USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation (www.wired.com)
Nvidia Scrapes YouTube, Eyes Netflix, Discovery to Train New Video Model. (www.proofnews.org)
Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now (www.raspberrypi.com)
Basically more everything. 2x Cortex M33 cores with floating point, 520KB ram, more PIOs, bunch of secure boot stuff (I have mixed feelings about this), and can boot to a mode with risc-v cores instead of the M33s.
Indonesian fishermen are using a government AI tool to find their daily catch. (restofworld.org)
How China Built Tech Prowess: Chemistry Classes and Research Labs (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39189043...
5G network flaws could be abused to let hackers spy on your phone (www.techradar.com)
Elon Musk urged to take X responsibilities more seriously (www.theregister.com)
X to pause using European user data to train AI systems (www.rte.ie)
X are being sued by the Irish data regulator for breaching the GDPR in processing European citizens’ data for Grok AI without an initial opt-out....
‘Order from Amazon’: Tech giants storing mass data for Israel’s war (www.972mag.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18923426...
Japan vs. Manga Piracy: $800m Losses & 100 New Pirate Sites in One Month (torrentfreak.com)
YouTube Not Accessible Across Russia. (www.rferl.org)
How Spotify started — and killed — Latin America’s podcast boom. (restofworld.org)
Google Introduces Gemini-Powered Lens in Chrome Desktop. (iblnews.org)
A US judge just called Google the ‘highest quality search engine’. But how do we determine ‘quality’? (theconversation.com)
In memory of the Chromecast (paper.wf)
Meta and Google secretly targeted minors on YouTube with Instagram ads (www.theverge.com)
Meta and Google teamed up to run a secret campaign that deliberately targeted 13 to 17-year-olds with Instagram ads on YouTube according to the Financial Times, breaking the search giant’s own rules against advertising to children....
ADT admits security breach after hackers advertise stolen data on the dark web (www.theverge.com)
Security company ADT disclosed in an SEC filing that hackers obtained “some limited customer information, including email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses.” TechCrunch reports that ADT’s disclosure follows a seller on a cybercrime forum claiming last week that they had obtained more than 30,000 stolen ADT...
EFF and 12 Organizations Tell Bumble: Don’t Sell User Data Without Opt-In Consent. (www.eff.org)
Hyundai and Kia car thefts fall sharply after software upgrade, study finds (www.cbsnews.com)
A social media trend, dubbed the “Kia Challenge,” has appeared to compound the automakers’ problems in recent years, with people posting videos showing how to steal Hyundai and Kia cars. At its height, the Kia Challenge was linked to at least 14 reported crashes and eight fatalities, according to figures from the National...
Second Life Concept: How Used Taycan Batteries Became An Energy Storage System for the Leipzig Plant (cleantechnica.com)
2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed (www.tomsguide.com)
Major shifts at OpenAI spark skepticism about impending AGI timelines (arstechnica.com)
What do people really ask chatbots? It’s a lot of sex and homework. (www.washingtonpost.com)
Researcher finds a way to invisibly reverse Windows updates (web.archive.org)
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The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine (www.techspot.com)
Mozilla has a close relationship with Google, as most of Firefox’s revenue comes from the agreement keeping Google as the browser’s default search engine. However, the search giant is now officially a monopoly, and a future court decision could have an unprecedented impact on Mozilla’s ability to keep things “business as...
