Apple's $500M iPhone throttling settlements from 2020 edge closer to payment (appleinsider.com)
The NovaCustom NV41 Series laptop is Qubes-certified (www.qubes-os.org)
Detroit police changing facial-recognition policy after pregnant woman says she was wrongly charged (apnews.com)
Detroit police changing facial-recognition policy after pregnant woman says she was wrongly charged::undefined
Kenyan govt suspends use of worldcoin over security, privacy concerns (www.msn.com)
This is apparently the same story in UK....
Global fashion firms block Korean consumers' access to their IP addresses (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
The biggest benefit of direct purchases is that fashion items are cheaper in the brands’ country of origin. This has become an obstacle for international fashion companies that try to sell goods on their Korean-language websites. The prices of Ralph Lauren’s steady-seller men’s Oxford shirts are set from 153,000 won...
Once Again, Dirty Energy is not in the Public Interest (www.nrdc.org)
Once Again, Dirty Energy is not in the Public Interest::It’s time for a New Mexico utility to invest in clean energy over dirty coal and gas.
NASA’s Juno Is Getting Ever Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io (www.nasa.gov)
People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives — but those can be changed (www.niemanlab.org)
People share misinformation because of social media’s incentives — but those can be changed::“After a few tweaks to the reward structure of social media platforms, users begin to share information that is accurate and fact-based.” (Though the tweaks involved paying people to do so.)
Xiaomi Redmi Note 12 Pro
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Downfall attacks targets a critical weakness found in billions of modern processors used in personal and cloud computers (downfall.page)
“Downfall attacks targets a critical weakness found in billions of modern processors used in personal and cloud computers. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-40982, enables a user to access and steal data from other users who share the same computer. For instance, a malicious app obtained from an app store could use...
CoreWeave raises $2.3 billion in debt collateralized by Nvidia chips (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from !aistuff...
router choice 4g
My current router is a teltonika 950 . I bought it for use in a campervan but sold the van and kept the router. I have an extension to use one of the antennas outside my window....
The Velomobile: High-Tech Bike Or Low-Tech Car? (www.lowtechmagazine.com)
How to spot fake reviews online (www.bbc.com)
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research (www.cnn.com)
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research::The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, reached a settlement Tuesday with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, the family’s...
Hacking group plans system to encrypt social media and other apps (www.washingtonpost.com)
The first digital nomad (tim.kicker.dev)
Cloud company assisted 17 different government hacking groups [identified in the article as Cloudzy] (www.reuters.com)
Scoop: Google Assistant to get an AI makeover (www.axios.com)
UK's first drone mail service begins in Orkney (www.bbc.com)
Opinion | Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough Is Enough (www.nytimes.com)
The codified Library of Alexandria (madhakker.com)
For 10 days I learned like I have never learned before....
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)
Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy's sight. Similar treatments could help millions (medicalxpress.com)
Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy’s sight. Similar treatments could help millions::Dr. Alfonso Sabater pulled up two photos of Antonio Vento Carvajal’s eyes. One showed cloudy scars covering both eyeballs. The other, taken after months of gene therapy given through eyedrops, revealed no scarring on either eye.