Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (www.wired.com)
Worst PC hardware trends that disappeared (www.xda-developers.com)
Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good | Kagi Blog (blog.kagi.com)
Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits (gizmodo.com)
PS5 Pro Leak Reveals Alleged Name and Design of the Console, so judging by this ps6 will release on 2028 (www.ign.com)
This month in Servo: console logging, parallel tables, OpenXR, and more! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine (servo.org)
I’m just posting an update on the Servo project, a Web Engine written in memory-safe and secure Web Engine, that Mozilla ditched when it laid off 25% of the workforce (including the Rust and Servo developers) in 2020, and raised CEO Mitchell Baker’s salary from $2.4M in 2018 to $6.9M in 2022....
Intel’s Troubles Complicate U.S. Chip Independence (spectrum.ieee.org)
Will more funding be needed to keep Intel competitive?...
US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 (www.neowin.net)
Let’s put it this way; when Microsoft announced its plans to start adding features to Windows 10 once again, despite the operating system’s inevitable demise in October 2025, everyone expected slightly different things to see ported over from Windows 11. Sadly, the latest addition to Windows 10 is one of the most annoying...
Google Gemini might soon handle your WhatsApp calls, notifications, and more (APK teardown) (www.androidauthority.com)
Google is on a determined mission to make Gemini an indispensable part of our daily routines. With deeper integrations into popular apps like Spotify and the Pixel 9 series shipping with Gemini as the default assistant, it’s clear that Google has ambitious plans for its AI model....
When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself | As A.I.-generated data becomes harder to detect, it’s increasingly likely to be ingested by future A.I., leading to worse results. (www.nytimes.com)
Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites (www.theverge.com)
EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone (www.theguardian.com)
LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English (arstechnica.com)
Rumble boss ‘departed’ from Europe after Telegram CEO arrest (cointelegraph.com)
The founder and CEO of Rumble — a YouTube alternative billing itself as “immune to cancel culture” — said he has “departed” from Europe after Pavel Durov, the CEO of encrypted messaging app Telegram, was arrested....
Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (www.wsj.com)
Apple AAPL 1.46%increase; green up pointing triangle and Nvidia NVDA -6.38%decrease; red down pointing triangle are in talks to invest in OpenAI, a move that would strengthen their ties to a partner integral to their efforts in the artificial-intelligence race.
When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? (restofworld.org)
FAA grounds SpaceX after rocket falls over in flames. (www.voanews.com)
Smartwatch insults Chinese as authorities struggle to tame AI. (www.voanews.com)
Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates. (restofworld.org)
Vivobarefoot SEO Keyword Analysis Report (uniped.ai)
Main Product Types Based on keyword data, the main product types include:...
The Uruguayan company teaching people how to turn regular cars into EVs. (restofworld.org)
Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades (www.engadget.com)
“Intersectional hallucinations”: The AI flaw that could lead to dangerous misinformation (www.psypost.org)
End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell (www.anandtech.com)
This is sad news. End of an era. One of the best technical review sites of its time.
