Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data (arstechnica.com)
Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data::undefined
Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter (www.androidauthority.com)
Samsung sees 95% drop in profits for a second consecutive quarter::Today, Samsung posted its Q2 2023 financial results. The report says Samsung’s profits have dropped considerably compared to last year.
Do our phones listen to our conversations? The answer is complicated. (english.elpais.com)
Our mobile devices listen to and collect a significant amount of data on us, even without using our microphones.
Google tries to defend its Web Environment Integrity (techreport.com)
I’m happy to see this being noticed more and more. Google wants to destroy the open web, so it’s a lot at stake....
The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On (www.iflscience.com)
The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Has Been Switched On::It’s turbo time.
Team creates simple superconducting device that could dramatically cut energy use in computing (phys.org)
(Not LK-99)
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)
The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide::The U.K. Parliament is pushing ahead with a sprawling internet regulation bill that will, among other things, undermine the privacy of people around the world. The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British...
Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation (venturebeat.com)
US judge tightens Sam Bankman-Fried's bail, will consider jailing him (www.reuters.com)
US judge tightens Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail, will consider jailing him::A U.S. judge on Wednesday tightened Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail conditions by restricting his ability to communicate publicly, and said he will consider jailing him before the trial over the collapse of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)
Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half (www.bbc.com)
California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got state data to study education issues (edsource.org)
Did Facebook fuel political polarization during the 2020 election? It’s complicated. (arstechnica.com)
Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation (www.businessinsider.com)
OceanGate’s cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn’t stop pushing the limits of innovation::Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.
Elon Musk’s Unmatched Power in the Stars (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article (expires in 30 days)
Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st (www.techdirt.com)
Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st::Just when we didn’t think the state of Texas could get any more wacko on tech policy, this latest bill really suggests otherwise. House Bill 1181 is an age verification measure that is similar to what we’ve seen in the state legislatures across other...
Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it (arstechnica.com)
Most of the 100 million people who signed up for Threads stopped using it::“We’re seeing more people coming back daily than I’d expected,” Zuckerberg said.
46 000 000 000 kg H~2~ : exploration (www.francebleu.fr)
in Folschviller, France - - still in progress...
"Web Environment Integrity" is an all-out attack on the free Internet — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software (www.fsf.org)
Blizzard says that modding Diablo IV can result in a permanent account ban (www.techspot.com)
Blizzard says that modding Diablo IV can result in a permanent account ban::undefined
New smartphone vulnerability could allow hackers to track user location (techxplore.com)
Conservatives Bombarded With Facebook Misinformation Far More Than Liberals In 2020 Election, Study Suggests (www.forbes.com)
Conservatives Bombarded With Facebook Misinformation Far More Than Liberals In 2020 Election, Study Suggests::Misinformation thrived in conservative echo chambers—but there were no liberal equivalents, according to the findings.
After 9 months, the New Orleans Police Department’s use of facial recognition has resulted in zero arrests and multiple false positives (lailluminator.com)
The Unexpected, Strangely Relaxing Outcome of All This Twitter Drama (slate.com)
