Privately built lunar lander makes history with successful moon touchdown (www.nbcnews.com)
Conservative government would require ID to watch porn: Poilievre (toronto.citynews.ca)
Conservative government would require ID to watch porn: Poilievre::OTTAWA — A future Conservative government would change the law to require that porn websites verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the content, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre signalled on Wednesday. When asked whether his government would...
[US] [EFF] NSA Spying Shirts Are Back Just In Time to Tell Congress to Reform Section 702 (www.eff.org)
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging people to take action against the renewal of Section 702, a law that allows the NSA to conduct mass surveillance on US citizens....
Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget (www.theverge.com)
Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra (www.theverge.com)
Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra::Amazon Prime Video has removed Dolby Vision HDR, and Atmos surround sound, unless you pay an extra $2.99 a month for its new ad-free option. The company has confirmed the move.
AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)
an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded....
Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear (www.theregister.com)
Americans wake to widespread cellular outages, cause unclear::undefined
AI Breakthrough Predicts and Prevents Plasma Disruptions in Fusion Reactors, Scientists Claims (www.vice.com)
Scientists at Princeton University have developed an AI model that can predict and prevent plasma instabilities, a major hurdle in achieving practical fusion energy....
Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data (www.theverge.com)
White House to weaken climate-fighting fuel efficiency targets for 2030 (arstechnica.com)
White House to weaken climate-fighting fuel efficiency targets for 2030::The plan faced opposition from OEMs, car dealers, and the United Auto Workers.
Firefox 123 is out with broken site reporting tool (www.ghacks.net)
3D Physically Based Rendering with Flutter - Slides from Singapore Flutter meetup (docs.google.com)
I gave a talk about my flutter_filament package, which integrates the Filament PBR renderer so you can display 3D content in Flutter applications....
It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)
Google pauses Image Generation in Gemini (newshint.in)
Chat Control May Finally Be Dead: European Court Rules That Weakening Encryption Is Illegal (tuta.com)
The EU Court ruled that “Backdoors may also be exploited by criminal networks and would seriously compromise the security of all users’ electronic communications. The Court takes note of the dangers of restricting encryption described by many experts in the field.” Any requirement to build in backdoors to encryption...
Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)
First RCS now this, today has been wild
Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women (www.theregister.com)
Dell RTO mandate said to be a stealth layoff, for women::Employees feel frustrated by lack of communication and bosses’ inability to tell them which offices are open
GPU's rival? What is Language Processing Unit (LPU) (www.turingpost.com)
Stable Diffusion 3 — Stability AI (stability.ai)
X, Formerly Twitter, Claims Indian Govt Issued 'Executive Orders' To Act On Some Posts (www.outlookindia.com)
From what I’ve observed, many accounts which were critiqued to the current Modi govt have been withheld in the country. Accounts of farmer leaders were also suspended amid the ongoing farmers protest in the country. It’s worth noting that India will see the general elections this year around May.
Cancer therapy approved by FDA uses body’s own cells as a ‘living drug’ (www.washingtonpost.com)
Cancer therapy approved by FDA uses body’s own cells as a ‘living drug’::undefined
'Significant errors' plague FCC's broadband map, says ISP alliance (www.lightreading.com)
A Peek at Intel’s Future Foundry Tech (spectrum.ieee.org)
India’s government is forcing X to censor accounts via executive order amid the farmers’ protest (www.engadget.com)
TikTok, Facebook and YouTube sued by New York City for alleged harm to kids’ mental health (www.nbcnews.com)
TikTok, Facebook and YouTube sued by New York City for alleged harm to kids’ mental health ::New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday that his administration has filed a lawsuit against the parent companies of TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube, alleging that their services are damaging to the mental health...
