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A look at publishers’ legal fight against the Internet Archive’s book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers’ “full book catalogs” (David Streitfeld/New York Times)

David Streitfeld / New York Times: A look at publishers’ legal fight against the Internet Archive’s book lending program; the Internet Archive agreed to drop the publishers’ “full book catalogs” — In the pandemic emergency, Brewster Kahle’s Internet Archive freely lent out digital scans of its library. Publishers sued.

Update Your Chinese Radio Without The Pain

The new hotness in cheap radios this year has been the Quansheng UV-K5, a Chinese handheld transceiver with significant RF abilities and easy modding. The amateur radio community have seized upon it with glee and already reverse-engineered much of the firmware, but flashing the thing has always required a minor effort. Now thanks to the

Best Mini Fridge for Medication in 2023

Many companies featured on ReadWrite partner with us. Opinions are our own, but compensation and in-depth research determine how products may be selected and ranked. Learn more about how we make money. Welcome to our guide on the best mini fridges for medication in 2023. Whether you need to store medications at a specific temperature for personal

Anthropic raised $100M from South Korea-based SK Telecom, which also invested in Anthropic in May 2023, as the two aim to build a telco-focused multilingual LLM (Joyce Lee/Reuters)

Joyce Lee / Reuters: Anthropic raised $100M from South Korea-based SK Telecom, which also invested in Anthropic in May 2023, as the two aim to build a telco-focused multilingual LLM — South Korea’s largest telco SK Telecom (017670.KS) said it will invest $100 million in U.S. artificial intelligence firm Anthropic …

Linux Kernel from First Principles

What to learn the internals of the Linux kernel? Version 6.5-rc5 has about 36 million lines of code in it, so good luck! [Seiya] has a different approach. Go back to the beginning and examine the 0.01 version of the kernel. Now you are talking about 10,000 lines and, removing comments and blanks, way less.

Some 2024 flagship phones might stick with Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 instead

Credit: Qualcomm A leaker has claimed that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 might be a little too pricey for some brands. They add that some OEMs will use cheaper chipsets in their standard models instead. Qualcomm is widely expected to launch the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 flagship processor in late 2023. Now, it sounds like

Hackaday Links: August 13, 2023

Remember that time when the entire physics community dropped what it was doing to replicate the extraordinary claim that a room-temperature semiconductor had been discovered? We sure do, and if it seems like it was just yesterday, it’s probably because it pretty much was. The news of LK-99, a copper-modified lead apatite compound, hit at

Best Mini Fridge for Medication in 2023

Hackaday Links: August 13, 2023

iPhone SE 4 could come with USB-C, Face ID, Action Button, and iPhone 14 design

The next iPhone SE model, the SE 4, will get USB-C, Face ID, Action Button, and a design similar to the iPhone 14, says rumor.

Data Security and Privacy Challenges in HR Software Development

It isn’t easy to imagine working without technology. Whether it is during work hours or in free time, technology has been rooted in our daily activities which we perform. The same goes for the HR sector. It is no more just administrative work; it has placed itself in a strategic position to drive the growth

Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn’t build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic (Gary Marcus/The Road to AI We Can Trust)

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: Generative AI could be a dud, so we shouldn’t build around the premise that the tech is world-changing, which in hindsight may turn out to have been unrealistic — With the possible exception of the quick to rise and quick to fall alleged room-temperature superconductor

Q&A with an FBI agent on targeting and taking down DDoS-for-hire sites, why Christmas is the busiest DDoS time, how attacks have changed over 10 years, and more (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Q&A with an FBI agent on targeting and taking down DDoS-for-hire sites, why Christmas is the busiest DDoS time, how attacks have changed over 10 years, and more — In an interview at Black Hat, FBI agents explain how they target and take down DDoS-for-hire sites

Portable 1990s POS Will Strain Your Back

[JR] over at [Tech Throwback] got ahold of an unusual piece of gear recently — a portable Point of Sale (POS) credit card machine from the late 1990s (video, embedded below the break ). Today these machines can be just a small accessory that works in conjunction with your smart phone, but only the most

Mark Zuckerberg says it’s ‘time to move on’ from the Elon Musk fight

Image: The Verge Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Threads post today that “it’s time to move on” from Elon Musk’s cage fight antics. “We can all agree Elon isn’t serious,” he wrote, adding that the refusal of the X (formerly Twitter) owner to confirm a date and his offer to “do a practice

Apple Watch to get a major redesign next year with Apple Watch X

Apple Watch is getting a major redesign next year as the tenth iteration is set to arrive, likely dubbed Apple Watch X, says report.

Apple Watch to get a major redesign next year with Apple Watch X

Apple Watch is getting a major redesign next year as the tenth iteration is set to arrive, likely dubbed Apple Watch X, says report.

Apple Watch to get a major redesign next year with Apple Watch X

Apple Watch is getting a major redesign next year as the tenth iteration is set to arrive, likely dubbed Apple Watch X, says report.

Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top 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 …

ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: ShapesXR, which offers an XR app creation and collaboration platform to clients like Meta, Qualcomm, and ByteDance, raised an $8.6M seed led by Supernode Global — Spatial apps creation and collaboration platform startup ShapesXR today announced that it has raised $8.6 million in new funding …

Making Things Square in Three Dimensions

Measure twice, cut once is excellent advice when building anything, from carpentry to metalworking. While this adage will certainly save a lot of headache, mistakes, and wasted material, it will only get you part of the way to constructing something that is true and square, whether that’s building a shelf, a piece of furniture, or

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 (Iain Thomson/The Register)

Iain Thomson / The Register: 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

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% (Reuters)

Reuters: 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)

Apple’s M3 Ultra Mac Studio could have a 32-core CPU and up to 80 GPU cores

The M3 Ultra Mac Studio. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is reportedly testing an M3 Ultra chip with a significant CPU bump from 24 cores in the M2 Ultra to 32 cores in the next generation version of the chip, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter.

Sources: Apple is planning a major “Watch X” redesign for the 10th anniversary; a look at the M3 roadmap, including a top M3 Ultra with 32 CPU and 80 GPU cores (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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