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Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech (www.notebookcheck.net)

Reddit changes have blocked all search engines except Google amid AI 'misuse' [U] (9to5google.com)

There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent (www.theverge.com)

ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In. (themarkup.org)

Elon Musk’s X under pressure from regulators over data harvesting for Grok AI by default setting | Social media platform uses pre-ticked boxes of consent, a practice that violates UK and EU GDPR rules (www.theguardian.com)

Elon Musk’s X platform is under pressure from data regulators after it emerged that users are consenting to their posts being used to build artificial intelligence systems via a default setting on the app....

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.

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....

US claims TikTok collected user views on issues like abortion, gun control. (www.voanews.com)

Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal (www.404media.co)

Google and Brave The Only Search Engines Able To Index Reddit (www.webpronews.com)

at least we have competitions

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)

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...

Seawater, caffeine, cans: MIT has the recipe for on-demand hydrogen. (en.futuroprossimo.it)

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. >.>

The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (jordaneldredge.com)

Very interesting article!

Apple agrees to stick by Biden administration's voluntary AI safeguards (www.engadget.com)

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