Microsoft hires former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (www.theverge.com)
This Engineer Created The Best Version of the Apple Magic Mouse (gizmodo.com)
An engineer hacked Apple’s infamous Magic Mouse to make it more user-friendly, ergonomic, and overall less annoying. Ivan Kuleshov is the said engineer, and he has also hacked the Apple Mac Mini in the past to be powered over Ethernet.
Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results (arstechnica.com)
Google yesterday sued a group of people accused of weaponizing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to get competitors’ websites removed from search results. Over the past few years, the foreign defendants “created at least 65 Google accounts so they could submit thousands of fraudulent notices of copyright...
SanDisk Refutes Claim That Faulty Hardware is to Blame for SSD Failures | PetaPixel (petapixel.com)
Uber is testing a service that lets you hire drivers for chores (www.theverge.com)
Apple says BMW wireless chargers really are messing with iPhone 15s (www.theverge.com)
Apple says BMW wireless chargers really are messing with iPhone 15s::An Apple memo to authorized repair providers reportedly says BMW and Toyota Supra wireless chargers can disable iPhone 15 NFC chips.
Russia renamed its ambitious satellite program after Putin misspoke its name (arstechnica.com)
Bay Area tech CEO worth $35 billion says ‘suffering’ wasn't worth it (www.sfgate.com)
Bay Area tech CEO worth $35 billion says ‘suffering’ wasn’t worth it::Jensen Huang, a Bay Area CEO worth more than $35 billion, said he wouldn’t again go through ‘pain and suffering’ of being a startup founder at Nvidia.
Google Fiber's 20Gbps Internet to Arrive by Year's End for Select Residential Users (www.pcmag.com)
The company plans on offering the service to a small group of customers in select areas as part of an early access program.
The New Age of Airships Is Here—And It’s Electric (www.popularmechanics.com)
Inside Google’s Plan to Stop Apple From Getting Serious About Search (www.nytimes.com)
Decentralized Matrix messaging network says it now has 115M users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter (www.zmescience.com)
Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter::Regular glass is brittle and fragile. But pure glass coated on DNA is a different beast entirely.
Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave steps down in wake of controversy over his Israel comments (www.businessinsider.com)
Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave steps down in wake of controversy over his Israel comments::Paddy Cosgrave said his “personal comments have become a distraction from the event, and our team, our sponsors, our startups and the people who attend.”
“Netflix effect” is back as studios license old shows to competitors again (arstechnica.com)
Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans (nationalpost.com)
Business owner ‘hires’ ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans::Experts divided on whether a new wave of call centre automation will make for better jobs for people, or merely throw millions out of work
Elon Musk under investigation by US agency for $44bn takeover of Twitter (www.theguardian.com)
How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet (www.wired.com)
Meta and Salesforce are looking to rehire some workers they just laid off. It's putting those people in an awkward spot. (www.businessinsider.com)
It’s not the call you’d expect to get: The company that laid you off wants you back....
Violent video games linked to verbal aggression and hostility but not physical aggression (www.psypost.org)
Violent video games linked to verbal aggression and hostility but not physical aggression::Violent video games are linked to higher levels of verbal aggression and hostility but not physical aggression, with narcissistic traits also correlating with aggressive behaviors, according to a study published in Frontiers in Psychology....
Ransomware Hackers Steal Millions From Vegas Casinos (odysee.com)
cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/3473050...
“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated] (arstechnica.com)
“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated]::Previous efforts to unmask the people behind Libgen have failed.
Google Authenticator Blamed to have made one company’s network breach much, much worse (arstechnica.com)
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PSA: a recently-fixed image parsing vulnerability in Chrome (and things that use Chrome, such as Electron apps) is being actively exploited in the wild. install your updates! (nvd.nist.gov)
Chrome was updated September 11...
Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island (www.theverge.com)
Apple announces iPhone 15 with USB-C, a camera upgrade, and the Dynamic Island::Apple’s new iPhone 15 is the first iPhone with a USB-C port. The iPhone 15 also includes the Dynamic Island and a big camera upgrade.
