California clean energy industry rocked with widespread jobs losses, bankruptcies, following state’s dismantling of rooftop solar program (www.ewg.org)
E3 Is dead for good after more than two decades of running (www.ign.com)
The Telecom Industry Is Very Mad Because The FCC MIGHT Examine High Broadband Prices (www.techdirt.com)
Report: Apple offers to open up Apple Pay NFC system on iPhone to appease EU regulators (9to5mac.com)
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)
Two-day water outage in remote Irish region caused by pro-Iran hackers (therecord.media)
Google's superfast 20Gbps Wi-Fi 7 Fiber plan costs $250 a month / That's some brain-melting speed, if you can afford it (www.engadget.com)
US Is Looking Into Nvidia’s AI Chips for China, Raimondo Says (www.bloomberg.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)
OpenAI's Soap Opera Collapse Bodes Ill for AI Benefiting Humanity (www.scientificamerican.com)
As ChatGPT gets “lazy,” people test “winter break hypothesis” as the cause (arstechnica.com)
Google Loses Antitrust Court Battle With Makers of Fortnite Video Game (www.nytimes.com)
The growing abuse of QR codes in malware and payment scams prompts FTC warning (arstechnica.com)
Alphabet Loses Google Play Antitrust Fight With Epic Games (finance.yahoo.com)
'Eyes Everywhere': Congress Is About to Vote to Expand Mass Surveillance of Americans, Experts Warn (www.vice.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)
Epic Games wins antitrust lawsuit against Google (www.washingtonpost.com)
Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)
Ford cuts planned 2024 production of electric F-150 Lightning in half (www.cnbc.com)
More than 15% of teens say they’re on YouTube or TikTok ‘almost constantly’ (www.cnbc.com)
Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights (www.theregister.com)
Drag race: hypersonic threats are slow enough for US missile defenses (www.defensenews.com)
WindowsCentral: You will be able to "earn" access to Xbox Game Pass by watching ads in 2024 (www.windowscentral.com)
A gigantic new ICBM will take US nuclear missiles out of the Cold War-era but add 21st-century risks (apnews.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)
Ex-commissioner for facial recognition tech joins Facewatch firm he approved (www.theguardian.com)
Tesla Cybertruck Owner Discovers Unexplained ‘Wade Mode’ Buried in Settings (autos.yahoo.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)
At a WSU Vancouver lab, researchers test a sweet solution to faster, cleaner computers (www.opb.org)
US healthcare giant Norton says hackers stole millions of patients' data during ransomware attack (techcrunch.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)
A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time (www.businessinsider.com)
BlackBerry Cancels Spinoff of Internet-of-Things Unit, Names New CEO (www.bloomberg.com)
Wi-Fi 7 to get the final seal of approval early next year, new standard is up to 4.8 times faster than Wi-Fi 6 (www.tomshardware.com)
Attacked by conservatives, UW misinformation researcher gears up for 2024 (www.seattletimes.com)
EU to improve energy performance of buildings, rooftop solar required to be installed from 2027 (www.pv-tech.org)
Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits (www.psypost.org)
Hyundai unveils car tires with built-in, push-button snow chains (newatlas.com)
Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count (www.theverge.com)
FISA Section 702 Is About to Get Worse: We Say No to Ongoing Surveillance (tuta.com)
Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution (techcrunch.com)
Digital Lens Technology For VR? (almalence.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)
Doom creator John Romero launches sequel campaign Sigil 2 for free (www.pcgamesn.com)
How Do I Calculate the Motor And Battery Needed For an Electric Vehicle? (electriccarfinder.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)
The future of [American] nuclear energy will be decided in Idaho (www.swoknews.com)
TikTok to Invest $1.5 Billion in Indonesia Shop Pact With GoTo (www.bloomberg.com)
Researchers made VR goggles for mice to study how their brains respond to swooping predators (www.engadget.com)
VR goggles for mice create immersive scenarios for brain research (www.theguardian.com)
Warfare and Geopolitics are Fuelling Denial-of-Service Attacks (www.enisa.europa.eu)
World’s First Truly Decentralized Democratic Voting System | Utopian Vision or Dystopia in Disguise? (melodictechnologiesinc.com)
Beeper has propped its server relay iMessage solution back up. (www.theverge.com)
Veins of bacteria could form a self-healing system for concrete infrastructure (techxplore.com)
Disinformation is the 'threat of a generation,' but Canada is struggling to deal with it: National security adviser (theprovince.com)
This AI can pick up passwords from the sound of your keystrokes | Your keyboard clatter could be giving away secrets (www.techspot.com)
Apple blocked Beeper Mini’s iMessage Android app, but Beeper will keep pushing (arstechnica.com)
