Technology
- www.tomshardware.com Researchers discover battery-free technology which harvests power from radio and Wi-Fi signals for low-powered devices
Applications would result in less dependency on batteries in low-powered devices
- www.gsmarena.com OpenAI announces SearchGPT: its new AI search engine
It's powered by the GPT-4 model family and is planned to integrate into ChatGPT at some point in the future. SearchGPT is OpenAI’s long-awaited answer to...
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CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
techcrunch.com CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage | TechCrunchSeveral people who received the CrowdStrike offer found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error saying the voucher had been canceled.
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Piracy Portal ‘Hikari-no-Akari’ Shuts Down Following Legal Pressure
torrentfreak.com Piracy Portal ‘Hikari-no-Akari’ Shuts Down Following Legal Pressure * TorrentFreakHikari-no-Akari, a decade-old pirate site that specialized in Japanese music, has closed its doors voluntarily.
- 9to5google.com Google Chrome is no longer 'deprecating third-party cookies'
In a rather stark turnaround, Google is no longer ending support for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser...
- www.tomshardware.com Ancient CRT monitor hits astonishing 700Hz — resolution reduced to just 120p to reach extraordinary refresh rate
Faster than the fastest modern refresh rate panels on the market right now
- tmo.report Exclusive: See The Ways Shady T-Mobile Stores Treat Customers And Employees
Current and former employees from T-Mobile authorized retailers are commenting about poor leadership and sales practices. See them here.
- www.engadget.com X is working on a way to block links in replies
X is developing a new feature that could help address spam posts on its website.
- www.tomshardware.com Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing, but not due to the same bug as desktop chips — chipmaker blames common software and hardware issues
Not the same instability that's affecting desktop Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh processors
- fortune.com Former telephone giant Nokia sees double-digit fall in sales amid challenging 5G environment
Nokia Oyj sales in Q2 declined 18% to €4.47 billion ($4.9 billion) — the lowest of any period since 2015.
- www.spacebar.news What is Firefox supposed to do?
Firefox now collects data for advertisers. It's not actually scary, but there is a bigger problem.
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Global IT outage live updates: Cyber security company linked to issues at banks, supermarkets, airlines
www.abc.net.au Live: Cyber security company linked to major IT outage across AustraliaComputer security company CrowdStrike is linked to a major IT outage affecting banks, airports, supermarkets and businesses across Australia and the world.
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Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all US users
www.salon.com Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all U.S. usersThe platform prevents users from blocking or muting the tags, which inorganically appear atop the trending page
X, the social media platform owned by Trump megadonor Elon Musk, is promoting Trump campaign-curated content to all U.S. users, regardless of whether they have opted out of Trump-related content.
On the platform formerly known as Twitter, banner ads for the Trump campaign donning the #Trump2024 tag appear for all U.S. users, even those who’ve blocked words, topics, and hashtags related to the candidate or his campaign or muted the advertiser.
Additionally, the #MAGA tag displays an edited image of the former president from his attempted assassination and the #Trump2024 hashtag displays an American flag.
It is unclear whether the Trump campaign paid for the images on the #Trump2024 and #MAGA tags, though an advertisement for the tag on the site’s trending page reads “Promoted by Team Trump.” As Mashable noted, it is the first time the platform has enabled the image feature to promote a specific political candidate.
Clicking the Trump2024 tag also prompts American flag graphics to flood the screen.
- www.wired.com She Made $10,000 a Month Defrauding Apps like Uber and Instacart. Meet the Queen of the Rideshare Mafia
Priscila Barbosa came to the US with a dream of making it. Using gig-economy platforms she built a business empire up from nothing. There was just one huge problem.
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Gemini AI platform caught scanning Google Drive files without user permission
www.techradar.com Gemini AI platform accused of scanning Google Drive files without user permissionGemini users may want to up their privacy
- www.econotimes.com Ericsson Struggles with Huawei's Dominance in European Telecom Market Despite Ban - EconoTimes
Despite US and EU bans, Huawei remains a formidable competitor for Ericsson in Europe, impacting market shares and revenue. Bans Fail to Stifle Huaweis Growth Huawei is a significant competitor in Europe for...
- www.texasobserver.org ‘Tech Doesn't Just Stay at the Border’: Petra Molnar on Surveillance’s Long Reach
“The border is like a free-for-all, this frontier zone that is a perfect laboratory for tech experimentation.”
Petra Molnar is an anthropologist and attorney focused on human rights and migration. Molnar, who is based in Toronto, serves as the associate director of York University’s Refugee Law Lab and as a faculty associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She has worked on migrant justice causes since 2008, first assisting directly with families resettling in Canada and now as a lawyer and researcher. She is the author of The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, a book published by The New Press in May exploring surveillance technology along borders across the world, including at the U.S.-Mexico divide. Molnar spoke with the Texas Observer about surveillance tech and borders as a testing ground.
