Australia to amend law to regulate digital payments like Apple, Google Pay (www.reuters.com)
Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company (www.businessinsider.com)
DOS_deck offers free, all-timer DOS games in a browser, with controller support (arstechnica.com)
NASA Sent A Laser Message Beamed Over 10 Million Miles; Achieves Historic Milestone (samrome58.substack.com)
The technology behind ChatGPT is evolving insanely fast (www.axios.com)
It's been only a year since OpenAI released ChatGPT, but the technology has evolved at such a rapid pace that the original now seems almost quaint....
Heat-pump water heaters are a winner for the climate — and your wallet (www.canarymedia.com)
Marginalia Search - browse:random (search.marginalia.nu)
Browse random websites found using alternative search engine marginalia.nu - personally gave me a pleasant flashback to stumbleupon. The search engine itself is fully open source and improving all the time.
AWS turns Amazon's Fire TV Cube into a thin client (www.theregister.com)
Firefox Monitor question (monitor.firefox.com)
poking around mozilla/firefox account. What does ‘resolved’ mean? It asked if I wanted to resolve using an alias firefox.com email address. okay. not even sure what that meant. …mozilla.org/…/resolve-breaches-firefox-monitor
Big brands keep dropping X over antisemitism; $75M loss, report estimates (arstechnica.com)
Big brands keep dropping X over antisemitism; $75M loss, report estimates::Creators worried advertisers dropping X could hurt revenue-sharing payouts.
Telstra: Telecommunications company fined $300k for customer safety and privacy breaches (www.9news.com.au)
What part of ‘get rid of my data’ don’t companies get? (www.fastcompany.com)
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Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected (arstechnica.com)
Court: Cloudflare is Liable for Pirate Site, But Not as a DNS Provider (torrentfreak.com)
An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python (spectrum.ieee.org)
An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python::The students also learn how to design board games and video games
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files (www.theregister.com)
UPDATED Google Drive users are reporting files mysteriously disappearing from the service, with some netizens on the goliath’s support forums claiming six or more months of work have unceremoniously vanished....
Adobe Stock is Selling AI-Generated Images of the Israel-Hamas Conflict (petapixel.com)
Do we really need fake images of the war?
AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms (www.cam.ac.uk)
AI system self-organises to develop features of brains of complex organisms::As neural systems such as the brain organise themselves and make connections, they have to balance competing demands. For example, energy and resources are
Commercial Flights Are Experiencing 'Unthinkable' GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do (www.vice.com)
Commercial Flights Are Experiencing ‘Unthinkable’ GPS Attacks and Nobody Knows What to Do::New “spoofing” attacks resulting in total navigation failure have been occurring above the Middle East for months, which is “highly significant” for airline safety.
A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month (fortune.com)
A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month::Founder Rubén Cruz said AI model Aitana was so convincing that a famous Latin actor asked her on a date.
After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine (www.theverge.com)
After 151 years, Popular Science will no longer offer a magazine::Popular Science is doing away with its magazine format as the publication looks to “evolve beyond the digital magazine product.”
Portugal Runs on 100% Renewables Dropping Consumer Electric Bills to Nearly Zero for 6 Days in a Row (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Portugal Runs on 100% Renewables Dropping Consumer Electric Bills to Nearly Zero for 6 Days in a Row::In total, there were 149 hours of total renewables generation, 95 of which saw the Portuguese grid exporting to Spain