You know what scares us about big tech? Planned obsolescence. (www.fairphone.com)
HDMI 2.2 specs with increased bandwidth to be announced at CES 2025 (videocardz.com)
Scientists roll out revolutionary paint as one solution to global food shortage: 'We can grow more with less light' (www.thecooldown.com)
Social Media Moderation Cuts Fuel Extremism (www.lifeafterhate.org)
AI deniers watch too many movies (medium.com)
Switch pirate dodges Nintendo's multimillion-dollar lawsuit (overkill.wtf)
OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco apartment (www.mercurynews.com)
Japanese publisher Kadokawa paid $3 million to Russia-linked hacker group after cyberattack (mainichi.jp)
TCL TVs will use films made with generative AI to push targeted ads (arstechnica.com)
Open source projects drown in bad bug reports penned by AI (www.theregister.com)
Itch.io games site taken down
Bluesky Post (this was also posted on twitter)...
Federal judges uphold law that could ban TikTok, say platform could be unavailable in U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
The D.C. Circuit voted to uphold the ban, citing national security threats and the collection of data from TikTok users.
U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack (www.nbcnews.com)
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic' (www.nbcnews.com)
First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released (sfconservancy.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/123708...
Bluesky is cracking down on parody accounts and impersonators (sea.mashable.com)
All the other brands went along
23andMe shutters cancer drug research programs, lays off 40% of staff (www.fiercebiotech.com)
Study disproves idea that weather-dependent renewable energy systems are more prone to blackouts (techxplore.com)
China's New Hypersonic Passenger Plane Can Fly From London to New York in Under 2 Hours (vocal.media)
A Chinese aerospace company has successfully completed the first test flight of a groundbreaking hypersonic passenger aircraft.
REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets (www.windowscentral.com)
Meta fires staffers for using $25 meal credits on household goods (arstechnica.com)
Gotta get creative with your layoffs when you already did massive layoffs but still need to please wall street.