German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' (www.hrw.org)
- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China’s Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....
Delivery Goes Wrong: New Cybertruck Slices Owner's Wrist During Inspection (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A Tesla owner’s dream of taking his new Cybetruck for a spin turned into a nightmare. He landed in the emergency room with blood spurting from a wrist wound before even getting behind the wheel.
RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time (arstechnica.com)
‘A fine line between humor and flopping’: tech summit’s rap battle is the height of corporate cringe (www.theguardian.com)
The next time you’re sitting through a company-wide meeting, half-listening to a leader drone on about updates or product launches (and hoping they don’t announce layoffs or budget cuts), remember this: at least they’re not rapping....
A look at search engines with their own indexes (seirdy.one)
cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/19788762...
The Internet Archive has been fending off DDoS attacks for days (www.engadget.com)
Google might have accidentally published docs about how Search works (9to5google.com)
Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities (arstechnica.com)
What's Scarier Than Unchecked AI? A 'Swarm' of 3,400 Corporate AI Lobbyists (www.commondreams.org)
Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real (www.theverge.com)
‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)
Electric bikes are about to get more expensive, and the timing couldn’t be worse (www.theverge.com)
Use for excess clean energy at home
I have a 100 W rigid solar panel including a charge controller that I currently only use for camping to charge batteries (also useful in an emergency at home). It strikes me as a waste that I could be generating more clean energy with equipment that I already have, but I don’t have anything in mind to use this energy for....
Researchers crack 11-year-old password, recover $3 million in bitcoin (arstechnica.com)
World's first wooden satellite built by Japan researchers (phys.org)
Neuralink rival sets brain-chip record with 4,096 electrodes on human brain (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/21218504...
Sports Betting App Development Company (innosoft-group.com)
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