Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com)
Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App (lemmy.world)
See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a....
Italy bans cultivated meat products (www.chemistryworld.com)
Italy bans cultivated meat products::New law prohibits the production or sale of cultivated meat in Italy, with fines of up to €60,000
Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (philip.greenspun.com)
Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?::I’m beginning to think that the Windows PC that I built in 2015 is ready for retirement (though if Joe Biden can be president at 78, maybe this PC can last until 2029?). In looking at new des…
Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 (sopuli.xyz)
How much would you pay for a PC with 128KB RAM, and no hard disk?...
OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole (www.theverge.com)
Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says (gizmodo.com)
YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers (www.androidpolice.com)
Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)
‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram (finance.yahoo.com)
YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking (alternativeto.net)
The company’s team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership. Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it’s plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be...
MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? (www.youtube.com)
My take on this is no they don’t. As long as they are truthful they only report on the quality of the product and prevent many people of spending a lot of money from losing it by buying something that doesn’t work....
To buy no longer means anything :( (youtu.be)
I’ve just watched the video. I find it pretty outrageous. The word about it should spread.
Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (arstechnica.com)
Why the ‘mother of all breaches’ is a wake up call for everyone (www.itpro.com)
15M Trello accounts have been leaked (lemy.lol)
I just got the email from haveibeenpwned. F Trello.
Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich (open.substack.com)
The UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornography (www.theverge.com)
Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business (www.theverge.com)
Here comes another Netflix price hike (www.theverge.com)
Get ready to pay more for Netflix’s priciest plan....
Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them (apnews.com)
DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification - Cory Doctorow (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5431344...
Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them (apnews.com)
Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them::Amazon’s Prime Video will begin showing ads during shows and movies early next year.
The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework. (www.businessinsider.com)
The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.::ChatGPT traffic dropped when summer began and schools closed. Now students are back, and they’re using the AI tool again more.