Apple faces tough challenges against antitrust regulators in the U.S. and EU - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)
The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded (arstechnica.com)
Driverless cars in California are exempt from certain traffic tickets thanks to a legal loophole, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
Driverless cars in California are exempt from certain traffic tickets thanks to a legal loophole, report says::California law enforcers are unable to give driverless cars traffic tickets for moving violations such as speeding, per NBC.
A global watermarking standard could help safeguard elections in the ChatGPT era (thehill.com)
“To prevent disinformation from eroding democratic values worldwide, the U.S. must establish a global watermarking standard for text-based AI-generated content,” writes retired U.S. Army Col. Joe Buccino in an opinion piece for The Hill. While President Biden’s October executive order requires watermarking of AI-derived...
US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is ‘firing on all cylinders’ (9to5mac.com)
US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is ‘firing on all cylinders’::The US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is “firing on all cylinders” according to the head of the…
Microsoft just renamed its Edge browser on iOS and Android... kind of (www.windowscentral.com)
The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Revealed: almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media, study says::Exclusive: Millennium Cohort’s finding raises questions about why a large proportion has a difficult relationship with social media
U.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate (www.nbcnews.com)
FDA approves gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease (wng.org)
FDA approves gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease::The CRISPR-based treatment edits DNA in adult stem cells without crossing bioethical boundaries
Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads (www.theverge.com)
Super-macro views of color e-ink displays (and how they work) (youtu.be)
This is mesmerizing
Software archivist discovers and uploads a primordial version of 86-DOS (arstechnica.com)
Software archivist discovers and uploads a primordial version of 86-DOS::86-DOS would later be bought by Microsoft and take over the computing world.
SR-72: US secret hypersonic jet to allegedly break sound barrier in 2025 | Believed to be a top-secret project of the US Air Force, the SR-72 is touted to reach over 4,000 mph (6,437 kph), making i... (interestingengineering.com)
SR-72: US secret hypersonic jet to allegedly break sound barrier in 2025 | Believed to be a top-secret project of the US Air Force, the SR-72 is touted to reach over 4,000 mph (6,437 kph), making i…::undefined
Taking Back the Web with Decentralization: 2023 in Review | EFF (www.eff.org)
A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not - What can be learned from MGM's and Caesars' infosec moves (www.theregister.com)
A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not - What can be learned from MGM’s and Caesars’ infosec moves::What can be learned from MGM’s and Caesars’ infosec moves
World’s Biggest Solar Thermal Plant To Be Built In Saudi Arabia (www.forbes.com)
Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs are slower at single-core work than previous-gen models — new benchmarks show IPC regressions vs Raptor Lake (www.tomshardware.com)
Since Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase, firm reportedly lost 72% of its value (arstechnica.com)
Over 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway were electric in 2023 (www.theverge.com)
Over 80 percent of new cars sold in Norway were electric in 2023::New figures released by the Norwegian Road Federation say 82.4 percent of new cars sold in the country last year were electric, up from 79.3 percent in 2022. Tesla, Toyota, and Volkswagen were the most popular brands, with Tesla’s Model Y making up almost a...
China’s BYD is selling more electric cars than Tesla (www.cnn.com)
China’s BYD is selling more electric cars than Tesla::BYD overtook Tesla to become the world’s biggest electric car company in the final quarter of 2023.
Here’s how the EPA calculates how far an EV can go on a full charge (arstechnica.com)
China ends November with 3.28 million 5G base stations (www.rcrwireless.com)
Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.neowin.net)
Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1::Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.
