@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-05 21:05:58
Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei announces cuts affecting 19 people on its product, tech and design teams (Ben Mullin/@benmullin)
https://x.com/benmullin/status/1986150910385442899
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-05 21:05:58
@nelson@tech.lgbt2025-10-13 22:16:11
Had a phenomenal dinner at Akoko, a fine dining West African restaurant in London. French cooking and saucing techniques with Senegalese, Nigerian, and Ghanaian flavors. Also lovely front of house.
Very exciting meal, one of the best I've had in years. Run by Aji Akokomi, current chef is Mutaro Balde. These flavors are terrific and don't normally get the fine dining treatment, a real pleasure to enjoy.
Everything was great but our favorite dish was thin ribbons of squid in a sauce with coriander and a meaningful chile heat.
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-08-25 18:28:47
Russia weighs Google Meet ban as part of foreign tech crackdown https://therecord.media/russia-google-meet-ban-crackdown
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-29 23:15:55
Filing: Intel says its funding deal with the US loosens its requirements under the CHIPS Act, including removing the need to meet certain project milestones (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/t…
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-18 15:19:35
🦾 Meet the teens behind RedSnapper: a smart Arduino-powered prosthetic arm
https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/08/21/meet-the-teens-behind-redsnapper-a-smart-arduino-powered-prosthetic-arm/
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net2025-11-01 19:50:15
💻 New Tech Unveiled Meet TSUs (Thermodynamic Sampling Units)! The X0 prototype chip proves these primitives work in silicon at room temp. Plus, XTR0 desktop kit for early researchers—available this fall.
📚 #OpenSource Kickstart Dive in with Thermal, the #Python library to simulate TSUs…
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2025-08-14 14:05:07
Been volunteering with @… and @… since January.
We are in the Toronto Star today!
Thanks @…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-13 15:25:57
A look at social media "clippers", who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (Ben Raab/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meet-the-clip…
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-08-26 20:48:59
Governments, tech companies meet in Tokyo to share tips on fighting North Korea IT worker scheme https://therecord.media/japan-us-south-korea-forum-north-korea-it-worker-scheme
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-08-13 17:01:30
A look at social media "clippers", who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (Ben Raab/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meet-the-clip…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-08-18 13:13:25
Content warning: good analysis of "age verification" practicalities / risks
Really good clear explanation from @…, laying out various problems and risks with trying to implement "age verification" online.
"Firstly, in order to prove your age you’re being asked to hand over some fairly important personal details. ... Usually the company you’re handing these details to is a third party, often one you will never have heard of before. ...
"The data that is being collected for age verification purposes is extremely tempting to hackers ... and at the moment there is no specific regulation outlining the security standards that these companies should meet ...
"Let’s say all the current age verification providers are incredibly robust, though. ... The question still remains... should you be sharing this information with random websites anyway?
"... once you’ve trained the population of an entire country to routinely hand over their credit card details in order to access content, you have given them an incredibly bad habit that it’s going to be tough to break. ... You don’t just prove your age once, after all, you potentially have to do it dozens of times, to access a bunch of different websites. Everything from BlueSky to PornHub to Spotify and even maybe Wikipedia. It becomes a weekly or perhaps monthly occurrence. Just as individual users don’t tend to read every website’s terms and conditions, it’s unlikely they’re all going to do due diligence checks on every provider who asks for ID, especially once they’ve become used to just handing that data over.
"And although that may not be a problem for _you_, you tech-savvy cleverclogs, if you’ve ever found yourself in the position of unpaid IT support for one of your less knowledgeable friends or relatives, hopefully you can see why it’s a huge problem for the UK population more broadly."
And more!
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #OSA
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-12 10:20:45
How Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most (Nicole Friedman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/tech-compa…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-10 21:40:34
Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to meet Trump on Monday to propose ways the US and Intel could work together, show his commitment to the US, and more (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-ceo-singled-out-by-tru…
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-09-10 13:33:23
Chinese companies and bosses to face major fines over cybersecurity incidents https://therecord.media/china-cybersecurity-law-update-penalties-companies-executives