How Planting Artificial Forests Could Backfire (gizmodo.com)
Exclusive: UK regulator to push for probe into Amazon, Microsoft cloud dominance (www.reuters.com)
Google ditched Omnibox features to meet quarterly numbers (stackdiary.com)
If you haven’t been following the Google vs. US Justice Department antitrust case, you probably didn’t know that Google tried extremely hard to avoid having any trial documents posted online. That was eventually overturned by Judge Amit Mehta, who is overseeing the case.
54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy (www.theportugalnews.com)
54% of Portugal’s electricity is now generated by renewable energy::Since my last article regarding the successful harnessing of tidal power to generate electricity, I have been researching what progress Portugal has made…
Navigating the Complex Landscape of Tech Recruitment: Personal Insights and Open Discussion
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Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (Cory Doctorow) (pluralistic.net)
Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through....
School Surveillance Makes It Harder to Finish Homework, Report Finds (gizmodo.com)
Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure,’ WSJ reports (www.sfgate.com)
Apple used billions of dollars and thousands of engineers on a ‘spectacular failure,’ WSJ reports::Apple’s “spectacular failure” to build a modem chip for its new iPhones was the topic of a Wall Street Journal expose Wednesday.
The Internet in Europe Today (how-i-experience-web-today.com)
Not all art shows something beautiful - this really does feel like the internet of today without a lot of browser tweaking.
A speech jammer would be cool on some of our politicians 🤭 (www.youtube.com)
New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy (www.eff.org)
In future, we'll see fewer generic AI chatbots like ChatGPT and more specialised ones that are tailored to our needs. (theconversation.com)
Your communities might be a lot larger than you think!
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/5674368...
Driverless car company is using chatbots to make its vehicles smarter (psychedelia.ink)
In a demo the company gave the author this week, CEO Alex Kendall played footage taken from the camera on one of its Jaguar I-PACE vehicles, jumped to a random spot in the video, and started typing questions: “What’s the weather like?” The weather is cloudy. “What hazards do you see?” There is a school on the left....
California Legislature passes Delete Act regulating data brokers (iapp.org)
California Legislature passes Delete Act regulating data brokers::The California legislature passed the Delete Act, which is designed to streamline consumers’ ability to request the deletion of their personal information…
Reddit Is No Longer the “Weird” Social Media. It’s Also Not Quite Normal. (www.theringer.com)
Reddit Is No Longer the “Weird” Social Media. It’s Also Not Quite Normal.::There’s the Reddit of ‘Dumb Money’ that prompted a major fiasco in the finance industry, and then there’s the Reddit of celebrity AMAs and refining your pedestrian Google searches. On today’s Reddit, you can have both.
Google extends Chromebook support from 8 years to 10 after heightened backlash (arstechnica.com)
A phone call to helpdesk was likely all it took to hack MGM (arstechnica.com)
A phone call to helpdesk was likely all it took to hack MGM::Slot machines and hotel room key cards stopped working at MGM casinos on the Strip.
Belgium and Germany Are Now Reviewing iPhone 12 for Radiation Violations (gizmodo.com)
The A.V. Club's AI-Generated Articles Are Copying Directly From IMDb (futurism.com)
On our review, the bulk of the A.V. Club's AI-generated articles appear to be copied directly from IMDb.
In java, what is the purpose of `com.` In package names
Why are packages labled com.person.mypackage rather than just person.mypackage
Blue Origin loses launch contract as Telesat switches to SpaceX (www.telesat.com)
Blue Origin loses launch contract as Telesat switches to SpaceX::undefined
Another real estate software company sued over apartment price-fixing claims — The lawsuit follows claims of similar tactics by Richardson software company RealPage (www.dallasnews.com)
Another real estate software company sued over apartment price-fixing claims — The lawsuit follows claims of similar tactics by Richardson software company RealPage::Software company Yardi Systems Inc. and 18 property management companies were named in an antitrust class-action lawsuit Friday accusing the companies of a…
Human-machine teams driven by AI are about to reshape warfare | Military (www.unionleader.com)
Some technology experts believe innovative commercial software developers now entering the arms market are challenging the dominance of the traditional defense industry, which produces big-ticket weapons, sometimes at glacial speed....
Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web (spectrum.ieee.org)
How to free users from Big Tech’s walled gardens...
