Old laptop hard drives will allegedly crash when exposed to Janet Jackson music
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
Ubisoft removes Black Lives Matter image from Tom Clancy game’s terror group
3 years ago by lawuigi to /s/Gaming from (arstechnica.com)
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
Requiring ink to scan a document - yet another insult from the printer industry
8 months ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best
8 months ago by Drewski to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from (arstechnica.com)
Gmail users “hard pass” on plan to let political emails bypass spam filters
Trump deletes tweets after being banned from Twitter [Updated] - Imagine companies that are so powerful that they can force the most powerful man in the world to self censor. Big Tech is flexing their power in this election to force other politicians to fall in line.
3 years ago by awdrifter to /s/politics from (arstechnica.com)
HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors
1 month ago by Myocarditis-Man to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history
2 years ago by Drewski to /s/privacy from (arstechnica.com)
Report: 75K loyal Redditors can snag shares before Reddit goes public
1 month ago by Drewski to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from (arstechnica.com)
68 now sickened, 4 lose eyeballs in bacteria outbreak linked to eyedrops from foreign company that Captain-Hindsight-FDA now says has always had serious safety problems
1 year ago by SoCo to /s/news from (arstechnica.com)
Drug maker paid for “news” story on CBS’s 60 Minutes, doctors’ group alleges (potentially violating federal regulations)
Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses
2 months ago by Drewski to /s/piracy from (arstechnica.com)
(Reddit in the news) Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say
3 months ago by SoCo to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from (arstechnica.com)
HP printer app is installing on PCs whether they have HP printers or not
3 months ago by PanzersGhost to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
OpenAI board attempts to hit “Ctrl-Z” in talks with Altman to return as CEO
5 months ago by hfxB0oyA to /s/TechCompanies from (arstechnica.com)
Massive cryptomining rig discovered under Polish court’s floor, stealing power
5 months ago by Drewski to /s/cryptocurrency from (arstechnica.com)
US blacklisting of Tornado Cash sparks outcry from cryptocurrency industry
1 year ago by Drewski to /s/cryptocurrency from (arstechnica.com)
Facebook vows to restrict users if US election descends into chaos
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/politics from (arstechnica.com)
Three algorithm-less streaming sites revive the wacky Web from days of yore
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/Internet from (arstechnica.com)
TikTok sues Trump admin., says ban is unconstitutional and political
3 years ago by FediNetizen to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
New Pine64 phones with upgraded hardware begin shipping in August
3 years ago by runtis to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
UK bans Huawei from 5G networks in “victory for the Trump administration”
3 years ago by FediNetizen to /s/news from (arstechnica.com)
New Apple 13.5 iOS update includes contact tracing
3 years ago by magnora7 to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
Spain tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin to shut down its eyeball-scanning orbs
1 month ago by PanzersGhost to /s/privacy from (arstechnica.com)
Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”
2 months ago by Drewski to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans and tells them it’s not a price hike
6 months ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers - Previous efforts to unmask the people behind Libgen have failed.
7 months ago by neolib to /s/piracy from (arstechnica.com)
Western Digital, SanDisk Extreme SSDs don’t store data safely, lawsuit says
8 months ago by Myocarditis-Man to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
Discord promises outraged users it won’t store call recordings - for now
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/privacy from (arstechnica.com)
Appliance makers sad that 50% of customers won’t connect smart appliances
70% of drugs advertised on TV are of “low therapeutic value,” study finds - Ads often tout new, pricey drugs that are not much better than old, cheaper ones.
1 year ago by neolib to /s/Health from (arstechnica.com)
Female presenting nipples are back!
1 year ago by IMissPorn to /s/TumblrInAction from (arstechnica.com)
Rewritten OpenGL drivers make AMD’s GPUs “up to 72%” faster in some pro apps
1 year ago by SoCo to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
PayPal stole users’ money after freezing, seizing funds, lawsuit alleges
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/corruption from (arstechnica.com)
iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for more than 2 years, researcher claims
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/Security from (arstechnica.com)
Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour
Discovery of new UEFI rootkit exposes an ugly truth: The attacks are invisible to us
Cloudflare refuses to pull out of Russia, says Putin would celebrate shutoff
2 years ago by Drewski to /s/TechCompanies from (arstechnica.com)
Teacher with COVID symptoms went maskless, making her class an experiment. Study shows how small slip ups can fuel an outbreak.
