The Xbox 360 Store Will Close July 2024, But You Can Keep Playing Your Favorite Games (news.xbox.com)
'No-water' hydropower turns England's hills into green and pleasant batteries (www.rechargenews.com)
As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.
Survey Claims Majority of Brits Won't Share WiFi with Neighbours (www.ispreview.co.uk)
To improve solar and other clean energy tech, look beyond hardware. (news.mit.edu)
TweetDeck is officially becoming a paid service (www.theverge.com)
AP Shares Guidelines Prohibiting Staff From Using AI to Write Publishable Content (gizmodo.com)
The world's largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them. (www.businessinsider.com)
The world’s largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them.::Jobs at the TSMC semiconductor factory in Arizona could require long hours and total obedience. Americans may push back on the company’s culture.
Incognito Pilot: The Next-Gen AI Code Interpreter for Sensitive Data
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YouTube Can Read All Text Inside Your Videos and Flag It for Violations (stackdiary.com)
Sam Oh, the Vice President of Marketing at Ahrefs, recently shed light on this capability. Oh disclosed that a video posted by Ahrefs was flagged by YouTube for a rather unexpected reason. The video in question displayed a snippet from a book, and within that snippet was the name “Donald Trump.”....
YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead (fortune.com)
YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead::The complementary lawsuits claim that the massacre in 2022 was made possible by tech giants, a local gun shop, and the gunman’s parents.
San Francisco robotaxi traffic jam is a warning to the world, says city official (www.cbc.ca)
Leaked images reveal Lenovo’s Steam Deck competitor with a hint of the Switch (www.theverge.com)
This $70 device can spoof an Apple device and trick you into sharing your password (techcrunch.com)
Attendees at Def Con, one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, are used to weird shenanigans, such as a seemingly innocuous wall of computer screens that display people’s passwords sniffed over the conference Wi-Fi network. But at this year’s event, even conference veterans were confused and concerned when their...
Requiring ink to scan a document—yet another insult from the printer industry (arstechnica.com)
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Cruise robotaxi finds itself stuck in wet concrete in San Francisco (www.teslarati.com)
Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc (arstechnica.com)
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Researchers use cloud to replicate supercomputer for heart disease study (www.reuters.com)
A little RSS site for Tech News (technewshub.net)
I built this little RSS reading site for tech news and thought I’d share it....
How a hacking crew overtook a satellite from inside a Las Vegas convention center and won $50,000 (cyberscoop.com)
How a hacking crew overtook a satellite from inside a Las Vegas convention center and won $50,000::The first capture the flag with an real-time in-orbit satellite took place over the weekend at the DEF CON conference.
The best decision YouTube ever did. (lemm.ee)
Webb's data confirms Maisie's Galaxy as oldest ever observed (interestingengineering.com)
How CPython Implements Reference Counting: Dissecting CPython Internals (codeconfessions.substack.com)
An Extensive Walkthrough of Python’s Primary Memory Management Technique, Reference Counting
Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls | What started as criticism over errors in recent YouTube videos has escalated into allegations of sexual harassment, prompting the company t... (www.theverge.com)
Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls | What started as criticism over errors in recent YouTube videos has escalated into allegations of sexual harassment, prompting the company t…::The YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips has halted production after controversies over ethics and accuracy in reporting, spurred...
My open letter to the tech industry on sexism, HR, and Linus Tech Tips
The Linus Tech Tips abuse allegations are yet another reminder that something absolutely needs to be done about the rampant sexism in the tech industry. If you haven’t heard them yet you can read about them here, but be warned, there is some potentially very triggering abuse and self harm detailed:...