Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get (arstechnica.com)
iOS 18 (and AI) will give Siri much more control over your apps (www.theverge.com)
Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm running hundreds of fake Facebook accounts (www.engadget.com)
Someone Drove A BYD PHEV 1,497 Miles Without Stopping For Fuel (insideevs.com)
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Microsoft's newest tactic to convert Windows 10 users is giving them a big comparison list (www.xda-developers.com)
Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process (arstechnica.com)
Ozempic Defined a TikTok Era. Now the App Wants It Gone (www.rollingstone.com)
New York governor to launch bill banning smartphones in schools (www.theguardian.com)
Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens (arstechnica.com)
Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women (arstechnica.com)
Google lets you edit sent Messages in latest Android feature drop (www.theverge.com)
Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council (www.cnbc.com)
Twitch on Friday will end the contracts for all members of its Safety Advisory Council, a resource made up of industry experts, streamers and moderators, who consulted on trust and safety issues....
US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges (news.slashdot.org)
Manifest V2 phase-out begins (blog.chromium.org)
IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax (apnews.com)
The Green-Energy Revolution Shows What Real Innovation Looks Like (prospect.org)
Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account (arstechnica.com)
Earlier this month, Google Cloud experienced one of its biggest blunders ever when UniSuper, a $135 billion Australian pension fund, had its Google Cloud account wiped out due to some kind of mistake on Google’s end. At the time, UniSuper indicated it had lost everything it had stored with Google, even its backups, and that...
By Whose Authority? Pegasus targeting of Russian & Belarusian-speaking opposition activists and independent media in Europe - The Citizen Lab (citizenlab.ca)
Too Small to Police, Too Big to Ignore: Telegram Is the App Dividing Europe (www.bloomberg.com)
Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span (arstechnica.com)
US Officials: A Russian Rocket Launch Last Week Likely Deployed A Space Weapon (soylentnews.org)
Colorado enacts right-to-repair law banning restrictions on parts pairing, mirroring Oregon's ban (www.cpr.org)
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