Elon Musk’s $56bn Tesla pay package is too much, judge rules (www.theguardian.com)
Elon Musk’s $56bn Tesla pay package is too much, judge rules::Judge ruled his pay – six times larger than the combined pay of the 200 highest-paid executives in 2021 – was set inappropriately
Shots in the dark: Chicago's $33 million contract with SoundThinking, the company behind ShotSpotter, is up for renewal in February—yet concerns abound. (chicagoreader.com)
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Over 5,300 GitLab servers exposed to zero-click account takeover attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years (www.sciencealert.com)
Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI—and Meta warned it could cost more than $30 billion a year (finance.yahoo.com)
Mark Zuckerberg explained how Meta will crush Google and Microsoft at AI—and Meta warned it could cost more than $30 billion a year::The Facebook cofounder said the vast trove of photos and videos shared by users on Meta’s various services is larger than the web content crawled by search engines like those of Google and...
Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google should manage parental consent for apps, not Meta (techcrunch.com)
Ex-CIA computer engineer gets 40 years in prison for giving spy agency hacking secrets to WikiLeaks (apnews.com)
Japan government accepts it’s no longer the ’90s, stops requiring floppy disks (arstechnica.com)
Japan government accepts it’s no longer the ’90s, stops requiring floppy disks::Government amends 34 ordinances to no longer require diskettes.
U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried | Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting worker... (www.vice.com)
U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried | Trader Joe’s, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting worker…::Trader Joe’s, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting workers and consumers—the NLRB...
Anonymous Sudan Claims DDOS Attacks on UAE's Flydubai Airline (www.hackread.com)
Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever in Q4 (techcrunch.com)
For the last several quarters we’ve seen a lull in the expansion of the cloud infrastructure market, with lower growth numbers than we’ve been accustomed to seeing in the past. That changed this quarter thanks in large part to interest in generative AI. The new revenue wave began just last year, driven by the ChatGPT hype...
EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold on the site — the kind used to make counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl (fortune.com)
EBay will pay $59 million settlement over pill presses sold on the site — the kind used to make counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl::The kind used to make counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl.
Universal Music says that it will pull its song catalog from TikTok tomorrow at midnight, as the companies are unable to reach a deal on rights. Huge implications. (twitter.com)
Doom Runs on [a display made from] E. Coli Bacteria Now (kottke.org)
Starlink's Laser System is Beaming 42 Petabytes of Data Per Day (www.pcmag.com)
SpaceX’s laser system for Starlink is delivering over 42 petabytes of data for customers per day, an engineer revealed today. That translates into 42 million gigabytes. Each of the 9,000 lasers in the network is capable of transmitting at 100Gbps, and satellites can form ad-hoc mesh networks to complete long-haul transmissions...
How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever. (www.thedailybeast.com)
How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.::Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than...
Odoo Community Edition Apps (www.odoocommunitymobile.com)
Odoo Mobile App is a mobile application that enables users to access and interact with the Odoo business management software on their mobile devices. It provides a convenient and user-friendly interface for managing various business operations, such as sales, inventory, customer relationship management (CRM), invoicing, and...
Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff (www.cnbc.com)
Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff::Amazon and iRobot said regulatory concerns made it impossible for the deal to move forward, sending the Roomba makers’ shares plummeting.
You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Not running the game’s code on a biological computer (maybe that’s next?) but showing the opening frame of the game rendered in bacteria is a good first step
WorkBot (workhub.ai)
Unlock organizational potential with WorkBot, the ultimate AI platform breaking down knowledge silos. Revolutionize collaboration and drive success through seamless information flow and intelligent automation. Experience the future of work with WorkBot!
I created an app where you can share your thoughts fully anonymously and vote for the weekly "Thought of Humanity" (www.toh-social.app)
America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it. (www.theatlantic.com)
Fossil is quitting smartwatches (www.theverge.com)
Fossil is quitting smartwatches::Fossil is going to stop making smartwatches. It was one of the most prolific companies creating Wear OS watches.
Arrests in $400M SIM-Swap Tied to Heist at FTX? – Krebs on Security (krebsonsecurity.com)
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