1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles (cleantechnica.com)
Alex Jones and his conspiracy theories are allowed back on X (www.engadget.com)
10 CHIPS Technology Areas Shaping the Future of Work (www.newamerica.org)
India’s Semiconductor Fab Ambitions: Tall Promises or Work in Progress? (analyticsindiamag.com)
"Pose As Lawyers, Activists": How Chinese Accounts Spread Fake News In India (www.ndtv.com)
Addicted to your phone? New tool identifies overuse of digital media (techxplore.com)
Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years (arstechnica.com)
Why Tesla Autopilot shouldn’t be used in as many places as you think (archive.ph)
Biases in large image-text AI model favor wealthier, Western perspectives (news.umich.edu)
Tesla drivers run Autopilot where it’s not intended — with deadly consequences (www.washingtonpost.com)
Brain decoding: toward real-time reconstruction of visual perception (arxiv.org)
Why scientists are making transparent wood / The results are amazing, that a piece of wood can be as strong as glass (arstechnica.com)
Beeper Mini team says a fix is ‘coming soon’ and promises to extend users’ free trials (www.engadget.com)
Amazon, Microsoft AI is in the business of training Olympians and NFL players (www.cnbc.com)
Bacterial 'blood' could heal cracks in concrete (www.popsci.com)
Ghana warns against illegal Starlink services (spacenews.com)
Breakthrough in the synthesis of artificial cells / Researchers develop artificial cells from synthetic materials (www.bionity.com)
A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show (www.mysanantonio.com)
Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ (www.theverge.com)
Algorithmic Ad Blocking Limits Information About Abortion In Colombia (www.forbes.com)
Inside OpenAI’s Crisis Over the Future of Artificial Intelligence (www.nytimes.com)
Remembering Jon Postel — And the Day He Hijacked the Internet (www.wired.com)
Europe reaches a deal on the world's first comprehensive AI rules (www.npr.org)
AutoSpill attack steals credentials from Android password managers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Hubble back in service after gyro scare—NASA still studying reboost options (arstechnica.com)
Democrats urge tech companies to contain abortion misinformation (thehill.com)
Governments can spy via smartphone push notifications, Apple and Google confirm (mashable.com)
Iran’s Most Advanced Cyber Attack Yet - Check Point Research (research.checkpoint.com)
Top White House cyber aide says recent Iran hack on water system is call to tighten cybersecurity (apnews.com)
More than four hours of daily smartphone use associated with health risks for adolescents (medicalxpress.com)
Apple Puts a Stop to Beeper Mini's iMessage for Android Feature (www.macrumors.com)
OpenAI says it is investigating reports ChatGPT has become ‘lazy’ (www.independent.co.uk)
Competing Section 702 surveillance bills on collision path for US House floor (www.theregister.com)
Cop28: China ‘would like to see agreement to substitute renewables for fossil fuels’ (www.theguardian.com)
AI-generated imaging using brain activity hits record 75% accuracy: Japan research (mainichi.jp)
EU reaches provisional agreement on AI Act, paving way for landmark law (www.theverge.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)
EU agrees ‘historic’ deal with world’s first laws to regulate AI (www.theguardian.com)
OpenAI leaders warned of abusive behavior before Sam Altman’s ouster (www.washingtonpost.com)
Apple Computer Check Signed by Steve Jobs Sells for $46,000 (www.macrumors.com)
Another State Lawmaker Wants To Criminalize Porn Through Age Verification (www.techdirt.com)
USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change (www.raillynews.com)
MIT engineers design a robotic replica of the heart’s right chamber (news.mit.edu)
European Union agrees to regulate potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence (www.cnn.com)
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)
The Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 might drop little CPU cores altogether (www.androidauthority.com)
Verizon Gave Phone Data to Armed Stalker Who Posed as Cop Over Email (www.404media.co)
Reuters Takes Down Blockbuster Hacker-for-Hire Investigation After Indian Court Order (www.404media.co)
New SLAM attack steals sensitive data from AMD, future Intel CPUs (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Apple Just Confirmed Governments Are Spying on People’s Phones With Push Notifications (www.vice.com)
This scary AI recognizes passwords by the sound of your typing (www.pcworld.com)
Big Tech’s Bitter Battle With the Free Press (www.nytimes.com)
Google Confirms Radical Gmail Update—Here’s What It Means For You (www.forbes.com)
OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever has become invisible at the company, with his future uncertain, insiders say (www.businessinsider.com)
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini’s access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft issues deadline for end of Windows 10 support – it's pay to play for security (www.theregister.com)
Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app (www.theverge.com)
Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts (arstechnica.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)
Pluralistic: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (08 Dec 2023) (pluralistic.net)
Tesla fined for Fremont worker pinned in car on conveyor belt (archive.ph)
DNA companies should receive the death penalty for getting hacked | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease- In historic decision (www.statnews.com)
US Army receives first long-range Precision Strike Missiles (www.defensenews.com)
This company can convert your fuel car into an EV — in just a day (interestingengineering.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)
Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language (www.vice.com)
Judge Allows Major ‘Right To Repair’ Lawsuit Against John Deere To Move Forward (www.techdirt.com)
Tesla’s Labour Dispute in Sweden Escalates as Finnish Union and Danish Pension Fund Join the Fray (driveteslacanada.ca)
Tesla must respect collective bargaining rights, Norway's sovereign wealth fund says (www.reuters.com)
Google admits the Gemini AI demo hands-on video was staged (www.tomshardware.com)
SpaceX’s Starlink Clears Military Tests, Paving Way for Contracts (www.bloomberg.com)
Senators Introduce ‘Fans First’ Bill Intended to Reform Live-Event Ticketing System (variety.com)
Meta defies FBI opposition to encryption, brings E2EE to Facebook, Messenger (arstechnica.com)
Internet connectivity in the Gaza Strip has plummeted since 7 October – Percentage of IP addresses active, hourly, local time (interactive.guim.co.uk)
Google admits that a Gemini AI demo video was staged (www.engadget.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)
New Drug That Could Extend Dogs' Lives Gets Closer to FDA Approval (dogtricksworld.com)
Apps using AI to undress women in photos soaring in popularity (www.straitstimes.com)
CRISPR 2.0: a new wave of gene editors heads for clinical trials (www.nature.com)
Apple touts data protection efforts as study reveals 2.6 billion personal records compromised by data breaches (www.imore.com)
Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts (www.reuters.com)
Electric vehicles from China recalled in Australia due to drivers facing a 'risk of serious injury or death' by electrocution (fortune.com)
Ex-Apple lawyer sentenced to probation for insider trading (www.reuters.com)
‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity (time.com)
Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise (arstechnica.com)
Joan Donovan speaks out about Meta and her ouster from Harvard (www.cjr.org)
Drones Deliver Defibrillators Faster Than Ambulances (spectrum.ieee.org)
Facebook and Instagram are steering child predators to kids, New Mexico AG alleges (www.cbsnews.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)
DoorDash, delivery apps remove tipping prompt at checkout in NYC (abcnews.go.com)
Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere (www.theguardian.com)
Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update (www.dexerto.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)
Apple just discreetly launched a raft of new machine learning tools, and they’re free (www.itpro.com)
California Will Soon Mandate Electric School Buses (www.govtech.com)
White House threatens to veto anti-EV bill just passed by US House (arstechnica.com)
Apple-backed study finds rise in data breaches as iPhone maker defends encryption stance (www.reuters.com)
An AI herding effect could drive markets 'off an inadvertent cliff', SEC chief Gary Gensler says (markets.businessinsider.com)
Why 2023 was the year of the e-bike and not the self-driving car (www.fastcompany.com)
UAE’s top AI group vows to phase out Chinese hardware to appease US (www.ft.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)
Quantum computer performs error-resistant operations with logical qubits. QuEra gets ready for error correction, runs operations with over 40 logical qubits. (arstechnica.com)
Sony Debuts First PS5 Controller For Disabled Gamers (www.bbc.com)
Corporations Are Juicy Targets for Foreign Disinformation (foreignpolicy.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)
Disinformation is rampant on social media – a social psychologist explains the tactics used against you (theconversation.com)
Rolls Royce plans '120-inch-long' mini nuclear reactor for Moon outpost (interestingengineering.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)
Salesforce Signals the Golden Age of Cushy Tech Jobs Is Over (archive.ph)
Twitch to shut down in South Korea due to high costs (www.reuters.com)
Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos (arstechnica.com)
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to receive Serbian passport, president says (abcnews.go.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)
McDonald’s will use Google AI to make sure your fries are fresh, or something (www.theverge.com)
