Possible ban on Chinese-made drones dismays U.S. scientists (www.science.org)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/50462283
Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate (ash.harvard.edu)
Scottish Government bans use of WhatsApp for official business (www.scotsman.com)
Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first (arstechnica.com)
Cloud Imperium Games [Star Citizen developer] Undergoes Major Shake-Up to Hit Deadlines (insider-gaming.com)
TIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercury (cosmosmagazine.com)
VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (www.wired.com)
All of Telegram's Lies About Privacy (donald.cat)
Search for alternative to WordPress surges worldwide amidst rift between WP-Engine and Matt Mullenweg (www.techradar.com)
Data from Google Trends noted search requests around the website builder boomed in October 2024, especially on October 8, where it reached a peak score of 100....
Apple collaborates with NVIDIA to research faster LLM performance (9to5mac.com)
Apple engineers have shared new details on a collaboration with NVIDIA to implement faster text generation performance with large language models.
Google Contract Staff Reach Union Deal Banning Keystroke Monitoring (www.bloomberg.com)
Mozilla: Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers (blog.mozilla.org)
As written, the proposed remedies will force smaller and independent browsers like Firefox to fundamentally reexamine their entire operating model.
Ibis release 0.2.0 - Federated Wiki with Shiny Redesign (ibis.wiki)
Netflix struggles to understand its cloud costs (www.theregister.com)
Mozilla partners with Ecosia for a better web | The Mozilla Blog (blog.mozilla.org)
After being honored at The Game Awards for helping laid-off devs, Amir Satvat says he's received 'countless' hateful messages (www.pcgamer.com)
Loops is joining the fediverse (loops.video)
Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)
Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom (www.theregister.com)
Sharkey: a Fediverse project that is beautiful inside & out (blog.elenarossini.com)
Really cool audio based social network for the blind (livewire.us)
Livewire - Audio Social Network for the blind. Check out their site livewire.us or call 602.560.6050. Big community. Basic service is always free!
Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far (9to5mac.com)
X's declining user base: Elon Musk's platform projected to lose millions of users in 2025 (mashable.com)
You know what scares us about big tech? Planned obsolescence. (www.fairphone.com)
Mortal Kombat II 3DO Port Nears Completion | Retro Gaming News 24/7 (www.retronews.com)
Mortal Kombat II 3DO Port Nears Completion...
