Betavolt's miniature battery could spell the end of smartphone chargers (mobilesyrup.com)
EPA asks to meet AT&T and Verizon, after finding more than 100 readings with elevated lead near lead-sheathed cables — but companies say their own tests show low lead levels (www.wsj.com)
EPA asks to meet AT&T and Verizon, after finding more than 100 readings with elevated lead near lead-sheathed cables — but companies say their own tests show low lead levels::Agency reports finding more than 100 readings with elevated lead near cables in ‘high priority’ probe; companies say their own tests show low lead...
eBay to pay $3 million for harassment targeting Massachusetts couple over newsletter (abcnews.go.com)
OpenAI Quietly Deletes Ban on Using ChatGPT for “Military and Warfare” (theintercept.com)
The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.
The library of Anonymous' hacked/leaked datasets is in danger of being closed (ddosecrets.com)
The administrators of the DDoSecrets website write that they have run out of money for funding. If they don’t raise $150,000 by January 31, 2024, they might be forced to suspend operations. This is written on the red banner that appears when you go to the site....
Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy (www.sciencealert.com)
Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy::undefined
Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back. | Bad Dog, a group from D.C., was forced to take a crash course in streaming fraud, a shadowy realm that costs musicians $2b/yr (www.nytimes.com)
IP lawyers record a little album and can’t get it printed on CD because it’s already been uploaded to Spotify et al. after being stolen from their SoundCloud....
Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover (gizmodo.com)
‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video (www.vice.com)
‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video::“I’ve seen better acting by hostages in direct to DVD movies,” one anonymous worker wrote about the video.
eBay hit with $3M fine, admits to “terrorizing innocent people” (arstechnica.com)
eBay hit with $3M fine, admits to “terrorizing innocent people”::eBay must pay maximum fine for putting Massachusetts couple “through pure hell.”
China’s Solar Dominance Faces New Rival: An Ultrathin Film (www.wsj.com)
Wikipedia traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023 (en.wikipedia.org)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…/Traffic_report...
Lawmakers declare war on deepfakes that threaten to upend this year’s presidential election (fortune.com)
Lawmakers declare war on deepfakes that threaten to upend this year’s presidential election::State lawmakers rather than federal officials are leading the charge against AI-generated images that are intended to influence voting.
Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair (gizmodo.com)
The Android phone maker says go ahead, fix your own phone....
Instagram cuts 60 jobs, eliminating a layer of management at the company (techcrunch.com)
Instagram cuts 60 jobs, eliminating a layer of management at the company::Instagram has cut 60 technical program manager positions, eliminating a layer of management at the company.
Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details (techcrunch.com)
Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. (mfkl.github.io)
Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a...
TIL Apple’s Find My app has an item limit (it’s 32). (www.theverge.com)
TIL Apple’s Find My app has an item limit (it’s 32).::MacRumors spotted that Apple added the figure to a support page recently, confirming an increase that has reportedly been in effect since 2022’s iOS 16. The previous limit was apparently 16. Compatible items include AirTags and other first-party headphones and...
News app Artifact is shutting down (medium.com)
13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives (itsfoss.com)
For those of you who don’t want to use a ChatGPT but want a LLM.
eBay to pay $3 million after employees sent fetal pig, funeral wreath to Boston couple (www.usatoday.com)
eBay to pay $3 million after employees sent fetal pig, funeral wreath to Boston couple::The online auction company called the actions of its previous employees, which also consisted of social media threats, “wrong and reprehensible.”
Discord lays off 170 people, blames growing too quickly | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Discord lays off 170 people, blames growing too quickly | TechCrunch::Discord has become a mainstay for many online communities in recent years, but its relative success hasn’t shielded the platform from the financial woes Discord is laying off 17% of staff, or 170 people.
Attack of the week: Airdrop tracing – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140k for sending 80M+ spams | Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people (www.theregister.com)
Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140k for sending 80M+ spams | Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people::Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people
Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers - 'How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?' (www.theregister.com)
Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers - ‘How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?’::‘How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?’
