Long time readers will have followed the twists and turns of the John Deere repair saga, in which the agricultural machinery manufacturer has used DRM to restrict the repair of its tractors. It may be hot stuff on the prairies, but it matters to everyone because it’s a key right-to-repair battleground. Now the company’s attempt
Read MoreMegha Mandavia / Wall Street Journal: India’s powerful and independent labor movement presents a challenge for Apple in its ambitions to diversify its production away from China — India’s moment as a manufacturing hub is here but to truly capitalize on that, it needs labor market reforms — India is front and center …
Read MoreDo you trust this man to know a good joke? | Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Fine. Let’s talk about xAI, which is getting funded to the tune of $1 billion or whatever. xAI is, according to some commentators, Elon Musk’s bid to “save X,” the platform better known as Twitter. Musk may
Read MoreAuthor Steven Johnson helped Google create an app that can analyze a writer’s research material and help them extract and explore the key themes. Maybe too well.
Read MoreSpencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon sues an “international fraud organization” for allegedly stealing millions of dollars in merchandise from the company through a series of refund scams — – Shoppers took gaming consoles, smartphones, tires and gold — Scammers live in US, five other countries, according to suit
Read MoreImage: Studio Ghibli The latest Studio Ghibli film is out in North American theaters after premiering in Japan earlier in the year. Continue reading…
Read MoreIllustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge A lot of homes are being built, but a lack of understanding of internet infrastructure and a need to cut costs means they kind of suck for internet. Continue reading…
Read MoreCredit: Harley Maranan / Android Authority We’ve seen loads of rumors and leaks regarding the Galaxy S24 series chipsets. In fact, the phones just recently passed through the FCC website, and the filings suggest that Snapdragon power is on the menu for US variants. Nevertheless, that got us wondering whether you’d buy a Galaxy S24
Read MoreElizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: A look at Grok responses Elon Musk has highlighted on X shows an AI chatbot whose unfunny, “edgy”, pointlessly offensive humor feels forced and try-hard — Fine. Let’s talk about xAI, which is getting funded to the tune of $1 billion or whatever.
Read MoreIllustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge President Joe Biden has promised to revitalize American manufacturing. Longtime Silicon Valley residents hope hazardous chemicals won’t be coming back with it. Continue reading…
Read MoreAbner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches the Gemini Pro-powered NotebookLM, demoed at I/O 2023 as an “AI-first notebook” that pulls information from users’ documents, in the US — At I/O 2023 in May, Google demoed an “AI-first notebook” that was originally called Project Tailwind.
Read MoreWhen there’s a vulnerability in a system library, we install updates, and go on with our lives. When there’s a vulnerability in a Java library, jars get rebuilt, and fixed builds slowly roll out. But what happens when there’s a vulnerability in a library used in firmware builds? And to make it even more fun,
Read MoreBloomberg: The UK’s CMA is considering whether Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership should be called in for a merger probe, and asks for comments from interested parties — – CMA seeking views on whether the relationship should be probed — Move is less than two months since watchdog cleared Activision
Read MoreYasemin Craggs Mersinoglu / Financial Times: A UK class action lawsuit against Vodafone, EE, Three UK, and O2, filed last week, accuses them of overcharging ~4.8M customers over 16 years and seeks £3.3B — Vodafone, EE, Three and O2 are accused of levying ‘loyalty penalties’ on customers — The biggest UK mobile phone operators …
Read MoreCredit: Twitter/ASUS ROG ASUS has confirmed that the ROG Phone 8 is “coming soon.” The company also suggested that the phone line would move “beyond gaming.” ASUS has already confirmed that its next-generation ROG Phones will use the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. Now, the company has started to tease the arrival of these new
Read MoreCredit: OnePlus on Weibo OnePlus has launched the OnePlus 12 in China. The phone is expected to launch internationally in the coming months, and it is bound to be one of the best Android phones for the year. If you cannot wait to get your hands on the OnePlus 12, here are the wallpapers and
Read MoreJava Development Kit 22, due in March 2024 as the next version of Java Standard Edition, will include 12 features, with a second preview of scoped values and a preview of stream gatherers being the last additions. JDK 22 reached the rampdown one phase, with the feature set now frozen, on December 7. General availability
Read More“My cloud application is slow,” is a common complaint. However, nine times out of ten the cause does not lie with the application processing or the database’s inability to serve the application at the required performance level. It’s almost 2024. Why are we still having these issues with cloud-based database performance? What are the most
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority The ASUS ROG Phone 8, ROG Phone 8 Pro, and Zenfone 11 Ultra have been certified online. Evidence suggests that the Zenfone 11 Ultra could be a rebranded ROG Phone 8 series device. ASUS has confirmed that the ROG Phone 8 series is on the way, previously stating that
Read MoreYouTube’s new comment moderation feature lets you take a break from commenters without removing your existing video comments. | Image: YouTube YouTube has introduced a new moderation tool for creators that allows them to pause comments, preventing any new comments from being added to videos while preserving those that have already been posted. In a
Read MoreMackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Micron strikes a labor deal to hire 3,700 union workers for its $15B chip plant in Boise, Idaho, potentially giving the company an edge for federal chip funds — – Union workers to fill majority of 3,700 construction jobs — Commerce Department prefers unionized sites for Chips funds
Read MoreNikhilesh De / CoinDesk: A US federal judge rules Binance founder Changpeng Zhao cannot return to the UAE before his sentencing, set for February 2024, after his release on a $175M bond — Zhao pleaded guilty to a federal charge last month. — Register Now — Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao …
Read MoreCredit: Google Google recently launched and demoed Gemini, its latest large language model. However, Google’s demo of Gemini isn’t in real-time and takes a few liberties in a few demo sequences. In real-time, Google Gemini works with still images and written text and outputs written text. Google recently launched Gemini, its latest large language model,
Read More‘Tis the season for gift giving, and what better to give than a newfound love for hacking, soldering, and blinkenlights? In order to spread cheer and education at the local hackerspace, [Tom Goff] created this festive tree circuit board that can either sit in a stand to be admired, or worn as jewelry. The resistors
Read MoreWall Street Journal: A look at Alibaba’s decline since China halted Ant’s IPO in 2020, losing its online shopping dominance to rival PDD last week, and roadblocks in revival plans — The Chinese e-commerce giant lost its lead—even in online shopping — SINGAPORE—Chinese internet titan Alibaba Group Holding once seemed invincible.
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