Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees (arstechnica.com)
TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/14914636
Fmovies Has Gone Offline, the End of a Pirate Streaming Giant? (torrentfreak.com)
Google is close to making its biggest acquisition ever | CNN Business (www.cnn.com)
Google owner Alphabet is in advanced discussions to buy fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN....
Apple Watch 2024 Lineup Might Undergo Rework: What to Expect? (www.techtimes.com)
Apple might be considering reworking the 2024 Apple Watch lineup. Rumors suggest that these models will have bigger displays.
Google and Microsoft consume more energy than 100+ countries | Windows Central (www.windowscentral.com)
Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm (www.techspot.com)
“Permanent lunar colonies could soon become an attainable target for space agencies”
Open Letter: "The European Union must keep funding free software" (nextgraph.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/859623...
The app that promised to ‘use AI to weed out daters with STIs’ has been shut down (www.theverge.com)
The Future of Odysee (odysee.com)
Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service (arstechnica.com)
Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law (www.cnbc.com)
It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone (www.theverge.com)
Google’s $500M effort to wreck Microsoft EU cloud deal failed, report says (arstechnica.com)
Google tried to derail a Microsoft antitrust settlement over anticompetitive software licensing in the European Union by offering a $500 million alternative deal to the group of cloud providers behind the EU complaint, Bloomberg reported....
Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI. (www.proofnews.org)
Intel venture arm’s China tech stakes raises alarm in Washington (www.ft.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/18051227...
Google tests out Gemini AI-created video presentations (www.theverge.com)
Google is launching its new Vids productivity app in Workspace Labs with the idea that “if you can make a slide, you can make a video in Vids.” Announced in April, Vids allows users to drop docs, slides, voiceovers, and video recordings into a timeline to create a presentation video to share with coworkers. Making it...
Swedish digital forensic group Qurium shows how Russia is using European companies for propaganda (www.qurium.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/836852...
Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data (libreddit.bus-hit.me)
Reddit link: reddit.com/…/a_word_about_private_attribution_in_…
Web application testing best practices (www.testingxperts.com)
Web applications are more than just simple information-based websites. The enterprises must deploy skilled testers to assess all aspects of the website across platforms, browsers, and devices. The testers must always implement web application testing best practices in order to produce accurate and reliable test results without...
It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone (www.theverge.com)
NSA Claims It Can’t Watch a Tape It Recorded in the 1980s (gizmodo.com)
Kaspersky is shutting down its business in the United States (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Kaspersky Lab is shutting down all its operations in the US by July 2024 due to recent ban (alternativeto.net)
Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab has confirmed that it will officially end its U.S. operations on July 20, 2024, following sanctions from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), imposed on back in June. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Commerce has added Kaspersky Lab and its...