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About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off (www.theverge.com)

Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix (www.thedrive.com)

Close to half of American adults favor TikTok ban, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows (www.reuters.com)

Close to half of American adults favor TikTok ban, Reuters/Ipsos poll shows::Close to half of American adults support a ban on the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos survey that also asked questions about national security concerns and China.

Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free (www.nbcnews.com)

Julian Assange is free....

Humane is said to be seeking a $1 billion buyout after only 10,000 orders of its terrible AI Pin (www.engadget.com)

Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment (arstechnica.com)

Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. (www.theverge.com)

Paedophiles create nude AI images of children to extort from them, says charity | Internet safety | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

Internet Watch Foundation has found a manual on dark web encouraging criminals to use software tools that remove clothing. The manipulated image could then be used against the child to blackmail them into sending more graphic content, the IWF said.

Biden signs bill criticized as “major expansion of warrantless surveillance” (arstechnica.com)

Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling (arstechnica.com)

FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency (spectrum.ieee.org)

A.I. Is Making the Sexual Exploitation of Girls Even Worse (www.nytimes.com)

A.I. Is Making the Sexual Exploitation of Girls Even Worse::Parents, schools and our laws need to catch up to technology, fast.

Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai (techcrunch.com)

Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it’s paying people to buy the Mirai::Toyota is offering some amazing deals for its hydrogen fuel cell-powered Mirai. That is, if customers can find the hydrogen to power it.

Next-gen optical disk can store over 14,000 4k movies (www.digitaltrends.com)

Sudo is coming to Windows 11 (blogs.windows.com)

How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity (www.wired.com)

“This is the story of the revelation in late 2013 that Bitcoin was, in fact, the opposite of untraceable—that its blockchain would actually allow researchers, tech companies, and law enforcement to trace and identify users with even more transparency than the existing financial system.”

Beeper Mini Is Back (blog.beeper.com)

23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users (techcrunch.com)

23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users::Genetic testing company 23andMe revealed that its data breach was much worse than previously reported, hitting about half of its total customers.

Arch and other Linux operating systems Beat Windows 11 in Gaming Benchmarks (www.tomshardware.com)

Arch and other Linux operating systems Beat Windows 11 in Gaming Benchmarks::ComputerBase benchmarked three different Linux operating systems and found that all three can achieve better gaming performance than Windows 11.

Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows (www.businessinsider.com)

Most of the world’s biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk’s X, exclusive new data shows::Musk and X CEO Linda Yaccarino have recently stated that most of the company’s top-spending advertisers from last year have returned.

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