Using voice analysis, AI diagnoses type 2 diabetes in 89% of women, 86% of men (www.diabetes.co.uk)
Huawei phones are saying that the Google app is a virus (9to5google.com)
Just EEVBlog calling out tech scams (odysee.com)
Hey tech billionaires, if you want to talk about radical change, let’s abolish venture capitalism (www.theguardian.com)
Do you support sustainability, social responsibility, tech ethics, or trust and safety? Congratulations, you’re an enemy of progress. That’s according to the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.
Date night from hell looms for Apple as Netherlands says: 'It's not me, it's you' (www.theregister.com)
AIs can guess where Reddit users live and how much they earn (www.newscientist.com)
Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 can identify a person’s age, location, gender and income with up to 85 per cent accuracy simply by analysing their posts on social media....
The EV transition trips over its own cord (www.theverge.com)
WeWork plans to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, source says (www.reuters.com)
Confirmed: Palo Alto Networks buys Dig Security, sources say for $400M (techcrunch.com)
We reported in September that Palo Alto was getting ready to make yet more security acquisitions out of Israel, specifically of Dig Security and Talon. Today, some confirmation of one of those has arrived: The U.S. security giant said it would be acquiring Dig. The company is not disclosing the financial terms but our sources...
Solar module prices dive to record low (www.pv-magazine.com)
Meta faces permanent ban on targeted ads across Europe (stackdiary.com)
Norway has succeeded in getting the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) to make permanent and extend across Europe its ban on Meta (Facebook’s parent company) harvesting user data for targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.
China's Blacklisted YMTC Ships World-Leading 232-Layer 3D QLC NAND | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)
An AI firm harvested billions of photos without consent. Britain is powerless to act (www.politico.eu)
The EV transition trips over its own cord (www.theverge.com)
Tinder-owner Match issues dour forecast; shares tumble (www.reuters.com)
Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business (www.theverge.com)
Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 (hacks.mozilla.org)
YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2787773 (!google)
Google Fiber is increasingly going by ‘GFiber’ (9to5google.com)
Back in 2021, Google Fiber got a new logo after using just a wordmark for the past decade. The latest branding change has Google Fiber increasingly leverage “GFiber.”
One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion (arstechnica.com)
The ASUS Eee PC and the netbook revolution (www.spacebar.news)
You Wanna Break Up With Your Bank? The CFPB Wants to Help You Do It. (www.eff.org)
A software company called Threads says Meta tried to buy its domain and kicked it off Facebook (www.engadget.com)
Google promises a rescue patch for Android 14’s “ransomware” bug (arstechnica.com)
Meta's ad-free scheme dares you to buy your privacy back, one euro at a time (www.theregister.com)
