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Test of a prototype quantum Internet runs underneath New York City for half a month (phys.org)

But how is the latency for online gaming? It’d be awesome if it’s near instantaneous, or limited only by the net code....

Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week (www.theverge.com)

Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency (www.wired.com)

Back In mid-January, Mara Kronenfeld was googling the name of the nonprofit she runs, which raises money in the US on behalf of the leading humanitarian aid provider in Gaza. Atop the search results for her organization—UNRWA USA, partner to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)—she...

African farmers are using private satellite data to improve crop yields (www.technologyreview.com)

A number of farmers are turning to space-based monitoring to get a better picture of what their crops need.

France says Telegram CEO has been freed, will appear in court (www.voanews.com)

Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models (arstechnica.com)

Google’s AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)

Apple splits App Store team in two, introduces new leadership (arstechnica.com)

Treating developers well still won’t be a priority.

Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)

Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth (www.wired.com)

A decade old longread from Wired that also shines a light on how trivial it was to bypass mechanisms of some online services back in the day....

Microsoft pushes windows 11 ads into windows 10 (www.xda-developers.com)

Startpage.com is not a default option for Apple users (www.startpage.com)

Has anyone figured out how to add a search engine option to the list Apple offers?...

It’s time to retire the term “user” (archive.today)

because we shouldn't be humanizing AI while depersonalizing the actual people who use stuff, according to MIT Technology Review.

Now you'll be able to purchase sunlight at night! (mashable.com)

Green Hydrogen To Be Featured In World’s First Nationwide “Hydrogen Valley” (cleantechnica.com)

The Baltic nation of Estonia has launched an ambitious 100% renewable energy goal for 2030. As part of that goal, energy industry stakeholders plan to showcase the entire country as the world’s first nationwide, integrated “hydrogen valley” hub, with a focus on green hydrogen.

European iPhones are more fun now (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon (www.neowin.net)

Google Wallet now works for California driver’s licenses (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel | Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated (arstechnica.com)

Last week, Microsoft mentioned in a support document that it was formally deprecating Windows’ 39-year-old Control Panel applets. But following widespread reporting of the change, Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated in favor of the Settings app....

In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past (futurism.com)

That article made me realize how insane Image Generators already are. (www.theverge.com)

Really good article I read today. I was already impressed by the first hype of image generators but since haven’t informed myself much. They got really good lately apparently. I can’t decide if I am concerned or impressed. Do you think this would actually be used for something other than memes and misinformation? I thought I...

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