Leaker shares mounting Nintendo Switch Mini or Switch Pocket evidence, offers up release date and price predictions (www.notebookcheck.net)
Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV (9to5google.com)
AWS VP spins employee question about engineer turnover as a good thing — “It's making us better.” & “Frugality breeds innovation for us.” (www.businessinsider.com)
AWS VP spins employee question about engineer turnover as a good thing — “It’s making us better.” & “Frugality breeds innovation for us.”::An AWS VP answered employee questions over attrition by spinning it as a good thing.
G7 agrees on first comprehensive guidelines for generative AI (asia.nikkei.com)
HP Smart app mysteriously appears on non-HP Windows PCs | Microsoft is investigating (www.techspot.com)
HP Smart app mysteriously appears on non-HP Windows PCs | Microsoft is investigating::undefined
Federal judge vows to investigate Google for intentionally destroying chats (www.theverge.com)
Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)
Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.
Broadcom to lay off over 1,200 Bay Area tech workers following $69B VMware deal (www.sfchronicle.com)
Broadcom to lay off over 1,200 Bay Area tech workers following $69B VMware deal::Broadcom to lay off over 2,000 employees after acquiring Bay Area tech company VMware in a $69B deal.
PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For (kotaku.com)
PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For::Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not
Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies (www.newsweek.com)
Google Removes App That Helps People Boycott Pro-Israel Companies::NoThanks was temporarily suspended from the Google Play app store due to a line in its description speaking about Israel.
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)
How Googlers cracked an SF rival's tech model with a single word | A research team from the tech giant got ChatGPT to spit out its private training data (www.sfgate.com)
Basically: you ask for poems forever, and LLMs start regurgitating training data:...
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)
Tesla falls on long wait for Cybertruck payoff, hefty price tag / Tesla shares fell more than 3% on Friday (www.reuters.com)
Tesla falls on long wait for Cybertruck payoff, hefty price tag / Tesla shares fell more than 3% on Friday::Tesla’s pricier-than-expected Cybertruck pickup, which offers driving ranges that fell well short of what CEO Elon Musk had promised, has deeply disappointed some but fascinated others with its futuristic, SUV-like feel.
X advertisers stay away as CEO defends Musk’s “go f*** yourself” interview (arstechnica.com)
Walmart says it is not advertising on social platform X (www.reuters.com)
Turmoil at OpenAI shows we must address whether AI developers can regulate themselves (theconversation.com)
Pirate Bay URL Disappears from Google Knowledge Panel in 'Blocked' Regions (torrentfreak.com)
The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money (www.vice.com)
The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money::Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money.
Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them (www.cnn.com)
Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why (www.cnbc.com)
Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why::The share of workers being called back to the office has flatlined, suggesting remote work is an entrenched feature of the U.S. labor market.
Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same (fortune.com)
SpaceX has revealed, through a company email invite, that its newest Starlink dish will cost $599. (www.pcmag.com)
SpaceX has revealed, through a company email invite, that its newest Starlink dish will cost $599.::undefined
Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says (arstechnica.com)
Japanese experimental nuclear fusion reactor inaugurated (phys.org)
