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Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250 (www.404media.co)

[UK] Nearly half a billion small tech items thrown away (www.bbc.com)

Unmoderated internet should be banned

Unmoderated internet is controlling/manipulating people and destroying this society, future....

German anti-racism body leaves X over 'rise in hate speech' (www.dw.com)

German anti-racism body leaves X over ‘rise in hate speech’::A German agency that tackles discrimination and racism says it is quitting the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. It cited a rise in hate speech since owner Elon Musk took over last year.

How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug (arstechnica.com)

The FTC wants to ban hidden 'junk fees' that jack up the price of your purchases (www.engadget.com)

The FTC wants to ban hidden ‘junk fees’ that jack up the price of your purchases::A new rule proposed by the FTC targets hidden and “bogus” fees businesses often add onto their services at checkout, aiming to do away with the deceptive practices.

Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible (niemanreports.org)

A lot of people threaten to leave Twitter. Not many of them have actually done it....

This US utility wants to give all of its customers battery storage by 2030 (electrek.co)

Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble | It should arrive next month. (mashable.com)

Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble | It should arrive next month.::undefined

Krita 5.2 released! (krita.org)

Starlink Direct to Cell (direct.starlink.com)

Google Allegedly Pays Over $18 Billion a Year to Be Apple’s Favorite Search Engine (gizmodo.com)

Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” (arstechnica.com)

Facebook’s sexist, ageist ad-targeting violates Calif. law, court finds | "Shocking" ruling could have "devastating effects," tech law expert warns. (arstechnica.com)

Facebook’s sexist, ageist ad-targeting violates Calif. law, court finds | “Shocking” ruling could have “devastating effects,” tech law expert warns.::“Shocking” ruling could have “devastating effects,” tech law expert warns.

Google Just Made a Bittersweet Announcement. It's the End of an Era (www.inc.com)

Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits (apnews.com)

Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits::Utah has become the latest state to sue TikTok, alleging the social media company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy habits.

So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off (gizmodo.com)

Right-to-repair is now the law in California (www.theverge.com)

New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials (scitechdaily.com)

New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials::Constructed from cement, carbon black, and water, the device holds the potential to offer affordable and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. Two of humanity’s most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and...

Google mitigated the largest DDoS attack to date, peaking above 398 million rps [Google Cloud blog post] (cloud.google.com)

The attack used a novel technique, HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, based on stream multiplexing

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