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Dutch regulator rejects Apple’s objections to fines (www.reuters.com)

DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow (www.youtube.com)

Dangerzone will convert it into a safe PDF (dangerzone.rocks)

Literally one of the worst formats I deal with daily, from a security standpoint are PDFs. Very useful and predictable for the end user; yes, but very dangerous for the capabilities it allows....

Pocket Casts Plus increases subscription pricing to $33.99 from $10 (feddit.nl)

Any suggestions on good multi-platform alternatives? I’m using Apple Podcasts and it’s garbage.

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language - Builder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year (www.theregister.com)

Professor Kathleen Booth, one of the last of the early British computing pioneers, has died. She was 100....

Adobe launches new symbol to tag AI-generated content—but will anyone use it? (arstechnica.com)

Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks (UK/AUS tomorrow, US to follow) (newsroom.spotify.com)

cross-posted from !android

Meta Debuts $500 Quest 3 as Apple Prepares to Launch $3,500 Vision Pro Headset Next Year (www.macrumors.com)

Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score (stackdiary.com)

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?...

Hospital bosses love AI. Doctors and nurses are worried. (wapo.st)

Mount Sinai has become a laboratory for AI, trying to shape the future of medicine. But some healthcare workers fear the technology comes at a cost....

Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware' (www.theregister.com)

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.

Canon challenges ASML supremacy in chip manufacturing with a new nanoimprint lithography system (www.techspot.com)

Duet AI for Google Meet can take notes, summarize, and even attend meetings - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Another new Meet feature lets Duet “attend” a meeting on your behalf. On a meeting invite, you can click an “attend for me” button, and Google can auto-generate some text about what you might want to discuss. Those notes will be viewable to attendees during the meeting so that they can discuss them.

Tetris - But With ARM 32Bit Instructions instead of blocks (ofrak.com)

Awesome game. I don’t know much about little-endian arm 32bit assembly, but this would be a good tool to learn on!

Low-Tech Magazine: Human Powered Air Compressor and Energy Storage System (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)

ChatGPT, The Worst Summer Intern Ever (hackaday.com)

TIL British Columbia created a font to support Indigenous languages (www2.gov.bc.ca)

Via the A11yTalks webinar Accessibility in Action: Indigenous Communities by Meggan Van Harten...

G/O Media Execs Full Speed Ahead On Injecting Half-Cooked ‘AI’ Into A Very Broken US Media (www.techdirt.com)

It’s always good to remember that the people most pissed off about the clusterfuck corporate media has become are journalists who want to go out and commit journalism but are considered too expensive.

Linux for Microsoft Surface devices. It is reality! (upload.wikimedia.org)

I would like to share with you a very cool project that develops drivers for correct operation of Microsoft Surface devices on Linux. I myself use Surface Pro 6 with these drivers and everything works like a charm (battery life is good, cameras work, stylus, keyboard, touchscreen, screen). The developers are gods. From myself, I...

‘What seemed like science fiction is already here’: why it’s important to talk (seriously) about neurorights (english.elpais.com)

The risk, explains Yuste, is that the same tools which – in medicine – can help improve people’s lives, can also end up violating the information stored in the brain. “Although the roadmap is beneficial, these technologies are neutral and can be used for better or worse,” he notes. This isn’t only about securing...

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