Americans Are Open To Cheap Chinese Cars. That’s 'Scary' For The Rest Of The Auto Industry ( insideevs.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15089465...
Dual headphone jack smartphone scores high in new reparability video ( www.notebookcheck.net )
Microsoft wipes out evidence of real ads in Windows 11 Start menu ( www.xda-developers.com )
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT ( www.tomshardware.com )
A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries ( www.popularmechanics.com )
The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself ( lunduke.locals.com )
Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone — happens on both clean installs and reinstalls ( www.tomshardware.com )
China launches world’s largest electric container ship with 50 MWh battery ( thedriven.io )
Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks ( www.tomshardware.com )
Benefits of resolutions beyond 1080p
This is a genuine question, so please don't do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix ( www.pcworld.com )
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner ( files.mastodon.online )
https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112394551768481505...
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College Students Say Tesla Is Canceling Summer Internships ( www.entrepreneur.com )
"Tesla Is Reportedly Revoking Internship Offers to College Students Weeks Before Their Start Dates: 'I Spent Thousands On Housing'"
Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ ( www.theguardian.com )
A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too...
Swiss public broadcasters withdraw from X/Twitter ( www.swissinfo.ch )
Besides lemmy, what's another good reddit alternative?
Hi! Recently exiled reddit user, here. I'm curious what other alternatives to reddit there are, besides Lemmy, and Raddle, of course. Also, imho, Phuks is a good alternative, there's no hate-speech (that I'm aware of) and people are pretty respectful. Anyways, let's hear your suggestions! Thank you!
Meta is now internationally limiting the political content you can see on their platforms. Here’s a quick guide on how to stop Instagram and Threads from deciding what shows up on your feed.
https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/53ea9fa8-61ac-4fb1-ad68-912c24d32164.jpeg...
Microsoft admits it can't fix Windows 10 KB5034441 "0x80070643 - ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE" ( www.neowin.net )
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )
Junkyard computing - Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon ( dl.acm.org )
The major takeaways of this work are:...
Banana Pi BPI-F3: Single-board computer and RISV-V alternative to the Raspberry Pi now available ( www.notebookcheck.net )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15454966...
New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros - Teardown And Repair Assessment - Apple Silicon M1/M2 ( youtu.be )
No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple's anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can't even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don't even own it.
Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook ( arstechnica.com )
The tool is nearly ready to be released, Zuckerman told Ars, but the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor is afraid that Facebook owner Meta might threaten legal action if he goes ahead. And his fears appear well-founded. In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow...
Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism - Interview with Yanis Varoufakis ( www.wired.com )
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI ( techcrunch.com )
