Duolingo lays off 10% of contract workers, partly due to AI (www.techspot.com)
North Korea rolls out 4G service with secondhand Huawei gear (www.lightreading.com)
HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly (arstechnica.com)
HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly::Suit seeks injunction blocking HP from bricking printers using third-party ink.
X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation (www.vice.com)
X Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation::Ken Klippenstein, Steven Monacelli, and Alan MacLeod were all suspended from the platform.
FTC bans X-Mode from selling phone location data, and orders firm to delete collected data (techcrunch.com)
This startup is bringing a 'voice frequency absorber' to CES 2024 | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
“No one cared who I was until I put on the mask” -Bane
Amazon’s Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff (www.bloomberg.com)
Amazon’s Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff::Move is designed to stem losses after two rounds of layoffs last year.
Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value (fortune.com)
The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.
TikTok pulled a hashtag-tracking feature researchers used to study the platform (www.engadget.com)
Alaska flight incident reveals another feature Boeing didn’t inform pilots about - Federal investigators said that Boeing didn’t make pilots aware that when a plane rapidly depressurizes, the cockp... (www.politico.com)
Alaska flight incident reveals another feature Boeing didn’t inform pilots about - Federal investigators said that Boeing didn’t make pilots aware that when a plane rapidly depressurizes, the cockp…::undefined
Hobbes OS/2 Archive to shut down in three months – OSnews (www.osnews.com)
The announcement on hobbes.nmsu.edu...
VW solid-state battery retains 95% capacity over 1,000 charge cycles in lab testing (www.techspot.com)
Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives (www.zdnet.com)
Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives::How fast do you want your Wi-Fi to go? How does 5.8 Gigabits per second sound? Fast enough for you?
Elon Musk’s ironic bot army exposed (boingboing.net)
Honda debuts new global EV series, Honda Zero, coming in 2026 (www.theverge.com)
HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges (www.theregister.com)
HP customers claim firmware update rendered third-party ink verboten | Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges::Then the company cranked up the price of cartridges, complaint alleges
‘Magical’ Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)
List of 2FA enabled services/websites?
Is there someone somewhere curating a list of websites/apps/services that propose 2FA?...
California wants to reduce traffic. The Newsom administration thinks AI can help (finance.yahoo.com)
California wants to reduce traffic. The Newsom administration thinks AI can help::Caltrans says AI can help generate recommendations so workers can take steps to improve the flow of traffic and potentially prevent accidents on the road.
Regulators aren’t convinced that Microsoft and OpenAI operate independently (arstechnica.com)
European Union regulators are concerned that Microsoft may be covertly controlling OpenAI as its biggest investor.
Elon Musk's alleged drug use puts 13,000 jobs at risk, report suggests (www.euronews.com)
Elon Musk’s alleged drug use puts 13,000 jobs at risk, report suggests::Elon Musk’s possible use of illegal drugs is causing concern for bosses within his companies, according to a Wall Street Journal report.