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Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales (www.tomshardware.com)

NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense (www.theregister.com)

X is about to start hiding all likes (www.theverge.com)

This new dating app will use facial recognition technology to exclude trans women (www.lgbtqnation.com)

Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com)

Italy bans cultivated meat products (www.chemistryworld.com)

Italy bans cultivated meat products::New law prohibits the production or sale of cultivated meat in Italy, with fines of up to €60,000

Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (philip.greenspun.com)

Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?::I’m beginning to think that the Windows PC that I built in 2015 is ready for retirement (though if Joe Biden can be president at 78, maybe this PC can last until 2029?). In looking at new des…

OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole (www.theverge.com)

Neuralink Can Implant Second Person With a Brain Chip, FDA Says (gizmodo.com)

YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers (www.androidpolice.com)

Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made checks figures $440 million in return (www.pcgamer.com)

‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram (finance.yahoo.com)

YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking (alternativeto.net)

The company’s team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership. Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it’s plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be...

Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says (arstechnica.com)

Why the ‘mother of all breaches’ is a wake up call for everyone (www.itpro.com)

Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich (open.substack.com)

The UK tries, once again, to age-gate pornography (www.theverge.com)

Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business (www.theverge.com)

Here comes another Netflix price hike (www.theverge.com)

Get ready to pay more for Netflix’s priciest plan....

Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them (apnews.com)

Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them (apnews.com)

Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them::Amazon’s Prime Video will begin showing ads during shows and movies early next year.

The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework. (www.businessinsider.com)

The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.::ChatGPT traffic dropped when summer began and schools closed. Now students are back, and they’re using the AI tool again more.

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