Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech (www.notebookcheck.net)
There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent (www.theverge.com)
There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent (www.theverge.com)
ISPs seeking government handouts try to avoid offering low-cost broadband (arstechnica.com)
Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say | Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners. (www.nytimes.com)
Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source software and disclose the source code of software developed by or for the public sector unless third-party rights or security concerns apply (www.tomshardware.com)
Switzerland has recently enacted a law requiring its government to use open-source software (OSS) and disclose the source code of any software developed by or for the public sector. According to ZDNet, this “public body, public code” approach makes government operations more transparent while increasing security and...
Data from deleted GitHub repos may not really be deleted (www.theregister.com)
Researchers at Truffle Security have found, or arguably rediscovered, that data from deleted GitHub repositories (public or private) and from deleted copies (forks) of repositories isn’t necessarily deleted....
WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly (www.computerweekly.com)
Police could lawfully use bulk surveillance techniques to access messages from encrypted communications platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal, following a ruling by the UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), a court has heard.
Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18426215
How does a car cigarette lighter work? (www.lumafield.com)
This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.
Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)
Google Begins Testing 50 Gig Fiber Internet (www.howtogeek.com)
Researchers from Nokia and GFiber Labs (the experimental arm of Google Fiber) successfully achieved 41.89 Gbps download speeds on a live Google Fiber network. This marks the first time that Nokia’s 50G PON (passive optical network) technology has been used on a Google-owned network, and its one of the only examples of live 50...
Deleted GitHub data is forever accessible to anyone, researchers claim | Cybernews (cybernews.com)
“The implication here is that any code committed to a public repository may be accessible forever as long as there is at least one fork of that repository,” the report’s authors claim....
Seawater, caffeine, cans: MIT has the recipe for on-demand hydrogen. (en.futuroprossimo.it)
Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal (www.404media.co)
Google is now the only search engine that can surface results from Reddit, making one of the web’s most valuable repositories of user generated content exclusive to the internet’s already dominant search engine....
The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app (www.theverge.com)
I mean, he’s not wrong that the app wasn’t ready. Which begs the question why they didn’t un-roll-it-out. >.>
Apple agrees to stick by Biden administration's voluntary AI safeguards (www.engadget.com)
AI models face collapse if they overdose on their own output (www.theregister.com)
Source Nature research paper
Hijacked journals are still a threat — here’s what publishers can do about them (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from: rss.ponder.cat/post/2082
Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook. (themarkup.org)
OopsGPT - OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong. (www.theatlantic.com)
How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)
World of Warcraft developers form Blizzard’s largest, most inclusive union | 500+ employees have organized across multiple departments, creating the first wall-to-wall union of its kind at the studio (www.theverge.com)
More than 500 developers at Blizzard Entertainment who work on World of Warcraft have voted to form a union. The World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild, formed with the assistance of the Communication Workers of America (CWA), is composed of employees across every department, including designers, engineers, artists, producers, and...
A neurological disease stole Rep. Jennifer Wexton's voice. AI helped her get it back. (www.npr.org)
