US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V ~tech Article 518 words, published Apr 24 2024 20 votes
In US lawsuit, ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP law ~tech amazon Article 1499 words 25 votes
FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price ~tech privacy internet social media Article 566 words 41 votes
Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs ~tech amazon.web services google.cloud platform Article 874 words 28 votes
Cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS. ~tech ios android apple google browsers Article 1520 words 25 votes
Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower ~tech microsoft Article 1083 words 28 votes
Criminals are getting increasingly adept at crafting malicious AI prompts to get data out of ChatGPT ~tech Article 495 words 22 votes
Amazon is warning employees they risk undermining their own promotion prospects unless they return to the office (RTO) for three days a week, as was mandated by CEO Andy Jassy months ago ~life work.remote Article 474 words 60 votes
Probe reveals previously secret Israeli spyware that infects targets via ads ~tech Article 829 words 36 votes
USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix ~tech social media Article 552 words 55 votes
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? ~tech Article 812 words 31 votes
Swiss research team builds autonomous drone that beats humans in first-person drone racing ~tech Article 485 words 19 votes
Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom ~tech Article 566 words, published Aug 24 2023 52 votes
ChatGPT's odds of getting code questions correct are worse than a coin flip ~tech Article 1201 words, published Aug 7 2023 64 votes
Thames Water is considering measures to cut down the water used by some UK datacenters, including fitting flow restrictors or charging operators more at peak times ~tech Article 648 words 16 votes
Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters in America's hottest city? ~tech Article 819 words 33 votes
Ariane 5 to take final flight, leaving Europe without its own heavy-lift rocket ~space satellites rocketry Article 939 words 9 votes
Google warns its own employees: Do not use code generated by Bard ~tech google.bard Article 876 words, published Jun 19 2023 34 votes
Germans beat Tesla to autonomous L3 driving in the Golden State ~transport Article 554 words 14 votes
Grab – Asia's Uber – knows customers and drivers so well it can vet them for loans ~finance business Article 523 words 6 votes
Google blocks FOSS Android tool – for asking for donations ~tech android google.play Article 654 words 12 votes
Employee at Muse Group threatens rival open source developer with deportation to China ~tech Article 1911 words 12 votes
Developer creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure and was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep on LinkedIn ~tech linux privacy Article 852 words 14 votes
Marine archaeologists catch a break on the bottom of the Baltic Sea: A 75-year-old Enigma machine ~humanities.history Article 374 words 12 votes
Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server ~tech microsoft security Article 613 words 12 votes
Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions as 25% staff cut hits Servo, MDN, security teams ~tech google security Article 634 words 16 votes
20GB of Intel's internal source code, schematics, specs, and documents released, allegedly found on an unsecured CDN server ~tech security Article 938 words 20 votes
Seven "zero logging" VPN providers leak 1.2TB of user logs unprotected and facing the public internet ~tech privacy Article 1182 words 20 votes
Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process ~tech facebook privacy social media Article 1184 words 9 votes
US FCC forced by court to ask the public (again) if they think tearing up net neutrality was a really good idea or not ~tech internet Article 1039 words 26 votes
Boeing 737 cockpit screens go blank if pilots land on specific runways ~transport Article 661 words 8 votes
A new tracking technique using CNAME aliases to circumvent third-party cookie restrictions is blockable using a Firefox DNS API, but not in Chrome ~tech privacy security Article 1016 words 18 votes
The architect for the Atari VCS retro console has quit the project, claiming he hasn't been paid in six months ~games Article 2506 words 8 votes
GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity ~tech Article 1086 words 24 votes
What is Block.one, the company that just paid a record-breaking $30m for the voice.com domain name? ~tech social media Article 1116 words 12 votes
Large Redmond Collider: CERN reveals plan to shift from Microsoft to open-source code after tenfold license fee hike ~tech microsoft Article 445 words 18 votes
No Huawei out: President Trump's game of chicken with China has serious consequences ~tech security Article 783 words 5 votes
WhatsApp voice calls contained a buffer-overflow vulnerability that was used to install spyware [CVE-2019-3568] ~tech security ios android facebook Article 1008 words 11 votes