DNS Resolver Quad9 Wins Pirate Site Blocking Appeal Against Sony (torrentfreak.com)
Spotify’s CFO is out days after mass layoffs (www.theverge.com)
Twitch to shut down in Korea over ‘prohibitively expensive’ network fees (techcrunch.com)
Twitch to shut down in Korea over ‘prohibitively expensive’ network fees::Twitch, the popular video streaming service, plans to shut down its business in South Korea on February 27 after finding that operating in one of the Twitch plans to shut down its business in South Korea after network costs became “prohibitively...
The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying (www.schneier.com)
Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers (www.sciencealert.com)
Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers::undefined
Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO::Sam Altman is officially back as OpenAI’s CEO, and the board has been shaken up with new members Bret Taylor and Larry Summers. Microsoft is getting a non-voting seat.
Blackstone acquires pet care app Rover in $2.3 billion all-cash deal (abcnews.go.com)
Blackstone acquires pet care app Rover in $2.3 billion all-cash deal::Private equity giant Blackstone will acquire the pet care app Rover in an all-cash deal valued at $2.3 billion, the companies announced Wednesday
This dev conference organizer seems addicted to making up women (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license (www.theregister.com)
The ‘Azure RTOS’ used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers (futurism.com)
How a Brain Implant and AI Gave a Woman with Paralysis Her Voice Back (youtu.be)
Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week (www.forbes.com)
Google Will Mass Delete Old Gmail And Photos Content Next Week::Google will start mass deleting inactive Photos and Gmail accounts on December 1st.
China lobs tech demo into orbit for People's Republic version of Starlink (www.theregister.com)
What are the best asymmetric encryption algorithms for encrypting files?
I am trying to encrypt a sensitive file and AGE won’t cut it.
Optus: Telecom boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin quits after Australian outage (www.bbc.com)
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles | E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world. (arstechnica.com)
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles | E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.::E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world.
BusKill (Open-Source Hardware Dead Man Switch) Announces Bitcoin Black Friday Deal (buskill.in)
In celebration of Bitcoin Black Friday 2023, we’re offering a 10% discount on all BusKill cables sold between Nov 18 to Dec 03....
Greg Brockman, President & Co-Founder, Quits OpenAI (nitter.ktachibana.party)
U.S. Department of Justice backs tenants in case alleging algorithmic price-fixing by big landlords and real estate tech company RealPage (www.propublica.org)
U.S. Department of Justice backs tenants in case alleging algorithmic price-fixing by big landlords and real estate tech company RealPage::ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
TikTok joins Meta in appealing against EU gatekeeper status (www.reuters.com)
iFixit: We’re Calling on the FTC to Restore Our Right to Repair (www.ifixit.com)
iFixit: We’re Calling on the FTC to Restore Our Right to Repair::Today, we’re calling on the US Federal Trade Commission to introduce new rules protecting our Right to Repair everything we own.
Threads finally lets you delete your account separately from Instagram (www.theverge.com)
Threads finally lets you delete your account separately from Instagram::Meta is rolling out a new feature that will let you delete your Threads account separately from Instagram. You can access the feature from a new “Delete or Deactivate” setting.
Volvo's latest EV: A $114k minivan, exclusive to china at launch. (www.engadget.com)
In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack (arstechnica.com)
Apple Is Taking Extra Care With ‘Ambitious’ iOS 18 Update (www.bloomberg.com)
Apple Is Taking Extra Care With ‘Ambitious’ iOS 18 Update::Apple’s recent software development delay underscores the need to get ambitious 2024 updates right. Also: Initial thoughts on Apple’s latest MacBook Pros and iMac, and what an M3 Ultra chip could look like.