The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops ( www.theverge.com )
After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat ( www.theverge.com )
The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites ( sansec.io )
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Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams ( arstechnica.com )
OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts ( www.theverge.com )
How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion ( www.arktrek.shop )
Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’ ( www.theverge.com )
Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs ( arstechnica.com )
How to make an EV tire that won’t pollute the environment ( www.theverge.com )
Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED ( www.wired.com )
Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.
Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp ( www.reuters.com )
Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.
Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds ( www.washingtonpost.com )
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Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) ( mullvad.net )
Even if you have encrypted your traffic with a VPN (or the Tor Network), advanced traffic analysis is a growing threat against your privacy. Therefore, we now introduce DAITA....
Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs ( www.xda-developers.com )
Microsoft insiders worry the company has become just 'IT for OpenAI' ( www.businessinsider.com )
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC ( arstechnica.com )
FCC proposes ending cellphone carrier locks after 60 days ( www.theregister.com )
Long-term carrier lock-in could soon be a thing of the past in America after the FCC proposed requiring telcos to unlock cellphones from their networks 60 days after activation....
Tesla is recalling its Cybertruck for the fourth time to fix problems with trim pieces that can come loose and front windshield wipers that can fail | The new recalls each affect over 11,000 trucks ( apnews.com )
The company says in the documents that the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it’s getting too much electrical current. A wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. The Austin, Texas, company says it knows of no crashes or injuries caused by the problem....
EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again ( www.techspot.com )
EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during 'Replay' moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in...
Semiconductor manufacturers in Taiwan can remotely disable their chip-making machines in the event of a Chinese invasion. ( www.bloomberg.com )
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down ( www.theverge.com )
Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants ( gizmodo.com )
Despite its CEO railing against Biden, Tesla was more than happy to take the administration's money.
YouTube Is Cracking Down on Gun Content, and 3D-Printed Gun Makers Aren't Happy ( gizmodo.com )
Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st ( arstechnica.com )
Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more ( www.theverge.com )
The downfall of Chevron deference could completely change the ways courts review net neutrality, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Matt Schettenhelm. “The FCC’s 2024 effort to reinstitute federal broadband regulation is the latest chapter in a long-running regulatory saga, yet we think the demise of deference will...
