Did ad blockers survive YouTube's offensive? Letting numbers talk (adguard.com)
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Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing (www.techdirt.com)
Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing::We’ve covered a few stories this week related to the Senate hearing on “kids safety” and there’s going to be a lot more in the coming weeks as those same Senators grandstand and yell about “protect...
Critical vulnerability in Mastodon is pounced upon by fast-acting admins (www.theregister.com)
Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce (www.cnbc.com)
Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce::Zoom on Thursday confirmed that it’s cutting about 2% of its workforce, becoming the latest tech company to announce layoffs.
Tesla recalling another 2.2 million vehicles for warning lights that are too small. (lite.cnn.com)
The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances (www.npr.org)
The EPA is proposing that ‘forever chemicals’ be considered hazardous substances::undefined
The floppy disk refused to die in Japan - laws that forced the continued use of floppies have finally hit the chopping block (www.tomshardware.com)
ChatGPT is leaking passwords from private conversations of its users, Ars reader says (arstechnica.com)
Sega AI Computer (セガＡＩコンピューター) (www.smspower.org)
Around late 1986, Sega released the “Sega AI Computer”. This is one of Sega’s least well known and rarest systems. Not much is known about this system apart from a small amount of information in Japanese and American flyers and press articles. The information we have is still piecemeal and may be partly inaccurate....
Zuckerberg to Get $700 Million a Year From Meta’s New Dividend (www.bloomberg.com)
Zuckerberg to Get $700 Million a Year From Meta’s New Dividend::Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg stands to receive a payout of about $700 million a year from the social media giant’s first-ever dividend for investors.
People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before. (www.technologyreview.com)
In a 1938 article, MIT’s president argued that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. He’s still right....
How can open source hardware be a movement if the raw materials still have to be mined and factory produced?
Am I not understanding FOSH (free and open source hardware)? I have always dreamed of open source hardware but it has always seemed unshakeably and fundamentally reliant on for instance massive open pit mines mining all over the world in finite dwindling supply wrecking local ecosystems every element necessary for computer...
Wind-Tolerant, Autonomous Drones Could Cut Bridge Inspection Costs by 30% (researchinenglish.com)
Indie labels cry foul over Apple Music’s enhanced spatial audio royalties (www.theverge.com)
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...
