FTC denies responsibility for major Microsoft document leak (www.vg247.com)
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has denied responsibility for a major leak of Microsoft documents that occurred on S…
The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework. (www.businessinsider.com)
The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework.::ChatGPT traffic dropped when summer began and schools closed. Now students are back, and they’re using the AI tool again more.
Hackers who breached casino giants MGM, Caesars also hit 3 other firms, Okta says (www.reuters.com)
Hackers who breached casino giants MGM, Caesars also hit 3 other firms, Okta says::Hackers who breached casino giants MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment in recent weeks also broke into the systems of three other companies in the manufacturing, retail, and technology space, a security executive familiar with the...
Google’s Bard AI can now access Gmail, Drive, Docs, and more (www.pcworld.com)
First automatic JPEG-XL cloud service (www.gumlet.com)
JPEG 's conspicuous issues like lack of transparency, animation, lossless compression and high bit depth support makes it little tough to justify it as leading format for time to come. Various attempts like WebP and AVIF are made (and are supported on modern browsers) to overcome problems of JPEG but they all also suffer some...
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[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score (www.ifixit.com)
[ifixit] We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score::We need to have a serious chat about iPhone repairability. We judged the phones of yesteryear by how easy they were to take apart—screws, glues, how hard it was…
Above-Elbow Bionic Arm Can Control Every Finger (www.scientificamerican.com)
Everything We Know About Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial (www.wired.com)
Google’s AI protein folder IDs structure where none seemingly existed (arstechnica.com)
SBF’s parents were given $16.4M house paid for entirely by FTX, lawsuit says — FTX sues Bankman and Fried to claw back millions “siphoned” (arstechnica.com)
SBF’s parents were given $16.4M house paid for entirely by FTX, lawsuit says — FTX sues Bankman and Fried to claw back millions “siphoned”::FTX sues Bankman and Fried to claw back millions “siphoned” from crypto firm.
Amazon made a new version of its cashierless tech that doesn’t need cameras (www.theverge.com)
Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter? (variety.com)
Elon Musk said he will charge all X/Twitter users a fee to be on the platform. He suggested that such a change would be necessary to deal with the problem of bots on the platform....
Online child safety law blocked after Calif. argued face scans not that invasive (arstechnica.com)
Massive leak reveals next-gen Xbox could be a cloud-hybrid console, Series X|S refresh coming in 2024 | The Xbox is set to undergo a sea-change in the coming years. (www.techspot.com)
Massive leak reveals next-gen Xbox could be a cloud-hybrid console, Series X|S refresh coming in 2024 | The Xbox is set to undergo a sea-change in the coming years.::undefined
Canonical partners with AMD to enable Ubuntu on AMD Kria™ K24 SOMs (ubuntu.com)
EV batteries more reliable than predicted. (news.yahoo.com)
EV batteries more reliable than predicted.::The study took real-world data from 15,000 EVs of various makes and models in the U.S.
[EFF] New Privacy Badger Prevents Google From Mangling More of Your Links and Invading Your Privacy (www.eff.org)
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One of the FBI’s most wanted hackers is trolling the U.S. government | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
One of the FBI’s most wanted hackers is trolling the U.S. government | TechCrunch::Russian hacker Mikhail Matveev is making T-shirts featuring his FBI most wanted poster, and asking his followers if they want to buy merch.
[Corp Blog] addy.io passes independent security audit | addy.io (addy.io)
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Meet the World’s First AI-Powered Designer (www.surfacemag.com)
Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency' (www.businessinsider.com)
Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its ‘year of efficiency’::The company has revived a number of employee perks, according to Bloomberg, including branded t-shirts, laundry services, and free haircuts.
UK opens new chapter in digital regulation as parliament passes Online Safety Bill | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Why We’re Pulling Our Recommendation of Wyze Security Cameras (www.nytimes.com)
After six years of reviewing a variety of Wyze security cameras at Wirecutter, we’ve made the decision to suspend our recommendation of them from all our guides....
The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it (www.space.com)
Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is “noctalgia.” In general, it means “sky grief,” and it captures the collective pain...
