Virtual pet website Neopets plans $4m comeback (www.bbc.com)
Nadella testifies at Google antitrust trial (www.theverge.com)
Amazon customers report false email confirmations for gift cards they did not buy (www.cnbc.com)
Amazon customers report false email confirmations for gift cards they did not buy::Amazon customer service representatives have been receiving a host of inquiries from worried and confused customers.
GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack (arstechnica.com)
GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack::A previously unknown compression side channel in GPUs can expose images thought to be private.
Huawei's new chip breakthrough likely to trigger closer US scrutiny, analysts say (www.reuters.com)
How about Vivaldi Browser?
I know we aren’t allowed to use Chrome. We can’t use Brave. But how does the Lemmy community feel about the Vivaldi Browser? or is it still not Firefox…
An Apple malware-flagging tool is “trivially” easy to bypass (arstechnica.com)
US eyes Australia as test site for missiles to counter China (www.scmp.com)
US eyes Australia as test site for missiles to counter China::undefined
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research (www.cnn.com)
Estate of Henrietta Lacks reaches settlement with biotech company for nonconsensual use of her cells in medical research::The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman whose cells have been used for scientific research for decades, reached a settlement Tuesday with the biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific, the family’s...
BreachForums Pwned, exposing 212k records including usernames, IP and email addresses, private messages between site members and passwords stored as argon2 hashes (haveibeenpwned.com)
BreachForums...
Google Is Really, Really Thirsty (gizmodo.com)
Highlighting that in the article researchers found that the average chat with ChatGPT is the equivalent of dumping one bottle of water on the floor.
Top AI Companies Pledge to Watermark AI Content for Safety (www.reuters.com)
OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta, Anthropic, Inflection, Amazon, and Microsoft committed to developing a system to “watermark” all forms of content, from text, images, audios, to videos generated by AI so that users will know when the technology has been used.
Volla Phone X23, Dual OS & removable battery (www.noypigeeks.com)
Volla Phone X23 comes in two platform options. The brand’s own Volla OS & Ubuntu Touch, you can easily switch between operating systems using the multi-boot function.
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)
Hell has frozen over
Microsoft is finally making custom chips — and they’re all about AI (www.theverge.com)
Google dragged to UK watchdog over Chrome's upcoming IP address cloaking (www.theregister.com)
Surround sound test files for every audio format (drive.google.com)
Grayjay - Revolutionizing the Way We Consume Videos (technomagnus.vercel.app)
X Community Notes used to challenge ads by Apple and others (9to5mac.com)
‘It’s a cult’: Inside effective accelerationism, the pro-AI movement taking over Silicon Valley — They have “e/acc” on their X handles and sun god memes in their social feeds (www.theinformation.com)
‘It’s a cult’: Inside effective accelerationism, the pro-AI movement taking over Silicon Valley — They have “e/acc” on their X handles and sun god memes in their social feeds::“Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, Y Combinator president Garry Tan and Notion co-founder Chris Prucha looked up at the cartoon of a shirtless...
Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup (themarkup.org)
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time
Google sued for negligence after man drove off collapsed bridge while following map directions (abcnews.go.com)
Beijing says it now has capacity to build Taiwan high-speed rail link from Chinese mainland (www.scmp.com)
Beijing says it now has capacity to build Taiwan high-speed rail link from Chinese mainland::undefined
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