“We’re Huge in Learning Loss!” Cashing in on the Post-Pandemic Education Crisis. (www.propublica.org)
TSMC is delaying its Arizona foundry over a lack of skilled workers alongsde a $5.85B income slump (www.pcgamer.com)
Google Chrome rolls out new ad privacy controls as it (slowly) bids farewell to cookies (adguard.com)
Twitter’s Surge in Harmful Content a Barrier to Advertiser Return (www.msn.com)
The spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’ (techcrunch.com)
New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed (phys.org)
New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed::Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called “impossible early galaxy problem.”
Reddit is getting rid of its Gold awards system (www.theverge.com)
Reddit is going to sunset its current coins and awards systems, meaning you won’t be able to buy Reddit Gold for posts you like. However, it is working on a new system for awards.
Elon Musk Urges Mr Beast to Post Videos on Twitter for Equal Earnings (i.imgur.com)
AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war (arstechnica.com)
China Wants to Start a National Internet ID System | The government said the proposal would protect online privacy. Critics said it could further concentrate government control over the internet. (www.nytimes.com)
Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox (arstechnica.com)
Losing access to Authy leads to another reckoning with Google's security model.
Gemini AI platform caught scanning Google Drive files without user permission (www.techradar.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18014226
Let's talk about Google Chrome and ads, and getting around Google's ad enforcing tactics (manifestv3)
Google has been blocking adblockers, or atleast trying to for some time now. Notably on Youtube....
How France Adopts An Open Source-Based Education Strategy – Free of Big Tech (dataethics.eu)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/258478...
Windows 10 shows Linkedin Learning Ads on Login Screen
cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/14206569...
NATO Member Sweden Says Russia Disrupting Its Satellite Networks (www.swissinfo.ch)
Swedish authorities say Russia is behind “harmful interference” deliberately targeting the Nordic country’s satellite networks that it first noted days after joining NATO earlier this year....
Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time (arstechnica.com)
In December 2019, astronomers were surprised to observe a long-quiet galaxy, 300 million light-years away, suddenly come alive, emitting ultraviolet, optical, and infrared light into space. Far from quieting down again, by February of this year, the galaxy had begun emitting X-ray light; it is becoming more active. Astronomers...
World's smallest, cheapest network switch developed by US high school robotics team — Murex Robotics makes the hardware fully open-source (www.tomshardware.com)
Designed for use in a remotely piloted underwater rover, the mrxSwitch v2.0 supplies five 100 Mbps Ethernet ports at a footprint of only 44.9mm by 42.2mm. Network switches of this form factor are typically reserved for highly embedded systems; the team prioritizes its use in remote-operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) or...
The Excel superstars throw down in Vegas (www.theverge.com)
DC-ROMA Laptop II packs an octa-core RISC-V processor, 16GB of RAM and Ubuntu Linux - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
[Gamers Nexus] "Is AMD (Radeon) Actually Screwed?" ft. Steve of Hardware Unboxed (www.youtube.com)
I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty (www.wired.com)
Android's new anti-theft features (blog.google)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075
Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option (www.theverge.com)
Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira (investors.squarespace.com)
Stockholders will receive $44.00 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 29% over the 90-day volume weighted average trading price of $34.09 Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE: SQSP ), the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, today announced that it has entered into a definitive...