Commented - technology

Actually, That AI Drake and The Weeknd Song Is Not Eligible for a Grammy (gizmodo.com)

Actually, That AI Drake and The Weeknd Song Is Not Eligible for a Grammy::The song “Heart on My Sleeve” was pulled from streaming services after it was revealed to have been created with artificial intelligence.

China’s top chipmaker may be in hot water as US lawmakers call for further sanctions after Huawei ‘breakthrough’ (www.cnn.com)

China’s top chipmaker may be in hot water as US lawmakers call for further sanctions after Huawei ‘breakthrough’::Shares in SMIC, China’s largest contract chipmaker, plunged on Thursday, after two US congressmen called on the White House to further restrict export sales to the company.

Scientists invent micrometers-thin battery charged by saline solution that could power smart contact lenses (techxplore.com)

Scientists invent micrometers-thin battery charged by saline solution that could power smart contact lenses::Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a flexible battery as thin as a human cornea, which stores electricity when it is immersed in saline solution, and which could one day power smart contact lenses.

TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service (www.theverge.com)

Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It (www.techdirt.com)

Cortana, once a flagship feature of Windows phones, is slowly being shut down (arstechnica.com)

Printers

Throughout my life i have set up a multitude of different printers. None of them have been a pleasant experience. Why is this, and is there a printer that is actually good?...

Kaspersky is shutting down its business in the United States (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

German Chancellor promotes government cloud from SAP and Microsoft (www.heise.de)

Threat actors exploited Windows 0-day for more than a year before Microsoft fixed it (arstechnica.com)

Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration - Liliputing (liliputing.com)

Very interesting news. I haven’t tried it out personally; But if it works, I imagine that’d be huge.

‘Blue screen of death’ at the ballpark: How the Mariners tapped a tech nerve in viral rally video (www.geekwire.com)

Electric bikes are about to get more expensive, and the timing couldn’t be worse (www.theverge.com)

A crushing backlash to Apple’s new iPad ad (arstechnica.com)

Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me.

Judge mulls sanctions over Google’s “shocking” destruction of internal chats (arstechnica.com)

Am I the only one who thinks the community is being to hard on the Rabbit R1?

Sure, it runs Android. What did people expect? They aren’t going to build a custom system from scratch....

Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations (arstechnica.com)

EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy (www.theregister.com)

The EU’s Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising....