Dish & Sling Sue ‘Pirate’ IPTV Operation For Circumventing Widevine DRM (torrentfreak.com)
Elon Musk says Tesla workers will be sleeping on the factory floor when new $25,000 EV goes into production next year (www.techspot.com)
Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids under 16 (www.goodmorningamerica.com)
Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone (www.nytimes.com)
Elon Musk Is Spreading Election Misinformation, but X’s Fact Checkers Are Long Gone::Civil rights lawyers and Democrats are sounding alarms about Mr. Musk’s claims about voting. The Biden campaign called his posts “profoundly irresponsible.”
Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming. (www.vice.com)
Taylor Swift is living every woman’s AI porn nightmare — Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.::Deepfake nudes of the pop star are appearing all over social media. We all saw this coming.
After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
Apple says third-party app marketplace creators must have €1,000,000 'letter of credit' (9to5mac.com)
Apple faces 'strong action' if App Store changes fall short, EU's Breton says (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/8419734...
Tesla hacked again, 24 more zero-days exploited at Pwn2Own Tokyo (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Victory! Ring Announces It Will No Longer Facilitate Police Requests for Footage from Users | EFF (www.eff.org)
The explicit AI-created images of Taylor Swift flooding the internet highlight a major problem with generative AI (www.fastcompany.com)
Apple is finally allowing Firefox to use its own engine on the iPhone (but only in the EU) (www.theverge.com)
After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends (www.jpl.nasa.gov)
After Three Years on Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends::NASA has proven powered, controlled flight is possible on other worlds, just as the Wright brothers proved it was possible on Earth.
Apple announces support for alternative app marketplaces, web browser engines in the EU with iOS 17.4 (9to5mac.com)
Updated the link to a better source that gives a more detailed overview.
Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can't Reverse It (futurism.com)
Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It::How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to Anthropic researchers, not very.
Fragging: The Subscription Model Comes for Gamers (www.eff.org)
Full text from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) article:...
NPR names tech executive Katherine Maher to lead in turbulent era (www.npr.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/npr-ceo-katherine-maher-wikimed…
Is Framework actually "good" for the industry?
Framework as in the laptop company, just for clarity. frame.work. For those unaware, the idea is that these are laptops built with a high degree of modularity so that you can replace far more than a single stick of SODIMM with the goal of even upgrading your CPU and mainboard a few years down the line....
HP CEO says they brick printers that use third-party ink because of 'hackers'. (9to5mac.com)
HP CEO says they brick printers that use third-party ink because of ‘hackers’.::HP is pushing over-the-air firmware updates to its printers, bricking them if they are using third-party ink cartridges. But don’t…
Tesla stock drops on Q4 earnings miss, EV maker warns production growth rate will be 'notably lower' than 2023 (finance.yahoo.com)
I’m enjoying this. Also Musk went out and said that he wants barriers on trade or else the Chinese companies will dominate the market....
Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Staff From Its Video Game Workforce (www.ign.com)
Microsoft Lays Off 1,900 Staff From Its Video Game Workforce::Microsoft is cutting 1,900 staff from its video game workforce, sources have told IGN.
Thorium Problem - Why it may never Happen ( TLDR: Regulatory Hurdles, Lack Of Investment ,Competition) (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (www.theverge.com)
NYC Mayor Calls Social Media an 'Environmental Toxin,' Announces It on Social Media (gizmodo.com)
NYC Mayor Calls Social Media an ‘Environmental Toxin,’ Announces It on Social Media::Mayor Eric Adams says we should compare social media to guns and cigarettes, but don’t think that’s going to stop him from tweeting.
iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find (gizmodo.com)
iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find::Security researchers say apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, and countless others collect data in surprising ways.
