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Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs? (english.elpais.com)

cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/16194286

Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)

Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech (www.texasobserver.org)

In June, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed an acquisition plan for a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for a controversial surveillance tool called Tangles from tech firm PenLink, according to records obtained by the Texas Observer through a public information request. The deal is nearly twice as large as the...

Meta considers mixed reality glasses , code name : puffin, will release by 2027 (www.theinformation.com)

Taco Bell Programming (widgetsandshit.com)

Taco Bell Programming...

Commercial spyware vendor exploits used by Kremlin-backed hackers, Google says (arstechnica.com)

Screen width and web dev

Okay, so what’s with Gitlab and ServiceNow getting so fat on whitespace that they no longer fit in half a 1920x1200 screen properly?...

FAA grounds SpaceX after rocket falls over in flames at landing (apnews.com)

Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them. (foreignpolicy.com)

US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 (arstechnica.com)

Unleashing Innovation: The Next Generation PROSPER ULTRA 520 Printer (www.sciencetimes.com)

Innovation is the mantra that keeps the world of technology moving forward, and this is evident as businesses in almost every industry have made a huge transformation by enhancing their operations and improving efficiency, thereby being able to deliver exceptional results. The same is true when it comes to printing and...

No Tech for Apartheid with Mohammad Khatami & Gabi Schubiner - Tech Won’t Save Us (techwontsave.us)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/19709648...

Closing In on Dark Matter: LUX-ZEPLIN Time Projection Chamber Sets New Limits (scitechdaily.com)

Mingyang’s 20 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Stands Complete (www.offshorewind.biz)

Mingyang Smart Energy has installed what the company claims to be the world’s largest single-capacity offshore wind turbine, the MySE 18.X-20 MW, in Hainan, China....

Flying through Seattle's hacked airport (techcrunch.com)

16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs (www.macrumors.com)

Telegram CEO's arrest sparks flurry of questions over motivation, privacy impact. (therecord.media)

Nvidia is ditching dedicated G-Sync modules to push back against FreeSync’s ubiquity (arstechnica.com)

Back in 2013, Nvidia introduced a new technology called G-Sync to eliminate screen tearing and stuttering effects and reduce input lag when playing PC games. The company accomplished this by tying your display’s refresh rate to the actual frame rate of the game you were playing, and similar variable refresh-rate (VRR)...

Existing California solar customers may get blindsided with net metering cuts (pv-magazine-usa.com)

The Waveform explains the Fediverse and the protocol war (www.youtube.com)

Even though I’m on here, I honestly lurk most of the time and don’t fully understand the activitypub vs at protocol war. This was a great explainer that will reach a lot of people. Really appreciate a lot of David’s takes. I hope David and others at MKBHD become aware of and talk about Lemmy soon too.

Andreas Kling, developer of the Ladybird Browser has announced the first ever Browser Jam, a weekend-long event for new developers to build browsers. (x.com)

It's basically like a gamejam but instead of making a game in one weekend you have to build a web browser....

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