Abortion Groups Say Tech Companies Suppress Posts and Accounts (www.nytimes.com)
Trump Turns Bitcoin Into Test of Patriotism (gizmodo.com)
T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock—guess what happened next (arstechnica.com)
Ridiculed Stable Diffusion 3 release excels at AI-generated body horror (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request (theintercept.com)
Mozilla, the maker of the popular web browser Firefox, said it received government demands to block add-ons that circumvent censorship....
Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month (apnews.com)
I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty (www.wired.com)
Apple surpasses Microsoft as world's most valuable company after unveiling AI plans (www.cnbc.com)
Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account (www.tomshardware.com)
Microsoft quietly added a new AI feature, called Cocreator, into its raster graphics editor included in every version of Windows since 1985. You need a Copilot + PC with an NPU that can deliver 40 TOPS or better to use it. So, you need to shell out at least $1,099 to get one of the new Snapdragon X Windows Copilot+ PCs that...
Thefts of charging cables pose yet another obstacle to appeal of electric vehicles (apnews.com)
Move over, Ford and Chevy: Kei trucks are pulling up as customers opt for smaller, cheaper vehicles (www.nbcnews.com)
Apple to ‘Pay’ OpenAI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash (www.bloomberg.com)
The iPhone maker isn’t paying OpenAI to use the chatbot...
Tim Cook is “not 100 percent” sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations (www.theverge.com)
iOS 18 Hints At A Buttonless Future For iPhone 16, Improved Battery On The Horizon (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
The latest iOS 18 update strongly hints that Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 16 lineup might incorporate the highly anticipated solid-state buttons....
Meta Is Lying to You in New Quest VR Ad (www.howtogeek.com)
Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 85 (www.latimes.com)
I have mixed feelings on the pronoun use, but having read some of her autobiographical writing I don’t think she would have taken much issue with it. This piece is more focused on her work in computer engineering, so I felt it was appropriate to post here.
China state hackers infected 20,000 Fortinet VPNs, Dutch spy service says (arstechnica.com)
- Hackers working for the Chinese government gained access to more than 20,000 VPN appliances sold by Fortinet using a critical vulnerability that the company failed to disclose for two weeks after fixing it, Netherlands government officials said....
X is about to start hiding all likes (www.theverge.com)
China's chip exports are booming but may be nearing overcapacity, stoking fears of chip glut — SMIC revenues rise as profits fall (www.tomshardware.com)
Elon Musk drops lawsuit after OpenAI published his emails | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Lawyers for Elon Musk on Tuesday moved to dismiss the billionaire’s lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, ending a months-long legal battle between co-founders of the artificial intelligence startup....