At Microsoft, years of security debt come crashing down (www.cybersecuritydive.com)
Catholic Group Defrocks AI Priest After It Gave Strange Answers (futurism.com)
You heard it! We can baptize babies in Gatorade!
Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road (fortune.com)
Cybertruck Deliveries Halted Due To Car Being A Big Piece Of Shit That Doesn't Work (defector.com)
Tesla, a future case study for securities law classes across America, had to stop delivering Cybertrucks this past weekend. No, not because the hundred-thousand–dollar medium-duty pickup, which is only any of those things in the loosest interpretive sense, tends to brick when it gets rained on; nor because its stainless steel...
Paintball-blasting home security camera redefines 'enter at own risk' (newatlas.com)
A big-thinking Slovenian startup has created a curious smart security camera that doesn’t just spy on your visitors, but will actively open fire on potential intruders with paintball pellets – or even tear gas rounds – with “ultra high precision.” What could possibly go wrong?
Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem (arstechnica.com)
Apple defends selling MacBook Air with only 8GB of RAM (bgr.com)
Microsoft starts stuffing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu (www.neowin.net)
Billion dollar developer lawsuit to proceed, despite Apple objection (9to5mac.com)
The £785M ($979M) antitrust lawsuit was filed on behalf of more than 1,500 British developers, and alleges that Apple’s monopolistic control of the market for iPhone apps allowed the company to charge ‘abusive’ levels of commission on app sales …
The EU's new default browser rules work; here's what it means for the US (www.androidpolice.com)
Smaller web browsers are thriving in the EU thanks to the DMA’s choice screens....
Top Amazon exec says it's a 'myth' robots steal jobs (www.cnbc.com)
We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners (www.theregister.com)
A Windows 11 'free' upgrade pushes users to buy a new PC (www.pcworld.com)
Millions of customers' data found on dark web in latest AT&T data breach (www.npr.org)
AT&T announced on Saturday it is investigating a data breach involving the personal information of more than 70 million current and former customers leaked on the dark web....
The rise and fall of robots.txt (www.theverge.com)
How many of you are mobile only?
Outside of my Switch and Kindle my phone is all I have. It’s a $1300 super device and I find it does more than enough. A magic reactangle with the answers to all life’s problems. The ultimate minimalist device....
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (midwest.social)
A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple’s M-series of chips allows attackers to extract secret keys from Macs when they perform widely used cryptographic operations, academic researchers have revealed in a paper published Thursday....
New DEEP#GOSU Malware Campaign Targets Windows Users with Advanced Tactics (thehackernews.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/10035107...
[Broken clocks are still right twice a day] Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Sam Altman for Making Money Over Benefitting Humanity (www.rollingstone.com)
Huh, though the #ElonMusk clock is broken, this is one of the times of the day it’s still correct:...
Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? - American Affairs Journal (Pluto: An article about technology stagnation.) (americanaffairsjournal.org)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/1958803...
To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy (time.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/10961870...
Substack's Nazi problem isn't about speech — it's about money (www.businessinsider.com)
Substack’s founder says it will not remove white supremacist and Nazi blogs from the platform....
Substack Has a Nazi Problem (www.theatlantic.com)
The newsletter-hosting site Substack advertises itself as the last, best hope for civility on the internet—and aspires to a bigger role in politics in 2024. But just beneath the surface, the platform has become a home and propagator of white supremacy and anti-Semitism. Substack has not only been hosting writers who post...
ExxonMobil drilling first lithium well in Arkansas, aims to be a leading supplier for electric vehicles by 2030 | ExxonMobil - midwest.social (midwest.social)
Montana’s Unprecedented TikTok Ban is Unconstitutional (www.eff.org)
A federal court on Thursday blocked Montana’s effort to ban TikTok from the state, ruling that the law violated users’ First Amendment rights to speak and to access information online, and the company’s First Amendment rights to select and curate users’ content....
