“Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Texas State Police Gear Up for Massive Expansion of Surveillance Tech (www.texasobserver.org)
In June, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) signed an acquisition plan for a 5-year, nearly $5.3 million contract for a controversial surveillance tool called Tangles from tech firm PenLink, according to records obtained by the Texas Observer through a public information request. The deal is nearly twice as large as the...
Pirate Streaming Giants Fboxz, AniWave, Zoroxtv & Others Dead in Major Collapse (torrentfreak.com)
Safety First: Top Dash Cam Picks For Extra Eyes On The Road (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
70mai’s standout innovations is the MaiColor Vivid+ Solution™️, a patented technology that enhances image quality with an exclusive algorithm.
ACE Goes After Fmovies Sister Site ‘Successors’ (torrentfreak.com)
Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency (www.wired.com)
Back In mid-January, Mara Kronenfeld was googling the name of the nonprofit she runs, which raises money in the US on behalf of the leading humanitarian aid provider in Gaza. Atop the search results for her organization—UNRWA USA, partner to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)—she...
NVIDIA's Dominance In ADAS Chips Under Threat From Chinese OEMs, Huawei's HiSilicon All Set To Announce A Breakthrough Development (wccftech.com)
A third of the world’s population lacks internet connectivity − airborne communications stations could change that (theconversation.com)
16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs (www.macrumors.com)
Social platform X edits AI chatbot after election officials warn that it spreads misinformation (www.voanews.com)
Hackers Claim to Have Stolen Top Secret Documents From the U.S. Marshals Service (gizmodo.com)
Now you'll be able to purchase sunlight at night! (mashable.com)
Google Wallet now works for California driver’s licenses (www.theverge.com)
Stanford scientists design dichalcogenide solar cells based on tungsten diselenide (www.pv-magazine.com)
The group designed a sputtered multilayer WSe2 film with a thickness of 15−30 nm for applications on on a 150 mm wafer via a selenization process based on either a solid-source selenium (SS-Se) at 900 C or low-thermal-budget hydrogen selenied (H2Se) precursors at 650 C. The resulting WSe2 film had an energy bandgap of 1.2 eV...
Green Hydrogen To Be Featured In World’s First Nationwide “Hydrogen Valley” (cleantechnica.com)
The Baltic nation of Estonia has launched an ambitious 100% renewable energy goal for 2030. As part of that goal, energy industry stakeholders plan to showcase the entire country as the world’s first nationwide, integrated “hydrogen valley” hub, with a focus on green hydrogen.
US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 (arstechnica.com)
Android malware steals payment card data using previously unseen technique (arstechnica.com)
It’s time to retire the term “user” (archive.today)
because we shouldn't be humanizing AI while depersonalizing the actual people who use stuff, according to MIT Technology Review.
When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself | As A.I.-generated data becomes harder to detect, it’s increasingly likely to be ingested by future A.I., leading to worse results. (www.nytimes.com)
EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone (www.theguardian.com)
Apple Event Announced for September 9: “It's Glowtime” (www.macrumors.com)
Hello, you’re here because you compared AI image editing to Photoshop (www.theverge.com)
The implications could be significantly worse, actually.
The US wants to use facial recognition to identify migrant children as they age - A previously unreported project is intended to improve how facial recognition algorithms track children over time (www.technologyreview.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/homeland-security-facial-recogn…
Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel | Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated (arstechnica.com)
Last week, Microsoft mentioned in a support document that it was formally deprecating Windows’ 39-year-old Control Panel applets. But following widespread reporting of the change, Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated in favor of the Settings app....