People in San Francisco Are Mad That a New App Lets You Spy on Bars to See How Busy They Are (gizmodo.com)
Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results (www.wired.com)
We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop (nadim.computer)
Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag (techcrunch.com)
AI-powered network of Russia-based websites masquerading as local American newspapers is pumping out fake stories targeting the US election, investigation finds (www.bbc.com)
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World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage (www.ess-news.com)
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Most Precise Atomic Clock Ever Built Will Only Lose a Second Every 30 Billion Years (gizmodo.com)
Sony won't phase out Blu-ray movie and game discs, only ceasing production on consumer BD-R (www.tweaktown.com)
China’s plastics boom set to create another source of trade tensions as the country's petrochemicals sector keeps expanding despite weaker demand (www.straitstimes.com)
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World’s first grid-scale, semi-solid-state energy storage project goes online - Energy Storage (www.ess-news.com)
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Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler (www.tomshardware.com)
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OpenAI seeks NYT source material for copyright defense (stackdiary.com)
OpenAI, which is co-defendant with Microsoft, is seeking an informal discovery conference to compel the Times to produce documents demonstrating the originality and ownership of the copyrighted works in question. According to OpenAI’s court filing, the information is critical to their defense against claims of copyright...
FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days (www.theregister.com)
Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock cellphones from their networks 60 days after activation....
Cloudflare launches a tool to combat AI bots (techcrunch.com)
Cloudflare, the publicly traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models....
384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Bleeding subscribers, cable companies force their way into streaming | Companies like Comcast and Charter brought about the streaming industry they now want to join (arstechnica.com)
The cable industry has been in a nose-dive for years. Comcast’s Q1 2024 earnings report showed its cable business losing 487,000 subscribers. The cable giant ended 2022 with 16,142,000 subscribers; in January, it had 13,600,000....
AI Is Rewriting Meme History (www.wired.com)
Japan's government finally moves on from floppy disks (www.xda-developers.com)
Best Crypto Youtube channels (coinfomania.com)
Crypto YouTube channels are invaluable resources for learning about the assets. They help you learn different aspects of crypto coins, ranging from fundamentals to market insights and technical stuff. The best part is that this educational content is available for free.
Threads hits 175 million users after a year (www.theverge.com)
Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads (www.ghacks.net)
It’s raining ads in Windows 11. The Microsoft Weather app in the operating system now displays more ads....
Russia using Kaliningrad as a base to disrupt EU satellites, report says (www.cybersecurity-help.cz)
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Supreme Court kicks cases about tech companies’ First Amendment rights back to lower courts − but appears poised to block states from hampering online content moderation (theconversation.com)
don't use ladybird browser lol (cyberpunk.lol)
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