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“Netflix effect” is back as studios license old shows to competitors again (arstechnica.com)

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Cloudflare moves BMCs to OCP card in its server motherboards • The Register (www.theregister.com)

Datacenter-ready Secure Control Modules (DC-SCMs) – discrete boards that do the job of the BMC. The Open Compute project delivered a version 1.0 DC-SCM spec [PDF] in 2021 and updated [PDF] to version 2.0 in May 2023.

Qualcomm announces first-ever mass-market RISC-V Android SoC (arstechnica.com)

Before anyone gets too excited, they’re going to use RISC-V for watches and such (Wear OS), but it’s still a big step towards having Android phones use RISC-V and major adoption. Maybe RISC-V is closer than we thought!

Colorado court upholds Google keyword search warrant which led to arrests in fatal arson (apnews.com)

Colorado upheld a warrant’s reverse keyword search for directions to a house. They claim the search warrant, which was overly broad and without individual probable cause, did not violate Google’s millions of US users’ fourth amendment protections, because the court said the police were acting in good faith under what was...

I got tired of reading "This posting has been deleted by its author" (clippings.june07.com)

Clippings is your modern-day archival tool for online classified ads…...

About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off (www.theverge.com)

If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century? (techxplore.com)

The first commercial PV solar product was nah just in 1909....

Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies (www.wired.com)

“The global data collection and labeling market was valued at $2.22 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow to $17.1 billion by 2030, according to consulting firm Grand View Research. As Venezuela slid into an economic catastrophe, many college-educated Venezuelans like Fuentes and her friends joined crowdsourcing platforms...

Volvo’s EX30 with Google built-in passes new EU speed limit warning requirements (www.theverge.com)

AI Could Usher in a New Age of Bioweapons, RAND Report Warns (gizmodo.com)

YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers (www.thestreet.com)

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Apple AirTags stalking led to ruin and murders, lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)

Dozens join lawsuit alleging Apple AirTags are stalkers’ “weapon of choice.”

Amazon, Tripadvisor and other companies team up to battle fake reviews while FTC seeks to ban them (apnews.com)

Elon Musk wants to merge humans with AI. How many brains will be damaged along the way? (www.vox.com)

Intel’s new 14th Gen CPUs arrive on October 17th with up to 6GHz out of the box (www.theverge.com)

4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones (www.gizchina.com)

4.3 Billion People Now Own Smartphones::Find out how smartphone ownership has reached 4.3 billion people worldwide. Dive into the GSMA’s Mobile Internet Connectivity 2023 Report.

Longer Commutes, Shorter Lives: The Costs of Not Investing in America (www.nytimes.com)

This article discusses how a lack of innovation and government investment has led to an increase in commutes since the 1960s because private industry has no incentive to truly innovate, only adapt and sightly improve on existing models.

T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans and tells them it’s not a price hike (arstechnica.com)

T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans and tells them it’s not a price hike::T-Mobile: “We are not raising the price… we are moving you to a newer plan.”

LinkedIn lays off 668 employees in second cut this year (www.reuters.com)

LinkedIn lays off 668 employees in second cut this year::Microsoft’s LinkedIn said on Monday it would lay off 668 employees across its engineering, talent and finance teams in the second round of job cuts this year for the social media network for professionals amid slowing revenue growth.

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