Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover (gizmodo.com)
NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft (www.nasa.gov)
NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to
Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
China's military and government acquire Nvidia chips despite U.S. ban (www.reuters.com)
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Notorious arcade gamer Billy Mitchell settles suit over Donkey Kong world record (www.courthousenews.com)
Notorious arcade gamer Billy Mitchell settles suit over Donkey Kong world record::undefined
SpaceX targeting February for Starship's 3rd flight test (www.space.com)
Apple tells dozens of employees in San Diego to move to Austin or face layoffs, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
Apple tells dozens of employees in San Diego to move to Austin or face layoffs, report says::Apple has reportedly told San Diego employees that they have until end of February to decide if they will move to another state or lose their job.
At CES, everything was AI, even when it wasn’t (www.theverge.com)
At CES, everything was AI, even when it wasn’t::CES showcased a lot of products with AI. But it runs the risk of devolving AI into a buzz word, making it harder to be impressed with all the great engineering involved.
All the big tech layoffs of 2023 and 2024 (www.engadget.com)
The Taliban’s curious love of SIM cards. (restofworld.org)
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Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. (mfkl.github.io)
Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a...
Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession (www.theregister.com)
Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? (www.androidpolice.com)
Microsoft lets cloud users keep personal data within Europe to ease privacy fears (apnews.com)
‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video (www.vice.com)
‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video::“I’ve seen better acting by hostages in direct to DVD movies,” one anonymous worker wrote about the video.
Airlines say they found loose parts in door panels during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets (apnews.com)
Airlines say they found loose parts in door panels during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets::Federal investigators are learning more about how a door panel flew off an Alaska Airlines jetliner last week.
Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters (www.businessinsider.com)
Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are putting edible microchips the size of a grain of sand into their 90-pound cheese wheels to combat counterfeiters::Italian Parmigiano-Reggiano makers are using microchips to verify the authenticity of their products and thwart scammers.
Software company RealPage must face tenants’ price-fixing lawsuit over multifamily housing — ‘Landlords knowledge that sensitive information would be used to price each other’s units is circumstant... (www.reuters.com)
Software company RealPage must face tenants’ price-fixing lawsuit over multifamily housing — ‘Landlords knowledge that sensitive information would be used to price each other’s units is circumstant…::undefined
HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly (arstechnica.com)
HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly::Suit seeks injunction blocking HP from bricking printers using third-party ink.
Facebook bans ads for award-winning Votes for Women board game’s new Kickstarter, claims it is a “sensitive social issue” (boardgamewire.com)
EPA asks to meet AT&T and Verizon, after finding more than 100 readings with elevated lead near lead-sheathed cables — but companies say their own tests show low lead levels (www.wsj.com)
EPA asks to meet AT&T and Verizon, after finding more than 100 readings with elevated lead near lead-sheathed cables — but companies say their own tests show low lead levels::Agency reports finding more than 100 readings with elevated lead near cables in ‘high priority’ probe; companies say their own tests show low lead...
AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says (www.bbc.com)
AI to hit 40% of jobs and worsen inequality, IMF says::Policymakers should address the “troubling trend”, says the organisation’s managing director Kristalina Georgieva.
Hertz Is Selling 20,000 Used EVs Due To High Repair Costs (arstechnica.com)
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Al Gore To Leave Apple Board After 21-Year Run; Company Reveals CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Dropped 36% In 2023 After Shareholder Pressure (deadline.com)
Al Gore To Leave Apple Board After 21-Year Run; Company Reveals CEO Tim Cook’s Pay Dropped 36% In 2023 After Shareholder Pressure::Former Vice President Al Gore will exit Apple’s board of directors, the company said in an SEC filing that also revealed a pay drop for CEO Tim Cook.