Order/license chaos for VMware products after Broadcom takeover (borncity.com)
Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years (www.fastcompany.com)
Visits to piracy websites have increased 12% in the past four years::undefined
'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology (www.bbc.com)
‘It hasn’t delivered’: The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology::Unstaffed tills were supposed to revolutionise shopping. Now, both retailers and customers are bagging many self-checkout kiosks.
Supreme Court declines to hear Apple-Epic antitrust case, meaning developers can point customers to the web (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft launches a Pro plan for Copilot (techcrunch.com)
GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bulls**t' AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice (www.ign.com)
GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bullst’ AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice::Grand Theft Auto voice actor Ned Luke, who played Michael De Santa in GTA 5, has called out a "fking bulls**t" AI chatbot which uses his voice.
Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla (www.cnn.com)
In a series of posts on X Monday night, Musk said that he would not want to grow Tesla to become a leader in artificial intelligence and robotics without a compensation plan that would give him ownership of around 25% of the company’s stock. That would be about double the roughly 13% stake he currently owns....
Samsung is no longer the world’s biggest smartphone maker (www.androidpolice.com)
CEOs say generative AI will result in job cuts in 2024 (arstechnica.com)
And last year they were all saying some variation on “don’t worry, AI is not going to cost anyone their jobs.”...
Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and others accused by rivals of not respecting new EU competition rules (www.cnbc.com)
Adblock: Google did not slow down and lag YouTube performance with ad blocker on - Neowin (www.neowin.net)
Adblock: Google did not slow down and lag YouTube performance with ad blocker on - Neowin::According to several user reports online, Google was apparently slowing YouTube down if it detected adblockers. However, Adblock has now confirmed that such is not the case at all.
More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence (www.themarshallproject.org)
Private security footage is nothing new to criminal investigations, but two factors are rapidly changing the landscape: huge growth in the number of devices with cameras, and the fact that footage usually lands in a cloud server, rather than on a tape....
Korea unveils plan to build $472 billion dollar mega chip cluster (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
Korea unveils plan to build $472 billion dollar mega chip cluster::Korea will build the world’s biggest semiconductor cluster in Gyeonggi Province by 2047 as Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and other chip companies plan to invest a total of 622 trillion won ($471 billion) to build 16 new fabs, creating more than 3 million jobs,...
USB-PD is a de-facto low-power DC voltage standard, with USB-C being the universal plug. Hurray! (hackaday.com)
I wanted to share this opinion on Hackaday about a topic that is the usefulness of a something that has become ubiquitous relatively fast....
Korea unveils plan to build $471 bil. mega chip cluster in Gyeonggi Province (m.koreatimes.co.kr)
B.C. police secretly took DNA from Kurdish community in tea-cup sting to solve murder (bc.ctvnews.ca)
B.C. police secretly took DNA from Kurdish community in tea-cup sting to solve murder::Undercover police investigating the murder of a 13-year-old girl in British Columbia disguised themselves as tea marketers to secretly collect the DNA of about 150 Kurdish community members, court recordings reveal.
US Slashes Planned Drilling to Push Offshore Wind (energy-oil-gas.com)
US Slashes Planned Drilling to Push Offshore Wind::Exploring the U.S.’s major shift to offshore wind farms, a key step in greening energy policy and shaping a sustainable future.
Apple to Remove Blood-Oxygen Sensor From Watch to Avoid U.S. Ban (www.wsj.com)
Apple to Remove Blood-Oxygen Sensor From Watch to Avoid U.S. Ban::Tech giant’s withdrawal of technology may end cloud hanging over $18 billion smartwatch business
AI cameras being set up on highways to catch drivers who throw trash out of their car windows (www.businessinsider.com)
AI cameras being set up on highways to catch drivers who throw trash out of their car windows::The decision to install cameras in UK lay-bys aims to prevent littering but one campaign group described the approach as “meaningless.”
Shutting down Artifact (medium.com)
It’s a shame! It was actually a good news source with a curated feed not run by Google!...
Why return-to-office mandates fail (www.computerworld.com)
Why return-to-office mandates fail::The question over whether to allow employees to work from home has been settled. Here’s the new normal.
Taylor Swift fans scammed by fake AI-generated endorsement for Le Creuset cookware (www.independent.co.uk)
Taylor Swift fans scammed by fake AI-generated endorsement for Le Creuset cookware::Deepfake ad showed an AI-generated Swift saying she was ‘thrilled’ to be handing out free cookware sets
Formula E team fires its AI-generated female motorsports reporter, after backlash: “What a slap in the face for human women that you’d rather make one up than work with us.” (www.caranddriver.com)
Formula E team fires its AI-generated female motorsports reporter, after backlash: “What a slap in the face for human women that you’d rather make one up than work with us.”::px-captcha