Apple backs California Right to Repair Act after long fight (www.theregister.com)
T-Mobile laying off 5,000 employees (thehill.com)
T-Mobile laying off 5,000 employees::T-Mobile plans to lay off close to 5,000 employees, about 7 percent of its workforce, by the end of September, the company’s president and CEO said in an email to employees Thursday. The layoffs will primarily affect corporate, back-office and technology roles, while retail and other...
India landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)
Pyramid Schemes Are Illegal. MLMs Are Not. What About the Tech That Powers Them? (themarkup.org)
Is this even legal? (lemmy.world)
I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don’t even use chrome, i’ve switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10
The web version of Threads is finally here | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
if you’ve been impatiently refreshing threads.net in your browser waiting for Thread son the web to be available, you should check again as access seems to have been greatly expanded..
Hell freezes over as Apple supports right-to-repair bill (arstechnica.com)
India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)
India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent::undefined
Experian slapped by the DoJ for sending spam emails with no opt out | Despite the settlement, the company still denies any wrongdoing (www.techspot.com)
Experian slapped by the DoJ for sending spam emails with no opt out | Despite the settlement, the company still denies any wrongdoing::undefined
Barnacles could hold key to finding wreckage of Malaysia Airlines MH370 (arstechnica.com)
I’m a Luddite (and So Can You!) (thenib.com)
Zoom CEO raises eyebrows by saying people need to go back to the office (www.independent.co.uk)
Zoom CEO raises eyebrows by saying people need to go back to the office::undefined
Miss the old Twitter when I saw the stupid X animation. (lemmy.world)
I miss the old Twitter when I saw the stupid X animation....
Scientists strengthen concrete by 30 percent with used coffee grounds (www.engadget.com)
Scientists strengthen concrete by 30 percent with used coffee grounds::Researchers in Australia have found a new use for old coffee grounds: concrete doping!.
95% of senior adults report robot helpful in reducing loneliness (www.youtube.com)
Snapdragon’s new G Series SoC will power Ayaneo's next gaming handheld (www.androidpolice.com)
Justice Department Sues SpaceX for Discriminating Against Asylees and Refugees in Hiring (www.justice.gov)
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) for discriminating against asylees and refugees in hiring. The lawsuit alleges that, from at least September 2018 to May 2022, SpaceX routinely discouraged asylees and refugees from applying and refused to hire or consider...
In a historic about-face, Apple publicly supports right-to-repair bill (grist.org)
Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer whose invention actually made the world better (techxplore.com)
Farewell to John Warnock, an internet pioneer whose invention actually made the world better::In June 1969, John E. Warnock achieved a milestone of sorts at the University of Utah by producing the shortest Ph.D. dissertation in the university’s history.
In Reversal Because of A.I., Office Jobs Are Now More at Risk (www.nytimes.com)
The American workers who have had their careers upended by automation in recent decades have largely been less educated, especially men working in manufacturing....
Driverless cars worse at detecting children and darker-skinned pedestrians say scientists (www.kcl.ac.uk)
Driverless cars worse at detecting children and darker-skinned pedestrians say scientists::Researchers call for tighter regulations following major age and race-based discrepancies in AI autonomous systems.
The false promises of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (www.theverge.com)
Return-to-office orders look like a way for rich, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees (www.businessinsider.com)
Return-to-office orders look like a way for rich, work-obsessed CEOs to grab power back from employees::White-collar workers temporarily enjoyed unprecedented power during the pandemic to decide where and how they worked.
California deploys AI-powered wildfire detection systems (arstechnica.com)
Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can't keep up (www.businessinsider.com)
Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can’t keep up::Social media is being flooded with spammy AI content. Research by Indiana University details how artificial intelligence is being used to scam people on social media platforms.
