Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw (www.theregister.com)
Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Apple’s rumoured foldable iPhone (possibly iPhone Flip) might launch in 2026, but display crease, and design are roadblocks.
TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/14914636
Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets (www.404media.co)
A lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the...
Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven and grill. (www.autoblog.com)
I wish I got to do fun little projects like this at my job. Anyway, this proof of concept shows that hydrogen would be a great alternative to propane and natural gas for cooking. Hat tip to @hypx.
Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data (libreddit.bus-hit.me)
Reddit link: reddit.com/…/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_…
don't use ladybird browser lol (cyberpunk.lol)
github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814
Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket (arstechnica.com)
The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand “due to a structural failure.”...
Secure Boot is completely broken on 200+ models from 5 big device makers (arstechnica.com)
Windows 11 is nagging users to try OneDrive to "fully backup" your PC (www.windowslatest.com)
Windows 11 and Windows 10 were recently updated with “Windows Backup”, which has now become a system app. While the feature initially appeared as “optional” or something that could be easily dismissed, Microsoft is slowly getting aggressive with its new OneDrive backup campaign on Windows 11....
AI's Future Hangs in the Balance With California Law (gizmodo.com)
Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it (walledculture.org)
Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy" (yieldcode.blog)
noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (techcrunch.com)
Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler (www.tomshardware.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17489781
Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes (arstechnica.com)
Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app (stackdiary.com)
Appeals court halts return of net neutrality | The Sixth Circuit’s temporary stay comes only weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, weakening the FCC (www.theverge.com)
A federal appeals court has agreed to halt the reinstatement of net neutrality rules until August 5th, while the court considers whether more permanent action is justified....
Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election (www.axios.com)
Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer (www.tomshardware.com)
Ersei, the developer behind this so-called Cloud Native Computer, says the project was primarily a “silly” pursuit. There is also a problem with booting from Google Drive currently being very slow. However, the dev also boasts that “the possibilities are endless” and would welcome any companies or individuals who wish to...
The “Netflix of anime” piracy site abruptly shuts down, shocking users (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users (www.salon.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18147280...
Redbox’s disc rentals are over (www.theverge.com)
Google and Microsoft consume more energy than 100+ countries | Windows Central (www.windowscentral.com)
Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries (www.tomshardware.com)
In 2023, Google and Microsoft each consumed 24 TWh of electricity, surpassing the consumption of over 100 nations, including places like Iceland, Ghana, and Tunisia, according to an analysis by Michael Thomas. While massive energy usage means a substantial environmental impact for these tech giants, it should be noted that...
