continue to operate independently under the leadership of CEO Jef Holove. Corsair hopes to expand Drops brand globally through its supply chain and distribution network. Drop intends to continue its enthusiast-led...