iFixit Tears Down McDonald's McFlurry Machine, Petitions Government for Right to Hack Them (www.404media.co)
Amazon CEO tells staff to work in office three days a week or look for another job (www.theguardian.com)
Amazon CEO tells staff to work in office three days a week or look for another job::Almost 30,000 workers signed petition against return-to-office mandate in May
Should I use chromium based browsers or firefox?
Chromium has better features, but with google announcing its plan to ‘drm the internet’ I 'm not sure if it’d be a good idea.
Child safety bills are reshaping the internet for everyone (www.theverge.com)
Lawmakers across the country (United States) are trying to protect kids by age-gating parts of the internet.
Sinopec says gasoline demand will peak this year (www.bloomberg.com)
BNEF journalist Colin McKerracher summarizes trends in China predicting a peak in fossil transport fuel: electric vehicle car sales, two and three wheeled electric kilometers traveled, electric trucks reaching the tipping point and ride hailing legislation.
YouTubers can take training courses to remove warnings from their permanent record (www.engadget.com)
Pentagon combat drones: “I’m flying off the wing of something that’s making its own decisions.” (Aug. 27) (www.nytimes.com)
Recently revised Pentagon policy allows for autonomous use of lethal force. In test later this year, combat drone will be asked to chase, kill simulated target, coming up with own strategy for mission. Second program’s goal is Air Force that is more unpredictable and lethal.
CenturyLink left 86-year-old woman with no Internet service for a month | After three canceled appointments, service restored one day after Ars emailed ISP. (arstechnica.com)
CenturyLink left 86-year-old woman with no Internet service for a month | After three canceled appointments, service restored one day after Ars emailed ISP.::After three canceled appointments, service restored one day after Ars emailed ISP.
Sinclair claims longevity escape velocity "already here" (www.youtube.com)
200,000 users abandon Netflix after crackdown backfires (www.forbes.com.au)
200,000 users abandon Netflix after crackdown backfires::Aussies have spoken, and the results are not looking good for Netflix. A new report reveals why users are turning to streaming competitors.
Mullvad Browser (no TOR, no VPN) (monero.town)
cross-posted from: monero.town/post/422188...
The living things that feast on plastic (knowablemagazine.org)
X, formerly Twitter, faces 2,200 arbitration cases and filing fees over $3 million (www.nbcnews.com)
X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon Musk took over the company, slashed headcount, and made other sweeping changes there. The filing fees alone for that volume of cases could amount to $3.5 million....
Foxconn's promise to invest $10 billion in Wisconsin is now a distant memory | It's now selling two mostly empty buildings in the state. (www.engadget.com)
Foxconn’s promise to invest $10 billion in Wisconsin is now a distant memory | It’s now selling two mostly empty buildings in the state.::Foxconn is selling two buildings in Wisconsin, which have remained mostly empty since they were originally purchased for its plans to bring production to the US…
Google debuts a new way to watermark AI-generated images (www.axios.com)
Google's DeepMind unit is unveiling today a new method it says can invisibly and permanently label images that have been generated by artificial intelligence.
How scientists engineered a see-through squid with its brain in plain view (www.npr.org)
As a fellow member of order decapodiformes, I am, of course, mortified.
Qualcomm's Next Smartphone Chip Will Be Built for Generative AI (www.extremetech.com)
Generative AI is slowly worming its way into every facet of technology, and next up is your smartphone. Qualcomm says that its next flagship mobile chips are going to be built specifically to run generative AI on the silicon, reducing reliance on the cloud. Running an AI on your phone could be a boon for privacy, but is...
Apple exec gets bribery charge for allegedly offering Calif. sheriff iPads for gun permits (www.sfgate.com)
Apple exec gets bribery charge for allegedly offering Calif. sheriff iPads for gun permits::An Apple security executive is charged with offering the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office 200 iPads in exchange for Tim Cook’s bodyguards’ gun permits.
Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter (restofworld.org)
Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.
California takes first step in acquiring trains for High-Speed Rail (ktla.com)
California takes first step in acquiring trains for High-Speed Rail::The California High-Speed Rail took another important step toward becoming reality Thursday after the governing body’s board of directors began the process of obtaining possible vendors for the state’s most ambitious transit project in history.
The end of the Googleverse (www.theverge.com)
James Webb Space Telescope reveals the colorful Ring Nebula in exquisite detail (www.space.com)
James Webb Space Telescope reveals the colorful Ring Nebula in exquisite detail::The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the Ring Nebula in vibrant green and purple, presenting one of the most well-known objects in astronomy like never before.