A DisplayPort Port That You Can Plug HDMI Into (www.youtube.com)
Apple backtracks, reinstates Epic Games’ iOS developer account in Europe (arstechnica.com)
Apple has agreed to reinstate Epic Game’s Swedish iOS developer account just days after Epic publicized Apple’s decision to rescind that account. The move once again paves the way for Epic’s plans to release a sideloadable version of the Epic Games Store and Fortnite on iOS devices in Europe.
Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek (electrek.co)
Is the Fediverse truly decentralized? Not exactly. (blog.benjojo.co.uk)
The author examined the distribution of instances in the fediverse. Given that many instances are hidden behind CDNs like Cloudflare or Fastly, the author employed ActivityPub’s functionality to discover the actual hosting locations of servers. More than half (51%) of the fediverse is hosted within a single hosting company....
A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. (slate.com)
New York Times takedown domino effect hits nearly 2000 Wordle clones (www.eurogamer.net)
The New York Times has used a DMCA take down notice to remove an open source Wordle clone called Reactle
Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees (80.lv)
According to a recent tweet shared by AI enthusiast Nick St. Pierre, the alleged theft occurred last Saturday. It is claimed that employees from Stability AI infiltrated Midjourney’s database and stole all prompt and image pairs, an action that also caused a 24-hour outage. In response, MJ reportedly banned all Stable...
Photographer steps inside Vietnam’s shadowy ‘click farms’ | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam (www.theregister.com)
House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok (edition.cnn.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12876226...
Russia’s Starlink use sparks probe into SpaceX compliance with US sanctions (arstechnica.com)
Democratic lawmakers are probing SpaceX over Russia’s reported use of Starlink in Ukraine, saying that recent developments raise questions about SpaceX’s “compliance with US sanctions and export controls.”...
After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private (arstechnica.com)
Astra’s long, strange trip in the space business is taking another turn. The company announced Thursday that it is going private at an extremely low valuation....
Attack wrangles thousands of web users into a password-cracking botnet (arstechnica.com)
Attackers have transformed hundreds of hacked sites running WordPress software into command-and-control servers that force visitors’ browsers to perform password-cracking attacks....
Apple is working to make it easier to switch from iPhone to Android because of the EU (www.theverge.com)
AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead (developers.slashdot.org)
A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine (www.wired.com)
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Compact Rivian R3 EV Makes Surprise Debut With Awesome Hot Hatch Styling And Opening Rear Glass (jalopnik.com)
US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users (arstechnica.com)
A Google AI Watched 30,000 Hours of Video Games—Now It Makes Its Own (singularityhub.com)
The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ (www.theguardian.com)
When Ty landed an introductory phone interview with a finance and banking company last month, they assumed it would be a quick chat with a recruiter. And when they got on the phone, Ty assumed the recruiter, who introduced herself as Jaime, was human. But things got robotic....
Google just took down IPAs (Apple equivalent of APKs) of popular YouTube tweaks (github.com)
Only the downloads were taken down...
Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms (techcrunch.com)
Messaging app Signal is currently experiencing server issues.
The popular messaging app Signal is currently experiencing server issues as reported by multiple user on X (formerly Twitter) and multiple sites such as downdetector.com ....
HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It (www.extremetech.com)
In addition to tracking the printer’s online or offline status, page count, and ink levels, your rented printer will look at the types of documents you’re printing (e.g., PDF, JPG, Word), the types of devices that initiated the print job, “peripheral devices,” and other “metrics” related to the service, the All-In...
Boeing: Last Week Tonight (youtu.be)
