China wants to limit teens to using their phones for just an hour a day to fight rising ‘internet addiction’::The Cyberspace Administration of China announced proposed regulations for children’s smartphone usage, including a “minor mode” with time limits.
Someone on Grindr presented themselves as an employee that could remove blocks on the platform. That’s probably not the case, but the activity still hints at a moderation problem....
Scammers amass $1.02 trillion globally, Singapore lost the most: Report::The study surveyed 49,459 individuals from 43 countries in which they were asked about the types of frauds they fall into and the amount they lost to fraudsters | World News
I found Firefish which is a better alternative to the standard Mastodon application. It’s compatible with Mastodon and has better features. It allows users to create web pages and the character limit is 3,000 instead of the 500 on Mastodon. It feels like a good limit for the type of site that it is. Plus this means that it can...
Google teamed up with Samsung once again to build the Tensor G3, the chipset that powers the new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. It comes out of Samsung’s 4nm foundries and features a 9-core CPU (1x Cortex-X3 + 4x A715 + 4x A510) and an ARM Mali-G715 GPU.
Cashing in on the algorithm — It’s not just pubs toying with dynamic pricing. It’s already here in sectors ranging from public transport to ecommerce::Pub chain pours itself a full measureLast week, Britain’s largest pub group, Stonegate, declared that it would be charging 20p more per pint during peak hours at about 800...
Court Says Texas’ Adult Content Age Verification Law Clearly Violates The 1st Amendment::One down, many more to go. We’ve been talking a lot by the rush of states to push for age verification laws all over the world, despite basically every expert noting that age verification technology is inherently a problem for privacy...
China’s tech titans scramble to buy $5 billion of Nvidia chips as US bans investment in key Chinese sectors, report says::Alibaba, TikTok-owner Bytedance, and other Chinese tech giants have reportedly rushed to order Nvidia chips as US-China trade tensions mount.
Baffled Scientists Detect Massive Unexplained Radiation From the Sun, Study Reports::“The Sun’s emission at high energies challenges present models,” scientists say, and “decisive” new probes are needed to solve the mystery.
Tech leaders emerge behind plan to build new city near California air base — Group has spent nearly $1 billion to buy thousands of acres northeast of San Francisco::Group has spent nearly $1 billion to buy thousands of acres northeast of San Francisco
Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome’s upcoming IP address cloaking::Marketers tell antitrust cops privacy proxy will make it harder to protect kids online, etc etc
Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices::Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn’t easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of...
Millions of smart meters will brick it when 2G and 3G turns off::Public Accounts Committee demands timetable for replacements, because things have run so smoothly so far…
In the Google antitrust trial, defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing::US v. Google kicked off this week in the District of Columbia as the Justice Department and Google squared off over the dominant search engine.
I moved to Seattle for a high-paying tech job. It turned out to be the loneliest time of my life.::After accepting a job at Amazon, Alexander Nguyen moved to Seattle, where he experienced a period of intense loneliness.