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)
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.
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....
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)
Virtual reality game transforming youngsters' lives at Sheffield Children’s Hospital (uk.news.yahoo.com)
Google Enhances Privacy Tools To Protect Personal Data (www.searchenginejournal.com)
This sounds like a good change.
Specialized training programs using sensory augmentation devices could prevent astronauts from getting disoriented in space (theconversation.com)
Date night from hell looms for Apple as Netherlands says: 'It's not me, it's you' (www.theregister.com)
Google Search can now help verify an image’s origins (news.retiolus.net)
That is actually quite cool!
Apple Releases macOS Sonoma With Interactive Widgets, Game Mode, and More For all Compatible Macs - Download Available (wccftech.com)
macOS Sonoma will bring significant improvements to Safari where you can create separate profiles and a personal account that will track your preferences and activities with all of your saved passwords for websites, and much more. Widgets are also part of the final release, allowing you to gain access to information at a glance....
The great AI "pause" that wasn't (www.axios.com)
The organizers of a high-profile open letter last March calling for a "pause" in work on advanced artificial intelligence lost that battle, but they could be winning a longer-term fight to persuade the world to slow AI down.
[Reuters] Tesla sues Chinese firm over tech secret infringement -Chinese state media (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/1171223
Texas Instruments plans up to $1 bln investment to expand Philippine facilities (www.reuters.com)
Canadians have little incentive to adopt central bank digital currency (techstory.in)
motorized velomobile VM45 can cruise without pedaling using electric-assist function (www.designboom.com)
Czech company Katanga has created VM45, a motorized velomobile – a human-powered vehicle that combines elements of a bicycle and an enclosed aerodynamic shell – with four wheels and a body made of milled foam. Polyurethane foam was used for the body, which the design team had to mill into several smaller portions due to its...
