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)
Google turns 25: From garage startup to global giant (www.zdnet.com)
Introducing Code Llama, a state-of-the-art large language model for coding (ai.meta.com)
cross-posted from !aistuff
Recommendations re writing tablets e.g. reMarkable
I want to get back into creative writing, and for work I prefer to take handwritten notes (I have my own weird shorthand and it helps with retention). I’d also like the ability to write at night and not disturb my partner....
4 Big Positive Changes coming to Google Search – including removing Private Info and Images from Search (beehaw.org)
Google has announced several key changes to make its search platform safer for users by giving more control to South Africans (and other countries) over what personal information appears in results....
Microsoft employees will keep free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate after complaints (www.theverge.com)
Google Censors Freedom: the hard truth (monero.town)
Google is among the most pervasive and corrupt tools of the empire to suppress freedom and promote endless war and money printing for Wall Street. As Julian Assange points out, Google gets lucrative military cloud contracts, then turns around puts the regime’s pro-war propaganda on the front page. This article’s data on the...
Stanford University just schooled Congress on AI (wapo.st)
The elite Silicon Valley university coaches Hill staffers on the benefits of artificial intelligence...
AI for identifying social norm violation (www.nature.com)
Prof. Yair Neuman and the engineer Yochai Cohen at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have designed an AI system that identifies social norm violations. They trained a system to identify ten social emotions: competence, politeness, trust, discipline, caring, agreeableness, success, conformity, decency, and loyalty....
Optus network outage affects millions of Australians (www.reuters.com)
Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop - Jeff Geerling (www.jeffgeerling.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/330591...
Apple exec defends the decision to make Google its default search engine on iPhones and Macs (apnews.com)
Can you guess the top 5 countries by IPv6 usage?
spoilerhttps://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/3557298b-25d2-4333-b678-cb0951139863.webp...
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio. (www.androidauthority.com)
The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will have built-in Thread radio, so they can directly communicate with smart home devices. Old iPhones could probably be used as a smart home hub....
"Test for Ricardo" Notification?
Any other Motorola phone users get this notification pop-up? I found a post on the forum that shall not be named and it seems like a worldwide Motorola glitch but no official word yet....
New Emulator Lets Some x86-64 Games Run on RISC-V Dev Board (www.tomshardware.com)
Amazoned! Online Vendors Abused and Screwed Over (particl.news)
Amazon is known for its anti-competition practices. While they aggressively charge you for every sale you make, they also get to see all of your sales data; valuable information to have if you want to launch products. Even better if you plan on launching copycats! In more than one way, just by selling on their platform, they get...
Suit against tech giant Cisco shines light on U.S. complicity in Chinese torture (www.news-journal.com)
After a 12-year legal battle, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a lawsuit accusing technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. and two former executives of assisting the Chinese government in identifying and targeting Falun Gong practitioners for arrests, torture, and execution could proceed to trial. The ruling could...
Statc Stealer: Windows malware stealing information from web browsers and apps, including login data, cookies, web data, and preferences, stealing cryptocurrency wallets, credentials, passwords, etc. (www.zscaler.com)
Summary...
At what level do ISPs control ports?
I’m aware most ISPs do not allow for port 25 to be open for email use outside of business licenses, but at what level is that controlled? Can I get around that by owning my own router? Owning my own modem or ONT? Or is this just a thing they mystically control further up the pipeline that a relative layman such as myself...
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...
Josh Simmons is now Managing Director of the Matrix.org Foundation! (matrix.org)
Previously held positions on the Open Source Initiative board.
Just got a Samsung phone after years and years on a moto/droid. What apps should I get to up the qol?
New motos are just too big for my baby hands so I got myself an s23 for a steal, but I’m finding that I miss some of the functionality that I used to have, and that some features are just annoying on this phone....