In fear of more user protests, Reddit announces controversial policy change - mods now need Reddit's permission to turn subreddits private, NSFW

by xoenix to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from arstechnica.com

Cloudflare helps Brazil block Elon Musk’s X after platform briefly evaded ban - X switch to Cloudflare revived site in Brazil until Cloudflare isolated X traffic.

by neolib to /s/Internet from arstechnica.com

Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison

by DesertOfMirrors to /s/whatever from arstechnica.com

Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison

by Cancelthis to /s/InternationalNews from arstechnica.com

Court clears researchers of defamation for identifying manipulated data

by ActuallyNot to /s/censorship from arstechnica.com

The Starliner spacecraft has started to emit strange noises: "I've got a question about Starliner ... There's a strange noise coming through the speaker ... I don't know what's making it."

by neolib to /s/space from arstechnica.com

Government goes on attack offensive against organizers of MDMA therapy clinical trials that were abnormally evaluated and rejected by the FDA

by SoCo to /s/news from arstechnica.com

Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway

by Drewski to /s/space from arstechnica.com

Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit

by Drewski to /s/Security from arstechnica.com

Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel - The Settings app has taken over, but Control Panels aren't going anywhere yet.

by neolib to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Ex-bank CEO gets 24 years after falling for crypto scam, causing bank collapse

by Drewski to /s/news from arstechnica.com

Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October

by Myocarditis-Man to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy

by Drewski to /s/piracy from arstechnica.com

NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation

by Drewski to /s/space from arstechnica.com

Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike’s bogus DMCA takedown

by Drewski to /s/Internet from arstechnica.com

OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework

by [deleted] to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from arstechnica.com

'Dune'-Inspired Spacesuit Turns Astronauts' Urine into Drinkable Water

by [deleted] to /s/science from arstechnica.com

Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell.

by [deleted] to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from arstechnica.com

AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings

by [deleted] to /s/privacy from arstechnica.com

Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

by [deleted] to /s/Security from arstechnica.com

Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

by Drewski to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

by Drewski to /s/business from arstechnica.com

Supermassive black hole roars to life as astronomers watch in real time

by Drewski to /s/space from arstechnica.com

Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI

by Drewski to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from arstechnica.com

While most AI is pretty overblown and lame, the new Stable Diffusion 3 generates a spectacular humanoid horror show, due to happy-little mistakes, caused nudity filters

by SoCo to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Family stricken with rare brain worms after eating undercooked bear

by Drewski to /s/news from arstechnica.com

Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

by Drewski to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Federal agency warns critical Linux vulnerability being actively exploited

by Drewski to /s/Security from arstechnica.com

RIP ICQ: Remembering a classic messaging app that was way ahead of its time

by Drewski to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC - Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

by neolib to /s/privacy from arstechnica.com

Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training

by Drewski to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from arstechnica.com

“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups

by [deleted] to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says - A US district judge William Alsup has dismissed Elon Musk's X Corp's lawsuit against Bright Data, a data-scraping company accused of improperly accessing X systems and violating both X terms and state laws when scraping and selling data

by neolib to /s/SocialMedia from arstechnica.com

Boeing says workers skipped required tests on 787 but recorded work as completed

by Myocarditis-Man to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose

by Drewski to /s/Security from arstechnica.com

Do you need a dentist visit every 6 months? That filling? The data is weak

by Drewski to /s/Health from arstechnica.com

My secret life as an 11-year-old BBS sysop [2022]

by Drewski to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

by Drewski to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk - Mammal-to-mammal transmission raises new concerns about the virus's ability to spread.

by neolib to /s/outbreaks from arstechnica.com

Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware

by Drewski to /s/Security from arstechnica.com

Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed

by Drewski to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from arstechnica.com

Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features

by [deleted] to /s/Linux from arstechnica.com

Daniel Dennett, philosophical giant who championed “naturalism,” dead at 82, Part of the "New Atheist" movement, best known for work on consciousness, free will.

by carn0ld03 to /s/Death from arstechnica.com

Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track

by [deleted] to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from arstechnica.com

CNN, record holder for shortest streaming service, wants another shot

by [deleted] to /s/USnews from arstechnica.com

Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules

by Drewski to /s/privacy from arstechnica.com

Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap

by Drewski to /s/Linux from arstechnica.com

Thousands of LG TVs exposed to the world. Here’s how to ensure yours isn’t one.

by [deleted] to /s/Security from arstechnica.com

Roku patent invents a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV

by [deleted] to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Dark energy might not be constant after all - First results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument offer hints of new physics.

by neolib to /s/space from arstechnica.com

Big Pharma is “coming to the table” on price negotiations as it loses in court. (Arstechnica, March, 2024)

by HibikiBlack to /s/ConspiracyRecord from arstechnica.com

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

by Drewski to /s/Linux from arstechnica.com

"Overwhelming evidence" shows that Australian computer scientist Craig Wright is not bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, a UK judge declared Thursday.

