Amazon drivers’ urine packaged as energy drink, sold on Amazon (arstechnica.com)
Instagram sorry for translation error that put “terrorist” in Palestinian bios (arstechnica.com)
Meta has apologized after a 404 Media report investigating a viral TikTok video confirmed that Instagram’s “see translation” feature was erroneously adding the word “terrorist” into some Palestinian users’ bios....
Apple AirTags stalking led to ruin and murders, lawsuit says (arstechnica.com)
Dozens join lawsuit alleging Apple AirTags are stalkers’ “weapon of choice.”
Review: Framework Laptop finally gets an AMD Ryzen config—and it’s pretty good (arstechnica.com)
Thousands of Android (streaming) devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled (arstechnica.com)
AI could lead to better comoression algorithms! (arstechnica.com)
This would lead to some very large cost savings if AI could compress video/audio even better than current compression algorithms. Data borders unite!
Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters (arstechnica.com)
Incomplete information included in recent disclosures by Apple and Google reporting critical zero-day vulnerabilities under active exploitation in their products has created a “huge blindspot” that’s causing a large number of offerings from other developers to go unpatched, researchers said Thursday....
Don’t throw out those used coffee grounds—use them for 3D printing instead (arstechnica.com)
Online child safety law blocked after Calif. argued face scans not that invasive (arstechnica.com)
Google Domains halts registrations as it waits for the Google Grim Reaper (arstechnica.com)
FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)
The Federal Trade Commission's chief administrative law judge ruled that Intuit violated US law with deceptive advertising and should be forced to stop promoting TurboTax as "free" unless all conditions imposed on the free offer are immediately and conspicuously displayed to consumers.
Microsoft offers legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges (arstechnica.com)
"Some customers are concerned about the risk of IP infringement claims," says Microsoft.
NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable (arstechnica.com)
Fairphone 5 sets a new standard with 8-10 years of Android support (arstechnica.com)
The Fairphone 5 will keep on trucking until at least 2031.
Fairphone 5 sets a new standard with 8-10 years of Android support (arstechnica.com)
The Fairphone 5 is not for sale in the US. Europeans, though, can get the device for 699 euros (~$753), with preorders starting today and a ship date of September 14. For the basic specs, we have a mid-range loadout, starting with a 6.46-inch, 90 Hz, 2770×1224 OLED display. There’s 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, a side...
US picks the first two sites for carbon-capture hubs (arstechnica.com)
On Friday, the US Department of Energy announced that it chose the first two sites to host facilities that will pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and permanently store it underground. The sites in Louisiana and Texas will be funded by money set aside in the bipartisan infrastructure bill that was passed early in...
Banks fined $549M after senior execs found secretly texting on Signal, WhatsApp (arstechnica.com)
Banks have been fined more than $2.5 billion for violating record-keeping laws.
Qualcomm—one of Arm’s biggest customers—starts a RISC-V joint venture (arstechnica.com)
ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y (arstechnica.com)
It looks like Google’s long-running project to split up ChromeOS and its Chrome browser will be shipping out to the masses soon. Kevin Tofel’s About Chromebooks has spotted flags that turn on the feature by default for ChromeOS 116 and up. 116 is currently in beta and should be live in the stable channel sometime this month....
Android malware steals user credentials using optical character recognition (arstechnica.com)
Man open-sources the self-repairable AirPods Pro case that Apple won’t make (arstechnica.com)
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2437896...
FTC rewrites rules on Big Tech mergers with aim to ease monopoly-busting (arstechnica.com)
AT&T stock fell to 29-year low on Friday after reports that telcoms will need to cleanup the lead pollution they made (arstechnica.com)
Poor Ma Bell. /s
Why scientists are making transparent wood (arstechnica.com)
The material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows, and more.
