Over 5,300 GitLab servers exposed to zero-click account takeover attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Apple says third-party app marketplace creators must have €1,000,000 'letter of credit' (9to5mac.com)
Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn’t have to let users cancel service with a click — Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” say lobbyists (arstechnica.com)
Cable firms to FTC: We shouldn’t have to let users cancel service with a click — Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” say lobbyists::Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of canceling,” cable lobby says.
You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
You’re Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds::Google swears everything is fine. A new study—and many people’s lived experience—says different.
The 'Effective Accelerationism' movement doesn't care if humans are replaced by AI as long as they're there to make money from it (www.businessinsider.com)
Mint Mobile discloses new data breach exposing customer data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds (www.abc.net.au)
Nuclear energy is more expensive than renewables, CSIRO report finds::Renewable energy provides the cheapest source of new energy for Australia, a new draft report from the CSIRO and energy market operator has found.
Binance was slapped with a $4.3 billion fine because it let groups like Hamas and ISIS receive funds: Treasury Department (www.businessinsider.com)
Binance was slapped with a $4.3 billion fine because it let groups like Hamas and ISIS receive funds: Treasury Department::“Can barely buy an AK-47 with 600 bucks,” a Binance compliance staffer told his boss in 2019, per regulators.
Ousted OpenAI C.E.O. Makes Plans for New Artificial Intelligence Company (www.nytimes.com)
Sam Altman fired as CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI in shock move (www.aljazeera.com)
Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile (www.theregister.com)
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)
Apple is ordered to face Apple Pay antitrust lawsuit (www.reuters.com)
Drug mimics exercise in mice, raises metabolism, increases endurance, burns fat (medicalxpress.com)
Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage (www.ign.com)
Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage::Star Citizen’s long-running development has inched forward yet again, this time to Alpha 3.20 stage.
Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill (www.pcgamer.com)
California, the biggest state in the US when it comes to both population and the sheer volume of tech companies squeezed into its borders, has just passed the country's most extreme right to repair bill in the US (via Ars Technica). It's the third state to pass such a bill, but goes further than either Minnesota or New York in...
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”::Intuit plans appeal, slams FTC’s “predetermined decision.”
X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data (stackdiary.com)
But what if you do? Will you get caught?
80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’ (www.cnbc.com)
80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans: ‘A lot of executives have egg on their faces’::As some business leaders accept hybrid work as a permanent reality, others are backtracking on earlier pledges to let employees work from home.
A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor (stackdiary.com)
Bram Moolenaar, the creator of the widely respected Vim code editor, has passed away at the age of 62. The family announced his passing in a heartfelt Google Groups message on August 5, revealing a sudden progression of a medical condition that had afflicted him.
Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm (www.techspot.com)
“Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies”
Backdoor slipped into multiple WordPress plugins in ongoing supply-chain attack (arstechnica.com)
New York bans “addictive feeds” for teens (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated (www.tomshardware.com)
