Google denies reports that it’s discontinuing Fitbit products (arstechnica.com)
Intel chip bug FAQ: Which PCs are affected, how to get the patch, and everything else you need to know (www.zdnet.com)
Bypass Paywalls Clean Shut Down For DMCA Anti-Circumvention Violations (torrentfreak.com)
FYI, the repo is not DMCAd yet, only the download URL which moved to gitflic.
Hackers Exploit PHP Vulnerability to Deploy Stealthy Msupedge Backdoor (thehackernews.com)
All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address. (msrc.microsoft.com)
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This Is the Most Detailed Map of Human Brain Connections Ever Made (www.wired.com)
In 2014, a woman undergoing surgery for epilepsy had a tiny chunk of her cerebral cortex removed. This cubic millimeter of tissue has allowed Harvard and Google researchers to produce the most detailed wiring diagram of the human brain that the world has ever seen....
ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? (www.thewrap.com)
X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders (www.cnbc.com)
Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO (9to5mac.com)
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has hinted that in future some subreddits could be paywalled, as the company seeks to devise new sources of income....
Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (arstechnica.com)
Edge-Lit, Thin LCD TVs Are Having Early Heat Death Issues (hackaday.com)
US tech giants fight Indian telcos' bid to regulate internet services, pay for network usage | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Disenshittify or Die (pluralistic.net)
Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines (arstechnica.com)
North Carolina is getting a $1.4B sodium-ion battery gigafactory (electrek.co)
Google pulls the plug on the Play Security Reward Program (www.notebookcheck.net)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/40109300
Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit (arstechnica.com)
Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app (arstechnica.com)
AI Calculator Can Predict Your Death With 78% Accuracy: Would You Try It Out? (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A newly developed AI tool, Life2vec, claims to predict your death with 78% accuracy by analysing comprehensive life data, raising both intrigue and ethical concerns.
Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes (techcrunch.com)
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption,...
New Cobalt-Free Silicon EV Battery Is The Best Thing Ever (cleantechnica.com)
“This breakthrough development translates into a remarkable improvement in cell-core energy density, reaching 2,000Wh/L in batteries and approximately 1,700Wh/L in full-size EV batteries – more than double the performance of current state-of-the-art technologies,”...
ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy (arstechnica.com)
It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.
Bronze Age technology could aid switch to clean energy (sustainability.stanford.edu)
NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation (arstechnica.com)
Pakistan blames users for slow internet as firewall rumours grow (www.bbc.com)
