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Linus Torvalds says RISC-V will make the same mistakes as Arm and x86 (www.tomshardware.com)

SoftBank acquires UK AI chipmaker Graphcore (techcrunch.com)

Arm announces an open-source graphics upscaler for mobile phones (www.theverge.com)

Nvidia reveals that 150 RTX A6000 GPUs power the Las Vegas Sphere (www.techspot.com)

Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service (www.techspot.com)

Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)

Facebook and Instagram’s “pay or consent” ad model violates the DMA, says the EU (www.theverge.com)

Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to 'create God' (techcrunch.com)

EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software (www.theverge.com)

Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw (www.theregister.com)

Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims (arstechnica.com)

Here’s how much Google says it’d cost to fulfill Epic’s biggest demands (www.theverge.com)

EU charges Microsoft with 'abusive' bundling of Teams and Office, breaching antitrust rules (www.cnbc.com)

Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by up to 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding (www.techradar.com)

Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds (www.businessinsider.com)

Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' (www.businessinsider.com)

Used VPN for cheaper YouTube Premium? Congrats, your subscription has been canceled (www.androidauthority.com)

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's former chief scientist, launches new AI company (techcrunch.com)

FTC Takes Action Against Adobe and Executives for Hiding Fees, Preventing Consumers from Easily Cancelling Software Subscriptions (www.ftc.gov)

McDonald’s will stop testing AI to take drive-thru orders, for now (www.theverge.com)

Meta accused of trying to discredit ad researchers (www.theregister.com)

The cement that could turn your house into a giant battery (www.bbc.com)

Manifest V3 updates landed in Firefox 127 (blog.mozilla.org)

Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts (wedistribute.org)

Maven, a new social network backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman, found itself in a controversy today when it imported a huge amount of posts and profiles from the Fediverse, and then ran AI analysis to alter the content.

Tim Cook is “not 100 percent” sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations (www.theverge.com)

Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history (www.theguardian.com)

24 of the best free alternatives to the most popular paid software (www.xda-developers.com)

Note that these are not all FOSS....

Manifest V2 phase-out begins (blog.chromium.org)

Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities (arstechnica.com)

OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say (www.reuters.com)

Dell customer order database stolen, for sale on dark web (www.theregister.com)

TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery, rivals Intel's competing design (www.tomshardware.com)

Google has delayed killing third-party cookies in Chrome (again) (www.engadget.com)

IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4 billion deal to expand cloud software (www.reuters.com)

Apple reportedly acquired French startup behind AI and computer vision technology (9to5mac.com)

Fighting cookie theft using device bound sessions (blog.chromium.org)

Meta will start collecting “anonymized” data about Quest headset usage (arstechnica.com)

Tinder Owner Signs ChatGPT Deal. Enjoy the AI Dating Tidal Wave (gizmodo.com)

Over 5,300 GitLab servers exposed to zero-click account takeover attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

23andMe admits it didn't detect cyberattacks for months (techcrunch.com)

Apple says third-party app marketplace creators must have €1,000,000 'letter of credit' (9to5mac.com)

OpenAI went back on a promise to make key documents public (arstechnica.com)

App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline (www.macrumors.com)

X removes support for NFT profile pictures (techcrunch.com)

European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying (www.techspot.com)