Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)
Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)
A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...
The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline (arstechnica.com)
"Engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally."
Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV (arstechnica.com)
FCC won’t block California net neutrality law, says states can “experiment” (arstechnica.com)
Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains (arstechnica.com)
Google sues two crypto scammers over allegedly vast “pig butchering” scheme (arstechnica.com)
As much as I hate Google I think this lawsuit from them sets a good precedence against scammer and spammers...
Google might make users pay for AI features in search results (arstechnica.com)
Google might start charging for access to search results that use generative artificial intelligence tools. That’s according to a new Financial Times report citing “three people with knowledge of [Google’s] plans.”...
Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling (arstechnica.com)
TSMC “still assessing” chipmaking facilities after 7.4-magnitude quake hits Taiwan (arstechnica.com)
Apple wouldn’t let Jon Stewart interview FTC Chair Lina Khan, TV host claims (arstechnica.com)
Michigan Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say (arstechnica.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/jails-banned-family-visits-to-m…
Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals (arstechnica.com)
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections (arstechnica.com)
The malicious changes were submitted by JiaT75, one of the two main xz Utils developers with years of contributions to the project....
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit (arstechnica.com)
Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing (arstechnica.com)
Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead (arstechnica.com)
Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default (arstechnica.com)
Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (arstechnica.com)
The attack has been dubbed GoFetch: gofetch.fail
Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form (arstechnica.com)
I, for one…