Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 (www.theverge.com)
Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors (www.cityam.com)
Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors::A Bill Gates-backed clean energy player is hoping to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the UK and will compete with global rivals.
GM confirms $130,000 Cadillac Escalade IQ won’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto | GM said it was going to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all vehicles, and now, that includes Cadillac’s l... (www.theverge.com)
GM confirms $130,000 Cadillac Escalade IQ won’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto | GM said it was going to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all vehicles, and now, that includes Cadillac’s l…::Cadillac confirms its new Google built-in infotainment leaves no room for Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. Instead, Google...
“We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD” - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI (www.rollingstone.com)
Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along
Saudi Arabia passes law requiring USB-C charges for smartphones (appleinsider.com)
Saudi Arabia passes law requiring USB-C charges for smartphones::From 2025, Apple’s iPhone and all Android smartphones sold in Saudi Arabia will have to have a USB-C charging port, with laptops to follow in 2026.
Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works (www.cnn.com)
Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works::Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development.
Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2 (www.ispreview.co.uk)
Detroit police changing facial-recognition policy after pregnant woman says she was wrongly charged (apnews.com)
Detroit police changing facial-recognition policy after pregnant woman says she was wrongly charged::undefined
Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It (www.techdirt.com)
California deploys AI to detect wildfires before they start spreading (www.engadget.com)
California deploys AI to detect wildfires before they start spreading::AI and climate change represent two ways humans may ravage life as we know it on Earth, but the former can also help with the consequences of the latter.
People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently (mashable.com)
Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It (www.techdirt.com)
Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It::Pretty much every time Verizon wanders outside of its core competencies (operating telecom networks, lobbying to hamstring competition, undermining the most basic of regulatory oversight), the telco amusingly falls flat on its...
The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool (www.techdirt.com)
I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out…
Samsung Announces 256TB SSDs and Unveils Peta-Byte Scale PBSSDs (www.tomshardware.com)
The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids” (www.eff.org)
Kentucky's largest school district had to cancel class for two days so it could overhaul a 'disastrous' new bus system that left kids on buses until 10 p.m. (www.businessinsider.com)
Make Thunderbird Yours: How To Get The Thunderbird 115 "Supernova" Look (blog.thunderbird.net)
NSA director says China trails US cyber skills (www.theregister.com)
NSA director says China trails US cyber skills::Paul Nakasone rates the Middle Kingdom a ‘pacing challenge’
The NovaCustom NV41 Series laptop is Qubes-certified (www.qubes-os.org)
Lina Khan: The most feared person in Silicon Valley is a 34-year-old in DC (finance.yahoo.com)
Lina Khan is a key architect of an aggressive attempt by Washington to rein in tech giants. Amazon may be next....
Japan to convert cargo planes into missile carriers — US-inspired palletized munition system turns cargo planes into deadly delivery vehicles for counterstrikes on China and North Korea (asiatimes.com)
Japan to convert cargo planes into missile carriers — US-inspired palletized munition system turns cargo planes into deadly delivery vehicles for counterstrikes on China and North Korea::Japan plans to turn transport aircraft into ad-hoc missile carriers operating from austere and remote airstrips and using a system with...
Current state of text to speech conversion (www.stoicsimple.com)
Fiction writers fear the rise of AI, but also see it as a story to tell (apnews.com)
For many book writers, AI is a threat to their livelihood and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 of them endorsed an open letter from the Authors Guild this summer urging AI companies not to use copyrighted work without permission or compensation.
Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X (www.japantimes.co.jp)
A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.
