Commented - technology

Apple's 'Tetris' movie ripped off tech writer's book, lawsuit says (www.reuters.com)

Hollywood’s Fight Against A.I. Will Affect Us All: Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture. (newrepublic.com)

Hollywood’s Fight Against A.I. Will Affect Us All: Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture.::Screenwriters, actors, authors, and artists are fighting to ensure that human beings are not shunted to the margins of our culture.

Microsoft called out for “blatantly negligent” cybersecurity practices (www.theverge.com)

There’s been a string of security blunders in Azure in the last couple years but leaking a signing key and then trying to downplay it is really beyond the pale

List of recent hostile moves by Googles Chrome team (mastodon.social)

The Olympics has moved on from Mario and Sonic (www.theverge.com)

TL;DR: to NFTs and eSports

Posit: In the future, generative A.I. will be thought of as the unconscious part of a general A.I.'s mind.

Attribute...

How does a car cigarette lighter work? (www.lumafield.com)

This is an ad for something CT-scan-related, but it contains a good breakdown of how an old car cigarette lighter works. And it has a couple interactive CT Scan explorers past the video.

Conspiracy Theorists Say Global Outage Was an Attack on Trump (gizmodo.com)

Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service (arstechnica.com)

Multiple nations enact mysterious export controls on quantum computers (www.newscientist.com)

In case of paywall: archive.is/kZAgI

Framework Laptop 16, six months later (www.theverge.com)

Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan (youtu.be)

If you are curious whether Ubiquiti ditched the fan on the new U7 Pro Max, well, I have some bad news for you. I opened the device and this is the teardown video.

NASA selects SpaceX to build deorbit vehicle for International Space Station (www.space.com)

NASA has selected SpaceX to develop a vehicle that will bring the International Space Station to a fiery end when the time comes....

Car dealerships in North America revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider (apnews.com)

Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles (apnews.com)

Are there any third party file explorers WITH TABS for Windows?

Bleh, haven’t been here in a while. So I have a Windows 10 PC that I use for gaming and a Fedora laptop I use for everything else. I simply cannot go back to not having tabs. I don’t understand why Windows doesn’t have them by default. So help me out here.

T-Mobile Will Shield You from Internet Outages for $30 a Month (www.howtogeek.com)

Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned (arstechnica.com)

‘A fine line between humor and flopping’: tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe (www.theguardian.com)

The next time you’re sitting through a company-wide meeting, half-listening to a leader drone on about updates or product launches (and hoping they don’t announce layoffs or budget cuts), remember this: at least they’re not rapping....

Study finds a quarter of all webpages from 2013 to 2023 no longer exist (www.pcgamer.com)

Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt (techcrunch.com)

Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows (www.404media.co)

Waveshare's Latest Sensor Adds a Thermal Camera to Your Raspberry Pi — or Any Device with a USB Port - Hackster.io (www.hackster.io)

Here’s a $120usd FLIR - how does it compare with a cheap plug in USB phone module?...

Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” (arstechnica.com)

The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products “do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service,” it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...