California clean energy industry rocked with widespread jobs losses, bankruptcies, following state’s dismantling of rooftop solar program (www.ewg.org)
Google’s Android app store monopoly violates antitrust law, jury finds | Epic Games scores major court win; judge will decide remedies next month (arstechnica.com)
Tesla could still sue Cybertruck owners if they flip their vehicles too soon / The automaker has reportedly added back the controversial clause against resellers (www.engadget.com)
Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars | Clause deleted from public version of terms is in the contract sent to buyers. (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft agrees to union contract terms involving the use of AI / This is the first US instance of collective bargaining in the company’s history (www.engadget.com)
Ultrasound Techniques Steers Tiny Drug Delivery Vehicles Through the Brain | For the first time, researchers have shown how microvesicles can be steered through the brain using ultrasound. (www.technologynetworks.com)
The race between Intel, Samsung, and TSMC to ship the first 2 nm chip / Samsung and Intel believe this is their best chance to close the gap with TSMC (arstechnica.com)
New space-saving RAM sticks that jam up to 128GB of memory in a laptop get industry's stamp of approval - CAMM2 standard ratified by JEDEC (www.tomshardware.com)
Doom turns 30, so its creators celebrate seminal first-person shooter’s contribution to IT careers - And the joy of slaughtering demons as John Romero himself delivers a frag-tastic new level (www.theregister.com)
This A.I. Subculture's Motto: Go, Go, Go. The eccentric pro-tech movement known as "Effective Accelerationism" wants to unshackle powerful A.I., and party along the way. (www.nytimes.com)
Even lab mice are getting VR headsets now / Neurobiologists say the iMRSIV gives mice a more 'immersive' experience than 2D projections. (www.popsci.com)
Paying for News: What Google and Meta Owe US Publishers — Draft Working Paper | Working Papers | Publications | Initiative for Policy Dialogue (policydialogue.org)
Big Tech funds the very people who are supposed to hold it accountable | As big technology companies like Google and Meta face increasing criticism from researchers, they are expanding their influence in academia (www.washingtonpost.com)
E.U. reaches deal on landmark AI bill, racing ahead of U.S. | The regulation paves the way for what could become a global standard to classify risk, enforce transparency and financially penalize tech companies for noncompliance (www.washingtonpost.com)
Ford F-150 Lightnings will soon offer home AC power, possibly cheaper than grid | It's only one truck and one thermostat, but it could be the start of a V2H wave. (arstechnica.com)
Researchers use ancient Amazonian tech to turn waste into battery 'gold' | The Technology has now undergone numerous trials and is getting closer to commercialization, which will help Australia reduce its emissions. (interestingengineering.com)
China poised to break 5nm barrier — Huawei lists 5nm processor presumably built with SMIC tech, defying U.S. sanctions | Huawei and SMIC quietly rolled out a new Kirin 9000C processor. (www.tomshardware.com)
Why the 23andMe Data Breach Is Such a Disaster | The consumer DNA harvesting king exposed 6.9 million people’s data. We’ll never know exactly what goes wrong from here (gizmodo.com)
Sony exec says PS5 is better for gaming than a PC, talks console release strategy | The company is ready to "attack" this holiday season with "both content and hardware" (www.techspot.com)
Reversal of content policies at Alphabet, Meta and X threaten democracy, warn experts. Media watchdog says layoffs at top social media firms affecting moderation create ‘toxic environment’ as 2024 elections approach. (www.theguardian.com)
HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers | Opinion: HP's printer business practices have infuriated users for years. (arstechnica.com)
Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced. (www.businessinsider.com)
South Fork Wind energizes 70,000 New York homes with clean energy | South Fork Wind's green promise equals removing 60,000 cars from roads annually. (interestingengineering.com)
The race to 5G is over — now it’s time to pay the bill | Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deploy the tech was costly in more ways than one. (www.theverge.com)
