Meta’s Threads app launches across EU in blow to competitor X (www.theguardian.com)
Meta’s Threads app launches across EU in blow to competitor X::The tech giant’s app, which launched in July 2023, first needed approval from the European Commission over privacy provisions
7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp (www.nytimes.com)
Raspberry Pi project is well done, uses AI to cook meat to perfection (www.tomshardware.com)
EU opens formal DSA investigation into X in wake of Israel-Hamas war (www.theverge.com)
Southwest Airlines Flight Attendants Forced to Rerun Contract Vote After Crew Discovered Ballot System Was Vulnerable to Fraud (unsecured database web front-end) (www.paddleyourownkanoo.com)
Scientific breakthrough with mysterious cosmic metal could solve major crisis on Earth: ‘There’s been an urgent search’ (news.yahoo.com)
Scientific breakthrough with mysterious cosmic metal could solve major crisis on Earth: ‘There’s been an urgent search’::“This result represents a total change in how we think about this material."
ProtonMail domains listed as disposable. Help needed to delist (github.com)
For now pm.me, proton.me, protonmail.com, protonmail.ch, slmail.me got blocked!
Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. (open.substack.com)
Marketer sparks panic with claims it uses smart devices to eavesdrop on people (arstechnica.com)
30 Years After Doom’s Release, These Are the 30 Best-Worst Ways to Play the Game That Started It All (gizmodo.com)
US Congress pushes warrantless wiretapping decision off until April next year (www.theverge.com)
US Congress pushes warrantless wiretapping decision off until April next year::The US House passed the National Defence Authorization Act, which included a provision to extend Section 702, which allows warrantless wiretapping by the US.
Old Technology - A History of Technical Lettering (www.typotheque.com)
A brief history of how lettering on technical documents went from handwritten, difficult to read lettering to interesting an unique templates before computer created documents were possible.
Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy (www.thewrap.com)
Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy::Netflix has resumed advertising on X following a suspension by the streamer and other brands after Elon Musk promoted an antisemitic post.
Hackers steal NFTs worth millions. In other news, NFTs worth millions. (www.theblock.co)
The way I read the article, the “worth millions” is the sum of the ransom demand....
How May Mobility went fully driverless while avoiding the pitfalls of robotaxis (www.theverge.com)
Utah Supreme Court says suspects can refuse to hand over phone passwords to the police | Other state Supreme Courts disagree and the case would wind up before the US Supreme Court (www.techspot.com)
Utah Supreme Court says suspects can refuse to hand over phone passwords to the police | Other state Supreme Courts disagree and the case would wind up before the US Supreme Court::undefined
Five People Founded Tesla, But Only Elon Musk Became Extremely Rich (open.substack.com)
Almost Half of Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway's $365 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in Only 1 Stock (finance.yahoo.com)
Almost Half of Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway’s $365 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in Only 1 Stock::This tech giant has made for a wonderful investment in recent years.
Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off “alarm bells,” tech group says (arstechnica.com)
Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off “alarm bells,” tech group says::Section 702 debate rages after another FISA Court opinion is unclassified.
Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime (finance.yahoo.com)
Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime::(Bloomberg) – Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users’ individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ask for data on everyone who was in the...
7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp (www.nytimes.com)
7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp::A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared the material with The New York Times.
None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters (www.usatoday.com)
Channel 1 AI released a promotional video explaining how the service will provide personalized news coverage to users from finance to entertainment.
What Amazon Kindle? Here's an Open Source eBook Reader (itsfoss.com)
Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time (fortune.com)
Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time::The case is believed to be the first time that U.S. prosecutors have brought felony charges against a motorist who was using a partially automated driving system.