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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.

[discussion] DC (direct current) power network

As we all know, AC won the “War of the Currents”. The reasoning behind this is that AC voltage is easy to convert up/down with just a ring of iron and two coils. And high voltage allows us to transport current over longer distances, with less loss....

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....

What are some decent Android stylus phones?

Rumble boss ‘departed’ from Europe after Telegram CEO arrest (cointelegraph.com)

The founder and CEO of Rumble — a YouTube alternative billing itself as “immune to cancel culture” — said he has “departed” from Europe after Pavel Durov, the CEO of encrypted messaging app Telegram, was arrested....

Microsoft pushes windows 11 ads into windows 10 (www.xda-developers.com)

Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth (www.wired.com)

A decade old longread from Wired that also shines a light on how trivial it was to bypass mechanisms of some online services back in the day....

Does anyone know how to customize Apple Glance wallpapers? (substack.com)

I’ve been trying to figure out how to customize the wallpapers on Apple Glance, but I’m stuck. I know Apple is usually pretty strict with customization options, but does anyone know if there’s a way to tweak or change the Glance wallpapers? Any tips or tricks would be super helpful!