FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers (arstechnica.com)
Dear Brother Printers: Eat a [Sponsor friendly words here] (www.therecycler.com)
For a while now I have been a Brother evangelist because they just worked, they did not lock you into first party only printing supplies, and they were overall a good value....
A hidden consequence of the gig economy is that workers keep asking customers for sex or dates (www.businessinsider.com)
A hidden consequence of the gig economy is that workers keep asking customers for sex or dates::“People have the right to order a pizza … without then being asked for sex or a date.”
StarLite Mk V is a Linux tablet with Intel N200, 16GB RAM and a keyboard cover - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
Cadillac reveals the 2025 Escalade IQ - Electric version of the Escalade (arstechnica.com)
China to limit teenagers’ smartphone use to two hours a day (www.telegraph.co.uk)
also bar users under the age of 18 from accessing the internet from 10pm to 6am....
Putin Outlaws Anonymity: Identity Verification For Online Services, VPN Bypass Advice a Crime (torrentfreak.com)
TeamViewer got hacked (www.teamviewer.com)
If this thread is to be believed their statement about TeamViewers products being unaffected is likely not true.
Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded (rabbitu.de)
[Gamesfromscratch] Did Adobe Just %#@$ Up? (www.youtube.com)
Shoutouts...
Does One Line Fix Google? - A “Web” filter that presents what Google used to look like a decade ago | tedium.co (tedium.co)
Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add “udm=14” to the search URL....
I Don’t Want To Spend My One Wild And Precious Life Dealing With Google’s AI Search - Aftermath (aftermath.site)
China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle (www.space.com)
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades....
Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)
Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in...
Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images (www.bloomberg.com)
When Adobe Inc. released its Firefly image-generating software last year, the company said the artificial intelligence model was trained mainly on Adobe Stock, its database of hundreds of millions of licensed images. Firefly, Adobe said, was a “commercially safe” alternative to competitors like Midjourney, which learned by...
Cory Doctorow gets scammed (pluralistic.net)
I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.
You guys should check out the reddit clone I've been working on (matrix.gvid.tv)
It’s sort of a different concept. Posts and users also have position in addition to age and score. The sorting algorithm gives you complete control over how much to weight each one. It’s like if new and hot existed on a continuous spectrum. It’s sort of like what Aaron Swartz initially wanted to do with Reddit where what...
Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested After Packages of Meth-Laced Adderall Repeatedly Returned to Sender (www.404media.co)
Police arrested three men accused of selling thousands of pills of meth-laced “Adderall” on various darknet marketplaces and mailing them through the United States Postal Service through a fictitious business called “Professional Paper Filing Inc.” that listed a real return address of an uninvolved business. That...
“In 10 years, computers will be doing this a million times faster.” The head of Nvidia does not believe that there is a need to invest trillions of dollars in the production of chips for AI (gadgettendency.com)
“In 10 years, computers will be doing this a million times faster.” The head of Nvidia does not believe that there is a need to invest trillions of dollars in the production of chips for AI::Despite the fact that Nvidia is now almost the main beneficiary of the growing interest in AI, the head of the company, Jensen Huang,...
MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis (arstechnica.com)
Apple Vision Pro failed to sell out on launch day (www.notebookcheck.net)
Apple Vision Pro failed to sell out on launch day::Despite expectations, Apple has failed to sell out of its Vision Pro on launch day. This is despite estimates of day 1 availability being limited to between 60,000 and 80,000 units.
Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. (lemmy.world)
People often ask why I contribute to open source projects or otherwise work on building automated tooling. They see me spending hours to automate a task or fix a bug that take seconds to do or avoid manually, in a way that the original XKCD comic says won’t pay off. The disconnect seems to be that the comic and those people...
Why is there no USB-C (female) to mini-B (male) adapter? (images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com)
I converted my cable park to a USB-C cable (male to male) and lots of adapers (the short sort you can keep in a box) years ago. Yet i have still some devices with a mini-B female port....