Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they're being built (www.usatoday.com)
Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they’re being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY’s analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.
Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US (www.engadget.com)
Disney+ started getting strict about password sharing in Canada last year, and now it’s expanding the restriction to the US. According to The Verge, the streaming service has been sending out emails to its subscribers in the country, notifying them about a change in its terms of service. Its service agreement now states that...
Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police (www.nytimes.com)
Stop wearing Vision Pro goggles while driving your Tesla: U.S. transportation officials, Calif. police::Videos, many of them stunts or jokes, of people wearing Apple’s new virtual reality headset while driving Teslas in Autopilot mode prompted officials to issue warnings.
‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 (www.techradar.com)
Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks — botnet causes millions of euros in damages (www.tomshardware.com)
Sphere in Las Vegas made $167.8M in revenue for first three full months | KSNV (news3lv.com)
Sphere in Las Vegas made $167.8M in revenue for first three full months | KSNV::KSNV NBC Las Vegas covers news, sports, weather and traffic for the Las Vegas, Nevada area including Paradise, Spring Valley, Henderson, North Las Vegas, Indian Springs, Sloan, Searchlight, Laughlin and Nellis AFB.
The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true. (cyberplace.social)
DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs (www.cnbc.com)
DocuSign to lay off 6% of workforce, or about 440 jobs::DocuSign announced Tuesday it will cut 6% of its workforce as part of a restructuring plan
BitLocker encryption broken in less than 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM (www.tomshardware.com)
Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits (arstechnica.com)
[On the lighter side] Billionaire suggests a payload would have solved Starship explosion due to venting oxygen. And we have a suggestion for who that payload could be (www.theregister.com)
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SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says::Seven former employees say SpaceX execs joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns, Bloomberg reported.
Boffins find AI models tend to escalate conflicts to all-out nuclear war (www.theregister.com)
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Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year (qz.com)
Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year::Worse than Etsy. Worse than Boeing. Simply the worst
TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out (gizmodo.com)
The most obvious example is the TikTok Shop. The company is pushing its eCommerce so hard you hear about it more than any other topic on the app, both in ads and organic videos from creators hoping for a share of the profits. The app is even testing a new feature that uses AI to identify products in the background of regular...
The Icon Factory has a kickstarter fund for an app that would wrangle your feeds on iOS (www.kickstarter.com)
Tapestry would pull your many feeds together and sort them by timeline....
WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps (www.wired.com)
WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It’s revealed some more details on how that will work....
Weaver: New Specialised Writing LLMs Outperform GPT-4 (arxiv.org)
Weaver introduces a new family of specialised large language models tailored for creative and professional writing. Offering models ranging from 1.8B to 34B parameters, said to outperform larger generalist models like GPT-4 by focusing on human-like text production and diverse content creation capabilities.
Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer (fortune.com)
Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer::With the help of Axiom 3 astronauts on the International Space Station, a cancer “kill switch” drug may make it to clinical trials before year’s end.
WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps (www.wired.com)
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Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI (gizmodo.com)
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Spotify paid users hit 236M, but losing money, amid Apple battle (9to5mac.com)
Spotify paid users hit 236M, but losing money, amid Apple battle::Spotify reported a mix of good news and bad in its latest quarterly earnings report. The good news was that…
Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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