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Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data (arstechnica.com)

Beeper Mini, days after launch, seems to be broken with iMessage not sending or receiving (9to5google.com)

Your car is probably harvesting your data. Here's how you can wipe it (therecord.media)

Your car is probably harvesting your data. Here’s how you can wipe it::undefined

YouTube Premium's price is going up in yet another country (www.androidauthority.com)

Polish manufacturer accused of programming failures into its trains to gain more servicing business | Notes From Poland (notesfrompoland.com)

Microsoft Will Charge for Windows 10 Security Updates in 2025 (gizmodo.com)

YouTubers can now pause comments after Google moderation tweaks (www.theverge.com)

Does archive.today break when using private DNS (quad9)?

Today, I enabled quad9 dns for my home network, and archive.today now requires a captcha, which results in an infinite loop....

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to receive Serbian passport, president says (abcnews.go.com)

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to receive Serbian passport, president says::Serbia’s president says Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak will be getting a Serbian passport

Judge Allows Major ‘Right To Repair’ Lawsuit Against John Deere To Move Forward (www.techdirt.com)

Judge Allows Major ‘Right To Repair’ Lawsuit Against John Deere To Move Forward::Last year agricultural equipment giant John Deere found itself on the receiving end of an antitrust lawsuit for its efforts to monopolize tractor repair. The lawsuits noted that the company consistently purchased competing repair centers in...

Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications: US senator | World DNA (www.youtube.com)

Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Well that didn’t take long…...

Europe reaches deal on world's first comprehensive AI rules (apnews.com)

iMessage will reportedly dodge EU regulations, won’t have to open up (arstechnica.com)

GM’s hydrogen ‘power cubes’ will be used in cement mixers and terminal tractors (www.theverge.com)

PlayStation keeps reminding us why digital ownership sucks (www.theverge.com)

How do I permanently change the name of a Bluetooth device across all devices?

Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them (www.cnn.com)

The fight to clean up the toxic legacy of semiconductors (www.theverge.com)

Celebrate Your First Anniversary with ChatGPT: A Year of AI Developments and Revolutionising the AI for Work Landscape

In the rapidly evolving world of technology, the year 2023 marks a significant milestone for artificial intelligence enthusiasts. As we celebrate the first anniversary of ChatGPT, the revolutionary AI language model developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, it’s time to reflect on the remarkable strides made in ai for...

Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables (www.tomshardware.com)

Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.

Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos (arstechnica.com)

Apple just discreetly launched a raft of new machine learning tools, and they’re free (www.itpro.com)

Apple just discreetly launched a raft of new machine learning tools, and they’re free::The Apple MLX machine learning framework has been developed by the tech giant’s ML research division and enables users to build AI using its in-house silicon.

The History and Future of Digital Ownership (www.theverge.com)

I’d like to get the community’s feedback on this. I find it very disturbing that digital content purchased on a platform does not rightfully belong to the purchaser and that the content can be completely removed by the platform owners. Based on my understanding, when we purchase a show or movie or game digitally, what...