Mortgage giant Mr. Cooper hit with cyberattack possibly affecting more than 14 million customers (abcnews.go.com)
Lawmakers Seek Probe on Apple (AAPL) Over Shuttering iMessage-for-Android Apps - Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com)
VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough (www.thedrive.com)
AI-screened eye pics diagnose childhood autism with 100% accuracy (newatlas.com)
AI-screened eye pics diagnose childhood autism with 100% accuracy::undefined
Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents (www.wired.co.uk)
Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents::On Telegram, scammers are impersonating doctors to sell fake Covid-19 vaccination certificates and other products, showing how criminals are taking advantage of conspiracy theories.
Raspberry Pi project is well done, uses AI to cook meat to perfection (www.tomshardware.com)
Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
The company announced on Monday that it is beginning to switch its user accounts to ActivityPub, which means that everyone curating stuff on Flipboard is now doing so in a way that apps like Mastodon can see and interact with.
After a 15-Month Figma and Adobe Withdraw Proposed Acquisition After Regulatory Hurdles (www.figma.com)
Fifteen months into the regulatory review process, Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval of our proposed acquisition.
Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (www.404media.co)
Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma (www.theverge.com)
Flipboard is pivoting to ActivityPub and the fediverse (www.theverge.com)
The "Cheap" Web (potato.cheap)
cheap ≠ free Making nice things is difficult and time-consuming....
X to be investigated for allegedly Not Complying with EU laws on hate speech and fake news (www.theguardian.com)
X to be investigated for allegedly Not Complying with EU laws on hate speech and fake news::EU launches proceedings against Elon Musk’s social media platform under new Digital Services Act
Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority (www.androidauthority.com)
US senators have urged the DOJ to probe Apple’s alleged anti-competitive conduct against Beeper.
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)
Amazon Fires Up Its Space Lasers (spectrum.ieee.org)
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.
Windows 11 KB5033375 December 2023 update breaks Wi-Fi in universities (www.windowslatest.com)
Windows 11 KB5033375 December 2023 update breaks Wi-Fi in universities::Windows 11 December 2023 KB5033375 may cause broken Wi-Fi connections, slow speeds and packet losses.
Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma (www.theverge.com)
Firefox Nightly for Android lets you install add-ons from files (www.ghacks.net)
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.
EU opens formal DSA investigation into X in wake of Israel-Hamas war (www.theverge.com)
How May Mobility went fully driverless while avoiding the pitfalls of robotaxis (www.theverge.com)
This porn company makes millions by shaming porn consumers (finance.yahoo.com)
This porn company makes millions by shaming porn consumers::Strike 3 Holdings says it’s the creator of ‘artistic’ and ‘inspiring’ pornography. Some judges call it a copyright troll that makes millions by threatening to out those who download its films.