France considers approval of European chat control plan (stackdiary.com)
The latest proposal mandates user consent for monitoring messages on all communication apps, including those with end-to-end encryption.
Intel’s Anti-Upgrade Tricks Defeated With Kapton Tape (hackaday.com)
Robotic 'Third Thumb' Makes Tasks Possible With One Hand; Can Be A Game Changer For The Disabled (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
This controllable prosthetic, the Third Thumb, attaches to the right hand, granting wearers the ability to perform a slew of one-handed tasks such as grasping objects, opening bottles, sorting cards, and even peeling a banana.
How a fed up carpenter found his stolen power tools — and 15,000 others (www.washingtonpost.com)
Journalists “deeply troubled” by OpenAI’s content deals with Vox, The Atlantic (arstechnica.com)
Why the NSA Is Right About Periodically Restarting Your Smartphone (gizmodo.com)
Guide: How to install Google apps on Huawei phones (www.notebookcheck.net)
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (arstechnica.com)
World's first wooden satellite built by Japan researchers (phys.org)
‘A fine line between humor and flopping’: tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe (www.theguardian.com)
The next time you’re sitting through a company-wide meeting, half-listening to a leader drone on about updates or product launches (and hoping they don’t announce layoffs or budget cuts), remember this: at least they’re not rapping....
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
Ticketmaster confirms data breach with a SEC filing - Stack Diary (stackdiary.com)
Quote: "To put it bluntly, a single credential resulted in the exfiltration of potentially hundreds of companies that stored their data using Snowflake, with the threat actor himself suggesting 400 companies are impacted. The goal of the threat actor, as in most cases, was to blackmail Snowflake into buying their own data back...
HUGE Google Search document leak reveals inner workings of ranking algorithm (searchengineland.com)
German parliament will stop using fax machines (www.npr.org)
IRS makes free tax return program permanent and is asking all states to join in 2025. This could deal a massive blow to private tax filing services such as TurboTax (apnews.com)
dansup: "Pixelfed Discovery is about to get supercharged! …" - Mastodon (mastodon.social)
Pixelfed Discovery is about to get supercharged!...
Key misinformation “superspreaders” on Twitter: Older women (arstechnica.com)
1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands (spectrum.ieee.org)
A Marriage Made in Hell: An Introduction to Microsoft’s Complicity in Apartheid and Genocide (medium.com)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16307984...
Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week (arstechnica.com)
Single-user Mastodon Instance is a Bad Idea (mull.net)
$75M In Chips Cash Going To SKC Glass Substrate Factory (soylentnews.org)
Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) (mullvad.net)
Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA....
Mysterious cyberattack took down more than 600,000 routers in the U.S. (thehackernews.com)
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