The poster’s guide to the internet of the future (www.theverge.com)
Telecom companies in India want tech firms to pay for network usage (techcrunch.com)
cross-posted from !technology...
Temporary Internet Outage on All U-M Campuses (umich.edu)
On the eve of classes starting for the fall term, the University of Michigan has decided to cut the internet connection of all campuses....
AI-discovered drugs will be for sale sooner than you think (www.vox.com)
Saving Vivaldi Social from doom: A Sysadmin adventure (vivaldi.com)
Who could use a new Mod Bot? (github.com)
I made a simple mod bot for Lemmy....
Easy HTTPS for your private networks (www.getlocalcert.net)
This webpage provides instructions for using the acme-dns DNS challenge method with various ACME clients to obtain HTTPS certificates for private networks. Caddy, Traefik, cert-manager, acme.sh, LEGO and Certify The Web are listed as ACME clients that support acme-dns. For each client, configuration examples are provided that...
Meta in Myanmar, Part I (an investigation into the role Facebook/Meta played in the genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar) (erinkissane.com)
Looria Reviews - Learn how products perform over their lifetime. | User compiled database of inferior consumer goods. (www.looria.com)
Clickworkers in Brazil are turning on each other (restofworld.org)
The Coming War on General Computation [2011] (en.wikisource.org)
Transcription of a talk given by Cory Doctrow in 2011
Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93 (www.nytimes.com)
See also ESP Wiki’s entry on Martin Goetz.
Scammers exploit bitcoin ATMs. Will new California laws help crack down on fraud? (www.latimes.com)
New California law limits cash to crypto at ATM machines at $1000 per day per person and also the fees that can be imposed by the machines....
Firefish *Could* Be the Next Big Thing (wedistribute.org)
italics mine
A New Tool Helps Artists Thwart AI—With a Middle Finger (www.wired.com)
A pedestrian was pinned under a Cruise robotaxi after another car’s hit-and-run (www.engadget.com)
The woman is reportedly in critical condition....
The synthetic social network is coming (www.platformer.news)
Used Items Market Freecycle Suffers Data Breach Impacting 7 Million (restoreprivacy.com)
HP-1973 is a Python simulator app for the retro HP-45 calculator and 5 other HP ROMs, written by Sarah K. Marr (beehaw.org)
The app was written in Python and started out for the HP-45 (ROM is included) but finally included also the HP-35 and the HP-80, as well as three others. For macOS and Windows you could just run the included executables, or with the Python code, this will run fine on Linux if you have Python installed. Nice thing is that you can...
ASUS Signs Agreement to Continue Development and Support of Intel's NUC Business (www.anandtech.com)
Ten years ago, this would have been far more exciting news. However, given the quality issues Asus has been having for several years, this is not the company that should be picking up the baton. I’d have preferred to see ASRock, given their portfolio of NUC-alikes.
Twitter's mayhem year (lemmy.eco.br)
'Power, influence, notoriety': The Gen-Z hackers who struck MGM, Caesars (www.reuters.com)
Chrome to shield encryption keys from promised quantum computers (www.theregister.com)
Devon O’Brien, technical program manager for Chrome security, explained on Thursday that starting in Chrome 116 – due August 15 – Google’s browser will include support for X25519Kyber768, an alphanumeric salad that desperately needs a catchy name....
Next-gen OSDP was supposed to make it harder to break in to secure facilities. It failed. (arstechnica.com)
AI is a "tragedy of the commons." We’ve got solutions for that. (www.vox.com)
"Arms race" is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one.
