T-Mobile Walks Back Forced Plan Migration, Won't Make People Switch Plans After All (www.cnet.com)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake::Satya Nadella wrote off Microsoft’s Nokia phone business acquisition and now says the company’s exit from mobile was a mistake.
Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M — CEO to employee pay ratio hits 250 to 1 (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft CEO Nadella’s compensation drops… to $48M — CEO to employee pay ratio hits 250 to 1::Try to hold back your tears as CEO to employee pay ratio hits: 250 to 1
"Fair" coin flips appear to not be all that fair (arxiv.org)
The paper shows some significant evidence that human coin flips are not as fair as I would have expected (plus probably a bunch of people would agree with me). There’s always some probability that this happened by chance, but this is pretty low....
Former soldier searched Google, Reddit for spying tips, prosecutors say — Investigators say they found a document on the man's computer titled: “Important Information to Share with Chinese Governme... (taskandpurpose.com)
Former soldier searched Google, Reddit for spying tips, prosecutors say — Investigators say they found a document on the man’s computer titled: “Important Information to Share with Chinese Governme…::A document titled “Important Information to Share with Chinese Government" was allegedly found on the former soldier’s...
The Age of Social Media Is Changing and Entering a Less Toxic Era (www.businessinsider.com)
Musk refused to testify in Twitter stock probe — After being sued by SEC, says he wants US regulators to be punished (arstechnica.com)
Musk refused to testify in Twitter stock probe — After being sued by SEC, says he wants US regulators to be punished::After being sued by SEC, Musk says he wants US regulators to be punished.
Driverless Cruise car runs over woman hit by another driver (www.theregister.com)
Victim in critical condition
Exclusive: Meta to lay off employees in metaverse silicon unit on Wednesday (www.reuters.com)
Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Raise $1B to Design the 'iPhone of AI' (gizmodo.com)
Plan is to reinvent the smartphone with AI, in the same way the touchscreen on the iPhone reinvented the smartphone....
Russia, China, Iran state media see boost on X after removal of ‘state-affiliated’ labels (thehill.com)
The accounts of several Russian, Chinese and Iranian state media outlets saw a 70 percent increase in engagement on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after it removed labels identifying them as “state-affiliated,” according to a new report released Tuesday....
The War Thunder forum has once again been used to share restricted plane documentation - this time about the F-117 Nighthawk (www.techradar.com)
How many times even has this happened?!?!
Texas grid paid firm to stop mining crypto during heatwave (gizmodo.com)
Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’ (www.theverge.com)
Amazon CEO reportedly told remote employees: ‘It’s probably not going to work out’::Amazon CEO Andy Jassy responded to employees’ reluctance to return to the office by telling them that “it’s probably not going to work out,” according to Insider.
Fairphone 5 - release date and US support?? (www.fairphone.com)
Ever since I learned about the Fairphone, I keep trying to figure out when they’ll release the Fairphone 5....
Japan prefectures drift away from posting disaster warnings on X (www.japantimes.co.jp)
A growing number of prefectures have stopped posting disaster warnings on the platform due to limits on the number of free posts allowed.
AI learned from their work. Now they want compensation. (infosec.pub)
A rising movement of artists and authors are suing tech companies for training AI on their work without credit or payment
very Reddit way of dealing with ending awards and coins. (lemmy.world)
It’s graphically very pretty, at least, and I’m gonna miss the place.
Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧 (gs.statcounter.com)
Is social media fuelling political polarisation? (theconversation.com)
Once upon a time, newly minted graduates dreamt of creating online social media that would bring people closer together....
Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees (www.fastcompany.com)
ASUS warns of critical remote authentication bypass on 7 routers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
AMD has preemptively dropped support for Windows 10 on its new Ryzen AI 300 Series chips (www.tomshardware.com)
In another attempt to convince us that “AI PCs” are somehow fundamentally different from the PCs we’re already using, AMD has officially dropped support for Windows 10 from its new AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series platform. This can be observed by glancing at the official AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 specs page, which now only lists...
Robot cars can be crashed with tinfoil and painted cardboard (www.theregister.com)
A team of researchers from prominent universities – including SUNY Buffalo, Iowa State, UNC Charlotte, and Purdue – were able to turn an autonomous vehicle (AV) operated on the open sourced Apollo driving platform from Chinese web giant Baidu into a deadly weapon by tricking its multi-sensor fusion system, and suggest the...
France considers approval of European chat control plan (stackdiary.com)
The latest proposal mandates user consent for monitoring messages on all communication apps, including those with end-to-end encryption.
