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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...

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...

A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries ( www.popularmechanics.com )

Senior NASIC analyst: China has 'world's leading hypersonic arsenal' ( english.almayadeen.net )

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...

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 )

Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone — happens on both clean installs and reinstalls ( www.tomshardware.com )

I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun ( www.spacebar.news )

Junkyard computing - Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon ( dl.acm.org )

The major takeaways of this work are:...

The Alleged LockBit Ransomware Mastermind Has Been Identified ( www.wired.com )

First, Google wanted a tax break. Now, they want our water ( www.thegazette.com )

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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain ( restoreprivacy.com )

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )

Swiss startup develops AI-driven humanoid hand ( thenextweb.com )

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'"

Welcome to the Age of Technofeudalism - Interview with Yanis Varoufakis ( www.wired.com )

Intel continues search for source of Core i9 chip crashes — issues statement about recommended BIOS settings to board partners ( www.tomshardware.com )

US pressure fails to slow down China’s semiconductor rise: South Korea feels the heat ( www.gizmochina.com )

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