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The War Thunder forum has once again been used to share restricted plane documentation - this time about the F-117 Nighthawk (www.techradar.com)

cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/1220527...

Google antitrust trial: Tech giant denies abusing power to gain monopoly - BBC News (www.bbc.com)

cross-posted from !google

A.I. usage fuels spike in Microsoft’s water consumption (fortune.com)

cross-posted from !microsoft

ALPHV Ransomware Group Hacked MGM By Making A 10 Minute Phone Call (twitter.com)

https://twitter.com/vxunderground/status/1701758864390050145

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

Looking for a privacy friendly chromecast alternative

Title says it all, I’m looking for something as user-friendly as a chromecast but not made by a company like google. I’m familiar with linux and if some open source software exists that can do this I would love it....

Apple Discusses iPhone Repairability at Keynote for First Time in Its History (www.404media.co)

For the first time, Apple discussed repairability during its iPhone launch event. An engineer mentioned the new iPhone 15 Pro models were designed with a structural frame that makes the back glass easier to replace. This comes after the iPhone 14 introduced a design that allows removal of the front or back. Repair advocates...

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.

BLASTPASS: NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in the Wild (citizenlab.ca)

Last week, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices, Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware. This latest find shows once again that civil society is...

The smart(shit)ification of TVs pisses me off.

I absolutely hate “smart” TVs! You can’t even buy a quality “dumb” panel anymore. I can’t convince the rest of my family and friends that the only things those smarts bring are built-in obsolescence, ads, and privacy issues....

Intel makes Thunderbolt 5 official, promising speeds of up to 120Gbps - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Google turns 25: From garage startup to global giant (www.zdnet.com)

Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines (quandyfactory.com)

Heat pumps twice as efficient as fossil fuel systems in cold weather, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

www.cell.com/joule/…/S2542-4351(23)00351-3

Benchmarking AIs with a simple riddle (benchmarks.llmonitor.com)

Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?...

All EFF’d Up | Yasha Levine (thebaffler.com)

Apple Event (www.apple.com)

Watch today at 10 a.m. PT....

An excerpt from You Deserve A Tech Union on deskilling, automation, artificial intelligence, and unions (roadmapmag.com)

the possible titles for this were all bad so this is a wholesale invented title by me to summarize the contents of this link, which i think otherwise is interesting....

Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (wapo.st)

Public health experts denounced the platform’s moderation policies, which they say restrict access to critical health information...

Favorite chart/website for CAT5, 5e, 6, etc differences?

I always forget the speed differences (and other specs) for ethernet cables. I can find what I need from various sources, but I haven’t been able to find a good chart with the info I want to print out at work. Most likely I’ll create my own, but I’m curious what’s already out there....

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