Bitwise Industries furloughs its entire workforce. CEOs cite ‘unexpected’ financial duress (www.fresnobee.com)
Jobs created by net-zero transition will ‘offset’ fossil-fuel job losses in Republican US states (www.carbonbrief.org)
Arm unveils new mobile CPU and GPU designs with 64-bit only cores (www.techspot.com)
Writeup on the fall of digg as reddit begins to digg out third party developers (d3.harvard.edu)
Windows 11 is getting a force quit option to close apps without the Task Manager (www.theverge.com)
The Agency Strikes Back: EPA Proposes New Emissions Limits for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants (www.jdsupra.com)
Tesla Confirms Automated Driving Systems Were Engaged During Fatal Crash (jalopnik.com)
Meta threatens to yank news content from California over payments bill (www.reuters.com)
Reddit’s API pricing results in shocking $20 million-a-year bill for Apollo (arstechnica.com)
Amazon’s Ring to pay $5.8M after staff and contractors caught snooping on customer videos, FTC says (techcrunch.com)
A developer says Reddit could charge him $20 million a year to keep his app working. (www.theverge.com)
US announces $46 million in funds to eight nuclear fusion companies (www.reuters.com)
Amazon's Ring to pay FTC $5.8 million over privacy violations (www.cnbc.com)
AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research (www.nature.com)
Popular Reddit App Apollo Would Need to Pay $20 Million Per Year Under New API Pricing (www.macrumors.com)
Eating Disorder Helpline Disables Chatbot for 'Harmful' Responses After Firing Human Staff (www.vice.com)
Ransomware attack on US dental insurance giant exposes data of 9 million patients (techcrunch.com)
Reddit may force Apollo and third party clients to shutdown (9to5mac.com)
ChatGPT Fought the Law, and the Law Won - Here is an object lesson in how not to use generative A.I. (newrepublic.com)
Cellulose film could help cool cars and homes without electricity | Exploiting plants natural cooling abilities with colorful home furniture or car sensors (www.techspot.com)
Electric vehicle incentives for ‘gasoline superusers’ would have outsized benefits for the climate (yaleclimateconnections.org)
Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor (www.wired.com)
California Senate passes ‘Right to Repair Act’ (pirg.org)
Amazon workers plan to walk out over 'lack of trust' in leadership (www.cnbc.com)
Federal EV Incentives Are Designed All Wrong, Experts Say (www.motherjones.com)
Intel-manufactured Nvidia GPUs could be coming soon (www.techspot.com)
Google quietly ends support for decade-old Chromecast - No more software or security updates are coming for Google’s first Chromecast. ‘Users may notice a degradation in performance.’ (www.theverge.com)
Iconic Torrent Site RARBG Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop (torrentfreak.com)
Team sets new speed record for industry standard optical fiber (techxplore.com)
RARBG shutdown (rarbg.to)
Australia fines employers for exploiting foreign IT workers (www.theregister.com)
Chinese scientists are drilling a 10,000-meter hole into the Earth’s crust, explores new frontiers above and below the planet’s surface (www.bloomberg.com)
Twitter only worth 33% of what Musk-led investors paid, Fidelity says (www.axios.com)
Huge win for privacy: Record fine against Facebook thanks to Max Schrems. Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU regulation GDPR. (tutanota.com)
Supreme Court rejects lawsuit that sought to hold Reddit responsible for hosting child pornography (www.cnn.com)
No ChatGPT in my court: Judge orders all AI-generated content must be declared and checked (techcrunch.com)
HP Inc. CEO says A.I. will enable a new kind of PC, which could release in 2024 (www.cnbc.com)
Scientists harvest electricity “from thin air”, Humidity could be a boundless source of energy, they say (www.usatoday.com)
Georgia nuclear rebirth arrives 7 years late, $17B over cost (apnews.com)
Startup Drives Toyota For 1,200 Miles On Electric Power Alone Thanks To Wireless Charging Road (www.carscoops.com)
Federal Judge Makes History in Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant (www.eff.org)
AI leaders warn the technology poses 'risk of extinction' like pandemics and nuclear war (abcnews.go.com)
Solar trees could soon be charging your car (www.cnn.com)
