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The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again (www.openculture.com)

cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/14303847...

Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder, Europol warns (www.techspot.com)

Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder for Europol...

Minisforum AtomMan G7 PT review: Compact gaming mini-PC with AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and Radeon RX 7600M XT (www.notebookcheck.net)

Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months (www.theverge.com)

CISA Takedown of Ivanti Systems Is a Wake-up Call (www.darkreading.com)

Redditor has worst possible experience with Google’s new Find My Device network (www.androidpolice.com)

One Redditor tested Google’s Find My Device network against Apple’s Find My Network by shipping an AirTag and a Pebblebee tracker to a different state and tracking the package through the respective apps....

Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour (www.androidauthority.com)

Jesus, that is a gross way to inject advertising into turn-by-turn navigation....

“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)

It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.

Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot (www.techspot.com)

Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years (arstechnica.com)

It's still bare-bones by most standards, but Notepad has evolved a lot recently.

AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream (www.wired.com)

Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones (www.techspot.com)

Microsoft has told all its employees in China that they will soon only be allowed to use iPhones for work purposes. The ban on Android devices is part of a security-related Microsoft initiative for providing a unified way of managing and verifying employee identities....

Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets (www.404media.co)

A lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the...

Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China (www.theguardian.com)

The President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. (www.propublica.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/24651183...

The U.S. President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. (www.propublica.org)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/612786...

Massive car dealer ransom attack is mostly over after 2 weeks of work-arounds (arstechnica.com)

China’s AI overload: Baidu CEO warns of too many models, too few applications (www.scmp.com)

Selfie-based ID raises eyebrows among infosec experts (www.theregister.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/36566249...

Google’s Repair Policy Is Broken (www.wired.com)

ASML CEO says world needs the legacy chips China is producing, Handelsblatt reports (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/17754665

Dev boots a PC from Google Drive cloud storage — a storage-less laptop becomes a truly cloud-native computer (www.tomshardware.com)

Ersei, the developer behind this so-called Cloud Native Computer, says the project was primarily a “silly” pursuit. There is also a problem with booting from Google Drive currently being very slow. However, the dev also boasts that “the possibilities are endless” and would welcome any companies or individuals who wish to...

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