New Raspberry Pi 5 comes with PCIe 2.0 x1 interface and power button (www.raspberrypi.com)
Broadcom BCM2712 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with cryptography extensions, 512KB per-core L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache...
"Our Wire Mothers" - It's important for us to be careful that our technology does not supplant the human need for socialization. (www.staygrounded.online)
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Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” (arstechnica.com)
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”::The modified firmware used by BlackTech is hard to detect.
An Analysis of DeepMind's 'Language Modeling Is Compression' Paper (codeconfessions.substack.com)
Statement: the FCC should ignore the inevitable flood of telecom industry astroturf and move full steam ahead with restoring net neutrality. (www.fightforthefuture.org)
Statement: the FCC should ignore the inevitable flood of telecom industry astroturf and move full steam ahead with restoring net neutrality.::undefined
Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform (techcrunch.com)
Reddit said Wednesday that the platform is revamping its privacy settings with an aim to make ad personalization and account visibility toggles consistent. Most notably though, it is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on Reddit activity....
Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI (venturebeat.com)
Oops! Google Search caught publicly indexing users’ conversations with Bard AI::Gagan Ghotra observed that Google Search had begun to index shared Bard conversational links into its search results pages, potentially…
Rechargeable Water Dispensers: A Modern Hydration Solution (viralvendorz.com)
In our fast-paced world, convenience is key, and the Rechargeable Desk Water Dispenser is emerges as a game-changer, revolutionizing the way we hydrate in our daily lives. With its sleek and contemporary design, coupled with the practicality of being rechargeable, this innovative gadget takes hydration to a whole new level....
Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade (arstechnica.com)
Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade::North American sales are bad for everyone, except, miraculously, Google.
Raspberry Pi 5 revealed, and it should satisfy your need for speed (www.theregister.com)
Many firms aren't reporting breaches to the proper authorities (www.techradar.com)
Many firms aren’t reporting breaches to the proper authorities::Keeper study finds many feel too guilty to report
Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O (www.phoronix.com)
Four years after the Raspberry Pi 4 shipped, today the Raspberry Pi 5 is launching with a much improved SoC leading to significant performance gains....
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)
Engineers at MIT and in China are aiming to turn seawater into drinking water with a completely passive device that is inspired by the ocean, and powered by the sun....
Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive (www.washingtonpost.com)
Under India’s pressure, Facebook let propaganda and hate speech thrive::undefined
Google launches earthquake alerts on Android in India - TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Amazon Has Turned Into an Monopolistic Shithole Littered With Pay-to-Play Ads, FTC Lawsuit Solemnly Argues (www.404media.co)
Disney’s password-sharing crackdown has begun (www.theverge.com)
It’s now explicitly against Disney Plus’s policies for Canadian subscribers to share passwords outside of their household.
Valve fails to get out of paying its EU geo-blocking fine (www.engadget.com)
Valve fails to get out of paying its EU geo-blocking fine::Valve has failed to convince a court that it didn’t infringe EU law by geo-blocking activation keys, according to a new ruling.
The US electrical grid is in desperate need of upgrades, watchdog warns (www.engadget.com)
A look back at 40 Years of GNU and the Free Software Foundation (www.zdnet.com)
GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack (arstechnica.com)
GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack::A previously unknown compression side channel in GPUs can expose images thought to be private.
The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet (gadgettendency.com)
The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet::Mozilla has announced the release of an update to its Firefox browser. In version number 118, users will find a significant innovation - a built-in translator
Good News! Public tracking data used by defense contractors from space-track.org now officially shows Elon has lost over 5% of his fleet in 2 months. He can no longer keep up with launches. (tiblur.com)
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” (arstechnica.com)