A Brazilian phone spyware was hacked and victims’ devices 'deleted' from server | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Snapdragon’s new G Series SoC will power Ayaneo's next gaming handheld (www.androidpolice.com)
Encrypted phone calls (monero.town)
A Pennsylvania court says state police can't hide how it monitors social media (apnews.com)
Rockstar Goes Right Back To Its War On Mods (www.techdirt.com)
Well, that was quick. We had just been discussing the encouraging news that Rockstar had scooped up Cfx.re, a community dedicated to roleplaying within GTA and Red Dead Redemption games, as well as several mods made within that community. The only thing that made this newsworthy at all is that Rockstar has had an awful...
Cyberattack shutters major NSF-funded telescopes for more than 2 weeks (www.science.org)
Adobe co-founder Dr. John Warnock has died — he was 82 (www.theverge.com)
X Could Be Delisted From App Stores If Block Feature Removed (www.ndtv.com)
X Could Be Delisted From App Stores If Block Feature Removed::Twitter could face trouble by removing the blocking feature as it could violate the terms and conditions stated by App Store and PlayStore pertaining to user-generated content
Rockstar Games acquires modding team that it previously banned (arstechnica.com)
Rockstar Games acquires modding team that it previously banned::If you can’t beat 'em, buy 'em.
Exploring the internals of Linux v0.01 (seiya.me)
Exploring the internals of Linux v0.01
Make the next wallpaper for Plasma 6 and win a brand-new Framework 13'' laptop! (Linux) (discuss.kde.org)
Apple's $500M iPhone throttling settlements from 2020 edge closer to payment (appleinsider.com)
The NovaCustom NV41 Series laptop is Qubes-certified (www.qubes-os.org)
Detroit police changing facial-recognition policy after pregnant woman says she was wrongly charged (apnews.com)
Detroit police changing facial-recognition policy after pregnant woman says she was wrongly charged::undefined
Kenyan govt suspends use of worldcoin over security, privacy concerns (www.msn.com)
This is apparently the same story in UK....
Global fashion firms block Korean consumers' access to their IP addresses (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
The biggest benefit of direct purchases is that fashion items are cheaper in the brands’ country of origin. This has become an obstacle for international fashion companies that try to sell goods on their Korean-language websites. The prices of Ralph Lauren’s steady-seller men’s Oxford shirts are set from 153,000 won...
Once Again, Dirty Energy is not in the Public Interest (www.nrdc.org)
Once Again, Dirty Energy is not in the Public Interest::It’s time for a New Mexico utility to invest in clean energy over dirty coal and gas.
NASA’s Juno Is Getting Ever Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io (www.nasa.gov)
People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives — but those can be changed (www.niemanlab.org)
People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives — but those can be changed::“After a few tweaks to the reward structure of social media platforms, users begin to share information that is accurate and fact-based.” (Though the tweaks involved paying people to do so.)
Downfall attacks targets a critical weakness found in billions of modern processors used in personal and cloud computers (downfall.page)
“Downfall attacks targets a critical weakness found in billions of modern processors used in personal and cloud computers. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-40982, enables a user to access and steal data from other users who share the same computer. For instance, a malicious app obtained from an app store could use...
CoreWeave raises $2.3 billion in debt collateralized by Nvidia chips (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from !aistuff...
The Velomobile: High-Tech Bike Or Low-Tech Car? (www.lowtechmagazine.com)
How to spot fake reviews online (www.bbc.com)
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research (www.cnn.com)
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research::The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, reached a settlement Tuesday with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, the family’s...
