Bookwyrm - Decentralized network to discover and track your book read (joinbookwyrm.com)
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Rival US Lawmakers Mobilize to Stop Police From Buying Phone Data (www.wired.com)
Rival US Lawmakers Mobilize to Stop Police From Buying Phone Data::A bill to prevent cops and spies from buying Americans’ data instead of getting a warrant has a fighting chance in the US Congress as lawmakers team up against surveillance overreach.
Kevin Mitnick, famous fugitive hacker, dead at 59 (boingboing.net)
U.S. to decide soon on GM's request to deploy cars without steering wheels (www.autoblog.com)
U.S. to decide soon on GM’s request to deploy cars without steering wheels::U.S. regulators will soon decide on a petition filed by General Motors’ Cruise self-driving technology unit seeking permission to deploy up to 2,500 self-driving vehicles annually without human controls, a top auto safety official said on Wednesday.
Why Washington wants to treat Apple and Google like Big Banks (finance.yahoo.com)
Why Washington wants to treat Apple and Google like Big Banks::A new federal rule that would mean tougher oversight of Apple Pay and Google Pay sets up another fight between Washington and Big Tech
Xbox plans for using AI to create scripts, dialogue trees, quest lines (www.theverge.com)
Github is having some issues (www.githubstatus.com)
I’ll be hanging out here I guess. Good luck to the GH team!
Researchers develop solid-state thermal transistor for better heat management (techxplore.com)
ACLU Calls Out School Surveillance Programs In Latest Report (www.techdirt.com)
Telegram CEO says app will continue to host 'war-related content' after coming under fire for Hamas videos (techcrunch.com)
Apple addresses iPhone 15 overheating with a new iOS 17 update. (www.theverge.com)
Apple addresses iPhone 15 overheating with a new iOS 17 update.::A new iOS 17 update from Apple that’s intended to fix reports of overheating iPhone 15s is now available. Apple acknowledged the problem over the weekend, blaming it on software problems.
Metaverse: What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's next big thing? (www.bbc.com)
Two years ago, the metaverse was billed as the next big thing - but many in the tech world have already moved on....
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.
The Community Pushing AI-Generated Porn To 'the Edge of Knowledge' (www.slashdot.org)
Xbox adopts an eight-strike suspension policy | Players who strike out won't be able to use Xbox's social or multiplayer features for an entire year. (www.engadget.com)
Turns out that technology is NOT harmful to kids (www.techdirt.com)
Classic case of “If the research doesn’t support your position, lie like a rug.”
iPhone SE 4 Rumored to Feature Action Button, USB-C, Face ID, and More (www.macrumors.com)
India joins rush to renewables, but its rural solar systems fall off grid (www.washingtonpost.com)
A cautionary tale for a world racing into renewables: The large majority of mini-grids in India no longer work, an environmental group found....
OpenAI announces ChatGPT for Android (play.google.com)
Virtual pet website Neopets plans $4m comeback (www.bbc.co.uk)
Virtual pet website Neopets plans $4m comeback::Neopets is promising a “new era”, with $4m of funding to remake the site and bring back 50 classic games.
Inside the strange, secretive rise of the 'overemployed' (www.businessinsider.com)
Inside the strange, secretive rise of the ‘overemployed’::He was working three full-time jobs at Meta, IBM, and Tinder. His bosses didn’t know.
LinkedIn says spy firm targeted Hungarian activists, journalists before 2022 election (www.reuters.com)
A New Immersive Experience in Dublin Invites Visitors to Step Into the Pages of a Storied Medieval Book (news.artnet.com)
360-degree projections will tell the story of the Book of Kells, a 9th-century illuminated manuscript.
Court documents show Google offered Netflix a deal to stick with Play Store billing (www.androidpolice.com)
Court documents show Google offered Netflix a deal to stick with Play Store billing::Court documents show Google tried to cut a deal with Netflix in 2017
