Commented - technology

Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier....

Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals (arstechnica.com)

Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine (arstechnica.com)

Judge in US v. Google trial didn’t know if Firefox is a browser or search engine::Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.

10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox. (www.howtogeek.com)

10 Reasons You Should Switch From Chrome to Firefox.::The best browser sync out there.

Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google (readwrite.com)

Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash (www.theregister.com)

Bulletproof? Is it waterproof? Ts&Cs say: ‘Failure to put Cybertruck in Car Wash Mode may result in damage’

'Vortex Cannon vs Drone' - Mark Rober shows off tech from a "defense technology company that specializes in advanced autonomous systems". That seems bad

I’ve enjoyed Mark Rober’s videos for a while now. They are fun, touch on accessible topics, and have decent production value. But this recent video isn’t sitting right with me...

Twelve years after the death of Steve Jobs, the cracks are starting to appear at Apple (www.notebookcheck.net)

In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From (futurism.com)

One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion (arstechnica.com)

More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user (www.theverge.com)

More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user::Security experts believe some of the LastPass password vaults stolen during a security breach last year have now been cracked open following a string of cryptocurrency heists

SpaceX's Starlink May Be Keeping the Ozone From Healing, Research Finds (futurism.com)

Abstract from the paper in the article:...

Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU) (www.theverge.com)

bash.org is gone

It was a collection of silly quotes from IRC channels everywhere, many of which dated back to the 90s. It was rarely ever updated in the 2010s, but now, the URL no longer resolves....

Authy got hacked, and 33 million user phone numbers were stolen (appleinsider.com)

Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it (www.macworld.com)

Apple has a memory problem and we’re all paying for it::Apple still sells expensive “Pro” computers with just 8GB of RAM and charges a fortune for more.

Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts (arstechnica.com)

Passkey is some sort of specific unique key to a device allowing to use a pin on a device instead of the password. But which won’t work on another device....