TeamViewer responds to security 'irregularity' in IT network (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla has acquired ad metrics firm Anonym (www.theregister.com)
Inside the tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets (www.righto.com)
To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. The ticket works through a system called NFC, but what's happening internally? How does the ticket work without a battery? How does it communicate with the turnstile? And how can it be so cheap that you can throw the ticket away...
Nearly $109 million in deposits held for fintech Yotta’s customers vanished in Synapse collapse, bank says (www.cnbc.com)
Ledgers of the failed fintech middleman Synapse show that nearly all the deposits held for customers of the banking app Yotta went missing weeks ago, according to one of the lenders involved....
Telehealth Company Accused of Being Pill Mill for Adderall Says It Will Continue Treating Patients (gizmodo.com)
How Nvidia became an AI giant (apnews.com)
China could start building world’s biggest particle collider in 2027 (www.nature.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17080518
Sipeed Lichee Book 4A is a cheap RISC-V laptop with an upgradeable processor module - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
Meta releases Threads API for developers to build “unique integrations” (www.theverge.com)
Gamers Nexus | Confronting ASUS Face-to-Face (youtu.be)
Meta Is Lying to You in New Quest VR Ad (www.howtogeek.com)
These are all the devices compatible with iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 (arstechnica.com)
UBlock Origin Lite - Nice adblocker for modern challenges (www.dedoimedo.com)
FCC pushes ISPs to fix security flaws in Internet routing (arstechnica.com)
Just got an operating system update for my Galaxy S10 phone (fedia.io)
haven't gotten one of these in years, can't find any press about it, which i'm surprised by...
I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL (awesomekling.substack.com)
For those who don’t know, Ladybird is a new open-source browser not based on Chromium or Gecko. It started as part of the SerenityOS project. Since then it’s taken on a life of its own with lots of contributors and some pretty cool progress. I’ve been watching the updates on Andreas’s YouTube channel and it really gives...
The Future of Large Language Model Pre-training is Federated (arxiv.org)
Also See: Worldwide Federated Training Of Language Models...
Data-Hungry Dating Apps Are Worse Than Ever for Your Privacy (foundation.mozilla.org)
Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI board first learned about ChatGPT from Twitter, according to former member (arstechnica.com)
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/13237910...
How the FBI built its own smartphone company to hack the criminal underworld (www.theverge.com)
Apple's Wifi router database: Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi-Based Positioning Systems (www.cs.umd.edu)
Apple’s huge database, which usually records the locations of Wi-Fi base stations to the nearest metre, has apparently been exploited without hindrance: With little effort, attackers are able to create a ‘global snapshot’ of all the location data of the WLANs recorded there. This allows them - over a longer period of time...
Europe sets benchmark for rest of the world with landmark AI laws (www.reuters.com)
California Resto Lets You Pay For Meal With Your Face: Payment Method May Be Available Nationwide Soon (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Forget swiping your card - thanks to a banner year for biometric payments, with JPMorgan and Mastercard joining the fray, paying with your face could soon be your new reality.
