Project Kuiper: Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink passes 'crucial' test (www.space.com)
Project Kuiper: Amazon’s answer to SpaceX’s Starlink passes ‘crucial’ test::Amazon’s Project Kuiper, which uses optical inter-satellite link (OISL) technology to connect more than 3,000 satellites in a mesh network that blankets Earth, just cleared a final hurdle needed to launch next year.
Important files will be gone in February 2024 when Google removes them from Files for Android (www.ghacks.net)
Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With 'Verify' Watermark Tech (www.pcmag.com)
Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With ‘Verify’ Watermark Tech::undefined
Why the Fediverse is not (yet) Billionaire-Proof, or: The 51% Attack for the Fediverse (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business (edition.cnn.com)
Toyota-owned automaker halts Japan production after admitting it tampered with safety tests for 30 years | CNN Business::Daihatsu, the Japanese automaker owned by Toyota, has halted production after admitting it falsified data in safety tests for its vehicles for 30 years.
‘The Gospel’: how Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza (www.theguardian.com)
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack (arstechnica.com)
A recent Grand Theft Auto 6 leak on TikTok may have come from a Rockstar Games employee's kid (www.businessinsider.com)
A recent Grand Theft Auto 6 leak on TikTok may have come from a Rockstar Games employee’s kid::Rockstar Games will release the first trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 on December 5. But purported leaks of the game have already circulated on TikTok.
Tiny living robots made from human cells surprise scientists | CNN (www.cnn.com)
“robots” engendered from human trachea cells have shown surprising behavior in their ability to self-assemble, move, and “heal” damaged neurons.
Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X (www.reuters.com)
Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X::Walmart said on Friday it is not advertising on social media platform X, one of the latest brands to say it has dropped the Elon Musk-owned site.
Apple's smart ring technology may not be limited to just fingers (appleinsider.com)
Apple’s smart ring technology may not be limited to just fingers::Smart rings on fingers, smart bracelets on ankles, and smart lanyards around necks — far beyond the Apple Watch and AirPods, Apple has wide-ranging plans for a new wearable.
Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board (www.wired.com)
After internal chaos earlier this month, OpenAI replaced the women on its board with men. As it plans to add more seats, Timnit Gebru, Sasha Luccioni, and other AI luminaries tell WIRED why they wouldn't join.
Broadcom lays off VMware employees after closing its $69 billion acquisition of the company (www.businessinsider.com)
Tor Project removes relays because of for-profit, risky activity (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Column: OpenAI's board had safety concerns. Big Tech obliterated them in 48 hours (www.latimes.com)
OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist says he deeply regrets participating in ousting Sam Altman (www.businessinsider.com)
OpenAI cofounder and chief scientist says he deeply regrets participating in ousting Sam Altman::Ilya Sutskever, a cofounder and the chief scientist of OpenAI, expressed regret and said he’d do everything he could to reunite the company.
A Request for This Fruit Caused a Bomb Scare in Portugal (thetakeout.com)
Apparently the word “pomegranate” gets lost in translation....
Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage (www.theregister.com)
Spinal implant allows Parkinson’s patient to walk for miles (www.engadget.com)
A Parkinson’s patient can now walk 6km (3.7 miles) thanks to an implant targeting the spinal cord. The Guardian reports that the man — 62-year-old “Marc” from Bordeaux, France — developed severe mobility impairments from the degenerative disease. “I practically could not walk anymore without falling frequently,...
In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it had three Safari browsers – not one (www.theregister.com)
Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi (www.tomshardware.com)
Salt solution cools computers, boosts performance (techxplore.com)
Verified Hate Speech Accounts [on X] Are Pivoting to Palestine for Clout and Cash (www.rollingstone.com)
Highlights: [P]aid clout-chasers on X, formerly Twitter, are using the conflict to boost their profiles — and a few who have successfully pivoted to pro-Palestine content were formerly known for hate speech, extremism, and conspiracy theories....
Virgin Atlantic suspends its route from London to Austin because it says the city's tech boom is over (www.businessinsider.com)
Virgin Atlantic suspends its route from London to Austin because it says the city’s tech boom is over::Virgin Atlantic in a Friday statement said that in Austin “demand in the tech sector is not set to improve in the near term.”