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31 votes
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Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation
35 votes -
Huawei accused of building secret microchip factories to beat US sanctions
19 votes -
Apple formally endorses right to repair US legislation after spending millions fighting it
67 votes -
The US tech industry has largely co-opted the once-dreaded “patchwork” of state rules through effective lobbying— and its success is sapping momentum for federal legislation
7 votes -
US consumer protection agency announces plans to regulate sale of personal data
35 votes -
US Special Counsel got a search warrant for Twitter to turn over info on Donald Trump’s account
40 votes -
Illinois just passed the first law in the US protecting financial rights of children of influencers
35 votes -
White House unveils ban on US investment in Chinese tech sectors linked to the military
41 votes -
$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
58 votes -
Twitter threatens legal action against US nonprofit that tracks hate speech
113 votes -
Hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Ivanti's software undetected for at least three months, US and Norwegian cybersecurity agencies warn
14 votes -
Get the lowdown on 'e/acc' — Silicon Valley's favorite obscure theory about progress at all costs, which has been embraced by Marc Andreessen
32 votes -
How to search for a better deal on broadband
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'Straight out of the authoritarian playbook': US watchdog sued by Musk's X hits back
33 votes -
The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel
90 votes -
OpenAI's Altman launching a cryptocurrency with an eye-scanner gimmick. Does this impact how you feel about AI?
23 votes -
How Big Tech rewrote the USA's first cellphone repair law
11 votes -
Amazon plans to expand use of its palm scanning technology this year
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US federal aid is supercharging local Washington state police surveillance tech
11 votes -
Past FBI seizure of Mastodon server should be a reminder to Fediverse users and hosts to protect users privacy
21 votes -
I filed a complaint against Amazon to the US Federal Trade Commission
Mods: I put this in Tech because Amazon is a tech company, if this is the wrong group I apologize. For the last several purchases I have made through Amazon, not only has the advertised "expected...
Mods: I put this in Tech because Amazon is a tech company, if this is the wrong group I apologize.
For the last several purchases I have made through Amazon, not only has the advertised "expected delivery date" been wrong, Amazon hasn't even shipped the product by the delivery date. The day I expect an order to arrive, I get a notice from Amazon saying it's "running late" and the new expected delivery date is anywhere from 4 to 10 days away.
This is on top of the fact that I have Amazon Prime. Prime eligible meant "it would be delivered within two days" for the better part of a decade. They slowly transitioned away from that to "two days delivery after it ships," and now it seems like half of everything takes 5-8 days to deliver, even with Prime.
Anyway, the reason I reported them to the FTC because I believe they are advertising misleading or downright incorrect delivery times in hopes of winning your business over a competitor who is honest about their delivery times. If I want a monitor and Best Buy has it for $200 with 3-5 day shipping, and Amazon advertises it being delivered on day 3, I'm probably going to go with Amazon if I'm in urgent need of a monitor. But then the third day rolls around and Amazon indicates "oh, well, it's probably going to be 3-4 more days." If I had known that, I would have just gone with Best Buy, where I know it would have at least been delivered in 5 days; now I'm stuck waiting a week for Amazon.
I don't even know if this is something the FTC cares about. But it should. I encourage everyone to report this if they've encountered the same issue.
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Looking back at the original Chromecast, which just turned ten years old
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TSMC delays US chip fab opening, Arizona chip factory won't be operational until 2025
21 votes -
Famed hacker Kevin Mitnick dead at 59
85 votes -
The dirty little secret that could bring down Big Tech
39 votes -
Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator
28 votes -
US review of the Ideapad Duet 5i
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Microsoft lost its keys, and the US government got hacked
25 votes -
Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI
35 votes -
We must end the tyranny of printers in American life
49 votes -
Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters in America's hottest city?
33 votes -
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration
45 votes -
Congratulations! The US is 32nd worldwide on broadband affordability
23 votes -
Inside the white-hot center of AI doomerism: Anthropic
8 votes -
US Redditors to earn real money for gold, karma
71 votes -
US FTC opens investigation into OpenAI over technology’s potential harms
17 votes -
Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff
93 votes -
Portland radio station now has an AI DJ as a midday host
14 votes -
European Commission adopts new adequacy decision for safe and trusted EU-US data flows
15 votes -
Secrets of a $182 billion chip maker: AMD's labs
14 votes -
America's first law regulating AI bias in hiring takes effect this week
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Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden’s privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines
28 votes -
Lockheed Martin teases next generation aircraft
Recently Lockheed Martin put out a post on social media [1] where they showed a silhouette of a yet-to-be-revealed aircraft. Most people seem to believe it will be the reveal of their entry to the...
Recently Lockheed Martin put out a post on social media [1] where they showed a silhouette of a yet-to-be-revealed aircraft. Most people seem to believe it will be the reveal of their entry to the NGAD program [2] (Next Generation Air Dominance).
While not much is publically known one interesting tidbit is how much it looks like the silhouette of the Testor Corp [3] F-19 [4] model that was released back in the mid 80s. Testor said at the time that the model was based on intelligence (aka leaks) of what would eventually become the F-117.
Aviation forums in the past have said F-19 model is what they WANTED the F-117 and it does look quite a bit like the Have Blue [5] test craft they built, however, the legend is that they couldn't get the math to work for radar deflection properly at that time due to lack of computational power and ended up with the geometrically simpler F117 design we got.
[1] Lockheed Martin Teaser: https://theaviationist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/LM-NGAD-story.jpg
[2] NGAD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Generation_Air_Dominance
[3] Testor F19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testor_Corporation#F-19
[4] Testor F19 Image: https://test803.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/img_6712-1.jpg
[5] Have Blue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Have_Blue34 votes -
An Australian project management company is suing Twitter for $700,000 in unpaid bills
28 votes -
Looking for advice on getting a cheap prepaid plan in the US for a couple of months
I have someone visiting the US from out of the country. They have a Google Pixel 6a, just need a temporary plan for a month or two. Mostly they're going to be home within wireless range, we're...
I have someone visiting the US from out of the country. They have a Google Pixel 6a, just need a temporary plan for a month or two. Mostly they're going to be home within wireless range, we're just looking for a little bit of data while going out. I imagine a few tens of MB/mo will suffice. Has anybody tried to do this recently? What should I expect to pay? I'm looking on Amazon, and the reviews seem filled with stories of being sold pre-expired SIMs.
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2,200 forgotten vintage computers are being liberated from a barn in Massachusetts
25 votes -
Antitrust case - Will the US Microsoft Activision merger go through?
12 votes -
Twitter evicted from Colorado offices over unpaid rent
28 votes -
Anyone else having a bad day because of the AWS us-east-1 outage?
25 votes