Colorado enacts right-to-repair law banning restrictions on parts pairing, mirroring Oregon's ban (www.cpr.org)
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Amazon’s Prime Air delivery drones can fly even farther after FAA approval (www.cnbc.com)
The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)
Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....
Multi-day DDoS storm batters Internet Archive. Think this is bad? See what Big Media wants to do to us, warns founder (www.theregister.com)
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Burnout Is Pushing Workers to Use AI—Even if Their Boss Doesn’t Know (www.wired.com)
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OpenAI board first learned about ChatGPT from Twitter, according to former member (arstechnica.com)
We're Watching Facebook Die (www.wheresyoured.at)
In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit. Though the company no longer reports daily active users, it now uses another metric: “family daily active people.” This number refers to “registered and logged-in users of one or more of Facebook’s Family...
Media Companies Like Vox Are Feeding Their Journalists' Work Into An AI Wood Chipper (aftermath.site)
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors (www.phoronix.com)
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Spacetop G1 is a $1900 laptop that uses a pair of Augmented Reality glasses as a display - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
BYD achieves 1,300-mile driving range with latest PHEVs (technode.com)
Malaysia stakes claim to become semiconductor superpower by luring $100B investment from … somewhere (www.theregister.com)
Open Source Cartridge Reader (tinkerbetter.tube)
A Ticketmaster hack spilled sensitive data for 560 million customers, hackers say (qz.com)
ShinyHunters posted on Tuesday night in a hacking forum that it obtained data from Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, including customers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order details, Cyber Daily wrote. The group is reportedly attempting to sell the stolen data for $500 million....
Robotic 'Third Thumb' Makes Tasks Possible With One Hand; Can Be A Game Changer For The Disabled (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
This controllable prosthetic, the Third Thumb, attaches to the right hand, granting wearers the ability to perform a slew of one-handed tasks such as grasping objects, opening bottles, sorting cards, and even peeling a banana.
A Nonprofit Tried to Fix Tech Culture—but Lost Control of Its Own (www.wired.com)
Sand and CPU creation
So like, if sand can be used as the first “ingredient” of a CPU, is it possible to use other variants of sand? Or is there only a very SPECIFIC kind of sand used for CPU creation?...
Amazon execs may be personally liable for tricking users into Prime sign-ups (arstechnica.com)
Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities (arstechnica.com)
Why AI Search Blew Up in Google’s Face (nymag.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)
RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time (arstechnica.com)
‘Let yourself be monitored’: EU governments to agree on Chat Control with user “consent” [updated] (www.patrick-breyer.de)
