Google’s Privacy Chief Is Out And Will Not Be Replaced (www.forbes.com)
Google’s chief privacy officer, Keith Enright, will depart the tech giant after 13 years, with no plans yet to replace him, as the company restructures its teams in charge of privacy and legal compliance....
FinalSpark builds processor from 16 organoid brain cells (www.allaboutcircuits.com)
Large Language Models made from cells incoming…
New World Record: 33.24% Solar Cell Efficiency From JinkoSolar! - CleanTechnica (cleantechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16488298...
Night-vision lenses so thin and light that we can all see in the dark (newatlas.com)
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned (arstechnica.com)
Zoom CEO Wants an AI Avatar to Do Your Job While You’re at the Beach (gizmodo.com)
xaitax/TotalRecall: This tool extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11, providing an easy way to access information about your PC's activity snapshots. (github.com)
this rootless Python script rips Windows Recall’s screenshots and SQLite database of OCRed text and allows you to search them.
Google changes repair policy after criticism of third-party parts ban (arstechnica.com)
Google previously said it would not return mailed-in devices using "unauthorized" parts.
10 big things we think will happen in the next 10 years (www.vox.com)
Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned | Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary (arstechnica.com)
Google might keep your Pixel during a repair if you're caught using non-OEM parts (www.androidpolice.com)
ISPs seek halt of net neutrality rules before they take effect next month (arstechnica.com)
EU approval for chat control (www.patrick-breyer.de)
We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to...
Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' (www.techradar.com)
Microsoft has blocked the bypass that allowed you to create a local account during Windows 11 setup by typing in a blocked email address (www.tomshardware.com)
Global navigation jamming will only get worse. The U.S. needs to move fast - SpaceNews (spacenews.com)
Interesting implications, perhaps the global positioning system is not as infallible as we thought
361 million stolen accounts leaked on Telegram added to HIBP (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
With a dataset this large, no site that allows logins is unaffected by these leaked credentials
Instagram's unskippable ads test causes outrage among users (www.techspot.com)
Instagram has long been accused of stealing features from platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat, and Twitter/X. It appears that the company has looked to YouTube for its latest idea: unskippable ads that you have to watch for a period of time before being able to scroll further....
Snowflake releases statement denying its systems were breached - Stack Diary (stackdiary.com)
So apparently the hackers targeted Snowflake customers, Ticketmaster Santander etc, who FOR SOME REASON, DIDN’T HAVE 2FA TURNED ON ON THEIR SNOWFLAKE ACCOUNT?! HUH!!?
This 'AI' Interpreter Is A Game Changer Among Translation Gadgets (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
In a world that’s now more connected than ever, we must be able to communicate our ideas and words to various audiences and the people we interact with. But for the most part, the one thing that hinders us from communicating well with our global peers is the language barrier. While this puts perspective on international...