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The environmental impact of the AI revolution is starting to come into focus (www.theverge.com)

The iPhone 15 gets USB-C, a redesigned Cybertruck surfaces and California considers banning AV trucks | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

In this edition of TC's Week in Review (WiR) newsletter, we cover Apple's iPhone 15 announcements, casino hacks and California's proposed AV truck ban.

The best VPN services | Engadget (www.engadget.com)

NSA director says China trails US cyber skills (www.theregister.com)

NSA director says China trails US cyber skills::Paul Nakasone rates the Middle Kingdom a ‘pacing challenge’

Dishbrains, everyone! 'Australian military is funding a computer chip merged with human brain cells' (www.freethink.com)

iOS 17.1 arrives with updates to AirDrop, Apple Music, and more - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Idemia: the hidden face of the French leader in biometric identity (www-francetvinfo-fr.translate.goog)

What Cloud storage solution do you swear to?

Let’s discuss cloud storage solutions!...

YouTube Announces Updated Ad Placement Controls, Experiments with New Ad Formats for CTV. (www.socialmediatoday.com)

Community contributions to Element Web (Matrix client) are often not welcomed (github.com)

It seems that community contributions to Element Web (Matrix client) are often effectively rejected. For example, see:...

What's the best smart TV operating system (www.makeuseof.com)

There are lots of things you need to know before buying a smart TV & the OS on your smart TV will define its interface and software capabilities

Ransomware attack on China's ICBC disrupts Treasury market trades (www.reuters.com)

Hackers target Las Vegas plastic surgeons, post patient information, naked photos online (www.8newsnow.com)

Hackers target Las Vegas plastic surgeons, post patient information, naked photos online::The FBI is investigating how cyber criminals obtained medical records and naked patient photos from a Las Vegas plastic surgery office, posting them online for ransom, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned.

The Future of Machine Learning: A New Breakthrough Technique (MLC)

Breakthrough Technique: Meta-learning for Compositionality...

Supreme Court wades into social media wars over free speech (www.nbcnews.com)

Supreme Court wades into social media wars over free speech::Three major issues on the role of social media in society are before the Supreme Court, with oral arguments in the first two cases taking place this week.

Microsoft warns of incorrect BitLocker encryption errors (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Microsoft warned customers this week of incorrect BitLocker drive encryption errors being shown in some managed Windows environments....

Who to solicit for a small project?

I’m not in the tech community, but I have an idea for a device I want to get made (just for my own convenience; nothing commercial or for an organization). Is there an existing platform for soliciting someone to build an electronic gadget for me?

Google loses bid to keep Texas' ad tech lawsuit in New York - Reuters (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from !google

Driverless car company is using chatbots to make its vehicles smarter (psychedelia.ink)

In a demo the company gave the author this week, CEO Alex Kendall played footage taken from the camera on one of its Jaguar I-PACE vehicles, jumped to a random spot in the video, and started typing questions: “What’s the weather like?” The weather is cloudy. “What hazards do you see?” There is a school on the left....

'TikTok brain' may be coming for your kid's attention span (theweek.com)

Watch history required for recommendations now on Youtube/Alternative to youtube.

In order to get recommendations on your homepage you need to enable your Youtube history in order for videos to be “tailored for you”. This is complete BS, as recommendations were perfectly fine before, and I have never had history enabled. This is just a stunt to get people to give their personal data to google. Now I know...