New Australian laws target the sharing of “abhorrent violent material,” threaten large fines for social media companies and leave individual executives open to jail time. 4Chan, Facebook execs could face jail time under ‘world first’ Australian laws – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIt was a modest display, but Elon Musk is aiming for this rocket to take humans to the moon and beyond in just a few years. SpaceX Starship 'Hopper' prototype finally lights up – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreJon Fingas / Engadget: Tesla starts rolling out an update to Navigate on Autopilot in the US that will give drivers an option to use the system without having to confirm lane changes — Tesla has long asked you to flick the turn stalk to confirm Autopilot’s lane changes, but you won’t have to do
Read MoreIn these days of cheap microcontrollers, it is hard to remember there was a time when timing things took real circuitry. Even today, for some applications it is hard to beat the ubiquitous 555 timer IC. It is cheap, plentiful, and reliable. What’s interesting about the 555 is it isn’t so much a dedicated chip
Read MoreTwo years after social media helped fuel a genocide in the Southeast Asian country, the UN says Facebook’s efforts are “not nearly sufficient.” Facebook hasn't done enough in Myanmar, UN investigator says – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreThe electric carmaker is building Model 3’s like crazy, but it’s still ironing out how best to get them into customer’s hot little hands. Tesla's production is up but deliveries are down in Q1 – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read More*Best David Attenborough voice* …and here we have the Malabar squirrel, a creature the internet absolutely adores. Twitter goes nuts for huge, multicolored squirrel as long as a cat – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreParliament adopted a measure that would criminalize “abhorrent violent material” shared on social media platforms, threatening huge fines for tech companies and jail for their employees. Australia Passes Law to Punish Social Media Companies for Violent Posts Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreSam Biddle / The Intercept: Researchers find that Facebook appears to deliver certain ads, despite neutral targeting parameters, in a way that aligns with race and gender stereotypes — How exactly Facebook decides who sees what is one of the great pieces of forbidden knowledge in the information age … Researchers find that Facebook appears
Read MoreMonica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to neighboring Bellevue by 2023, with several thousand employees making the move — Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to Bellevue, Wash., by 2023, adding thousands of employees … Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide
Read MoreXinmei Shen / Abacus: Some Chinese companies, including Tencent and Xiaomi, are restricting access via their own browsers to a GitHub page where developers protest “996” work culture — Tencent, Xiaomi and others are censoring the GitHub page over “illegal information” Some Chinese companies, including Tencent and Xiaomi, are restricting access via their own browsers
Read MoreSix packages are up for grabs under the spy agency’s systems integration tender, with protected, secret, and top secret information to be hosted solely on Azure. ASIO eyes Microsoft Azure for phase one of tech transformation Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreMark Sullivan / Fast Company: Source: Intel has missed deadlines for the development of a 5G modem for the 2020 iPhones; Apple has 1,000-1,200 engineers working on modems for future iPhones — As of now Apple plans to release a 5G iPhone in 2020. But an increasingly stormy relationship with its 5G modem supplier Intel
Read MoreDirected by Todd Phillips, this new take on DC’s nightmarish Batman villain could be a comedy … or a tragedy. Joker movie with Joaquin Phoenix: First trailer, release date, cast and more – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreTom Roston / OneZero: Current and former TiVo insiders on how the first DVR came to be, going up against cable companies, how IP licensing has kept the company relevant, and more — ‘They Thought It Was Black Magic’: An Oral History of TiVo — How the original DVR paved the way for Netflix and
Read MoreHouse Democrats plan to grill Facebook and Google next week on their efforts to stop the spread of white nationalism and hate speech online, a hearing that comes in response to a series of violent, racially motivated attacks around the world, including a mass shooting in New Zealand last month. House lawmakers to question Facebook,
Read MoreYou can’t keep your data to yourself anymore. Privacy experts: Focus on controlling damage caused by data collection – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreBased on the WiFi / Bluetooth wunderchip, clad in a polycarbonate frame, and looking like something that would be an amazing cell phone for 2005, the WiPhone is now available on Kickstarter. We’ve seen the WiPhone before, and it’s an interesting set of features for what is effectively an ESP32 board with some buttons and
Read MoreThe brand will host a select group of investors at its HQ in Palo Alto, California, to show off just how far along its autonomous tech really is. Tesla's inviting investors to try its 'full self-driving' tech in California – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreIn technology, the Trump administration has departed from its anti-regulatory, nationalist approach. A.I. and Privacy Concerns Get White House to Embrace Global Cooperation Source: NY Times Tech
Read MorePatrick Howell O’Neill / Gizmodo: UN investigator: Facebook’s efforts “not nearly sufficient” in genocide-torn Myanmar; while violence-inciting posts seem to be down, racist posts are common — It’s been nearly two years since the bloody peak of a social media-fueled genocide in Southeast Asia … UN investigator: Facebook's efforts "not nearly sufficient" in genocide-torn Myanmar;
Read MoreSamsung’s highly-anticipated 5G Galaxy phone may be available mid-May. Galaxy S10 5G may launch May 16 – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wished to communicate with a game developer, either to praise them or to complain about something, but chickened out because you assumed they’d never bother to read your message — you just have to get creative about it, apparently. One particular item sent to Fallout developer Bethesda got a particular point across in a
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: SoftBank is in talks with investors to add as much as $15B to its Vision Fund, which has invested more than $70B in tech companies in about two years — – Vision Fund is considering a variety of ways to raise capital — It’s also in preliminary talks for a second Vision Fund
Read MoreIf you don’t feel like you have the time to read more, or struggle to finish a book, this method will help. If you have time for Twitter or Instagram, you have time for these books. Kick-Start Your Reading Habit With Bite-Sized Books Source: NY Times Tech
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