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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?...

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.

‘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...

Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says (techcrunch.com)

US judge rules Microsoft deal to buy Activision can go forward (www.reuters.com)

Apple suffers setback in fight against EU order to pay £11bn tax bill in Ireland (www.theguardian.com)

YouTube wants to get you watching more news from ‘authoritative sources’ - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2379225 (!google)

23andMe user data targeting Ashkenazi Jews leaked online (www.nbcnews.com)

The boiling frog of digital freedom (gazoche.xyz)

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

25 years ago, Apple changed everything with the first iMac (www.xda-developers.com)

Researchers claim to have detected vulnerabilities in VPN clients that went unnoticed -at least publicly- since 1996 (tunnelcrack.mathyvanhoef.com)

Tests indicate that every VPN product is vulnerable on at least one device, the researchers say. VPNs for iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, and macOS are extremely likely to be vulnerable, that a majority of VPNs on Windows and Linux are vulnerable, and that Android is the most secure with roughly one-quarter of VPN apps being...

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