Cisco firewall 0-days under attack for 5 months by resourceful nation-state hackers (arstechnica.com)
Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System (computerhistory.org)
As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse (digiday.com)
The possibility of a TikTok ban is inching closer to becoming a reality at this point. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill that would bar the social media platform from operating in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells its stake....
Nurses Protest 'Deeply Troubling' Use of AI in Hospitals (www.404media.co)
“Life-and-death decisions relating to patient acuity, treatment decisions, and staffing levels cannot be made without the assessment skills and critical thinking of registered nurses,” the union wrote in the post. “For example, tell-tale signs of a patient’s condition, such as the smell of a patient’s breath and their...
Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes (www.nytimes.com)
Hackers are carrying out ransomware experiments in developing countries (arstechnica.com)
Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....
Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore (www.theverge.com)
It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
Internet Archive: Huge collection of amateur radio equipment manuals (archive.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14642241...
Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced (www.bbc.com)
Tesla has seen its profits more than halve this year, and says it will bring forward the launch of new models after announcing thousands of job cuts to try to reverse its fortunes....
You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 (arstechnica.com)
The future is going to be great!
Fisker now expects to go bankrupt within 30 days (www.arenaev.com)
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V (www.theregister.com)
Here's the full text of the “PROTECTING AMERICANS’ DATA FROM FOREIGN ADVERSARIES ACT OF 2024” currently in in the resolving difference phase before the POTUS signs it. UPDATED 4/24 for Accuracy
UPDATE: Adding Division H as well since it’s very relevant, before it was just Division I shown here...
Did you know the time taken to build a crypto exchange platform?
Did you know? Creating a cryptocurrency exchange platform can take anywhere from a few months to over a year! The time frame depends on various factors like features, regulations, and development complexity. Want to learn more about building your own exchange?...
I'm giving up — on open source - Blog (nutjs.dev)
Sustainable open source will stay a dream
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
Senate passes bill forcing TikTok’s parent company to sell or face ban, sends to Biden for signature. Biden expected to sign on Wed. (apnews.com)
Senate Passes Bill That Could Ban TikTok, Biden Expected to Sign (www.rollingstone.com)
Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)
When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...
The Man Who Killed Google Search (www.wheresyoured.at)
Edward Zitron has been reading all of google’s internal emails that have been released as evidence in the DOJ’s antitrust case against google....