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Chrome, Firefox and other browsers affected by critical WebP vulnerability (siliconangle.com)

X is suing California over social media content moderation law (www.engadget.com)

X is suing California over social media content moderation law::X, the social media company previously known as Twitter, is suing the state of California over a law that requires companies to disclose details about their content moderation practices.

EFF: Stop the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act (act.eff.org)

Let your Congress-critters know this is not the right thing to do.

Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines. (arstechnica.com)

Wi-Fi sniffers strapped to drones—Mike Lindell’s odd plan to stop election fraud | Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.::Lindell wants to fly drones near polling places to monitor voting machines.

TunnelCrack: Widespread design flaws in VPN clients (tunnelcrack.mathyvanhoef.com)

What are TunnelCrack vulnerabilities?...

Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse (www.theverge.com)

The rent is too dang high in Cities: Skylines 2, so the devs nuked the landlords (arstechnica.com)

Aptoide becomes first non-Apple iOS store (www.gamesindustry.biz)

Smartphones May Affect Sleep—but Not Because of Blue Light (www.wired.com)

Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech (www.wired.com)

“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups (arstechnica.com)

Google Cloud accidentally deleted UniSuper’s account and backups, causing a major data loss and downtime for the company....

Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...

OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn (www.wired.com)

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees (fortune.com)

Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much “work around the work” as he laid off 17% of the group’s workforce in December.

Google search boss warns employees of 'new operating reality,' urges them to move faster (www.cnbc.com)

At a recent all-hands meeting, Google search head Prabhakar Raghavan told employees that the world is changing and they have to adjust.

President Biden is now posting into the fediverse (www.theverge.com)

Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Its Content for AI: Report (www.thedailybeast.com)

Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Its Content for AI: Report::The move boosts revenue for Reddit ahead of its planned stock launch.

Chat Control May Finally Be Dead: European Court Rules That Weakening Encryption Is Illegal (tuta.com)

The EU Court ruled that “Backdoors may also be exploited by criminal networks and would seriously compromise the security of all users’ electronic communications. The Court takes note of the dangers of restricting encryption described by many experts in the field.” Any requirement to build in backdoors to encryption...

Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought (arstechnica.com)

$300 Vision Pro developer strap is just an expensive USB2 device (appleinsider.com)

$300 Vision Pro developer strap is just an expensive USB2 device::Apple is selling developers a $300 USB-C dongle to connect the Apple Vision Pro to a Mac, but in this incarnation, it turns out to be no faster than Wi-Fi.

Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites | The Mozilla Blog (blog.mozilla.org)

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