Lawsuit says Meta exposes children to exploitation (techxplore.com)
AMD unveils Instinct MI300X GPU and MI300A APU, claims up to 1.6X lead over Nvidia’s competing GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)
Messenger is finally getting end-to-end encryption by default (www.theverge.com)
Micheál Martin initiates High Court proceedings against Google over scam adverts (www.independent.ie)
EY: Solar LCOE 29% lower than cheapest fossil fuel alternative (www.pv-tech.org)
Dumb, Telecom Industry Backed ‘Network Fees’ Drive Twitch Out Of Korea (www.techdirt.com)
Apple and Google confirm that governments spy on people through push notifications (www.axios.com)
Microsoft to offer consumers paid Windows 10 security updates for the first time (www.theverge.com)
AWS joins Google in calling out restrictive Microsoft cloud practices (www.itpro.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)
Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD’s new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia’s (www.cnbc.com)
Bungie Devs Say Atmosphere Is ‘Soul-Crushing’ Amid Layoffs, Cuts, and Fear of Total Sony Takeover (www.ign.com)
Police Can Spy on Your iOS and Android Push Notifications (archive.ph)
OpenAI COO thinks AI for business is overhyped (www.theverge.com)
Reddit says a bug is letting slurs get added to its links (www.theverge.com)
Cable lobby to FCC: Please don’t look too closely at the prices we charge (arstechnica.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)
Google launches Gemini, the AI model it hopes will take down GPT-4 (www.theverge.com)
Tesla Whistleblower Says 'Autopilot' System Is Not Safe Enough To Be Used On Public Roads (jalopnik.com)
Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data (arstechnica.com)
Just about every Windows and Linux device vulnerable to new LogoFAIL firmware attack (arstechnica.com)
America’s Most Exciting High Speed Rail Project Gets $3 Billion Grant From Feds (www.vice.com)
Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications - US senator (www.reuters.com)
A group of Norwegian unions says it will act against Tesla in solidarity with its Swedish colleagues (apnews.com)
Ex-Tesla employee casts doubt on car safety (www.bbc.com)
Half of London's famed black cab taxi fleet are now EVs (www.engadget.com)
The UK could require facial scans or photo IDs to view online porn (www.engadget.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)
Windows 10 support doesn't end in 2025 after all, if you pay up (www.xda-developers.com)
A.I. Will Enable Mass Spying (slate.com)
Norwegian union join Sweden and Denmark in strike against Tesla (e24.no)
Amazon's strict return-to-office policy is pushing more employees into quitting (www.techspot.com)
Amazon Brags It ‘Cultivated’ California Mayor With Donations in Leaked Policy Document (www.vice.com)
Japanese crane maker Tadano to start selling world's first fully electric 25 ton-class 4x4 crane on December 8th. (www.nikkei.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)
Insulin-secreting skin implant found to reverse diabetes in mice (interestingengineering.com)
Hackers breach US govt agencies using Adobe ColdFusion exploit (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Google Caves In Canada: Agrees To Pay $100m News Bribe To Avoid Direct Link Tax (www.techdirt.com)
Twitch to shut down in Korea over ‘prohibitively expensive’ network fees (techcrunch.com)
Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them (arstechnica.com)
Scientists surprisingly detect key life ingredient at our galaxy's edges (interestingengineering.com)
New report illuminates why OpenAI board said Altman “was not consistently candid” (arstechnica.com)
Researchers crack the cellular code on protein folding, offering hope for many new therapeutic avenues (phys.org)
Your car is probably harvesting your data. Here's how you can wipe it (therecord.media)
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)
Global oil supermajor 'now largest solar developer' (www.rechargenews.com)
Beeper reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users (techcrunch.com)
23andMe hack now estimated to affect over half of customers / The stolen data affects 6.9 million users (www.engadget.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)
Majority of far-right online posts about Ireland originate abroad, research shows (gcn.ie)
Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash (www.techdirt.com)
1960s chatbot ELIZA beat OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 in a recent Turing test study (arstechnica.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)
HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers (www.theregister.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)
Boeing out of E-4B 'Doomsday Plane' replacement competition (breakingdefense.com)
PlayStation Users Frustrated After Getting Permanently Suspended Without Warning (comicbook.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)
HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers (www.techspot.com)
Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C (appleinsider.com)
UK porn watchers could have faces scanned - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
PipeWire 1.0: Linux audio comes of age (www.zdnet.com)
Meta is pulling the plug on Messenger chats on Instagram (mashable.com)
Tiny robots made from human cells heal damaged tissue (www.nature.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)
US YouTuber who staged plane crash jailed for six months (techxplore.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)
Almost 100,000 Google employees are about to get a hard-fought $20 (www.sfgate.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)
Researcher claims Harvard nixed social media harms work (www.theregister.com)
Thieves return Android phone when they realize it's not an iPhone (9to5mac.com)
23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users (techcrunch.com)
Scientists develop mega-thin solar cells that could be shockingly easy to produce: ‘As rapid as printing a newspaper’ (finance.yahoo.com)
Misinformation expert says she was fired by Harvard under Meta pressure (www.theguardian.com)
Sec. Gina Raimondo: Threat from China is large and growing, can't let it access top tier AI chips (www.cnbc.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)
GTA 6 First Trailer Officially Revealed (comicbook.com)
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)
Companies say they're closing in on nuclear fusion as an energy source. Will it work? (www.npr.org)
23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users (techcrunch.com)
Southwest utility plans to close two coal plants, acquire 1.25 GW of renewables (www.solarpowerworldonline.com)
A hidden deposit of lithium in a US lake could power 375 million EVs (interestingengineering.com)
HP exec says quiet part out loud when it comes to locking in print customers (www.theregister.com)
A Windows Update bug is renaming everyone's printers to HP M101-M106 (www.xda-developers.com)
City officials in Brazil unanimously voted to pass a bill that was secretly written by ChatGPT in just 15 seconds (archive.ph)
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)
Law secretly drafted by ChatGPT makes it onto the books (www.theregister.com)
Physicists May Have Found a Hard Limit on The Performance of Large Quantum Computers (www.sciencealert.com)
World record optical fiber transmission capacity doubles to 22.9 petabits per second (www.nict.go.jp)
Google Can’t Catch All the AI Images. Can You? (www.bloomberg.com)
Breaches by Iran-Affiliated Hackers Spanned Multiple States (www.insurancejournal.com)
China sinks 1400-ton data center in sea with power of 6 million PCs (interestingengineering.com)
Meta faces $600M competition damages claim in Spain as media owners pursue privacy breach lawsuit (techcrunch.com)
U.S. issues warning to NVIDIA, urging to stop redesigning chips for China (videocardz.com)
About 40% of the world's power generation is now renewable (www.scimex.org)
US, S Korea, Japan Sign Pact to Counter Disinformation (www.southkoreanews.net)
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware leads to massive layoffs, CEO tells remote workers "get your butt" back in the office (www.techspot.com)
2023 has been an AI feeding frenzy, here are the startups that attracted the most investment this year (www.businessinsider.com)
Spanish media association files $598 mln lawsuit against Facebook owner Meta (www.reuters.com)
EU approves new law on mandatory security updates for connected devices (www.telecompaper.com)
No one really knows how Facebook works. This book might help. (www.washingtonpost.com)
World's largest nuclear fusion reactor comes online in Japan / It produces largest volume of plasma ever made by humans (www.theregister.com)
Greenhouse gas emissions soar – with China, US and India most at fault (www.theguardian.com)
Meta warns that China is stepping up its online social media influence operations (www.npr.org)
Google, IBM make strides toward quantum computers that may revolutionize problem solving (www.cbsnews.com)
Is This the End of ‘Intel Inside’? (www.wsj.com)
Google, IBM make strides toward quantum computers that may revolutionize problem solving (www.cbsnews.com)
A recent Grand Theft Auto 6 leak on TikTok may have come from a Rockstar Games employee's kid (www.businessinsider.com)
Amazon finds itself in the unusual position of playing catch-up in AI (techcrunch.com)
How the Winklevii’s Second Act Went Bad (nymag.com)
Will New Tech End the Need for Human Pregnancy? | The Walrus (thewalrus.ca)
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)
Meet the first Spanish AI model earning up to €10,000 per month (www.euronews.com)
How Huawei made a cutting-edge chip in China and surprised the US (arstechnica.com)
Google has quietly pushed back the launch of next-gen AI model Gemini until next year, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
US Navy says it will trial using AI to track Chinese submarines in the Pacific (www.businessinsider.com)