by neolib to /s/bitcoin from arstechnica.com

Yet another instance of non-Christians realizing that maybe "we have misunderstood the Universe"

by iamonlyoneman to /s/funny from arstechnica.com

Cut submarine cables cause web outages across Africa; 6 countries still affected

by neolib to /s/Africa from arstechnica.com

Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs

by [deleted] to /s/privacy from arstechnica.com

Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of chasing profits

by Drewski to /s/business from arstechnica.com

NASA cancels a multibillion-dollar Landsat satellite servicing OSAM-1 mission

by ZephirAWT to /s/ScienceUncensored from arstechnica.com

Researchers create AI worms that can spread from one system to another

by [deleted] to /s/Security from arstechnica.com

HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors

by Myocarditis-Man to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts “freenginx” fork

by Drewski to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Report: 75K loyal Redditors can snag shares before Reddit goes public

by Drewski to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from arstechnica.com

Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”

by Drewski to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses

by Drewski to /s/piracy from arstechnica.com

Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin

by [deleted] to /s/cryptocurrency from arstechnica.com

Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead

by [deleted] to /s/Internet from arstechnica.com

In major gaffe, hacked Microsoft test account was assigned admin privileges

by Drewski to /s/Security from arstechnica.com

Here’s how Honda and GM are building production hydrogen fuel cells. Uses include mining equipment, class 8 trucks, & power generators. FCSM managing to build fuel cells quickly, reliably, & cost effectively is what's new here, not the fuel cells themselves.

by Chop_Chop to /s/Hydrogen from arstechnica.com

HP's CEO: We Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because Of Hackers

by [deleted] to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from arstechnica.com

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

by Drewski to /s/Death from arstechnica.com

(Reddit in the news) Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say

by SoCo to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from arstechnica.com

Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode

by [deleted] to /s/privacy from arstechnica.com

Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say

by Drewski to /s/privacy from arstechnica.com

What I learned from using a Raspberry Pi 5 as my main computer for two weeks

by [deleted] to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans

by [deleted] to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from arstechnica.com

40% of US electricity is now emissions-free

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from arstechnica.com

4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever

by Drewski to /s/Security from arstechnica.com

HP printer app is installing on PCs whether they have HP printers or not

by [deleted] to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Novel Terrapin attack uses prefix truncation to downgrade the security of SSH channels

by Drewski to /s/Security from arstechnica.com

Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules

by Drewski to /s/news from arstechnica.com

Here’s how an off-road racing series will make its own hydrogen fuel. "We want to be the first to be doing it," says Agag. "The challenge is there, and we love challenges—the challenge of working with a whole new technology, relevant tech that can have real, huge uses in the economy in general."

by Chop_Chop to /s/Hydrogen from arstechnica.com

Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used

by Drewski to /s/privacy from arstechnica.com

Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data

by Countach_3D to /s/privacy from arstechnica.com

CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants

by Drewski to /s/privacy from arstechnica.com

Meta defies FBI opposition to encryption, brings E2EE to Facebook, Messenger

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from arstechnica.com

Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years

by Drewski to /s/Security from arstechnica.com

Verizon fell for fake “search warrant,” gave victim’s phone data to stalker

by Drewski to /s/privacy from arstechnica.com

Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data

by Cancelthis to /s/Socialism from arstechnica.com

PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries

by Drewski to /s/technology from arstechnica.com

Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating ¦ Google tells users to not delete local Drive profile data while it investigates.

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from arstechnica.com

Meet “Amaterasu”: Astronomers detect highest energy cosmic ray since 1991 - The Telescope Array in Utah's West Desert picked up a rare particle with 244 EeV energy.

by neolib to /s/space from arstechnica.com

OpenAI board attempts to hit “Ctrl-Z” in talks with Altman to return as CEO

by hfxB0oyA to /s/TechCompanies from arstechnica.com

OpenAI President Greg Brockman quits as shocked employees hold all-hands meeting

by hfxB0oyA to /s/TechCompanies from arstechnica.com

Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI - Microsoft CEO Nadella "furious"; OpenAI President and three senior researchers resign: "ousting was likely orchestrated by Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever over concerns about the safety and speed of OpenAI's tech deployment"

by neolib to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from arstechnica.com

Massive cryptomining rig discovered under Polish court’s floor, stealing power

by Drewski to /s/cryptocurrency from arstechnica.com

First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled, despite massive subsidy...but it is not from 'renewables dropping' (see comments)

by SoCo to /s/news from arstechnica.com

Unprecedented diarrheal outbreak erupts in UK as cases spike 3x above usual: "The microscopic parasites infect the human intestines, causing watery diarrhea. After infection, hardy, thick-walled forms of the parasites (oocysts) are shed in feces."

by neolib to /s/offbeat from arstechnica.com

FCC flounders robocall enforcement, but makes a joke of how non-telecoms reply to their demands to implement telecom fixes

by SoCo to /s/news from arstechnica.com

Reddit’s blockchain-based “Community Points” tokens crash after sunsetting: "While most people likely never noticed the loss of their Community Points, some who actively acquired them, or even bought more on the blockchain, are reporting losses of thousands of dollars."

by neolib to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from arstechnica.com

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