Some iPhone 14 Pro users complain that the “Maximum Capacity” rating of their phone's battery has already dropped to around 90% after less than a year
iPhone 14 Pro users are growing increasingly concerned about the state of their iPhone's battery health.
UMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying its Great 78 Project works as an “illegal record store” for songs
Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued …
Some Cruise riders say they've had sex in the driverless cars in San Francisco over recent months; Waymo and Cruise permit users to eat, but not drink alcohol
An Illustration generated by the artificial intelligence program Midjourney depicts two people making out in an autonomous vehicle.
Sources: Apple is planning a major redesign for the 10th anniversary “Watch X”; a look at the M3 chip roadmap, including M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores
Apple's next line of smartwatches is expected to be a minor upgrade. Behind the scenes, though …
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin. Mastodon: @carl@heath.social . X: @dabeard , @nytimest...
After new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn't been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months
but Zuckerberg Calls BS Stuff.co.nz : Elon Musk to fight Mark Zuckerberg in ‘ancient Roman setting’ MMA Fighting : Mark Zuckerberg denies Elon Musk fight claims, mentions UFC and ONE as ideal partners...
A US judge revokes SBF's bail after the DOJ accused him of tampering with witnesses, such as by sharing former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison's diary with the NYT
I just left a dramatic, emotional courtroom hearing at US District Court in Manhattan. Sam Bankman-Fried has been ordered to jail. @verge : SBF was free on $250 million bail, but using a VPN to watch ...
How hackers at a novel DEF CON public contest are trying to expose flaws and biases in eight generative AI models produced by Google, Meta, OpenAI, and others
- At DEF CON conference, hacker gets model to say 9 + 10 = 21 — AI has chance to transform everything from finance to hiring
Amazon is removing or reducing packaging to speed up deliveries, cut costs, and meet climate goals, amid concerns that visible products could lead to issues
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Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month
Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles — The era of cheap streaming is ending … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Bluesky: @epro.social . X: @tayl...
Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle says Apple's macOS Background Task Management tool is “trivially” bypassed by “any malware that's somewhat sophisticated”
The macOS Background Task Manager tool is supposed to spot potentially malicious software on your machine. Bluesky: @couts.bsky.social . X: @patrickwardle and @patrickwardle Bluesky: Andrew Couts / @c...
A look at bundles from smaller streaming services, telcos' potential role in bundling, and big streaming services' opposition to sharing the same user interface
Josef Adalian / Vulture : Bluesky: @tvmojoe.bsky.social . X: @kmcconsults , @nymag , @mediafinance , and @willmckinley Bluesky: TvmoJoe / @tvmojoe.bsky.social : Some Hollywood CEOs have been making n...
Inside the Black Hat network operations center; volunteers on secondment built the network from scratch on the week of the event using their own equipment
NOC, NOC ... Who's there? — BLACK HAT Every summer, pandemics permitting, a group of volunteers gather in a Las Vegas hotel to run … X: @theregister . Forums: r/technology X: @theregister : Inside t...
How SCOTUS overturning the sports betting ban in 2018 transformed the sector into a high-growth tech business; many fear a surge in gambling addiction is coming
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Sources: SoftBank is in talks to acquire Vision Fund 1's 25% stake in Arm, ahead of the chip designer's Nasdaq IPO in September; SoftBank owns the remaining 75%
SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) is in talks to acquire the 25% stake in Arm Ltd it does not directly own from Vision Fund 1 (VF1) …
a16z crypto unveils Lasso and Jolt, a pair of new tools based on Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or SNARK, to help enable scalable ZK-rollups
Vishal Chawla / The Block :
Hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow details Veilid, an open-source, P2P application framework, and debuts VeilidChat, a proof-of-concept Signal-like messaging app
'It's like Tor and IPFS had sex and produced this thing' — DEF CON Infosec super-band the Cult of the Dead Cow has released Veilid …
Poland arrests five people as Europol and the DOJ take down the Lolek “bulletproof” host for allegedly facilitating Netwalker ransomware and other attacks
Europol The Hacker News : Lolek Bulletproof Hosting Servers Seized, 5 Key Operators Arrested Habiba Rashid / HackRead : Feds Seize Bulletproof Hosting Service “Lolek Hosted” Jurgita Lapienytė / Cybern...
The Hollywood Professional Association, which includes Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Sony, urges the AMPTP, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA to find a resolution
Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap :
A look at Amazon One palm scanning tech, used for payments, age and ID verification, and more at US retailers, stadiums, and other venues, amid privacy concerns
It's also a potentially massive play to make Amazon the central ID system for your whole life—from banking and loyalty programs to tickets … Bluesky: @kashana.bsky.social . X: @quinnypig , @ethanwsj ,...
Illinois passes the US' first law protecting child influencers, entitling influencers under age 16 and kids featured by influencers to a percentage of earnings
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A look at friend.tech, a decentralized social media app built on Base whose August 10 invite-only beta drove 4,400 ETH in trading volume in less than 24 hours
Cam Thompson / CoinDesk :
A look at Stanford's bootcamp to educate Congress on deepfakes, how AI can potentially reshape education and health care, and the use of AI in national security
That's because it is a powerful tech giant. Stanford is BigTech and BigTech is Stanford. — By @nitashatiku — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Bluesky: Harbour Fordyce / @harbourfordyce.bsky.so...
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