The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)
Very interesting article!
There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent (www.theverge.com)
ISPs seeking government handouts try to avoid offering low-cost broadband (arstechnica.com)
Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware (www.ghacks.net)
The Linux Mint team has just released Linux Mint 22, a new major version of the free Linux distribution. With Windows 10’s end of support coming up quickly next year, at least some users may consider making the switch to Linux....
There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent (www.theverge.com)
Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech (www.notebookcheck.net)
How to know if university has access to my computer and phone?
I use the uni account for office, but read online that they can access other files and your device. How does that actually work? How to verify?...
Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech (www.notebookcheck.net)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/3524209...
YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)
YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.
Apple agrees to stick by Biden administration's voluntary AI safeguards (www.engadget.com)
Sonos CEO apologizes for disastrous rollout of new app (www.theverge.com)
I mean, he’s not wrong that the app wasn’t ready. Which begs the question why they didn’t un-roll-it-out. >.>
Data from deleted GitHub repos may not really be deleted (www.theregister.com)
Researchers at Truffle Security have found, or arguably rediscovered, that data from deleted GitHub repositories (public or private) and from deleted copies (forks) of repositories isn’t necessarily deleted....
Sudan’s plea to Elon Musk’s Starlink: Please don’t shut off our internet. (www.analystnews.org)
Automakers Sold Driver Data for Pennies, Senators Say | Ron Wyden and Edward Markey urged the F.T.C. to investigate how car companies handled the data from millions of car owners. (www.nytimes.com)
Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)
Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers (arstechnica.com)
77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds (www.forbes.com)
The new global study, in partnership with The Upwork Research Institute, interviewed 2,500 global C-suite executives, full-time employees and freelancers. Results show that the optimistic expectations about AI’s impact are not aligning with the reality faced by many employees. The study identifies a disconnect between the high...
Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18426215
ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In. (themarkup.org)
US claims TikTok collected user views on issues like abortion, gun control. (www.voanews.com)
CrowdStrike to vendors: Sorry for the global tech outage. Here’s a $10 Uber Eats voucher (www.cnn.com)
A neurological disease stole Rep. Jennifer Wexton's voice. AI helped her get it back. (www.npr.org)
Google Begins Testing 50 Gig Fiber Internet (www.howtogeek.com)
Researchers from Nokia and GFiber Labs (the experimental arm of Google Fiber) successfully achieved 41.89 Gbps download speeds on a live Google Fiber network. This marks the first time that Nokia’s 50G PON (passive optical network) technology has been used on a Google-owned network, and its one of the only examples of live 50...
Hijacked journals are still a threat — here’s what publishers can do about them (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from: rss.ponder.cat/post/2082