When a Vintage RV Is Your Home, Repair Is a Way of Life
Six years ago, I moved my family into a 50-year-old RV—not just to see America, but to test my belief that anything worth fixing can be fixed.
Read MoreSix years ago, I moved my family into a 50-year-old RV—not just to see America, but to test my belief that anything worth fixing can be fixed.
Read MoreRest of World: A look at Meta’s “spirit of the policy” exception that lets the company break its moderation rules in conflict zones and crises; critics want more transparency — An Oversight Board case from Sri Lanka shows the power of Facebook’s “spirit of the policy” exception
Read MoreEmily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: Google asks a US judge to dismiss a DOJ suit alleging it illegally abused its ad dominance, arguing the government had excluded rivals while defining the market — Alphabet Inc.’s Google asked a US judge to dismiss the government’s case against its dominance in the digital advertising market.
Read MoreFor a brief moment in the late ’00s, netbooks dominated the low-cost mobile computing market. These were small, low-cost, low-power laptops, some tiny enough to only have a seven-inch display, and usually with extremely limiting hardware even for the time. There aren’t very many reasons to own a machine of this era today, since even
Read MoreGalaxy S22 Ultra vs Pixel 6 Pro Credit: Eric Zeman / Android Authority A Samsung community moderator has confirmed the company will fix the Wi-Fi calling vulnerability affecting Samsung phones with Exynos processors in April. The flaw found by Google allows hackers to remotely access affected devices using just a phone number. Last week, Google
Read MoreOPPO and OnePlus have put out a joint statement about the future of the companies in Europe. It looks like the brands will continue launching new products in the region this year. There’s no clarity on their plans beyond 2023. News broke yesterday of OPPO and OnePlus’ potential exit from important European markets. While OPPO
Read MoreReefy, a startup in the Netherlands, makes modular reefs that double as living breakwaters for coastal areas suffering the effects of the climate crisis.
Read MoreLunar astronauts will need to synchronize their watches on future missions. But on a rock that rotates much slower than Earth, time gets weird fast.
Read MoreCredit: David Imel / Android Authority A Redditor has reportedly received the April 2023 patch on their Pixel 5. This could be an early rollout or a mistake on Google’s part. Security updates are pretty important for your phones, patching any flaws in the software that can be exploited by bad actors. Now, it looks
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Huobi prompts new Chinese users to apply for a Dominican digital citizenship, under a partnership with Dominica, to evade China’s crypto restrictions — Justin Sun’s strategy for boosting revenue includes a novel way around Beijing’s trading restrictions
Read MoreSalvador Rodriguez / Wall Street Journal: Memo: Meta plans to reduce the bonus multiplier from 85% to 65% and restricted stock awards for staff who “met most expectations” in the 2023 year-end review — Meta Platforms adjusts performance review process, saying it is ‘optimizing’ for year ahead
Read MoreSitting on a train leaving the Hackaday Berlin conference, and Hacker News pops up Julian Shapiro with a guide to HiFi. What Hackaday scribe wouldn’t give it a click, to while away the endless kilometres of North European Plain! It’s very easy as an analogue electronic engineer, to become frustrated while reading audiophile tracts, after
Read MoreKatyanna Quach / The Register: Europol details how LLMs can be exploited to fuel fraud, cybercrime, and terrorism, and claims people are already using ChatGPT to carry out illegal activities — There is no honor among chatbots — Criminals are already using ChatGPT to commit crimes, Europol said in a Monday report …
Read MoreManish Singh / TechCrunch: Source: Microsoft-owned GitHub lays off its entire engineering team in India, eliminating 100+ jobs, as part of a ~10% cut announced in February — GitHub, the popular developer platform, has laid off virtually its entire engineering team in India in an unusual move as the Microsoft-owned firm cuts …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Disney eliminates its metaverse unit, cutting ~50 jobs, and ceases work on an Amazon Prime-like program integrating Disney+ and other Disney platforms — The unit, once seen as developing a new form of storytelling, had about 50 employees — Mickey Mouse has left the metaverse.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple Music Classical, Apple’s long-in-the-works app for listening to classical music with an Apple Music subscription, is now available to download from the App Store. Apple Music Classical was born from Primephonic, which Apple acquired in 2021 with the intent of launching a classical music-focused app in 2022.
Read MoreZoë Schiffer / Platformer: Documents: Twitter has a list of ~35 accounts which it monitors and offers increased visibility to, including AOC, Biden, Marc Andreessen, Musk, and @catturd2 — Congratulations to Ben Shapiro, AOC, and … LeBron? — Last week, Twitter began notifying users who were verified under …
Read MoreThe Verge: Elon Musk says only verified accounts will be recommended in Twitter’s For You tab and be able to vote in polls to address “AI bot swarms”, starting April 15 — Twitter users will need a “verified account” to get recommended on the platform’s For You page starting on April 15th …
Read MoreSarah Perez / TechCrunch: Snap’s head of growth and previously longtime product head Jacob Andreou is leaving the company in May after eight years to join Greylock as a general partner — Snap’s head of growth and previously longtime product head Jacob Andreou is leaving the social media company after eight years to join Greylock
Read MoreThe amateur radio community often gets stereotyped as a hobby with a minimum age requirement around 70, gatekeeping airwaves from those with less experience or simply ignoring unfamiliar beginners. While there is a small amount of truth to this on some local repeaters or specific frequencies, the spectrum is big enough to easily ignore those
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Uber Eats is removing 5K virtual brands to declutter the app and introducing new guidelines to stop restaurants from listing multiple brands with the same menu — Company plans to stop allowing restaurants to list multiple brands with the same menu — Delivery-Only Ghost Kitchens Are Reshaping the Restaurant Industry
Read MoreScott Stein / CNET: An interview with Roblox Studio Head Stefano Corazza on Roblox’s new AI tools, generative AI’s impact on AR/VR, building a more contextual moderation, and more — Two new creative tools are the start of possibly a lot more. — The world’s biggest metaverse may, arguably, be Roblox.
Read MoreNick Barclay / The Verge So I read through the CFTC complaint against the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, and it seems like the lawyers are having fun with this one. For instance: “Binance’s decision to prioritize commercial success over compliance with US law has been, as Lim paraphrased Zhao’s position on the matter, a
Read MoreBlizzard Entertainment After two weekends of lengthy server queues, and a brief taste of the game’s opening areas and five classes, the Diablo IV beta is officially over. I personally didn’t get to play too much since I was doing other things, but I enjoyed the brief time I got to spend in Sanctuary. I
Read MoreKatie Haun / Wall Street Journal: Regulators are choking the crypto industry in the US, but major policy decisions should be made by Congress and state legislatures, not by unelected officials — The effort would stifle American innovation and competition—and that seems to be the objective. — WSJ Opinion: Congress Hammers TikTok
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