Cybersecurity labeling for smart devices aims to help people choose those less vulnerable to hacking (www.pressherald.com)
JumpCloud, an IT firm serving 200,000 orgs, says it was hacked by nation-state (arstechnica.com)
Recycling mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes (www.circularonline.co.uk)
Recycling mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes::New research shows recycling all mismanaged plastic waste in South and Southeast Asia could reduce GHG emissions by 229 million tonnes.
'Millions' of sensitive US military emails were reportedly sent to Mali due to a typo (www.theverge.com)
‘Millions’ of sensitive US military emails were reportedly sent to Mali due to a typo::Millions of emails were misdirected to Mali due to a typo that swapped the US military’s .MIL domain for Mali’s .ML domain, according to a report from the Financial Times.
Artificial Intelligence Is Making The Housing Crisis Worse (www.levernews.com)
I'm an AI software engineer and I predict that most AI startups being funded today will die (www.businessinsider.com)
I’m an AI software engineer and I predict that most AI startups being funded today will die::Here’s how to tell which ones could make it.
Reddit beats lawsuit by WallStreetBets founder (www.reuters.com)
A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit in which the founder of WallStreetBets, which helped ignite investors’ fascination with “meme” stocks, accused Reddit of wrongly banning him from moderating the community and usurping his trademark rights.
Social networks can keep storing EU user data in the US under new agreement (www.theverge.com)
Far-right figures, including Nazi supporters, anti-gay extremists, and white supremacists, are flocking to Threads (www.mediamatters.org)
Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits (www.techzine.eu)
Reddit isn’t profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform’s API
Don't Join Threads - Make Threads Join You (www.wired.com)
A better list of Mastodon servers that have pre-emptively defederated from Threads.net (fedipact.veganism.social)
Facebook's Threads is so depressing (jogblog.substack.com)
Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse | Siva Vaidhyanathan (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla owners are typically white men earning six figures (www.businessinsider.com)
Tesla owners are overwhelmingly men, and the most common occupations are engineer, software engineer, and manager of operations, one study found.
Reddit is going to remove mods of private communities unless they reopen — ‘This is a courtesy notice to let you know that you will lose moderator status in the community by end of week.’ (www.theverge.com)
Reddit has informed moderators of communities that are still private in protest that they will lose their mod status by the end of the week. Thousands of communities went dark earlier this month to push back on the company’s planned API pricing changes.
People are using Chatgpt as voice bots to torture telemarketers (www.wsj.com)
AI software and voice cloners simulate distracted saps willing to stay on the phone forever—or until callers finally give up
Before and After: Stunning Hotel Makeovers Through Hotel Painting Services (prfree.org)
J Brown Painting is excited to announce our hotel renovation advancement, aiming to raise interior design standards in the industry and showcase our commitment to excellence and progress.
Hijacked journals are still a threat — here’s what publishers can do about them (www.nature.com)
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Google Planned to Sponsor IDF Conference That Now Denies Google Was Sponsor (theintercept.com)
The “IT For IDF” conference in Rishon LeZion, just south of Tel Aviv, brought together tech firms from across the world to support the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza and beyond....