How Microsoft’s cybercrime unit has evolved to combat increased threats (arstechnica.com)
Apple to switch to OLED displays for iPads and MacBooks - Nikkei Asia (asia.nikkei.com)
Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software (finance.yahoo.com)
• Steve Jobs faked full signal strength and swapped devices during the first iPhone demo due to fragile prototypes and bug-riddled software....
World’s first off-road solar car ‘Stella Terra’ succeeds in cruising from Morocco to the Sahara (www.designboom.com)
This “smoking gun” killed the McDonald’s ice cream hackers’ startup | Three-year-old email shows evidence of plot to undermine repair business (arstechnica.com)
This “smoking gun” killed the McDonald’s ice cream hackers’ startup | Three-year-old email shows evidence of plot to undermine repair business::Three-year-old email shows evidence of plot to undermine repair business.
Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final (mastodon.online)
Edit: final round is live now mastodon.online/
Recalling almost every Tesla in America won’t fix safety issues, experts say (www.washingtonpost.com)
Recalling almost every Tesla in America won’t fix safety issues, experts say::undefined
Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time (fortune.com)
TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms | TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration. (arstechnica.com)
TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms | TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration.::TikTok may be seeking to avoid increasingly high costs of mass arbitration.
Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people (arstechnica.com)
SAE's NACS certification is ready, and it’ll fix every EV charging problem at once (electrek.co)
I hate that the title for the article claims “every problem” but I wanted to hear other users thoughts on this article
OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account after it used GPT to train its own AI model. (www.theverge.com)
McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup (www.wired.com)
Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business....
Twitch rescinds policy that allowed ‘artistic nudity’ / The decision comes two days after the company said it would allow some sexual content (www.engadget.com)
Twitch rescinds policy that allowed ‘artistic nudity’ / The decision comes two days after the company said it would allow some sexual content::Twitch has quickly taken back its policy update that gave users permission to post sexual content as long as it was labeled.
US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over (www.nature.com)
US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over::undefined
An army of 100 million bots and deepfakes—buckle up for AI’s crash landing in the 2024 election (finance.yahoo.com)
An army of 100 million bots and deepfakes—buckle up for AI’s crash landing in the 2024 election::With generative AI tools it’s easier than ever to spread misinformation. And with a presidential election around the corner, a growing number of people are sounding the alarm.
Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones (gizmodo.com)
Apple Shuts Down Flipper Zero’s Ability to Shut Down iPhones::IOS 17.2 cut off Flipper Zero users running the Xtreme third-party firmware from mass-spamming popups at iPhones.
What’s Left Of Cable TV Is Slowly Going To Hell (www.techdirt.com)
What’s Left Of Cable TV Is Slowly Going To Hell::We just got done noting how 2023 was finally the year that streaming fully surpassed traditional TV in terms of overall paying subscribers. A very obvious “cord cutting” trend that executives spent years claiming was fake or a fad is now the majority norm. But what’s left...
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules (arstechnica.com)
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules::Phone-unlocking case law is “total mess,” may be ripe for Supreme Court review.
OpenAI Suspends ByteDance's Account After It Used GPT To Train Its Own AI Model (slashdot.org)
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has been secretly using OpenAI’s technology to develop its own competing large language model (LLM). “This practice is generally considered a faux pas in the AI world,” writes The Verge’s Alex Heath. “It’s also in direct violation of OpenAI’s terms of service, which state that...
Nvidia's success is making some now-wealthy employees complacent | Why work hard when you're sitting on a fortune in stock? (www.techspot.com)
Nvidia’s success is making some now-wealthy employees complacent | Why work hard when you’re sitting on a fortune in stock?::undefined
Google Groups ending support for Usenet (22/02/2024) (support.google.com)
YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest (lettersandscience.ucdavis.edu)
YouTube Video Recommendations Lead to More Extremist Content for Right-Leaning Users, Researchers Suggest::New research shows that a person’s ideological leaning might affect what videos YouTube’s algorithms recommend to them. For right-leaning users, video recommendations are more likely to come from channels that share...