Critic of Amazon's Policies Says Company's Lawyers Are Trying To Ruin Him (slashdot.org)
Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes begins 11-year prison sentence (www.bbc.com)
Sorry, but Alexa can no longer talk like Samuel L Jackson (techcrunch.com)
Toyota, Daimler Truck, Hino, Mitsubishi Fuso joining forces in ecological technology (apnews.com)
Amazon is discontinuing Alexa’s celebrity voices, even if you paid for them - The voice of Samuel L. Jackson has already stopped working on Alexa devices. (www.theverge.com)
Global wind turbine order intake sets Q1 record, increases 27% YOY (www.woodmac.com)
Novel solar desalination system for remote areas developed (techxplore.com)
PayPal CEO wanted: must be able to reverse $293bn share price slump (www.ft.com)
The little-known, massive advantage that renewables hold over coal (yaleclimateconnections.org)
Elon Musk’s Twitter algorithm changes are ‘amplifying anger and animosity’, say researchers (www.standard.co.uk)
OpenAI isn’t doing enough to make ChatGPT’s limitations clear | Users deserve blame for not heeding warnings, but OpenAI should be doing more to make it clear that ChatGPT can’t reliably distinguish fact from fiction. (www.theverge.com)
Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains? (www.theguardian.com)
Nvidia is now a $1 trillion company thanks to the AI boom (www.theverge.com)
New type of quasiparticle emerges to tame quantum computing errors (physicsworld.com)
‘They’re afraid their AIs will come for them’: Doug Rushkoff on why tech billionaires are in escape mode (www.theguardian.com)
Using AI, scientists find a drug that could combat drug-resistant infections (news.mit.edu)
Taiwan Rushes to Prevent China From Cutting Off Internet, Phones (www.bloomberg.com)
Bendy solar panels are just as good as regular ones (www.scihb.com)
From Eugenics to Targeted Advertising: The Dark Role of Data in Sorting Humanity | Literary Hub (lithub.com)
Intel inside? Chinese firm Powerleader’s ‘home-grown’ chip suspected of being a rebadged microprocessor from US giant, test results show (www.scmp.com)
Leaked Tesla Documents Said to Disclose Thousands of Autopilot Complaints - 100GB of files cover issues with unintentional emergency braking, self-acceleration, and more (www.extremetech.com)
China urges Japan to end curbs on chip exports (www.cnn.com)
Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ in 22-word statement - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Top Emitter China Needs $38 Trillion to Hit Climate Goals Early (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction, experts warn (www.bbc.com)
Asus is going to sell Nvidia AI servers for your business to rent | This could be good news for banking and hospitals looking to harness AI tools (www.techradar.com)
China deletes 1.4m posts and 67k accounts as part of massive social media crackdown (www.neowin.net)
'Everyone is a programmer' with generative A.I., says Nvidia chief (www.cnbc.com)
Worries mount about misinformation in science (www.axios.com)
Amazon S3, DynamoDB, or RDS? (www.zehncloud.com)
Inner workings revealed for “Predator,” the Android malware that exploited 5 0-days (arstechnica.com)
BMW adds games to the 5 series but still ain't the Ultimate Gaming Machine (www.theregister.com)
Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the Case for Moral AI | Nintendo's Luigi has a chaos-causing alter ego. AI's shadow could put humanity at risk—but can be contained (www.wired.com)
SoftBank's Arm rolls out new smartphone tech, MediaTek signs up to use (www.reuters.com)
The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Nvidia to build Israeli supercomputer as AI demand soars (www.reuters.com)
Two 'Six Flags' parks rolling out Amazon-powered grab-and-go cashierless shops (techxplore.com)
Nvidia, MediaTek partner on connected car technology (indianexpress.com)
Renewable Energy Becomes A Flash Point In America’s Culture Wars (cleantechnica.com)
CD Projekt is not for sale - CEO (www.reuters.com)
Researchers achieve record 19.31% efficiency with organic solar cells (techxplore.com)
Malvertising via brand impersonation is back again (www.malwarebytes.com)
Toyota puts liquid hydrogen-powered car into 24-hour race (japantoday.com)
After being wrongfully accused of spying for China, professor wins appeal to sue the government (www.nbcnews.com)
