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Cable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we charge::ISPs are scared about the FCC’s plan to measure broadband affordability.

Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack::UEFIs booting Windows and Linux devices can be hacked by malicious logo images.

Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data::Apple to update transparency report to break out push notification data requests.

Firmware security company Binarly on Wednesday disclosed the details of an attack method that can be used to compromise many consumer and enterprise devices by leveraging malicious UEFI logo images....

Tesla Whistleblower Says ‘Autopilot’ System Is Not Safe Enough To Be Used On Public Roads::“It affects all of us because we are essentially experiments in public roads.”

Just seems like everything is “this company did this to their employees” and less about “this novel messaging protocol offers these measured pros and cons.” Or similar...

Gemini is available to consumers in Bard or Pixel 8 Pro now, with an enterprise model coming Dec. 13.

America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds::The Southern California-to-Las Vegas route makes total sense and involves no wishful thinking in order to be a resounding success.

AMD today announced the Instinct MI300 range, a direct rival to Nvidia’s H100 AI accelerators. AMD’s units promise roughly 10% to 20% faster times when inferencing and equivalent speeds for training.

It’s kind of amazing it works. I’m not clean bubble anymore....

Norwegian union join Sweden and Denmark in strike against Tesla::Fellesforbundet vil sette i gang boikottaksjoner mot Tesla i Sverige hvis arbeidskonflikten ikke ender i tariffavtale innen 20. desember.

Gemini is Google’s natively multimodal AI model capable of reasoning across text, images, audio, video and code. This video highlights some of their favorite interactions with Gemini. Learn more and try the model: deepmind.google/gemini

We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third...

Tesla strike in Sweden now involves Denmark, may spread to Norway and Finland — “Just like companies, the trade union movement is global in the fight to protect workers,” says chair of Danish union::Tesla is locked in a titanic struggle with Sweden’s largest labor union. The result could have repercussions around the...