Microsoft Ending Support For Windows Subsystem For Android (www.phoronix.com)
Microsoft ending support for Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA)...
Here's why the $3,500 Apple Vision Pro headset is so expensive (www.cnbc.com)
The $3499 Apple Vision Pro reportedly costs $1542 to make....
Middle school removes bathroom mirrors to stop kids from making TikToks (www.the-express.com)
Middle school removes bathroom mirrors to stop kids from making TikToks::Southern Alamance Middle School in Graham, North Carolina has taken drastic steps to reduce the time kids spend outside of class.
Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority (www.androidauthority.com)
US senators have urged the DOJ to probe Apple’s alleged anti-competitive conduct against Beeper.
Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools (www.pleasantonweekly.com)
Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools::undefined
TikTok is blocking searches for WGA amid the ongoing writers strike (www.mediamatters.org)
Users on TikTok searching for “WGA” are met with a screen claiming that the phrase “may be associated with behavior or content that violates our guidelines.” No videos return. Users are also unable to search for the “WGA” hashtag....
'Where ambition goes to die': These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they're desperate to get out. (www.businessinsider.com)
‘Where ambition goes to die’: These tech workers flocked to Austin during the pandemic. Now they’re desperate to get out.::Drawn by the promise of an emerging tech hub, some tech workers who flocked to Austin found a middling tech scene, subpar culture, and scorching heat.
SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say (arstechnica.com)
The world's largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them. (www.businessinsider.com)
The world’s largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them.::Jobs at the TSMC semiconductor factory in Arizona could require long hours and total obedience. Americans may push back on the company’s culture.
Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier (m.gsmarena.com)
Netflix execs needs a new jet.
Chrome: 72 hours to update or delete your browser. (www.forbes.com)
As read from my Mozilla Firefox…
Revealed: a California city is training AI to spot homeless encampments (www.theguardian.com)
Last July, San Jose issued an open invitation to technology companies to mount cameras on a municipal vehicle that began periodically driving through the city’s district 10 in December, collecting footage of the streets and public spaces. The images are fed into computer vision software and used to train the companies’...
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood (www.theatlantic.com)
By a variety of measures and in a variety of countries, the members of Generation Z (born in and after 1996) are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and related disorders at levels higher than any other generation for which we have data.
More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities (www.techradar.com)
More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities::Phison quietly revealed an updated X2 SSD platform at CES
New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text (www.quantamagazine.org)
I’ve been saying this for about a year since seeing the Othello GPT research, but it’s nice to see more minds changing as the research builds up....
Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Wizards of the Coast denies, then confirms, that Magic: The Gathering promo art features AI elements | When will companies learn? (www.techspot.com)
Wizards of the Coast denies, then confirms, that Magic: The Gathering promo art features AI elements | When will companies learn?::undefined
The Hyperloop was always a scam (www.disconnect.blog)
It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere
Dropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI training (news.ycombinator.com)
Dropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI training::undefined
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data (www.404media.co)
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments, and much more.
OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board (ground.news)
Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law (www.theverge.com)
Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law::Popular online adult film sites in Texas are posting health warnings about watching porn, despite the fact a law requiring them to do so was blocked in August.