AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory (9to5mac.com)
AirTag 2 not expected until 2025 as Apple sits on backlog of first-gen inventory::If you’ve been hoping for a second-generation AirTag, you’ll have to keep waiting. According to a new report from Bloomberg,…
European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for copyright infringement by nonfiction book authors in class action claim (www.cnbc.com)
Microsoft, OpenAI sued for copyright infringement by nonfiction book authors in class action claim::The new copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI comes a week after The New York Times filed a similar complaint in New York.
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem (spectrum.ieee.org)
Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem::Experiments with Midjourney and DALL-E 3 show a copyright minefield
23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits (www.wired.com)
23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It’s Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits::Plus: Russia hacks surveillance cameras as new details emerge of its attack on a Ukrainian telecom, a Google contractor pays for videos of kids to train AI, and more.
Senior AWS dev claims Amazon is quietly trying to encourage employees to quit in a push to covertly cut numbers (www.itpro.com)
Senior AWS dev claims Amazon is quietly trying to encourage employees to quit in a push to covertly cut numbers::A senior developer at AWS has claimed the tech giant is conducting a “silent sacking” campaign in a bid to covertly cut numbers and avoid negative press.
web4 – The Second End of History? (fungiverse.wordpress.com)
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Turkish Airlines grounds its fleet of Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets following the Alaska Airlines incident (www.trthaber.com)
Turkish Airlines grounds its fleet of Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets following the Alaska Airlines incident::Türk Hava Yolları (THY), filosundaki 5 “Boeing 737 MAX 9” tipi uçağını seferden çektiğini duyurdu.
For those who lurk on Reddit - my read-only, ad-free, open source Reddit viewer RDX is better than ever now (rdx.overdevs.com)
I am posting the updates here because most of the users of RDX came from this community only....
Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company (appleinsider.com)
Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company::As Microsoft stock rises and Apple’s falls over analysts expectation of slowing iPhone demand, the two firms are once more within $100 billion of each other — the smallest gap in over two years.
Scholars’ names ‘stolen’ in propaganda written by AI (www.thetimes.co.uk)
Apple is sending out checks for ‘batterygate’ class action claims (www.theverge.com)
Apple is sending out checks for ‘batterygate’ class action claims::Apple has begun sending money to people whose iPhones were intentionally throttled in the iPhone 6, 6S, and 7 lines, as well as the first iPhone SE.
Experimental antibiotic kills deadly superbug, opens whole new class of drugs (arstechnica.com)
LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too. (www.businessinsider.com)
Ell's Owncast Server (stream.cincodenada.com)
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Apple Starts Sending 'Batterygate' Settlement Payments to iPhone Users (www.macrumors.com)
Apple Starts Sending ‘Batterygate’ Settlement Payments to iPhone Users::Apple in 2020 agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle a class action lawsuit in the U.S. that accused the company of "secretly…
Honda and Mitsubishi will test a fuel cell-powered data center in Japan (www.techspot.com)
UK fossil fuel use drops to lowest level since 1957 (www.power-technology.com)
UK fossil fuel use drops to lowest level since 1957::undefined
Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight (www.theverge.com)
Boeing 737 Max planes are grounded after a hole blew in one mid-flight::The FAA ordered that 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 planes be inspected before they can return to service following the explosive decompression of an Alaska Airlines flight.
UN banned Apollo Fusion's business model of using mercury rocket propellant to launch satellites into space (spectrum.ieee.org)
UN banned Apollo Fusion’s business model of using mercury rocket propellant to launch satellites into space::Startup Apollo Fusion was building thrusters that could have contaminated the upper atmosphere with the toxic metal
Project Kuiper: Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink passes 'crucial' test (www.space.com)
Project Kuiper: Amazon’s answer to SpaceX’s Starlink passes ‘crucial’ test::Amazon’s Project Kuiper, which uses optical inter-satellite link (OISL) technology to connect more than 3,000 satellites in a mesh network that blankets Earth, just cleared a final hurdle needed to launch next year.