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Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu... (www.theverge.com)
Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu...::Parisians have voted to increase parking charges for out-of-town SUV drivers as part of the city’s efforts to address road...
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses (www.techspot.com)
Amazon finds $1B jackpot in its 100 million+ IPv4 address stockpile | The tech giant has cited ballooning costs associated with IPv4 addresses::undefined
Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL (www.theregister.com)
Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability....
Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird (www.ifixit.com)
How Quora Died (slate.com)
“Why Do So Many Music Venues Use Ticketmaster?” “What’s It Like to Train to Be a Sushi Chef?” “How Do Martial Artists Break Concrete Blocks?” If you were looking for answers to such questions 10 years ago, your best resource for finding a thorough, expert-informed response likely would have been one of the most...
Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing (www.techdirt.com)
Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing::We’ve covered a few stories this week related to the Senate hearing on “kids safety” and there’s going to be a lot more in the coming weeks as those same Senators grandstand and yell about “protect...
Will Technology Replace Teachers In The Future?
According to my opinion No, it is unlikely that technology will fully replace teachers in the future. While technology can aid the teaching process, it cannot fully replicate the role of teachers. Teachers play a crucial role in not only imparting knowledge but also inculcating values, being inspirational role models, and...
FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law (arstechnica.com)
Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the agency says. I'm pretty sure this puts us on the timeline where we eventually get incredible, futuristic tech, but computers and robots still sound mechanical and fake.
Amazon could soon be on the hook for safety of third-party products it sells and ships — Government order could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims (www.wsj.com)
Amazon could soon be on the hook for safety of third-party products it sells and ships — Government order could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims::undefined
Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables (www.theverge.com)
Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables::The Vision Pro’s battery connector is removable once you press the eject button, and it uses a 12-pin connector that looks like a wider version of a Lightning cable.
TikTok sounds go silent as songs disappear from app (www.independent.co.uk)
TikTok sounds go silent as songs disappear from app::Videos across the platform have lost their audio in dramatic dispute
Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany (alexwlchan.net)
Some version of this has been floating around the Internet since 2007, probably earlier. This tweet is pretty emblematic of posts about this claim: it’s stated as pure fact, with no supporting evidence or explanation. We’re meant to just accept that a single PDF can only cover about half the area of Germany, and we’re not...
UK law that could ban Apple security updates worldwide is an unprecedented overreach (9to5mac.com)
UK law that could ban Apple security updates worldwide is an unprecedented overreach::Proposed amendments to the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) which could ban Apple security updates worldwide are an “unprecedented overreach,”...
Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes (www.theguardian.com)
Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes::Bipartisan measure introduced in the US senate will allow victims in ‘digital forgeries’ to seek civil penalty against perpetrators
Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7 (www.reuters.com)
Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7::Boeing confirmed late on Monday it is withdrawing a request it made to the Federal Aviation Administration last year seeking an exemption from a safety standard for its 737 MAX 7 that is awaiting certification.
Mass Blackout Takes Russian Internet Offline (www.themoscowtimes.com)
AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet (www.businessinsider.com)
AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We're starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.
Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets (www.macrumors.com)
Apple Has Sold Approximately 200,000 Vision Pro Headsets::Apple has sold upwards of 200,000 Vision Pro headsets, MacRumors has learned from a source with knowledge of Apple's sales numbers. Apple began...
Alaska Airlines Plane Appears to Have Left Boeing Factory Without Critical Bolts (www.wsj.com)
Alaska Airlines Plane Appears to Have Left Boeing Factory Without Critical Bolts::undefined
Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too (www.theverge.com)
Demand for gas down 7% as wind energy increases (www.rte.ie)
Demand for gas down 7% as wind energy increases::undefined
NASA invented wheels that never get punctured (www.zmescience.com)
NASA invented wheels that never get punctured::Would you use this type of tire?
Apple was just forced to crack open its App Store — but the changes are already being called 'hot garbage' (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
Apple was just forced to crack open its App Store — but the changes are already being called 'hot garbage'::Changes to how apps are distributed on iPhones should be welcomed by developers, but many are unhappy with some describing them as "hot garbage."