What do you think of foldable phones?
Seems like foldable phones are taking over (e.g. Motorola Razr making waves) and only Apple is missing an entry in this form factor now. Almost everyone who can afford one swears by it with the exception of weak build quality....
DivestOS - March 22nd 2023 Update, Tad (SkewedZeppelin) was granted the 2022 'Outstanding New Free Software Contributor' award by the Free Software Foundation, and many more (divestos.org)
Tech proficient users of Beehaw, we need your help
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Death to passwords: Beta passkey support comes to Chrome and Android - But there are still unanswered questions about lock-ins (arstechnica.com)
Big Tech wants to kill the password, with “Passkeys” being the hot, new password replacement standard on the block. Passkeys are backed by Google, Apple, Microsoft, and the FIDO Alliance, so expect to see them everywhere soon. iOS picked up the standard in version 16, and now Google is launching passkey betas on Chrome and...
GlucoCheck - Sensor breakthrough brings us closer to blood glucose monitoring on wearables (www.digitaltrends.com)
Blood glucose monitoring is touted to be the next big breakthrough for wearable devices like the Apple Watch. However, the hardware is yet to be seen on a commercially available, mass-market device. That might change soon....
Is Firefox OK? Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining but still crucial to future of the web. (arstechnica.com)
Eric Migicovsky is a generous man
8 months ago I prepaid an entire year subscription in order to skip the wait list for the Beeper beta testing group....
Happy 50th birthday to the UPC barcode – no one expected you would revolutionize global commerce (theconversation.com)
The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio, in the U…S....
Data breach exposes US spyware maker behind Windows, Mac, Android and Chromebook malware (techcrunch.com)
Archived version...
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
At the Olympics, AI is watching you (arstechnica.com)
Given the shutdown/attack today, which targeted stations far from the capital, this, ah… did not go well....
Google says it never collected users’ personal information / Asks for summary judgement (www.courthousenews.com)
At issue in the case is the Web and App Activity toggle in Android device’s settings. Turning the toggle off prevents future web and app activity being saved to a user’s Google account....
A new tool for copyright holders can show if their work is in AI training data (www.technologyreview.com)
Since the beginning of the generative AI boom, content creators have argued that their work has been scraped into AI models without their consent. But until now, it has been difficult to know whether specific text has actually been used in a training data set....
Sam Altman urges formation of US-led AI freedom coalition • The Register (www.theregister.com)
This guy! 😮💨
Idea: hardware manufacturers should publish RSS feeds for firmware updates
To deal with all this Intel CPU disaster, I’ve been having to manually check MSI’s website for mobo updates. It occurred to me that keeping BIOSes and other drivers that aren’t delivered through your OS’s update manager of choice is such a pain, and it’s common knowledge that a lot of critical BIOS updates just don’t...
Watch out for sharks: The bizarre history of internet outages (www.bbc.com)
"Runway", an AI Video Generator, Was Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission (www.404media.co)
Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs (beehaw.org)
[Gamers Nexus] AMD Delays Ryzen 9000: “Did Not Meet Quality Expectations” (www.youtube.com)
Looks like AMD saw Intel and is trying to capitalize and learn from Intel’s mistake by delaying until they can guarantee a stable launch...
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now, Thanks to AI Deal (www.404media.co)
Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet (www.howtogeek.com)
U.S. sanctions two members of a Russian government-aligned hacktivist group who breached water facilities (home.treasury.gov)
The two sanctioned persons are Yuliya Vladimirovna Pankratova and Denis Olegovich Degtyarenko, both key members of the Russia-aligned hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn (CARR), according to a US Treasury press release....
Google's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins say • The Register (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/15908451...
[Gamers Nexus] Intel's Biggest Failure in Years: Confirmed Oxidation & Excessive Voltage (www.youtube.com)
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