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Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts (arstechnica.com)

Google News is shutting down purchased magazine content, offering refunds | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal (arstechnica.com)

Why you should take your 3DS along for a “StreetPass Halloween” (arstechnica.com)

“Unprecedented” youth climate trial demands action from 32 European governments (arstechnica.com)

macOS 14 Sonoma will release on September 26, weeks earlier than usual (arstechnica.com)

Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months (arstechnica.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/4197026...

Windows feature that resets system clocks based on random data is wreaking havoc (arstechnica.com)

STS (Secure Time Seeding) uses server time from SSL handshakes, which is fine when talking to other Microsoft servers, but other implementations put random data in that field to prevent fingerprinting.

The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google (arstechnica.com)

It is perhaps another sign of how bad things have become with Google’s search results—full of algorithmically generated junk sites—that publications like CNET are driven to such extremes to stay above the sea of noise....

A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)

Researchers find deliberate backdoor in police radio encryption algorithm (arstechnica.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/738201...

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)

It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.

How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) (arstechnica.com)

Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.

Musk and Zuck may fight in court: Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads (arstechnica.com)

cross-posted from: vlemmy.net/post/553347...

Google’s 36% search revenue share with Apple is 3x what Android OEMs get (arstechnica.com)

Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices (arstechnica.com)

Internet service providers and their lobby groups are fighting a US plan to prohibit discrimination in access to broadband services. In particular, ISPs want the Federal Communications Commission to drop the plan’s proposal to require that prices charged to consumers be non-discriminatory.

Google’s “Web Integrity” Android API could kill “alternative” media clients | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

University of Chicago researchers seek to “poison” AI art generators with Nightshade (arstechnica.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2614204 (!aistuff)

Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

Researchers have devised an attack that forces Apple’s Safari browser to divulge passwords, Gmail message content, and other secrets by exploiting a side channel vulnerability in the A- and M-series CPUs running modern iOS and macOS devices....

NASA clears the air: No evidence that UFOs are aliens (arstechnica.com)

NASA’s independent study team released its highly anticipated report on UFOs on September 14, 2023....

Are self-driving cars already safer than human drivers? Answer: It raises a different point (arstechnica.com)

The fact that self driving cars exist is an admission that driving a car can really suck. Navigating busy suburbs and cities in a car is a stressful experience, especially when people are commuting to or from work....

Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment (arstechnica.com)

I have 0 fucking sympathy

Maui truthers are so dumb they’re using a Falcon 9 photo as wildfire evidence (arstechnica.com)

You can always count on conspiracy theorists to make a tragedy worse.

Dell fined $6.5M after admitting it made overpriced monitors look discounted (arstechnica.com)

Dell's Australia arm has been slapped with a $10 million AUD (about $6.49 million) fine for "making false and misleading representations on its website about discount prices for add-on computer monitors," the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced today. The Australian regulator said the company sold 5,300...

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