Fake Social Media Accounts Are Attacking Electrify America (cleantechnica.com)
Tech workers are sick of the grind. Some are on the search for low-stress jobs. (www.businessinsider.com)
Chinese apps remain hugely popular in the U.S. despite efforts to ban TikTok (www.cnbc.com)
US lawyer admits using ChatGPT for case research - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
Report: ‘massive’ Tesla leak reveals data breaches, thousands of safety complaints (www.theguardian.com)
Heavy electric trucks cheaper than diesel goods trucks (www.chalmers.se)
AI can make anyone a programmer and has 'closed the digital divide,' Nvidia CEO says (businessinsider.com)
China plans to land astronauts on the Moon before 2030 (english.kyodonews.net)
Nvidia taps into Israeli innovation to build generative AI cloud supercomputer (www.timesofisrael.com)
I Asked ChatGPT To Control My Life, and It Immediately Fell Apart (www.vice.com)
Pirate IPTV Data Center Raid Took Down Several Innocent Websites (torrentfreak.com)
Hyper-luxury Bugatti tower will have its residents drive up to their floor (interestingengineering.com)
GPT-4 can generate a landing page for your product (www.waibsites.com)
Private Spies Hired by the FBI and Corporate Firms Infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp (www.leefang.com)
Ford CEO On EVs: "We see the Chinese as the main competitor, not GM or Toyota" (insideevs.com)
Facebook users lose access due to Instagram accounts they don't own (siliconangle.com)
Korea walks fine line between US, China in chip war (www.koreatimes.co.kr)
Android phones are vulnerable to fingerprint brute-force attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Japan will try to beam solar power from space by 2025 (www.engadget.com)
Developer says its app can spot counterfeits and fakes using a smartphone camera (www.phonearena.com)
DeSantis signed bill shielding SpaceX and other companies from liability day after Elon Musk 2024 (www.independent.co.uk)
Apple, Fox, Netflix Emerge as Potential Bidders for Future NBA Rights (www.bloomberg.com)
Amazon TikTok praises driver for confronting bear in order to deliver package (www.vice.com)
How the rise of generative AI could kill the metaverse — or save it (venturebeat.com)
Nigeria: An African alternative to ChatGPT takes Telegram by storm (www.howwemadeitinafrica.com)
Nikkei Asia: "Canon develops quantum dot OLED materials without rare metals" (asia.nikkei.com)
China's Shenzhou-16 crewed spaceship ready for launch (news.cgtn.com)
A lawyer faces sanctions after he used ChatGPT to write a brief riddled with fake citations (www.engadget.com)
Jan. 6th Convict Wants $370M From Parler for Banning Him (gizmodo.com)
Microsoft president compares AI to invention of printing press (thehill.com)
‘Get back in there’: T-Mobile CEO exhorts tech industry leaders to return to the office (www.geekwire.com)
AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off (www.fortressofdoors.com)
The generative AI revolution has begun—how did we get here? (arstechnica.com)
Thought experiment in the National Library of Thailand (medium.com)
I tried the AI novel-writing tool everyone hates, and it’s better than I expected (www.theverge.com)
iOS 16.5 causing iPhone battery drain complaints (www.tomsguide.com)
New York To Build 13 Fast Charging Hubs (cleantechnica.com)
A 'Slavery Simulator' game on Google Play Brazil that allowed players to sell, torture, or sexualize enslaved people was downloaded more than 1,000 times before it was removed: report (businessinsider.com)
Google’s AI Search is a Content Farm on Steroids (www.tomshardware.com)
VMware employees are increasingly concerned over Broadcom's pending $61 billion acquisition, predicting spinouts of business units, layoffs, and lost customers (www.businessinsider.com)
Hyundai and LG announce $4.3 billion plant in Georgia to build batteries for electric vehicles (techxplore.com)
Termite mounds reveal secret to creating 'living and breathing' buildings that use less energy (techxplore.com)
A.I. has us Creeping Toward Dystopia by Robert Skidelsky (www.project-syndicate.org)
There's a big debate over whether it's OK to use AI in your job search. Some companies say it's 'a definite dealbreaker.' (www.businessinsider.com)
Digital Anthropology Meets Data Science - Analyzing online ecosystems in real time, teams of anthropologists and data scientists can begin to understand rapid social changes as they happen. (www.anthropology-news.org)
