Why American manufacturing is becoming less efficient (www.economist.com)
Why American manufacturing is becoming less efficient::undefined
Mullvad's public encrypted DNS Servers run in RAM now (ghacks.net)
Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking (www.theregister.com)
Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist (www.404media.co)
Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist::The ‘Brand Safety’ and ‘Suitability’ industries have financially crushed the news business by keeping ads away from articles that its ‘sentiment analysis’ algorithms think will make people sad or upset.
Does Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes” (arstechnica.com)
iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps from outside the App Store (9to5mac.com)
iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps from outside the App Store::undefined
Samsung is planning a 400-500$ foldable for 2024 (mashable.com)
Samsung and Google challenge Dolby Atmos with new IAMF 3D spatial audio technology (www.notebookcheck.net)
At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk’s rush to Mars (www.reuters.com)
Amazon Fire Tablets and other gear will reportedly switch away from Android (arstechnica.com)
Amazon Fire Tablets and other gear will reportedly switch away from Android::TVs, Echo Show, and other gear could sport Amazon’s in-house replacement soon.
A Request for This Fruit Caused a Bomb Scare in Portugal (thetakeout.com)
Apparently the word “pomegranate” gets lost in translation....
How SIM Swappers Straight-Up Rob T-Mobile Stores (www.404media.co)
Video shot from a getaway car shows how SIM swappers have snatched worker tablets to help them take over phone numbers....
An entire state's population just had its data stolen in a ransomware attack (sea.mashable.com)
An entire state’s population just had its data stolen in a ransomware attack::The attack impacts about 1.3 million people.
In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air (www.nytimes.com)
First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled (arstechnica.com)
First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled::NuScale and its primary partner give up on its first installation.
Stop suggesting children as friends, social media firms told (www.bbc.com)
Starlink bug frustrates users: “They don’t have tech support? Just a FAQ? WTF?” (arstechnica.com)
Amazon must pay $46.7 mln in voice-assistant patent case, US jury says (www.reuters.com)
Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor (www.wired.com)
Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor::Omegle connected strangers to one another and had a long-standing problem of pairing minors with sexual predators. A legal settlement took it down.
Senate Leaders Plan to Prolong NSA Surveillance Using a Must-Pass Bill (www.wired.com)
Intel bets big against ChatGPT's OpenAI, invests heavily in Stability AI, makers of Stable Diffusion (www.firstpost.com)
Slow internet speeds? It might be faster to use a pigeon. (wapo.st)
To be clear: they’re talking about attaching a micro-sd card to the pigeon’s leg, not RFC 1149
Bill Gates thinks AI could spell the end of tedious life admin (www.businessinsider.com)
Bill Gates thinks AI could spell the end of tedious life admin::Bill Gates and Sam Altman spoke about the future of AI being one where the technology works as super-helpful assistants to humans.
8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests (www.macrumors.com)
8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests::Apple’s new MacBook Pro models are powered by cutting-edge M3 Apple silicon, but the base configuration 14-inch model starting at $1,599…
CEOs of crashed tech upstart Bitwise accused of swindling $100M from investors - Duo paid themselves $600K salaries as the cupboard was emptying (www.theregister.com)
CEOs of crashed tech upstart Bitwise accused of swindling $100M from investors - Duo paid themselves $600K salaries as the cupboard was emptying::Duo paid themselves $600K salaries as the cupboard was emptying
