NASA selects SpaceX to build deorbit vehicle for International Space Station (www.space.com)
NASA has selected SpaceX to develop a vehicle that will bring the International Space Station to a fiery end when the time comes....
Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Galaxy S25 Ultra News: Design Revamp, Camera Boost And A MediaTek Surprise? (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Galaxy S25 Ultra leaks hint at a design overhaul, camera upgrades with new sensors, and possibly a MediaTek chip option.
Deepfakes Are Evolving. This Company Wants to Catch Them All (www.wired.com)
FCC hits Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse (www.wired.com)
Gemma 2 is now available to researchers and developers (blog.google)
Context: Gemma is a group of free-to-use AI models with a focus on being small. According to benchmarks this outperforms Llama 3.
South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware (www.tomshardware.com)
A group of R1 jailbreakers found a massive security flaw in Rabbit’s code (www.theverge.com)
India to mandate USB-C connectors on smartphones and laptops by 2026 (www.gsmarena.com)
AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risk (theconversation.com)
Q: “Are we doomed?” A: “We would be, if not for the amazing developments in renewable energy.” (powering-the-planet.ghost.io)
I wasn’t aware just how good the news is on the green energy front until reading this. We still have a tough road in the short/medium term, but we are more or less irreversibly headed in the right direction.
While China has warned the West against 'decoupling', the country’s censorship system is designed for the purpose of isolation, report says (globalvoices.org)
When the US House of Representatives passed the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok, a popular video app, to an American company or face being banned in the US, citing national security concerns, the Chinese government criticized the move as “an act of bullying.” Yet, ironically, TikTok is also unavailable...
South Korean ISP Targeted Torrenting Customers With Malware (thecyberexpress.com)
An ID verification service that works with TikTok and X left its credentials wide open for a year (www.engadget.com)
An ID verification company that works on behalf of TikTok, X and Uber, among others, has left a set of administrative credentials exposed for more than a year, as reported by 404 Media....
This cute pink blob could lead to realistic robot skin (www.engadget.com)
Pine64 Oz64 is a single-board PC with ARM and RISC-V CPU cores - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
Pioneering internet messenger ICQ shuts after 28 years - CNA (www.channelnewsasia.com)
NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics (www.nbcnews.com)
Looking to federalize a social media site I made. I'd give everyone a version with full content moderation tools, and operational trade secrets for server sizing/scaling.
I have a decent website I’ve been working on. It has some neat features that are still being developed....
Steam announces game recording beta. (store.steampowered.com)
Basically nvidia shadowplay for linux
McDonald’s Gives Up On ‘AI’ After Comedy Of Errors, Including Putting Bacon On Ice Cream (www.techdirt.com)
LLMs certainly hold potential, but as we’ve seen time and time again in tech over the last fifteen years, the hype and greed of unethical pitchmen has gotten way out ahead of the actual locomotive. A lot of people in “tech” are interested in money, not tech. And they’re increasingly making decisions based on how to drum...
The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites (sansec.io)
Archived link...
Thermion - 3D rendering toolkit for Flutter and/or Dart (lemmy.world)
I recently published the first Thermion release to pub.dev, and with that milestone I figured it was a good opportunity to share with a wider audience....