Quantum computer sets record on path towards error-free calculations: A quantum computer built by QuEra contains the largest ever number of "logical quantum bits", which can be used for error-free calculations (www.newscientist.com)
Even If You Hate Both AI And Section 230, You Should Be Concerned About The Hawley/Blumenthal Bill To Remove 230 Protections From AI (www.techdirt.com)
Microsoft confirms Smart App issue renaming everyone's printers to HP | Not only turning up uninvited, but telling folks they suddenly have a LaserJet (www.theregister.com)
DNA nanobots can exponentially self-replicate: Tiny machines made from strands of DNA can build copies of themselves, leading to exponential replication. Similar devices could one day be used to create drugs inside the body (www.newscientist.com)
Indiana’s lawsuit against TikTok fails as well after Montana’s TikTok ban was blocked by a judge for being fairly obviously unconstitutional (www.techdirt.com)
Tesla strike in Sweden now involves Denmark, may spread to Norway and Finland — “Just like companies, the trade union movement is global in the fight to protect workers,” says chair of Danish union (cleantechnica.com)
PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries | The change comes as Warner Bros. tries to add subscribers to Max, Discovery+ apps. (arstechnica.com)
Meta Is Struggling to Boot Pedophiles Off Facebook and Instagram: The social-media company has stepped up enforcement, but its algorithms continue to promote problematic content (www.wsj.com)
GM’s Mary Barra set on ‘righting the ship’ at Cruise as it faces $1.5m fine for alleged coverup of robotaxi accident that got it booted from California (fortune.com)
Green card applicants targeted by Section 702 foreign intelligence bill / Immigrants and visitors would get same levels of scrutiny as suspected terrorists, spies. (arstechnica.com)
ExpressVPN Adds Support for Apple TVs So You Can Watch Region-Locked Shows | ExpressVPN now supports tvOS 17 and allows users to access servers in 105 countries. (gizmodo.com)
India reveals that it has returned lunar spacecraft to Earth orbit | India now credibly has the third most advanced deep-space program in the world. (arstechnica.com)
ChatGPT will no longer comply if you ask it to repeat a word 'forever'— after a recent prompt revealed training data and personal info (www.businessinsider.com)
Researcher has developed, at a cost of less than one dollar, a wireless light switch that runs without batteries, can be installed anywhere on a wall and could reduce the cost of wiring a house by as much as 50% (www.ualberta.ca)
Amazon on the hook for predictably revolting use of concealed clothes hook spy cam / Judge finds plaintiff's claim – that Amazon knew about illicit usage – credible enough for case to proceed (www.theregister.com)
IBM unveils new quantum computing chip - Computer and AI giant rolls out machine using ‘Heron’ chips using subatomic particles instead of ones and zeros. (www.theguardian.com)
Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics’ drug candidate stimulates the growth of hair cells in the inner ear. (news.mit.edu)
World's largest cruise vessel, 5-times Titanic-size to set sail in 2024 / The Icon of the Seas, measuring 365 metres, is also Royal Carribean's first ship that can be powered by liquefied natural gas (interestingengineering.com)
Judge: Amazon “cannot claim shock” that bathroom spycams were used as advertised | A West Virginia judge largely denied Amazon's motion to dismiss lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Why don’t EVs have standard diagnostic ports—and when will that change? | OBD-II was implemented to monitor emissions, but EVs don't have tailpipes. (arstechnica.com)
Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator / OEMs collect too much personal data and share it too freely , says Senator Markey (arstechnica.com)
No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data / Congress must to have an informed public debate about the scope of the NSA's warrantless surveillance of Americans (www.theregister.com)
Key Congress staffers in AI debate are funded by giants like Google & Microsoft. Tech companies are funneling money through a science nonprofit to help pay the salaries of AI staffers in Congress — it’s just 1 example of the increasing influence outside-funded fellows are exerting on policy in DC. (archive.ph)
Senate bill aims to stop Uncle Sam using facial recognition at airports / Legislation would eliminate TSA permission to use the tech, require database purge in 90 days (www.theregister.com)