Anna's Archive Loses .GS Domain Name But Remains Resilient. (torrentfreak.com)
Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it....
Microsoft resolves cloud outage that caused some US airlines to ground flights (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Trump Bitcoin Conference fundraiser tickets top out at $844,600 for Nashville soiree (cbnumy.blogspot.com)
AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare. (theconversation.com)
Dark mode’s bright future: How dark mode will transform Wikipedia’s accessibility (diff.wikimedia.org)
Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Everywhere. This Company Thinks It Has the Secret to Making Them High-End (www.wired.com)
Elon Musk will bring video-only feed to X in bid to take on TikTok and Instagram Reels: sources [Lydia Moynihan | Jun 05 24 | NYPost] (nypost.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16207436...
Google’s shortened links will stop working next year (www.theverge.com)
#killedbygoogle...
NASA's Curiosity Rover Uncovers Trove of Yellow Crystals on Mars (gizmodo.com)
Bangladesh’s internet blackout immobilizes its booming tech industry. (restofworld.org)
Businesses are harvesting our biometric data. We need new protections (thenextweb.com)
These days, our biometric data is valuable to businesses for security purposes, to enhance customer experience or to improve their own efficiency....
Why is Intel failing to Nvidia and AMD? (youtube.com)
Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries (www.tomshardware.com)
In 2023, Google and Microsoft each consumed 24 TWh of electricity, surpassing the consumption of over 100 nations, including places like Iceland, Ghana, and Tunisia, according to an analysis by Michael Thomas. While massive energy usage means a substantial environmental impact for these tech giants, it should be noted that...
The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal (as well as training any kind of AI on copyrighted content) (www.theverge.com)
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a new bill to make it easier to authenticate and detect artificial intelligence-generated content and protect journalists and artists from having their work gobbled up by AI models without their permission....
CrowdStrike Update Causes Global Microsoft Outage Affecting Banks, Airlines And More (www.forbes.com)
A global Microsoft Windows outage, caused by a CrowdStrike software update, has disrupted airlines, banking services, and 911 lines, leading to grounded flights and long queues....
FUTO Keyboard: The Discussion Behind A Cool Product (tedium.co)
A pretty interesting take, and an interesting discussion about what it means to be open source. Is there room for a trusted space between open source and closed corporate software?
Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86 (www.tomshardware.com)
Chinese firm ByteDance, which owns TikTok, has lost its appeal against a European Union decision to designate the company a digital "gatekeeper" (www.dw.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/889819...
Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm (www.techspot.com)
“Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies”
Deutsche Telekom and their interpretation of their security obligations when beeing a public CA (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
looks like:...
Webflow says 2TB of bandwidth is worth $1,250 per month (stackdiary.com)
Webflow got caught with its hand in the cookie jar and wants to settle disputes quietly.