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This Machine Could Keep Moore’s Law on Track (spectrum.ieee.org)

Fibre optics could be the answer to water loss from leaky pipes: 48.6 billion cubic meters of water are lost globally daily (beehaw.org)

According to the International Water Association (IWA), the main culprits for this loss are underground leaks on water mains and service pipes....

Cyber Resilience Act: The future of software in the European Union (blog.sonatype.com)

Microsoft 365 faces more GDPR headwinds as Germany bans it in schools: Redmond disputes report that 'it is not possible to use without transferring personal data to the USA' (www.theregister.com)

Germany’s federal and state data protection authorities (DSK) have raised concerns about the compatibility of Microsoft 365 with data protection laws in Germany and the wider European Union....

X will make audio and video calls a premium subscriber-only feature (techcrunch.com)

Archive link: https://archive.ph/jFcSY...

SELinux In Linux 6.6 Removes References To Its Origins At The US NSA (www.phoronix.com)

Behind the AI boom, an army of overseas workers in ‘digital sweatshops’ (wapo.st)

WP gift article expires in 14 days....

Google fails to end $5 billion consumer privacy lawsuit (neuters.de)

Installing Firefox... With Custom Profiles! (yewtu.be)

Link if you rather use YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGC5CwEgr_g

Google delays its upgraded Find My Device network until Apple can add safety alerts (www.theverge.com)

Also, Android users will soon begin seeing notifications for unknown item trackers that are traveling with them — no separate app downloads or installs required.

Starlink satellites are dodging objects in orbit thousands of times every month (techcrunch.com)

Dark patterns employed by online companies. (theconversation.com)

A study on online companies employing dark patterns. Dark patterns are clever tricks built into apps and websites to encourage you to do things you may not necessarily want to do, for the gain of the companies.

Exclusive: Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit on Wednesday (www.reuters.com)

OpenTF announces fork of Terraform (opentf.org)

API Misuse: Hacker Leaks 2.6M Duolingo Users' Emails & Names (www.hackread.com)

AMD Unveils The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D For Laptops With 3D V-Cache (www.phoronix.com)

AMD is releasing (what appears to be, still need all the reviews to come in) a beast of a mobile processor. 16 cores, 32 threads, and 128MB of L3 cache.

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

Health providers say AI chatbots could improve care. But research says some are perpetuating racism (apnews.com)

Panasonic to produce solid-state battery for drones by 2029 (asia.nikkei.com)

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AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To) (www.tomshardware.com)

Avram Piltch is the editor in chief of Tom’s Hardware, and he’s written a thoroughly researched article breaking down the promises and failures of LLM AIs.

Autoenshittification - How the computer killed capitalism. (doctorow.medium.com)

Forget F1: the only car race that matters now is the race to turn your car into a digital extraction machine, a high-speed inkjet printer on wheels, stealing your private data as it picks your pocket....

Light is faster than... light!? (skullsinthestars.com)

This insightful blog post seems to refer to this article. I hope the article is an isolated case. Although it’s undeniable that scientific illiteracy is spreading.