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The Future of Odysee
odysee.com VIDEO: The Future of OdyseeOur latest announcement since 2 years about the Future of Odysee
Edit: Changed the link to lead to the original Odysee article post which contains the video, rather than just to the video itself. You get more context and information that way.
- www.ign.com Crunchyroll Announces the Removal of Its Comment Section Across All Platforms To 'Reduce Harmful Content' - IGN
Crunchyroll has removed user-generated content from its platforms, including comments and reviews on anime episodes and news articles.
- www.tomshardware.com Pentagon says it's impossible to ditch Huawei telecom gear — officials beg Congress for waiver from Chinese sanctions
The president of the Economic Strategy Institute calls the Pentagon "lazy" in its request for a waiver.
- www.ess-news.com World’s first grid-scale, semi-solid-state energy storage project goes online - Energy Storage
The 100 MW/200 MWh energy storage project featuring lithium iron phosphate (LFP) solid-liquid hybrid cells was connected to the grid near Longquan, Zhejiang Province, China.
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Elon Musk's X / Twitter is getting rid of repost, like, and reply buttons and counts
mashable.com Coming redesign of Elon Musk's X will get rid of... a lotMusk wants users to swipe left or right instead.
- www.tweaktown.com World's most popular operating system loses millions of users to Windows 11
The world's most popular operating system has seen a 2% decline in users, who are now flocking to Microsoft's latest OS, Windows 11.
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Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore
novayagazeta.eu Apple bows to Kremlin pressure to remove leading VPNs from Russian AppStore — Novaya Gazeta EuropeApple has removed several apps offering virtual private network (VPN) services from the Russian AppStore, following a request from Roskomnadzor, Russia’s media regulator, independent news outlet Mediazona reported on Thursday.
- authorsalliance.substack.com Hachette v. Internet Archive Update: Oral Argument Before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals
This is a short update on the Hachette v. Internet Archive controlled digital lending lawsuit, which is currently pending on appeal before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The court held oral argument in the case today. [July 2 Update: a recording of the hearing is available
- apnews.com UN adopts Chinese resolution with US support on closing the gap in access to artificial intelligence
The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution urging wealthy and developed nations to close the widening gap with poorer developing countries and ensure they have equal opportunities to use and benefit from artificial intelligence.
- www.channelnewsasia.com Brazil authority suspends Meta's AI privacy policy, seeks adjustment
SAO PAULO : Brazil's National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has decided to suspend with immediate effect the validity of Meta's new privacy policy for the use of personal data to train generative artificial intelligence systems in the country.ANPD's preventive measure was published in Brazil's of...
- www.ess-news.com World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage
The first phase of Datang Group’s 100 MW/200 MWh sodium-ion energy storage project in Qianjiang, Hubei Province, was connected to the grid.
- stackdiary.com OpenSSH: race condition in sshd allows remote code execution
A severe vulnerability in OpenSSH, dubbed "regreSSHion" (CVE-2024-6387), has been discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit, potentially exposing
> A severe vulnerability in OpenSSH, dubbed "regreSSHion" (CVE-2024-6387), has been discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit, potentially exposing
- www.notebookcheck.net 0Patch promises Windows 10 support until 2030
While Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 10 in late 2025, 0patch comes with the promise of supporting Windows 10 v22H2 with critical security patches until 2030 and even further if there is enough demand. Fortunately, the $25-per-year or $35-per-year Pro and Enterprise subscriptions are also...
- www.tomshardware.com Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler
They're not show-stoppers compared to Western tech, but they could still be good workstations.
- www.bleepingcomputer.com Dev rejects CVE severity, makes his GitHub repo read-only
The popular open source project, 'ip' had its GitHub repository archived, or made "read-only" by its developer as a result of a dubious CVE report filed for his project. Unfortunately, open-source developers have recently been met with an uptick in debatable or outright bogus CVEs filed for their pr...
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Are we There yet? Current adoption status of various technologies
github.com GitHub - avidseeker/awesome-areweyet: Current adoption status of various technologiesCurrent adoption status of various technologies. Contribute to avidseeker/awesome-areweyet development by creating an account on GitHub.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17083855
> Are we Wayland yet? Are we JPEGXL yet? Are we Rust yet? > > I’ve gathered a meta-tracker for the adoption state of futuristic technologies.
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Tech request: Meta data of location temperature in photos
I would like to be able to know and have embeded the temperature of a location when a photo was made. AI could also research past time and temperature data to add this information to historic photographs that already have time and GPS location embedded. Thank you.