Volvo Proves Anti-EV Trolls Wrong (cleantechnica.com)
AMA calls for national regulations around AI in health care (www.abc.net.au)
A lawyer used ChatGPT for legal filing. The chatbot cited nonexistent cases it just made up (mashable.com)
Can you safely build something that may kill you? (www.vox.com)
China deletes 1.4 million social media posts in crack down (www.abc.net.au)
A lawyer used ChatGPT and now has to answer for its ‘bogus’ citations (www.theverge.com)
Nvidia CEO expects AI to create 'golden opportunities' for Taiwan (focustaiwan.tw)
Pentagon Promising to Unleash Cyber Campaigns if Needed (www.voanews.com)
Elon Musk takes Twitter out of the EU’s Disinformation Code of Practice (techcrunch.com)
ChatGPT: US lawyer admits using AI for case research (www.bbc.com)
China deletes 1.4 million social media posts in crackdown on 'self-media' accounts (www.reuters.com)
Google bans Downloader app after TV firms complain it can load a pirate website (arstechnica.com)
From Past Lessons to Future Protections: EFF's Advice to the EU Commission on Extended Reality Governance (www.eff.org)
Apple’s $50 million butterfly keyboard settlement is finally approved (www.theverge.com)
[Blogpost] A Turkish-style Cambridge-Analytica Scandal: Bulk reach into the digital presence of Turkish citizens - The Arrested Lawyers Initiative (arrestedlawyers.org)
NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent (www.theguardian.com)
Cozy knit sweaters could help robots 'feel' contact (www.popsci.com)
Sea Turtle Thrives Years After Receiving 3D-Printed Shell Brace (mymodernmet.com)
100% Electric Vehicles Now 13% Of New Car Sales In France (cleantechnica.com)
No, There Won’t Be Nuclear-Powered Commercial Shipping This Time Either (cleantechnica.com)
Two Charging Companies Respond To Ford’s Adoption Of The Tesla/NACS Plug (cleantechnica.com)
Amazon employees accuse the company of ‘actively accelerating’ the climate crisis, leaked email shows. Employees plan to walk out (www.businessinsider.com)
Anti-soil solar PV coating delivers 3% boost in energy production (www.pv-magazine.com)
Google ordered to pay $32.5 million in Sonos patent infringement decision (www.techspot.com)
Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material (www.washingtonpost.com)
40% Of New Cars Sold In Netherlands Now Plugin Cars! (cleantechnica.com)
Chinese developer Rayark has allegedly fired entire art team in favor of AI (tryhardguides.com)
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How AI Is Catapulting Nvidia Toward the $1 Trillion Club: WSJ (www.wsj.com)
Microsoft is liberally using OpenAI to try to maintain software developers’ interest in its platforms. (mondayfounder.com)
Tesla instructed employees to only communicate verbally about complaints so there was no written record, leaked documents show (www.businessinsider.com)
AI Reconstructs 'High-Quality' Video Directly from Brain Readings in Study (www.vice.com)
'Hot Pixel' Attack Steals Data From Apple, Intel, Nvidia, and AMD Chips via Frequency, Power and Temperature Info | DVFS mechanisms can be exploited to steal data. (www.tomshardware.com)
Framework could explore modular smartphones and more, hints CEO (www.techradar.com)
Lenovo profits are down a staggering 75% in the 'new normal' PC market (www.techspot.com)
Global Transition to Electric Vehicles Needs Urgent Support, Report Warns (www.ucdavis.edu)
China says South Korea agrees to boost semiconductor cooperation, while Seoul stays quiet on talks (www.scmp.com)
Passport e-gates at UK airports down (www.bbc.co.uk)
Japan AI startup launches robot for home use (english.kyodonews.net)
Tesla leak reveals thousands of customer complaints about random acceleration and 'phantom braking,' report says (www.businessinsider.com)
Linux for schools: why use Ubuntu for education (ubuntu.com)
Huge Tesla data leak reportedly reveals thousands of safety complaints. 4 things to know (www.latimes.com)
Staggering 3D scan of the Titanic shows the wreck down to the millimeter (www.popsci.com)
Twitter Demands Academics Who Won’t Pay $42k/Month Delete Any Twitter Data They Currently Have (www.techdirt.com)
Is Social Media Making Us Stupid Not Because Of Content But Because Of "The Machinery Of Targeted Distribution"? (venturebeat.com)
