China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities (www.bloomberg.com)
A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles (arstechnica.com)
Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad (www.theverge.com)
Raspberry Pi 5: EVERYTHING you need to know (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don't give a fuck for life offtheline
Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers (www.theguardian.com)
Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data (Project 2025) (cyberscoop.com)
Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25166889
Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird (www.ifixit.com)
Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says (finance.yahoo.com)
Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators (www.theverge.com)
Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do (www.niemanlab.org)
Bluesky Continues Rapid Growth, Reaches Federation Milestone (wedistribute.org)
AI Is Writing Books About Foraging. What Could Go Wrong? (civileats.com)
Would it be possible (at some point) cool aur by pulling heatenergy from it?
I recently had a discussion about ACs and how they heat up cities....
Google’s new Topics API makes users vulnerable to fingerprinting attacks (www.theregister.com)
Google has stated it plans to address developers’ concerns by “making web publishers promise not to abuse the API”....
[Rumor] Youtube is A/B testing disabling "Do not recommend this channel" on me (feddit.de)
Hi lemmy,...
AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, U.S. Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google’s cloud services....
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off (arstechnica.com)
HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers (www.techspot.com)
States sue Meta claiming its social platforms are addictive and harm children's mental health (apnews.com)
Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks (UK/AUS tomorrow, US to follow) (newsroom.spotify.com)
cross-posted from !android
The Man Amazon Erased (www.tabletmag.com)
A man who got kicked off a service because of an alleged remark.
