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itnewsbot, 10 months ago to opensource

Red Hat kicked off a tempest in a teapot - We’re going back to the future with commercial Linux. In case you missed it, Red Hat a... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3701935/red-hat-kicked-off-a-tempest-in-a-teapot.html#tk.rss_all #technologyindustry #opensource #redhat #linux

itnewsbot, 11 months ago to random

Twitter Is Now Worth a Third of What Musk Paid For It, Fidelity Says - Social-media company’s value sinks to around $15 billion; Fidelity cuts its valuation for... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-is-now-worth-a-third-of-what-musk-paid-for-it-fidelity-says-e66f61db?mod=rss_Technology #paid

itnewsbot, 8 months ago to random

Under Musk, Twitter is handing over more data to investigators - X has complied with user data requests from German authorities, despite the platform’s fr... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/16/x-elon-musk-german-prosecutors-hate-speech/

itnewsbot, 10 months ago to startups

eFishery Secures $200 Million Funding, Becomes Indonesia’s First Aquaculture Unicorn - eFishery, an Indonesian startup company in the aquaculture industry, recently made... - https://readwrite.com/efishery-secures-200-million-funding-becomes-indonesias-first-aquaculture-unicorn/ #startups #news #tech

itnewsbot, 9 months ago to science

Scientists Recreate Pink Floyd Song By Reading Brain Signals of Listeners - An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Scientists have train... - https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/08/16/2139246/scientists-recreate-pink-floyd-song-by-reading-brain-signals-of-listeners?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #science

itnewsbot, 8 months ago to medical

US broadband grant rules shut out small ISPs and municipalities, advocates say - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Andrey Denisyuk)

The biggest I... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1965846 #broadband #policy

itnewsbot, 9 months ago to random

Ransomware Attack Disrupts Health Care in at Least Three States - It was not immediately clear how many locations operated by Prospect Medical Holdings wer... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/cyberattack-hospitals-california.html #healthinsuranceandmanagedcare #shutdowns(institutional) #prospectmedicalholdings #cyberattacksandhackers #waterburyhospital #computersecurity #waterbury(conn) #hospitals

itnewsbot, 9 months ago to random

Amazon's Palm-Payment Effort Is a Sneak Attack on Apple and Google - It’s also a potentially massive play to make Amazon the central ID system for your whole ... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-wants-you-to-pay-with-your-palm-its-a-sneak-attack-on-apple-and-google-e8e417a?mod=rss_Technology #paid

itnewsbot, 9 months ago to retrocomputing

A Mainframe Computer for the Modern Age - The era of mainframe computers and directly programming machines with switches is ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/21/a-mainframe-computer-for-the-modern-age/ #directprogramming #retrocomputing #minimainframe #mainframe #registers #hardware #memory #panel #retro

itnewsbot, 11 months ago to random

AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’ - Artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then... - https://www.wired.com/story/abeba-birhane-ai-datasets/ #business/artificialintelligence #digitalcolonialism #business

itnewsbot, 9 months ago to climate

Montana loses fight against youth climate activists in landmark ruling - Enlarge / Youth plaintiffs are greeted by supporters as they arrive for... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1960765 #greenhousegasemissions #climatechange #energypolicy #fossilfuels #science #montana #policy

itnewsbot, 1 year ago to random

Netflix minus 1M users in Spain over no-password-sharing policy - Netflix’s password sharing crackdown has cost it one million users in Spain during... - https://thenextweb.com/news/netflix-minus-1-million-users-spain-no-password-sharing-policy #startupsandtechnology #fintechandecommerce #nextfeatured

itnewsbot, 8 months ago to random

Google to pay California $93 million over location-tracking claims - Illustration: The Verge

Google has agreed to pay $... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/15/23875137/google-location-tracking-settlement-93-million-california

itnewsbot, 10 months ago to random

Spain fines Apple and Amazon €194M for outcompeting small retailers - Spain’s antitrust watchdog has fined Amazon and Apple €194mn for colluding to limi... - https://thenextweb.com/news/spain-apple-amazon-fine #corporatesandinnovation #governmentandpolicy #dataandsecurity

itnewsbot, 1 year ago to random

Texas Joins States Charging High Fees to Register an EV - "Driving an electric vehicle in Texas is soon to become more expensive," reports G... - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/05/20/0145239/texas-joins-states-charging-high-fees-to-register-an-ev?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #power

itnewsbot, 11 months ago to programming

Contrary View: Chatbots Don’t Help Programmers - [Bertrand Meyer] is a decided contrarian in his views on AI and programming. In a ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/06/08/contrary-view-chatbots-dont-help-programmers/ #artificialintelligence #softwaredevelopment #programming #chatbot

itnewsbot, 1 year ago to random

Minnesota Passes Bill Seeking to Ensure Minimum Wage for Gig Workers - Lyft and Uber have opposed the legislation, with Uber threatening to leave the state if i... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/technology/minnesota-uber-lyft-gig-work.html #freelancingself-employmentandindependentcontracting #prices(faresfeesandrates) #carservicesandliverycabs #ubertechnologiesinc #lawandlegislation #wagesandsalaries #laborandjobs #minimumwage #minnesota #lyftinc

itnewsbot, 11 months ago to random

Nintendo is holding a 40-minute-long Nintendo Direct tomorrow - Image: Nintendo

It seems that Nintendo might’ve be... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23766999/nintendo-direct-june-2023-date-stream

itnewsbot, 1 year ago to random

EU Warns Apple About Limiting Speeds of Uncertified USB-C Cables for iPhones - An anonymous reader shares a report: Last year, the EU passed legislation that wil... - https://apple.slashdot.org/story/23/05/05/1647239/eu-warns-apple-about-limiting-speeds-of-uncertified-usb-c-cables-for-iphones?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #eu

itnewsbot, 11 months ago to random

OpenAI lobbied the EU to avoid harsher AI regulations - OpenAI suggested changes to the proposed EU AI Act to avoi... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/20/23767053/openai-lobbied-eu-ai-act-artificial-intelligence-regulations

itnewsbot, 1 year ago to tech

‘Break them open’ – new EU rules coming for Big Tech - As dry and bureaucratic as EU legislation may seem, it can also be groundbreaking ... - https://thenextweb.com/news/break-them-open-new-eu-rules-big-tech #nextfeatured #europe #tech

itnewsbot, 10 months ago to random

How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history - Illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge

Third-... - https://www.theverge.com/23779477/reddit-protest-blackouts-crushed

itnewsbot, 1 year ago to php

WebOps platform Pantheon defends hosting “hate groups” as developers quit - Enlarge (credit: Erika Goldring / Contributor | Getty Images North Amer... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1935089 #hategroups #webhosting #wordpress #pantheon #policy #drupal

itnewsbot, 1 year ago to random

Supreme Court To Decide if Public Officials Can Block Critics on Social Media - The U.S. Supreme Court, exploring free speech rights in the social media era, on M... - https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/04/24/1526226/supreme-court-to-decide-if-public-officials-can-block-critics-on-social-media?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #court

itnewsbot, 10 months ago to random

Instagram head says a Threads feed with just people you follow is ‘On the list’ of potential features - The Instagram head’s response to the feature request. | Sc... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/6/23785493/threads-home-feed-following-algorithmic-recommendations-adam-mosseri