Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales (www.tomshardware.com)
CISA Takedown of Ivanti Systems Is a Wake-up Call (www.darkreading.com)
Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% (archive.ph)
A new report estimates that the company led by Elon Musk accounted for just under half of all battery-powered vehicles sold in the second quarter of the year.
Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shocked (arstechnica.com)
Google.com pages found to have access to hidden Chrome API allowing hardware info such as CPU usage to be viewed (simonwillison.net)
h/t @simon fedi.simonwillison.net/
Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage (fedi.simonwillison.net)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/23752739...
Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers (stackdiary.com)
During installation, the router sent several data packets to an Amazon server in the US. These packets contained the configured SSID name and password in clear text, as well as some identification tokens for this network within a broader database and an access token for a user session that could potentially enable a MITM attack....
HP forced to ditch popular printer range following user backlash (www.techradar.com)
HP has discontinued its e-series LaserJet printers following widespread consumer dissatisfaction with the printers’ mandatory online connection of the HP+ scheme....
Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town (time.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/14304762...
The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again (www.openculture.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/14303847...
The U.S. President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. (www.propublica.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/612786...
Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder, Europol warns (www.techspot.com)
Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder for Europol...
Chinese developers scramble as OpenAI blocks access in China (www.theguardian.com)
AI-Powered Super Soldiers Are More Than Just a Pipe Dream (www.wired.com)
Massive car dealer ransom attack is mostly over after 2 weeks of work-arounds (arstechnica.com)
Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months (www.theverge.com)
Redditor has worst possible experience with Google’s new Find My Device network (www.androidpolice.com)
One Redditor tested Google’s Find My Device network against Apple’s Find My Network by shipping an AirTag and a Pebblebee tracker to a different state and tracking the package through the respective apps....
Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour (www.androidauthority.com)
Jesus, that is a gross way to inject advertising into turn-by-turn navigation....
Selfie-based ID raises eyebrows among infosec experts (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/36566249...
“Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers (arstechnica.com)
It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.
The President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. (www.propublica.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/24651183...
Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot (www.techspot.com)
Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years (arstechnica.com)
It's still bare-bones by most standards, but Notepad has evolved a lot recently.
Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones (www.techspot.com)
Microsoft has told all its employees in China that they will soon only be allowed to use iPhones for work purposes. The ban on Android devices is part of a security-related Microsoft initiative for providing a unified way of managing and verifying employee identities....
Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets (www.404media.co)
A lawsuit filed in California by concert giant AXS has revealed a legal and technological battle between ticket scalpers and platforms like Ticketmaster and AXS, in which scalpers have figured out how to extract “untransferable” tickets from their accounts by generating entry barcodes on parallel infrastructure that the...
