Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout (arstechnica.com)
Good luck finding competent CoPilot help, says Microsoft MVP (www.theregister.com)
The frantic battle over OpenAI shows that money triumphs in the end (www.theguardian.com)
The frantic battle over OpenAI shows that money triumphs in the end::Private businesses, motivated by profit, can’t be relied on to police themselves against the horrors unfettered AI could bring
AWS Keynote round up (youtu.be)
Hi folks, this time it’s time to look at the announcements from Adam Selipskys #Keynote at #AWS #reinvent 2023. I’ve broken this down into a couple of videos to make it easier to digest which I’ll release throughout the day and I can say with certainty watching my summaries will save you a bunch of time in rewatching the...
A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab: Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial sur... (www.wired.com)
A Civil Rights Firestorm Erupts Around a Looming Surveillance Power Grab: Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial sur…::Dozens of advocacy groups are pressuring the US Congress to abandon plans to ram through the renewal of a controversial...
Open extensions on Firefox for Android will be available from December 14 (www.ghacks.net)
Lawsuit filed by 33 US states alleges Meta knew Facebook and Instagram's 'addictive features harmed young people’s physical and mental health' (www.pcgamer.com)
Lawsuit filed by 33 US states alleges Meta knew Facebook and Instagram’s ‘addictive features harmed young people’s physical and mental health’::Meta is being sued by the attorneys general of 33 separate US states over allegations that it intentionally created and launched features on its Facebook and Instagram social...
Greenpeace calls out tech giants for carbon footprint fumble (www.theregister.com)
UK watchdog slams the brakes on Adobe’s $20 billion bid for Figma (www.theverge.com)
PeerTube Admin 28: PeerTube Version 6 - New Features [video] (tube.jeena.net)
Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in 'company reset' (www.reuters.com)
Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in ‘company reset’::Videogame software provider Unity Software will eliminate 265 jobs or 3.8% of its global workforce and end an agreement with a digital video effects company founded by the “Lord of the Rings” director as part of a “reset,” the company said on Tuesday.
The Washington Post Will Pause Its Advertising on X (www.washingtonian.com)
The Washington Post Will Pause Its Advertising on X::undefined
DC Generator Alternator | VR for Engineering Education (www.youtube.com)
Step into the world of electrical engineering with our immersive VR experience on DC Generators and Alternators. 🌐✨ Join us on a journey through the intricacies of these essential components, providing a hands-on, in-depth exploration like never before....
Okta Says Hackers Stole Data for All Customer Support Users (www.bloomberg.com)
Meta Joins Google In Turning Its Back On The Open Web, And Embracing Unconstitutional Mandates That Pretend To ‘Protect The Children’ (www.techdirt.com)
Meta Joins Google In Turning Its Back On The Open Web, And Embracing Unconstitutional Mandates That Pretend To ‘Protect The Children’::A month ago we wrote about Google effectively “pulling up the ladder” on the open internet by embracing age verification mandates as part of a regulatory approach to child safety. As we...
History of Search Engines: From 1945 to Google Today (www.searchenginehistory.com)
We Spied on Trump's 'Southern White House' From Our Couches | Tracking people in-and-out of Mar-a-Lago was easy, thanks to commercial software. Think your privacy is any better protected? (www.rollingstone.com)
Plex update raises concerns over potential sharing of porn viewing habits | Be careful what you watch (www.techspot.com)
Plex update raises concerns over potential sharing of porn viewing habits | Be careful what you watch::undefined
New Battery Crushes Tesla's Tech, Unveils A Solid-State Marvel With 300% Higher Energy Density, 15-minute Ultra-Fast Charge (finance.yahoo.com)
Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling (www.tomshardware.com)
Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/8834978...
Prominent Women in Tech Say They Don't Want to Join OpenAI's All-Male Board (www.wired.com)
After internal chaos earlier this month, OpenAI replaced the women on its board with men. As it plans to add more seats, Timnit Gebru, Sasha Luccioni, and other AI luminaries tell WIRED why they wouldn't join.
FCC Moves Slowly To Update Definition Of Broadband To Something Still Pathetic (www.techdirt.com)
FCC Moves Slowly To Update Definition Of Broadband To Something Still Pathetic::For decades, the FCC has maintained an arguably pathetic definition of “broadband,” allowing the telecom industry to under-deliver substandard access. And despite some new rhetoric from the agency under Biden, that doesn’t appear to be changing...