Month: April 2023

Sources: Joe Biden plans to sign an EO in the coming weeks limiting new investments by US businesses in China, focusing on chips, AI, and quantum computing (Jenny Leonard/Bloomberg)

Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg: Sources: Joe Biden plans to sign an EO in the coming weeks limiting new investments by US businesses in China, focusing on chips, AI, and quantum computing  —  President Joe Biden aims to sign an executive order in the coming weeks that will limit investment in key parts of China’s economy

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Yes, I actually pay for Discovery Plus

Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images Out of all the streaming services I use — Netflix, Hulu, Disney Plus, and Funimation — Discovery Plus is the one that I use the most. And I don’t even get it for free through some kind of promotion — I actually pay for it.

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All of my favorite games this year are old

Final Fantasy VI. | Image: Square Enix As I installed the original Final Fantasy, a game that first came out when I was three years old, on Sony’s most advanced console to date, I came to a realization: almost everything I’ve played this year has been old. Between the remakes, rereleases, and retro collections, it’s

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Survey of 11,004 US adults: 62% believe AI will have a major impact on workers, 28% think AI will impact themselves; 71% oppose AI use in final hiring decisions (Pew Research Center)

Pew Research Center: Survey of 11,004 US adults: 62% believe AI will have a major impact on workers, 28% think AI will impact themselves; 71% oppose AI use in final hiring decisions  —  62% believe artificial intelligence will have a major impact on jobholders overall in the next 20 years, but far fewer think it

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A profile of Runa Sandvik, who started Granitt in June 2022 to help journalists, lawyers, activists, and other at-risk people keep their data safe from hackers (Maddy Crowell/Columbia Journalism Review)

Maddy Crowell / Columbia Journalism Review: A profile of Runa Sandvik, who started Granitt in June 2022 to help journalists, lawyers, activists, and other at-risk people keep their data safe from hackers  —  Runa Sandvik has made it her life’s work to protect journalists against cyberattacks.  Authoritarian regimes are keeping her in business.

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NFC Antennas Have Other Uses

As NFC chips proliferate, so do the antennas they require for operation, and since many NFC-enabled items are single-use, this means there’s an opportunity to put them to other uses. It’s an avenue pursued by [Brother-live], as he strips the antennas from spent metro tickets and gets experimenting. The antenna in an NFC-enabled card is

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Sources and analysts share insights on Apple’s plans in financial services, as the company lays the technical groundwork for taking a bigger share of the market (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources and analysts share insights on Apple’s plans in financial services, as the company lays the technical groundwork for taking a bigger share of the market  —  The tech giant’s ventures into financial services signal greater ambitions to take on Wall Street

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Silver Lake agrees to buy Germany’s Software AG, a developer of business and application integration software, for €30 a share, valuing the company at ~€2.2B (Andrew Pollack/Bloomberg)

Andrew Pollack / Bloomberg: Silver Lake agrees to buy Germany’s Software AG, a developer of business and application integration software, for €30 a share, valuing the company at ~€2.2B  —  Private equity firm Silver Lake Management has agreed to acquire Germany’s Software AG for €30 a share in cash …

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The Cyber Resilience Act Threatens Open Source

Society and governments are struggling to adapt to a world full of cybersecurity threats. Case in point: the EU CRA — Cyber Resilience Act — is a proposal by the European Commission to enact legislation with a noble goal: protect consumers from cybercrime by having security baked in during design. Even if you don’t live

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A federal jury in Texas orders Samsung to pay $303M to computer memory company Netlist for infringing five patents related to improvements in data processing (Blake Brittain/Reuters)

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A federal jury in Texas orders Samsung to pay $303M to computer memory company Netlist for infringing five patents related to improvements in data processing  —  Computer-memory company Netlist Inc (NLST.PK) convinced a federal jury in Texas on Friday to award it more than $303 million …

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On April 7, Google patched the GhostToken GCP vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to backdoor Google accounts using malicious OAuth applications (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: On April 7, Google patched the GhostToken GCP vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to backdoor Google accounts using malicious OAuth applications  —  Google has addressed a Cloud Platform (GCP) security vulnerability impacting all users and allowing attackers to backdoor …

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The proliferation of AI-generated content on marketplaces like Upwork is causing transactional disputes and increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)

Rashi Shrivastava / Forbes: The proliferation of AI-generated content on marketplaces like Upwork is causing transactional disputes and increasing mistrust between clients and freelancers  —  While some freelancers are losing their gigs to ChatGPT, clients are being spammed with AI-written content on freelancing platforms.

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Air Hockey Solitaire

While air hockey is a fine amusement, it isn’t much fun if you can’t find someone to play against. Unless that is, you build a mini table with a robotic defender. [Vaib], [Nathan], and [Navish] can show you how. There is a video you can see below that shows two players using the table without

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