Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives (www.zdnet.com)
Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives::How fast do you want your Wi-Fi to go? How does 5.8 Gigabits per second sound? Fast enough for you?
Elon Musk’s ironic bot army exposed (boingboing.net)
Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 (www.theverge.com)
HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges (www.theregister.com)
HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges::Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges
‘Magical’ Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
List of 2FA enabled services/websites?
Is there someone somewhere curating a list of websites/apps/services that propose 2FA?...
California wants to reduce traffic. The Newsom administration thinks AI can help (finance.yahoo.com)
California wants to reduce traffic. The Newsom administration thinks AI can help::Caltrans says AI can help generate recommendations so workers can take steps to improve the flow of traffic and potentially prevent accidents on the road.
Regulators aren’t convinced that Microsoft and OpenAI operate independently (arstechnica.com)
European Union regulators are concerned that Microsoft may be covertly controlling OpenAI as its biggest investor.
Elon Musk's alleged drug use puts 13,000 jobs at risk, report suggests (www.euronews.com)
Elon Musk’s alleged drug use puts 13,000 jobs at risk, report suggests::Elon Musk’s possible use of illegal drugs is causing concern for bosses within his companies, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Optically decoding the TMS0801 ROM - One of the earliest pocket calculators from 1972 (veniamin-ilmer.github.io)
X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (www.vice.com)
Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware (arstechnica.com)
Solid state battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles (techxplore.com)
Solid state battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles::Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times—more than any other pouch …
Authy is shutting down its desktop app - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Apple tells EU it has five different App Stores, not just one (9to5mac.com)
secator: the pentester's swiss knife (lemmy.world)
Happy New Year hackers !!!...
Supreme Court rejects appeal by Elon Musk's X on disclosing federal surveillance (www.cnbc.com)
Supreme Court rejects appeal by Elon Musk’s X on disclosing federal surveillance::X, owned by Elon Musk, previously challenged a ban on disclosing warrant for the Twitter account of Donald Trump obtained by special counsel Jack Smith.
GenAI could make KYC effectively useless (techcrunch.com)
Where will all the electric cars be charged? (www.bbc.co.uk)
Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing (www.bbc.com)
Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing::In an era where many films and albums are stored in the cloud, “streaming anxiety” is making people buy more DVDs, records – and even cassette tapes.
"There are thousands of volunteers who donated their labour to Duo... Bit by bit all of our work was hidden from us as Duolingo became a publicly-traded company." (aus.social)
China Says Cracked Apple AirDrop to Identify Message Sources (www.bloomberg.com)
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says (www.theguardian.com)
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says::Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products
Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for “enriching conversations” (www.theverge.com)
Volkswagen says it’s putting ChatGPT in its cars for “enriching conversations”::Volkswagen is putting ChatGPT into its cars starting in the second quarter of 2024. The feature is being considered for the US, but plans have yet to be finalized.