Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250 (www.404media.co)
Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone (www.theregister.com)
Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone::Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case
How is the security level of PHP in 2023?
In the early 2000s, everyone in my bubble knew that PHP was a security nightmare, only seconded by Flash. In the meantime, Adobe gave up on Flash, but PHP is still alive and rocking....
“Real Water” that poisoned dozens contained chemical in rocket fuel — An expert witness testified hydrazine was likely formed during an electrolysis process (arstechnica.com)
“Real Water” that poisoned dozens contained chemical in rocket fuel — An expert witness testified hydrazine was likely formed during an electrolysis process::An expert witness testified hydrazine was likely formed during an electrolysis process.
After shunning scientist, University of Pennsylvania celebrates her Nobel Prize — School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work (www.wsj.com)
After shunning scientist, University of Pennsylvania celebrates her Nobel Prize — School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work::School that once demoted Katalin Karikó and cut her pay has made millions of dollars from patenting her work
TikTok working with Kenyan government to ban LGBTQ+ content in the country (www.lgbtqnation.com)
TikTok working with Kenyan government to ban LGBTQ+ content in the country::This is not the first time TikTok has blocked LGBTQ+ content.
Valve fails to get out of paying its EU geo-blocking fine (www.engadget.com)
Valve fails to get out of paying its EU geo-blocking fine::Valve has failed to convince a court that it didn’t infringe EU law by geo-blocking activation keys, according to a new ruling.
Facebook accused of not showing insurance ads to women and older people in violation of civil rights laws (www.theverge.com)
Unity announces its revamped pricing model | After outcry from the gaming community, Unity revealed a new plan that’s a drastic departure from what was initially announced. (www.theverge.com)
Unity announces its revamped pricing model | After outcry from the gaming community, Unity revealed a new plan that’s a drastic departure from what was initially announced.::Unity has introduced a revamped version of its new pricing model. The updated pricing scheme arrives a little more than a week after the disastrous...
The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died | Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their de... (www.wired.com)
The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died | Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly specifics of their de…::Elon Musk says no primates died as a result of Neuralink’s implants. A WIRED investigation now reveals the grisly...
The iPhone 15 gets USB-C, a redesigned Cybertruck surfaces and California considers banning AV trucks | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
In this edition of TC's Week in Review (WiR) newsletter, we cover Apple's iPhone 15 announcements, casino hacks and California's proposed AV truck ban.
'I Lost Everything': California Photographer Blames AI Bias for Instagram Ban | KQED (www.kqed.org)
When a machine moderates content, it evaluates text and images as data using an algorithm that has been trained on existing data sets. The process for selecting training data has come under fire as it’s been shown to have racial, gender and other biases.
Oprah’s upcoming AI television special sparks outrage among tech critics (arstechnica.com)
Brazil's block on X comes into effect after judge's order. (www.voanews.com)
Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits (gizmodo.com)
California legislature passes controversial “kill switch” AI safety bill (arstechnica.com)
Almost all Windows 10 systems can be upgraded to the new version — so why are businesses holding back? (www.techradar.com)
512-bit RSA key in home energy system gives control of “virtual power plant” (arstechnica.com)
Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131 – Firefox Nightly News (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
I tried this last night and I actually really like it. The default theme seems to have changed also and looks much cleaner....
Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has hinted that in future some subreddits could be paywalled, as the company seeks to devise new sources of income....
Elon Musk’s Tesla is promising to sell a humanoid robot. It could be the first of many. (theconversation.com)
Google ads push fake Google Authenticator site installing malware | The ad displays "google.com" and "https://www.google.com" as the click URL, and the advertiser's identity is verified by Google (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Google has fallen victim to its own ad platform, allowing threat actors to create fake Google Authenticator ads that push the DeerStealer information-stealing malware....
Meta Has Run Hundreds of Ads for Cocaine, Opioids and Other Drugs (www.wsj.com)
Covid-era whiz kid is back, and he brought a Friend — a wearable, always listening, $99 AI companion (www.geekwire.com)
This isn’t a joke, though it almost seems like one. It uses Llama 3.1, and supposedly the conversation data stays on the device and gets forgotten over time (through what the founder calls a rolling “context window”)....