Sam Altman fired as CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI in shock move (www.aljazeera.com)
Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile (www.theregister.com)
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
When did paid podcasts become a thing?
Half the podcasts in my queue have suddenly become paid subscriptions. Meanwhile the overall industry is losing listeners. Seems like a lousy business model to not offer a free with ads feed. What a bizarre trend....
Apple is ordered to face Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
Drug mimics exercise in mice, raises metabolism, increases endurance, burns fat (medicalxpress.com)
Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage (www.ign.com)
Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage::Star Citizen’s long-running development has inched forward yet again, this time to Alpha 3.20 stage.
Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill (www.pcgamer.com)
California, the biggest state in the US when it comes to both population and the sheer volume of tech companies squeezed into its borders, has just passed the country's most extreme right to repair bill in the US (via Ars Technica). It's the third state to pass such a bill, but goes further than either Minnesota or New York in...
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”::Intuit plans appeal, slams FTC’s “predetermined decision.”
X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data (stackdiary.com)
But what if you do? Will you get caught?
80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’ (www.cnbc.com)
80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’::As some business leaders accept hybrid work as a permanent reality, others are backtracking on earlier pledges to let employees work from home.
A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor (stackdiary.com)
Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.
Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm (www.techspot.com)
“Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies”
Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack (arstechnica.com)
New York bans “addictive feeds” for teens (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated (www.tomshardware.com)
TikTok wants to be YouTube now, tests 60-minute video uploads (www.gsmarena.com)
Construction Begins on High-Speed Rail Line Between SoCal and Las Vegas (timesofsandiego.com)
Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging (chainstoreage.com)
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)
Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
AI Has Lost Its Magic (www.theatlantic.com)
Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability (www.404media.co)
Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media (www.technologyreview.com)
From the article: “In particular, five fundamental attributes of social media have harmed society. AI also has those attributes. Note that they are not intrinsically evil. They are all double-edged swords, with the potential to do either good or ill. The danger comes from who wields the sword, and in what direction it is...
Google just took down IPAs (Apple equivalent of APKs) of popular YouTube tweaks (github.com)
Only the downloads were taken down...