In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air (www.nytimes.com)
US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft (www.space.com)
US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft::The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory just awarded $33.7 million to Lockheed Martin to advance the development of space nuclear propulsion and power tech.
[Mental Outlaw] Apple May Soon Allow Sideloading Apps on iOS (odysee.com)
First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled (arstechnica.com)
First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled::NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.
Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December (www.androidpolice.com)
Free returns disappearing from retailers | The era of free returns — an essential part of the rise of online shopping — is ending (www.axios.com)
Apple privately asked Amazon to block rival ads. Insider found evidence of this special treatment, while others suffer from 'junk ads' (www.businessinsider.com)
Apple privately asked Amazon to block rival ads. Insider found evidence of this special treatment, while others suffer from ‘junk ads’::An internal Amazon email shows that Apple asked the e-commerce giant for special treatment that most other brands don’t get.
Tensor Trust (tensortrust.ai)
Tensor Trust is an online game that allows players to exploit prompt injection vulnerabilities in ChatGPT against other player’s preset defense instructions of user input context and valuation, for research purposes
Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says (arstechnica.com)
Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says::Apple deterred US citizens from positions open to foreign workers, DOJ found.
Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant (www.theregister.com)
Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant::Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant
Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking (www.theregister.com)
Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome’s upcoming IP address cloaking::Marketers tell antitrust cops privacy proxy will make it harder to protect kids online, etc etc
Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland (www.theregister.com)
Meta, YouTube face criminal spying complaints in Ireland::Tracking code and ad-block blocking breaks Euro computer law, privacy advocate claims
SAG-AFTRA reveals terms of ‘groundbreaking’ deal (www.cnn.com)
SAG-AFTRA reveals terms of ‘groundbreaking’ deal::Actors union SAG-AFTRA revealed specifics of its deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in a press conference Friday.
Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM (9to5google.com)
The Chrome team says they’re not going to pursue Web Integrity but…...
Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about (www.youtube.com)
Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them (www.washingtonpost.com)
Now that cars are like smartphones, we don’t really own them::undefined
Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist (www.404media.co)
Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist::The ‘Brand Safety’ and ‘Suitability’ industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its ‘sentiment analysis’ algorithms think will make people sad or upset.
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Steam Deck OLED announced (www.steamdeck.com)
New OLED screen. New APU. And lots of small hardware improvements.
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime (www.technologyreview.com)
Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone—only in 1997....
Omegle shuts down for good (www.omegle.com)
Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence (www.freethink.com)
It could be the key to making tomorrow’s smart tech sustainable.
Apple Is Taking Extra Care With ‘Ambitious’ iOS 18 Update (www.bloomberg.com)
Apple Is Taking Extra Care With ‘Ambitious’ iOS 18 Update::Apple’s recent software development delay underscores the need to get ambitious 2024 updates right. Also: Initial thoughts on Apple’s latest MacBook Pros and iMac, and what an M3 Ultra chip could look like.
Raising awareness of Ransomware Part 2 - Prevention (medium.com)
Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore (www.wsj.com)
Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore::New tools can create fake videos and clone the voices of those closest to us. ‘This is how authoritarianism arises.’