Shaq Served Court Papers In FTX Lawsuit During NBA Playoff Game (www.gizmodo.com.au)
Green hills forever: Windows XP activation algorithm cracked after 21 years (arstechnica.com)
HP has found a new way to add ink cartridge DRM to your printer (www.techspot.com)
PlayStation Project Q handheld reportedly has 3-4 hour battery life (www.tweaktown.com)
ChatGPT Plugins Open Security Holes From PDFs, Websites and More (www.tomshardware.com)
Sonos wins $32.5 million patent infringement victory over Google. (www.theverge.com)
New Study Shows Noninvasive Brain Imaging Can Distinguish Among Hand Gestures (today.ucsd.edu)
Netflix might ruin password sharing for everyone | The streamer’s password-sharing crackdown could have huge implications for the rest of the industry. (www.theverge.com)
Shocking Leaked Tesla Documents Hint at Cybertruck Problems | The EV giant is under pressure to launch new products, but a huge dump of confidential files in Germany details a litany of technical failings (www.wired.com)
HP printers should have EPEAT ecolabels revoked, trade group demands | Complaint to EPEAT organizers spells out why Dynamic Security, HP+ suck (arstechnica.com)
AI makes it harder to spot deep fakes than ever before, but awareness is key, says expert (www.newswise.com)
Most massive touching stars ever found will eventually collide as black holes (www.ucl.ac.uk)
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz vetoes rideshare driver bill after Uber threatens to halt operations outside Twin Cities (www.cbsnews.com)
Minnesota passes landmark right-to-repair law for electronic devices (www.techspot.com)
Nvidia stock jump nets CEO Jensen Huang $6.4B one-day windfall (www.sfgate.com)
Ex-Apple employee accused of stealing trade secrets is exec at Baidu self-driving car joint venture (www.cnbc.com)
Global funding for solar power will outpace oil production in 2023 (www.techspot.com)
U.S. Wants To Recall 67 Million Airbags (GM, Ford, VW, BMW), Supplier Disagrees (www.carscoops.com)
Brazilian lawmakers file complaint against Google for ‘Slavery Simulator’ game (www.washingtonpost.com)
Malwarebytes: Zip domains, a bad idea nobody asked for (www.malwarebytes.com)
Massive trove of Tesla files contains thousands of safety complaints — a Tesla employee gave more than 100GB of data to Germany's Handelsblatt (arstechnica.com)
More Canadian privacy authorities investigating ChatGPT's use of personal information | Investigation will examine if OpenAI got 'valid and meaningful' information-sharing consent from Canadians (www.cbc.ca)
Captcha Is Asking Users to Identify Objects That Don't Exist - Discord's captcha asked users to identify a 'Yoko,' a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI. (www.vice.com)
Solar power due to overtake oil production investment for first time, IEA says (www.reuters.com)
HP has found an exciting new way to DRM your printer! | Where ‘HP Plus’ means ‘HP + permanent DRM.’ (www.theverge.com)
Hyundai and LG Energy Solution to Build EV Battery Plant in the U.S. (rawmaterials.net)
Chip giant Nvidia nears trillion-dollar status on AI bet (www.reuters.com)
OpenAI CEO raises $115M for crypto company that scans people’s eyeballs (arstechnica.com)
The Windows XP activation algorithm has been cracked | The unkillable OS rises from the grave… Again (www.theregister.com)
Electricity prices in Finland flipped negative - ; a huge oversupply of clean, hydroelectric power meant suppliers were almost giving it away (businessinsider.com)
A brain implant changed her life. Then it was removed against her will. (www.technologyreview.com)
Plants remove cancer causing toxins from air (www.uts.edu.au)
Investment in Solar Will Eclipse Oil in 2023, IEA Finds (www.voanews.com)
‘A crime of hatred’: disgust over Brazilian mobile phone slavery game (www.theguardian.com)
Microsoft joins plea for government regulation of AI tools like ChatGPT (kuow.org)
Ford strikes deal with Tesla to gain access to rival charging stations in 2024 (www.reuters.com)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink gets FDA approval for human test of brain implants (nypost.com)
New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI (www.bbc.com)
U.S. mainland and Guam assets hacked by Chinese group 'Volt Typhoon' (interestingengineering.com)
Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions to Chatbot After Unionization (www.vice.com)
