Epic lays out Google’s alleged “bribe and block” monopoly strategy in trial opening (arstechnica.com)
redefining smartphone dependency: my journey with a broken smartphone screen. (medium.com)
I wrote up this article of my 6 months since the day the display of my smartphone went blank.
WhatsApp seems set on introducing ads, but they won't appear in your inbox (www.androidpolice.com)
Possible reversion of an 80-year-old to the age of 26 using pig's blood (news.yahoo.com)
Scientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovations (www.livemint.com)
FBI & Austria's C4 Hit Z-Library With a Massive New Wave of Domain Seizures. (torrentfreak.com)
The world's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)
Spanish regulator opens first cryptoasset advertising case (www.reuters.com)
Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)
The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires...
Facebook and Instagram will require political advertisers to disclose AI deepfakes (edition.cnn.com)
Behind the Curtain: What AI architects fear most (in 2024) (www.axios.com)
Brace yourself: You will soon need to wonder if what you see — not just what you read — is real across every social media platform....
Facebook Finally Puts a Price on Privacy: It’s $10 a Month (www.wired.com)
Microsoft to remove Windows 11 Tips app, following Cortana's demise (www.xda-developers.com)
never liked it anyway
Even Google Calendar isn't safe from hackers any more (www.techradar.com)
Hackers have reportedly found a way to use the Google Calendar as command & control (C2) infrastructure which could create quite a few headaches in the cybersecurity community.
Online store exposed millions of Chinese citizen IDs (techcrunch.com)
Bing Chat so hungry for GPUs, Microsoft will rent them from Oracle (www.theregister.com)
He was laid off by Elon Musk. Within hours, he had a plan to outdo Twitter (edition.cnn.com)
Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working (www.businessinsider.com)
It shouldn't matter if people work multiple jobs. The former VP of HR at Microsoft shares how to react to double dippers — 'get over it.' (money.yahoo.com)
Meta whistleblower tells Senate the company 'cannot be trusted with our children' (www.engadget.com)
Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage (www.theregister.com)
Reddit is starting to test its own add-ons for the platform (www.theverge.com)
Do we even care? Intrigued at all?
Data broker’s “staggering” sale of sensitive info exposed in unsealed FTC filing (arstechnica.com)
Adobe Stock is Selling AI-Generated Images of the Israel-Hamas Conflict (petapixel.com)
Do we really need fake images of the war?