A look back at 40 Years of GNU and the Free Software Foundation (www.zdnet.com)
Carbon Capture Tech Hype Is Fizzling Out, IEA Says (gizmodo.com)
California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks (driveteslacanada.ca)
California Senate approves ban on autonomous trucks::California’s State Senate this week passed a bill which, if signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, would require autonomous semi-trailer trucks to have a trained human safety operator whenever they operate on public roads […]
AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action (arstechnica.com)
AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action::“A race against time to protect the children of our country from the dangers of AI.”
Japanese newspaper Gigazine goes over the slow decline of technological freedom up to today. (archive.ph)
The original japanese article....
Hosting firm says it lost all customer data after ransomware attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Apple backs California Right to Repair Act after long fight (www.theregister.com)
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” (arstechnica.com)
Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets”::The modified firmware used by BlackTech is hard to detect.
China’s top chipmaker may be in hot water as US lawmakers call for further sanctions after Huawei ‘breakthrough’ (www.cnn.com)
China’s top chipmaker may be in hot water as US lawmakers call for further sanctions after Huawei ‘breakthrough’::Shares in SMIC, China’s largest contract chipmaker, plunged on Thursday, after two US congressmen called on the White House to further restrict export sales to the company.
Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered (www.ign.com)
Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm’s Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered::A new report details how a PR firm paid off critics to post positive reviews of 2018 drama Ophelia on Rotten Tomatoes, prompting scrutiny over the reviews aggregator.
YouTubers can take training courses to remove warnings from their permanent record (www.engadget.com)
AMD denies blocking Bethesda from adding DLSS to Starfield | Starfield DLSS mod locked behind a paywall (www.techspot.com)
AMD denies blocking Bethesda from adding DLSS to Starfield | Starfield DLSS mod locked behind a paywall::undefined
Don't be fooled: Net neutrality is about more than just blocking and throttling (www.brookings.edu)
Don’t be fooled: Net neutrality is about more than just blocking and throttling::The net neutrality debate has huge implications beyond the reductive “blocking and throttling” buzzwords that ISPs use to characterize it.
Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Plastic That Decomposes in Seawater (www.azom.com)
Sustainable, Eco-Friendly Plastic That Decomposes in Seawater::undefined
Mass lawsuit against Apple over iPhone batteries can go ahead, London tribunal rules (www.reuters.com)
The UK’s problematic Online Safety Act is now law | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
I made a user script for youtube that adds a piped button beside each vid. (greasyfork.org)
I made a user script that will make a button on each video which jump you to piped, that way you can continue to use YT to manage your subscriptions and see your feed, but you never have to watch to video there
Sam Bankman-Fried thought there was a 5% chance he would be president, Caroline Ellison testified in his trial (www.businessinsider.com)
Sam Bankman-Fried thought there was a 5% chance he would be president, Caroline Ellison testified in his trial::Sam Bankman-Fried told Caroline Ellison that he could one day be the US president, she testified on Tuesday.
Drug dealer flew drone carrying $75K in opioids, porn-filled USB drive into prison yard (nypost.com)
Drug dealer flew drone carrying $75K in opioids, porn-filled USB drive into prison yard::Cheyenne Petryszyn was sentenced after admitting to her role in a smuggling plot that involved launching a drone to deliver drugs and porn to a Queensland, Australia, prison.
Ransomware Hackers Steal Millions From Vegas Casinos (odysee.com)
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How a Well-Regarded Mac App Became a Trojan Horse (gizmodo.com)
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US can cut building emissions by up to 91%, saving $100 billion a year in energy-related costs, modeling study shows (techxplore.com)
US can cut building emissions by up to 91%, saving $100 billion a year in energy-related costs, modeling study shows::The US has committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. To accomplish this goal, large cuts in emissions are necessary, especially in high-emission sectors like the building industry.