Elon Musk wants to do more streaming on Twitter, but DeSantis' launch was plagued with glitches and outages (www.businessinsider.in)
Ford EVs will use Tesla charging tech in surprise partnership between rival automakers (www.cnbc.com)
France bans short-haul domestic flights in favour of train travel (www.euronews.com)
YouTube is killing Stories (www.theverge.com)
Intel mulls cutting ties to 16 and 32-bit support (www.theregister.com)
Whistleblower Drops 100 Gigabytes Of Tesla Secrets To German News Site: Report (jalopnik.com)
Around 79% of American workers believe AI will threaten their salary and lead to pay cuts, new survey finds (finance.yahoo.com)
ChatGPT-maker warns it might leave EU over planned AI law (www.bbc.com)
The AI chip boom is propelling Nvidia to new heights, gamers be damned (www.techspot.com)
Data breach at US debt collector exposes over a million users | NCB Management Services exposed sensitive payment data to an unknown threat actor (www.techradar.com)
A retailer just blocked 42,000 customers from its site for returning too many items. It could trigger a new wave of returns backlash. (www.businessinsider.com)
Revealed: the contentious tool US immigration uses to get your data from tech firms (www.theguardian.com)
New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI (www.bbc.co.uk)
European Commission wants all countries to block pirate sites to combat online piracy (www.techspot.com)
Solar investment outshines oil: IEA / Investment in solar power is expected to overtake oil for the first time this year as clean energy (techxplore.com)
Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive (www.theregister.com)
Google wants to target you – yes, YOU – with AI-generated ads / Just when you thought maybe your phone wasn't spying on you … (www.theregister.com)
IT security analyst admits hijacking cyber attack to pocket ransom payments (www.theregister.com)
Some Meta staff are making up their own tasks or avoiding work as layoffs leave them in an anxious and confused limbo, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
S. Korea successfully launches space rocket Nuri in major milestone for space program (en.yna.co.kr)
Powering the future: How car parks are transforming into solar energy hubs (interestingengineering.com)
Nvidia is on track to break a stock market record held by Apple in the US (sg.news.yahoo.com)
Sam Altman says OpenAI will leave the EU if there's any real AI regulation — The man behind the company that made ChatGPT had just got done telling Congress he’s all for AI regulation, as long as he can keep selling his AI models (gizmodo.com)
Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet, making it easier for towns to build their own (coloradosun.com)
The Real Risks in Google’s New .Zip and .Mov Domains (www.wired.com)
Chinese state hackers infect critical infrastructure throughout the US and Guam (arstechnica.com)
Ron DeSantis had trouble announcing his presidential bid because Twitter's servers were 'kind of melting' (www.engadget.com)
Under Elon Musk, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments (english.elpais.com)
Chinese malware targeting critical infrastructure, Microsoft and U.S. government warn (www.cbsnews.com)
Microsoft says China installed malware in US systems in Guam (www.engadget.com)
DoorDash hit with $1B lawsuit for allegedly charging iPhone users more than Android users (nypost.com)
Microsoft: State-sponsored Chinese hackers could be laying groundwork for disruption (apnews.com)
Windows 11 is getting a force quit option to close apps without the Task Manager (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft warns that China hackers attacked U.S. infrastructure (www.cnbc.com)
Everyone is fed up with robocalls. Now 48 states are suing one company that they say made 7.5 billion of them. (businessinsider.com)
Apple is investing billions in US-made 5G components as it looks to move manufacturing out of China (qz.com)
How NASA plans to melt the Moon—and build on Mars (arstechnica.com)
Right-to-repair rules are now the law in Minnesota. (www.theverge.com)
Three companies to buy most Virgin Orbit assets after bankruptcy (spacenews.com)
‘Follow Your Passions’ Advice Keeps Women From STEM Fields, Says Research (www.forbes.com)
New Ridesharing App Black Wolf Is Like Uber But With Drivers Who Carry Guns (www.forbes.com)
