US eyes Australia as test site for missiles to counter China (www.scmp.com)
US eyes Australia as test site for missiles to counter China::undefined
Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2 (www.ispreview.co.uk)
The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google (arstechnica.com)
China's tech titans scramble to buy $5 billion of Nvidia chips as US bans investment in key Chinese sectors, report says (markets.businessinsider.com)
China’s tech titans scramble to buy $5 billion of Nvidia chips as US bans investment in key Chinese sectors, report says::Alibaba, TikTok-owner Bytedance, and other Chinese tech giants have reportedly rushed to order Nvidia chips as US-China trade tensions mount.
Waymo And Cruise Get Permits For Full-Day Robotaxi For Money In SF, LA, Silicon Valley (www.forbes.com)
The World’s Last Internet Cafes (restofworld.org)
Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas (www.popsci.com)
Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas::The proposed electric railway line could travel 240 miles in under 90 minutes for over 6 million passengers per year.
Kenyan govt suspends use of worldcoin over security, privacy concerns (www.msn.com)
This is apparently the same story in UK....
Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature (www.bbc.com)
Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature::Physicists believe that an unknown force could be acting on sub-atomic particles known as muons.
California just opened the floodgates for self-driving cars (www.washingtonpost.com)
In a pivotal moment for the autonomous transportation industry, California chose to expand one of the biggest test cases for the technology.
Amazon employees are outraged by a new warning about individual office attendance: 'Is this supposed to scare people?' (archive.ph)
Amazon employees are outraged by a new warning about individual office attendance: ‘Is this supposed to scare people?’::undefined
Student project consumes 17% of energy of traditional desalination plants (www.biggrow.in)
Offers better brine handling and produces higher-purity water, making it ideal for offshore green hydrogen production. Sustainable and efficient solution with low environmental impact.
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds (www.independent.co.uk)
Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds::New study suggests effort users put in cracking these puzzles every day may be more trouble than its worth
Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating (www.wired.com)
Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating::Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order—and the hand of every player at a poker table.
VS Code’s Token Security: Keeping Your Secrets… Not So Secretly (cycode.com)
FYI to all the VS Code peeps out there that malicious extensions can gain access to secrets stored by other VS Code extensions as well as the tokens used by VS Code for Microsoft/Github....
Saving Vivaldi Social from doom: A Sysadmin adventure (vivaldi.com)
"Slack’s biggest redesign ever tries to tame the chaos of your workday" (www.theverge.com)
Global fashion firms block Korean consumers' access to their IP addresses (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
The biggest benefit of direct purchases is that fashion items are cheaper in the brands’ country of origin. This has become an obstacle for international fashion companies that try to sell goods on their Korean-language websites. The prices of Ralph Lauren’s steady-seller men’s Oxford shirts are set from 153,000 won...
Google Messages just flicked the switch on end-to-end encryption for all RCS and group chats (chromeunboxed.com)
cross-posted from: kbin.projectsegfau.lt/m/[email protected]/t/26889...
GM confirms $130,000 Cadillac Escalade IQ won’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto | GM said it was going to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all vehicles, and now, that includes Cadillac’s l... (www.theverge.com)
GM confirms $130,000 Cadillac Escalade IQ won’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto | GM said it was going to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in all vehicles, and now, that includes Cadillac’s l…::Cadillac confirms its new Google built-in infotainment leaves no room for Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. Instead, Google...
Supermarket AI Offers Mom's Famous Mustard Gas Recipe (gizmodo.com)
Once Again, Dirty Energy is not in the Public Interest (www.nrdc.org)
Once Again, Dirty Energy is not in the Public Interest::It’s time for a New Mexico utility to invest in clean energy over dirty coal and gas.
NASA’s Juno Is Getting Ever Closer to Jupiter’s Moon Io (www.nasa.gov)
AI Is Building Highly Effective Antibodies That Humans Can’t Even Imagine (www.wired.com)
machine learning algorithm designs antibodies to target specific diseases, then automated robotic systems build and grow them in lab, run tests, and feed data back into algorithm, all with limited human supervision.
A.I. can identify keystrokes by just the sound of your typing and steal information with 95% accuracy, new research shows. Researchers had artificial intelligence listen to the sounds of typing thr... (fortune.com)
A.I. can identify keystrokes by just the sound of your typing and steal information with 95% accuracy, new research shows. Researchers had artificial intelligence listen to the sounds of typing thr…::Researchers had artificial intelligence listen to the sounds of typing through a phone and over Zoom, with eerie results.