2 years ago by Budget-song-budget to /s/WayOfTheBern from (arstechnica.com)
This 900-person delta cluster in Mass. has CDC freaked out—74% are vaccinated [Updated]
2 years ago by cottoneyejoe to /s/politics from (arstechnica.com)
Terraria developer cancels Google Stadia port after YouTube account ban. Hit indie game developer tells Google, "Doing business with you is a liability." Every time I heard about Google customer service it was some kind of Kafkaesque experience. Remember when Google was one of the good guys?
3 years ago by Chipit to /s/censorship from (arstechnica.com)
When coffee makers are demanding a ransom, you know IoT is screwed
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
Before Netscape: The forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s
3 years ago by [deleted] to /s/Browsers from (arstechnica.com)
The US military is getting serious about nuclear thermal propulsion
HP's CEO: We Brick Printers That Use Third-Party Ink Because Of Hackers
2 months ago by PanzersGhost to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans
3 months ago by PanzersGhost to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from (arstechnica.com)
Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
4 months ago by Drewski to /s/news from (arstechnica.com)
CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants
4 months ago by Drewski to /s/privacy from (arstechnica.com)
Verizon fell for fake “search warrant,” gave victim’s phone data to stalker
First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled, despite massive subsidy...but it is not from 'renewables dropping' (see comments)
5 months ago 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."
5 months ago by neolib to /s/offbeat 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."
6 months ago by neolib to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from (arstechnica.com)
Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade
For the first time, research reveals crows use statistical logic
7 months ago by [deleted] to /s/animals from (arstechnica.com)
Private AI summit with senators, titans of tech garners controversy
7 months ago by Cancelthis to /s/SocialMedia from (arstechnica.com)
NASA finally admits what everyone already knows: SLS is unaffordable
7 months ago by Cancelthis to /s/Democrats from (arstechnica.com)
AI fever turns Anguilla’s “.ai” domain into a digital gold mine. Tiny island country could rake in 10% of its GDP in domain sales this year.
7 months ago by [deleted] to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from (arstechnica.com)
Windows 11 has made the “clean Windows install” an oxymoron
8 months ago by Drewski to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
Musk admits advertisers haven’t returned to Twitter, ad revenue down 50%
9 months ago by Drewski to /s/business from (arstechnica.com)
Lawyers have real bad day in court after citing fake cases made up by ChatGPT
9 months ago by [deleted] to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from (arstechnica.com)
Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled
11 months ago by [deleted] to /s/Security from (arstechnica.com)
Raspberry Pi + BlackBerry keyboard + battery = Beepberry
11 months ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
Reddit should have to identify users who discussed piracy, film studios tell court
1 year ago by Drewski to /s/piracy from (arstechnica.com)
The first orbital launch attempt from the UK ends in failure: "This will likely be a devastating launch failure for Virgin Orbit, a US-based small launch company trying to find its niche in the launch market."
1 year ago by neolib to /s/space from (arstechnica.com)
Researchers devise iPhone malware that runs even when device is turned off
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/news from (arstechnica.com)
Every ISP in the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services
1 year ago by [deleted] to /s/piracy from (arstechnica.com)
World Bank slams bitcoin, declines to help El Salvador’s cryptocurrency plan
2 years ago by Drewski to /s/cryptocurrency from (arstechnica.com)
Activision releases online-only PC game without online content, cracked in one day
3 years ago by Drewski to /s/PCGaming from (arstechnica.com)
Hedge fund Melvin sustains 53% loss after Reddit onslaught. Melvin Capital was wrongfooted by retail traders who drove up shares in GameStop and other companies it had bet against, lost 53% in January, according to people familiar with the firm’s results.