U.S. intelligence building system to track mass movement of people around the world (www.vice.com)
Microsoft’s Surface Pro X cameras have stopped working for everyone - Owners of Microsoft’s flagship Arm-powered tablet are struggling to dial in to video calls this week. (www.theverge.com)
Book Publishers Are Trying to Destroy Public E-Book Access in Order to Increase Profits (www.currentaffairs.org)
Chip war: Apple strikes major US-made semiconductor deal (www.bbc.com)
India plans action against Google after antitrust breaches (www.reuters.com)
Social media presents ‘profound risk of harm’ for kids, surgeon general says, calling attention to lack of research (www.cnn.com)
People hate QR-code menus. Now restaurants are ditching them. (businessinsider.com)
Pegasus spyware found on phones of Mexican president's close ally | There are concerns the Mexican military may be snooping on leaders. (www.engadget.com)
Amnesty International Report: Palestinians in Hebron Regularly Subject to an Experimental Surveillance System That Stores Facial Recognition Data Without Consent (www.cpomagazine.com)
Paralysed man walks again thanks to 'digital bridge' that wirelessly reconnects brain and spinal cord (news.sky.com)
Scientists Working to Generate Electricity From Thin Air Make Breakthrough (www.vice.com)
Do not call: States sue telecom company over billions of robocalls - Attorneys general across the U.S. have joined a lawsuit against a telecommunications company accused of making more than 7.5 billion robocalls to people on the national Do Not Call Registry (abcnews.go.com)
Meta conducts yet another round of layoffs (techcrunch.com)
Chip wars with China risk ‘enormous damage’ to US tech, says Nvidia chief (archive.is)
28 years later, Windows finally supports RAR files (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft announces Windows Copilot, an AI ‘personal assistant’ for Windows 11 (www.theverge.com)
Virgin Orbit: Branson's rocket dream ends after mission failure (www.bbc.com)
Widespread FBI abuse of foreign spy law sets off “alarm bells,” tech group says (arstechnica.com)
US surgeon general issues advisory on ‘profound’ risks of child social media use (www.theguardian.com)
DOE Announces $60M to Advance Clean Hydrogen Technologies, Improve Electric Power Grid (www.mbtmag.com)
Advanced Nuclear Power Comeback in Inflation Reduction Act (www.forbes.com)
Brain waves can tell us how much pain someone is in (www.technologyreview.com)
Netflix starts charging for account sharing in the US (www.engadget.com)
Windows 11 getting native support for 7-Zip, RAR, and GZ archives (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Fake Pentagon explosion photo caused a real dip in the stock market — Authorities confirm the suspected AI image is fake (mashable.com)
Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is here — and it costs $7.99 per month (www.theverge.com)
‘Am I gay?’-related Google searches soar 1,300 percent in 19 years: analysis (thehill.com)
Wendy's tests new system that delivers your food via underground robots in pipes (www.usatoday.com)
Netflix's password sharing crackdown officially hits US users (finance.yahoo.com)
Apple announces multibillion-dollar deal with Broadcom (www.apple.com)
US regulators launch investigation into worker death at Amazon warehouse (www.theguardian.com)
Meta has no choice but to sell Giphy at $262M loss to Shutterstock (arstechnica.com)
Netflix Launches Paid Sharing in U.S., Will Start Blocking Users With Unauthorized Passwords (variety.com)
Free speech but no fake news: Germany tasks Big Tech with battle against disinformation (www.nationalobserver.com)
Tesla plummets 50 spots in a survey of the US's most reputable brands. It's now No. 62 — 30 places below Ford. (businessinsider.com)
Why Is Mexico’s President So Hostile To Solar Energy Investment? (www.forbes.com)
Congress wants AM radio in all new cars—trade groups say that’s a mistake | Congress wants to force AM into every new car for emergency alerts. (arstechnica.com)
Samsung Unveils World's First OLED Display With Built-In Fingerprint and Blood Pressure Sensing (www.macrumors.com)
AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools misses knives (www.bbc.com)
Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M after buying it for $400M (techcrunch.com)