Microsoft resolves cloud outage that caused some US airlines to ground flights (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless. (themarkup.org)
Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU (www.theverge.com)
Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation (www.sciencetimes.com)
$200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era (arstechnica.com)
This is our best look yet at RCS working on an iPhone (www.androidauthority.com)
Microsoft moves to resolve privacy concerns over its Recall feature (www.engadget.com)
Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft might be trying to sneak Bing into one of Windows 11’s apps – and some users won’t be happy (www.techradar.com)
Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs (www.theverge.com)
Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband (arstechnica.com)
Trade groups claimed the state law is preempted by former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai’s repeal of net neutrality rules. Pai’s repeal placed ISPs under the more forgiving Title I regulatory framework instead of the common-carrier framework in Title II of the Communications Act. 2nd Circuit judges did...
Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages (www.404media.co)
Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers and what voice channels they joined, 404 Media has learned. The move comes after https://www.404media.co/a-spy-site-is-scraping-discord-and-selling-users-messages/, called Spy Pet, last week and...
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
The future is going to be great!
4K Chromecast with Google TV sequel is coming with new remote (9to5google.com)
How to Escape From the Iron Age? (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.
Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply (arstechnica.com)
Why I Lost Faith in Kagi (d-shoot.net)
via www.osnews.com/story/139270/do-not-use-kagi/
Apple alerts users in 92 nations to state-sponsored / mercenary-spyware attacks (techcrunch.com)
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds (www.theregister.com)
Academics at the University of Pennsylvania analyzed a nationally representative sample of 100 non-federal acute care hospitals – essentially traditional hospitals with emergency departments – and their findings were that 96 percent of their websites transmitted user data to third parties....
US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say (www.reuters.com)
Sanity checking an idea for editing yaml without wanting to throw my laptop out the window
Often find myself getting frustrated editing yaml, and it seems to be used everywhere for some reason I cannot fathom...
George Carlin Estate Settles Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Comedy Special (variety.com)
George Carlin‘s estate has settled a lawsuit over an AI-generated imitation of the late comedian, with the creators agreeing to remove it from their YouTube channel and podcast feed....