Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip ( arstechnica.com )
Bleeding subscribers, cable companies force their way into streaming | Companies like Comcast and Charter brought about the streaming industry they now want to join ( arstechnica.com )
The cable industry has been in a nose-dive for years. Comcast's Q1 2024 earnings report showed its cable business losing 487,000 subscribers. The cable giant ended 2022 with 16,142,000 subscribers; in January, it had 13,600,000....
Non-invasive zaps to the spinal cord can treat paralysis—but no one knows why ( arstechnica.com )
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC ( arstechnica.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/10924833
Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims ( arstechnica.com )
Temu—the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy it—is "dangerous malware" that's secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday....
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip ( arstechnica.com )
Why Americans aren’t buying more EVs ( arstechnica.com )
The Google Pay app is dead ( arstechnica.com )
“Outrageously” priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care ( arstechnica.com )
Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn ( arstechnica.com )
3 million iOS and macOS apps were exposed to potent supply-chain attacks ( arstechnica.com )
Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI ( arstechnica.com )
Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims ( arstechnica.com )
OpenAI pauses ChatGPT-4o voice 'Sky' that fans said ripped off Scarlett Johansson ( arstechnica.com )
These are all the devices compatible with iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 ( arstechnica.com )
Researchers upend AI status quo by eliminating matrix multiplication in LLMs ( arstechnica.com )
NOAA says ‘extreme’ Solar storm will persist through the weekend ( arstechnica.com )
FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks ( arstechnica.com )
“[Razer] falsely claimed, in the midst of a global pandemic, that their face mask was the equivalent of an N95 certified respirator,” Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement....
Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time ( arstechnica.com )
In December 2019, astronomers were surprised to observe a long-quiet galaxy, 300 million light-years away, suddenly come alive, emitting ultraviolet, optical, and infrared light into space. Far from quieting down again, by February of this year, the galaxy had begun emitting X-ray light; it is becoming more active. Astronomers...
Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs ( arstechnica.com )
Two of the German military’s new spy satellites appear to have failed in orbit ( arstechnica.com )
A crushing backlash to Apple’s new iPad ad ( arstechnica.com )
Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me.
Nvidia denies pirate e-book sites are “shadow libraries” to shut down lawsuit ( arstechnica.com )
AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent ( arstechnica.com )
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )
Pulling this off requires high privileges in the network, so if this is done by intruder you're probably having a Really Bad Day anyway, but might be good to know if you're connecting to untrusted networks (public wifi etc). For now, if you need to be sure, either tether to Android - since the Android stack doesn't implement...
