Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat (www.asahi.com)
Nissan Motor Co. said it has developed a new type of paint that significantly reduces the temperature inside vehicles parked in direct sunlight....
When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? (restofworld.org)
Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" (www.windowscentral.com)
16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs (www.macrumors.com)
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created (blog.mozilla.org)
Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (www.gamingonlinux.com)
Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong (www.wired.com)
Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report (www.tomshardware.com)
RAND Report - The Root Causes of Failure for Artificial Intelligence Projects and How They Can Succeed
EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone (www.theguardian.com)
US: Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps (arstechnica.com)
San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave (www.siliconrepublic.com)
Climate scientists flee Twitter [to Mastodon] as hostility surges (www.france24.com)
EDIT: I didn’t notice in the original post, the article is from 2023...
Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites (www.theverge.com)
Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
European iPhones are more fun now (www.theverge.com)
US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 (arstechnica.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...
"REM sleep is the next AI"
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/19628702...
Questions about the safety of Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system are growing (apnews.com)
Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress (techcrunch.com)
FAA grounds SpaceX after rocket falls over in flames. (www.voanews.com)
Telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection schemes (www.bbc.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)
Existing California solar customers may get blindsided with net metering cuts (pv-magazine-usa.com)
Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk’s X after it missed deadline (www.theguardian.com)
Late on Friday afternoon, Justice Alexandre de Moraes – who has been engaged in a dispute with X’s owner, Elon Musk, since April – ordered the “immediate, complete and total suspension of X’s operations” in the country, “until all court orders … are complied with, fines are duly paid, and a new legal...