3 years ago by Pis-dur to /s/WorldNews from (arstechnica.com)
men are okay with censorship, as long as it works in their favor
3 years ago by pickmepatrol to /s/PinkPillFeminism from (arstechnica.com)
Nvidia buys ARM Holdings from SoftBank for $40 billion
3 years ago by lawuigi to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
LG’s battery-powered face mask will “make breathing effortless”
The Golden Age of computer user groups
3 years ago by Drewski to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
CDC’s Failed Coronavirus tests were TAINTED WITH CORONAVIRUS, FEDS CONFRIM (20April2020)
3 years ago by Tom_Bombadil to /s/conspiracy from (arstechnica.com)
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections
19 days ago by Drewski to /s/Linux from (arstechnica.com)
NASA cancels a multibillion-dollar Landsat satellite servicing OSAM-1 mission
1 month ago by ZephirAWT to /s/ScienceUncensored from (arstechnica.com)
Researchers create AI worms that can spread from one system to another
1 month ago by PanzersGhost to /s/Security from (arstechnica.com)
Nginx core developer quits project in security dispute, starts “freenginx” fork
1 month ago by Drewski to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin
2 months ago by PanzersGhost to /s/cryptocurrency from (arstechnica.com)
Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85
2 months ago by Drewski to /s/Death from (arstechnica.com)
Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode
3 months ago by PanzersGhost to /s/privacy from (arstechnica.com)
Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say
3 months ago by Drewski to /s/privacy from (arstechnica.com)
Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used
Anti-viral drug backfires: COVID drug linked to viral mutations that spread (When banned misinformation, becomes scientific reality)
6 months ago by SoCo to /s/news from (arstechnica.com)
Worm that jumps from rats to slugs to human brains has invaded Southeast US
6 months ago by Drewski to /s/science from (arstechnica.com)
X “unfit” for banking because of complicity in Saudi spying, lawyers argue
7 months ago by Musky to /s/news from (arstechnica.com)
An Iowa school district is using ChatGPT to decide which books to ban
8 months ago by [deleted] to /s/Artificial_Intelligen from (arstechnica.com)
Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after previous owner revealed as the notorious crypto-scamming US bank, FTX, accusing if of wash-trading the value up
8 months ago by SoCo to /s/cryptocurrency from (arstechnica.com)
X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account
8 months ago by Drewski to /s/SocialMedia from (arstechnica.com)
The Boring Company will dig a 68-mile tunnel network under Las Vegas
8 months ago by [deleted] to /s/USnews from (arstechnica.com)
Canon is warning that sensitive Wi-Fi settings don’t automatically get wiped during resets, so customers should manually delete them before selling, discarding, or getting them repaired
8 months ago by [deleted] to /s/privacy from (arstechnica.com)
Twitter commandeers @X username from man who had it since 2007
8 months ago by Drewski to /s/Twitter from (arstechnica.com)
In the latest health fad to alarm and exasperate medical experts, people on TikTok have cheerily "hopped on the borax train" and are drinking and soaking in the toxic cleaning product based on false claims that it can reduce inflammation, treat arthritis, and "detoxify" the body
8 months ago by [deleted] to /s/SocialMedia from (arstechnica.com)
90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president
9 months ago by [deleted] to /s/Internet from (arstechnica.com)
AI writing detectors are laughably poor at their job. "Written by someone who is educated and can write a coherent sentence" is apparently the threshold
9 months ago by iamonlyoneman to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
Starting in version 1.54, Brave will automatically block website port scanning
9 months ago by [deleted] to /s/privacy from (arstechnica.com)
After porn-y protest, Reddit ousted mods; replacing them isn’t simple
10 months ago by Drewski to /s/MeanwhileOnReddit from (arstechnica.com)
Tetris on a chicken nugget is the game as it was meant to be played
10 months ago by [deleted] to /s/technology from (arstechnica.com)
Legit app in Google Play turns malicious and sends mic recordings every 15 minutes
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