Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin::US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.
Unprofitable SF tech giant Okta lays off 400 workers, dozens in California (www.sfgate.com)
Unprofitable SF tech giant Okta lays off 400 workers, dozens in California::Okta, the San Francisco-based maker of identity and access tech, is laying off 400 workers, including 83 in California. CEO Todd McKinnon announced the news.
Ecosia plants 200 million trees (blog.ecosia.org)
Tesla recalling another 2.2 million vehicles for warning lights that are too small. (lite.cnn.com)
The EPA is proposing that 'forever chemicals' be considered hazardous substances (www.npr.org)
The EPA is proposing that ‘forever chemicals’ be considered hazardous substances::undefined
Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast' (www.pcgamer.com)
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT (danluu.com)
I find it pretty interesting that kagi is rated as Terrible search engine, even ChatGPT preforms better.
Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired (www.theverge.com)
Another useful feature for power users that Google is killing....
Police Departments Are Turning to AI to Sift Through Millions of Hours of Unreviewed Body-Cam Footage (www.propublica.org)
Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue (www.cbsnews.com)
Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue::Warning lights on the Tesla vehicles are hard to read, raising the risk of a crash, according to traffic safety regulators.
Indie labels cry foul over Apple Music’s enhanced spatial audio royalties (www.theverge.com)
FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines (www.cbsnews.com)
FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines::Update from the Food and Drug Agency comes days after Philips said it would stop selling the devices in the U.S.
Critical vulnerability in Mastodon is pounced upon by fast-acting admins (www.theregister.com)
Musk says Tesla will hold shareholder vote ‘immediately’ to move company’s incorporation to Texas (www.forbes.com.au)
Musk says Tesla will hold shareholder vote ‘immediately’ to move company’s incorporation to Texas::Billionaire Elon Musk justified the decision on the results of an unscientific poll run on his X account a day earlier.
Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever in Q4 (techcrunch.com)
For the last several quarters we’ve seen a lull in the expansion of the cloud infrastructure market, with lower growth numbers than we’ve been accustomed to seeing in the past. That changed this quarter thanks in large part to interest in generative AI. The new revenue wave began just last year, driven by the ChatGPT hype...
Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint (www.the-express.com)
Couple suing Google Maps after it sent them to a notorious crime hotspot where they were brutally attacked and robbed at gunpoint::A Los Angeles couple filed a lawsuit against Google Maps for allegedly navigating them to a notorious South African crime neighborhood where tourists are left ‘injured, maimed or dead.’
Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature (www.engadget.com)
One of Google Search’s oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired. Best known by the “Cached” button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. However, according to Google, they’re no longer required....
Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)
“Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...
Google seemingly embraces AI dogfooding with gutso — cancels huge contract which could see thousands of quality rater jobs terminated and change SEO forever (www.techradar.com)
Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs (finance.yahoo.com)
Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs::The tech giant posted the largest quarterly operating income in its history on the back of cost-cutting and faster revenue growth in key divisions.
Mozilla slams Microsoft for using dark patterns to drive Windows users towards Edge in a new Research Report (www.theregister.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11483626...
Odoo Community Edition Apps (www.odoocommunitymobile.com)
Odoo Mobile App is a mobile application that enables users to access and interact with the Odoo business management software on their mobile devices. It provides a convenient and user-friendly interface for managing various business operations, such as sales, inventory, customer relationship management (CRM), invoicing, and...
Doom Runs on [a display made from] E. Coli Bacteria Now (kottke.org)
Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 (lifehacker.com)
Whatever the linguistic details, one of the main roles of RSS is to supply directly to you a steady stream of updates from a website. Every new article published on that site is served up in a list that can be interpreted by an RSS reader....
Shots in the dark: Chicago's $33 million contract with SoundThinking, the company behind ShotSpotter, is up for renewal in February—yet concerns abound. (chicagoreader.com)
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