UK outlaws awful default passwords on connected devices (arstechnica.com)
This is an obviously good thing.
For 'Cheap' Labour, Google Fires Its Entire Python Team: Report (www.freepressjournal.in)
France willing to buy key Atos assets to keep them French (www.theregister.com)
Updating California’s grid for EVs may cost up to $20 billion (arstechnica.com)
Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? (www.androidauthority.com)
ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts Expire (www.wired.com)
Japanese police create fake support scam payment cards to warn victims (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband (arstechnica.com)
Trade groups claimed the state law is preempted by former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s repeal of net neutrality rules. Pai’s repeal placed ISPs under the more forgiving Title I regulatory framework instead of the common-carrier framework in Title II of the Communications Act. 2nd Circuit judges did...
Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)
[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it’s building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”
Fake job interviews target developers with new Python backdoor (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Promoted on TikTok, ‘No Thanks’ boycott app targets products tied to Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)
A pro-Palestinian app created to help consumers boycott Israeli products has gained traction on TikTok amid calls in Hebrew-language media for Google to ban it....
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
Edward Zitron has been reading all of google’s internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ’s antitrust case against google....
Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse (github.com)
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Cybersecurity researchers spotlight a new ransomware threat – be careful where you upload files (theconversation.com)
Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data (www.techradar.com)
Deloitte confirms PIA’s no-log claims, with servers running on RAM-only system for maximum privacy....
Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas (timesofsandiego.com)
Larian publishing director says "marketing's dead" because players don't want to be "bamboozled," and "we learned that with Baldur's Gate 3" (www.gamesradar.com)
This has some really interesting implications that are not restricted to gaming.