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Internet Archive’s legal woes mount as record labels sue for $400M - Enlarge (credit: Kinga Krzeminska | Moment)

Major record label... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1960980 #copyrightinfringement #musicmodernizationact #internetarchive #capitolrecords #great78project #musicstreaming #copyrightact #digitization #applemusic #spotify #policy #arista #sony #umg

80% of execs regret calling employees back to the office - Or so says a worrying survey We're all dumbasses walking around in adult clothes, but you... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/15/return_to_office_survey/

Can we please just go back to using smaller wheels and tires? - Enlarge / Sigh. Not only are the 225/45/R20 tires easy to puncture, the... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1960947 #cadillacescaladeiq #rolls-roycespectre #hondaaccordhybrid #electricvehicle #newtoyotaprius #hyundaiioniq5 #hybridtire #wheelsize #flattire #lucidair #puncture #tiresize #evwheel #evtire #wheels #tires #cars

Ford adds Apple sauce to its next-gen services ambition - Ford’s announcement that it has hired former Apple services executive Peter Stern to l... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3704614/ford-adds-apple-sauce-to-its-next-gen-services-ambition.html#tk.rss_all #smallandmediumbusiness #smartphones #mobile #apple

Saudi Arabia and UAE Race To Buy Nvidia Chips To Power AI Ambitions - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are buying up thousands of the high-perf... - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/1619242/saudi-arabia-and-uae-race-to-buy-nvidia-chips-to-power-ai-ambitions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #hardware

The Pininfarina Battista is more than just face-warping acceleration - Enlarge / The Pininfarina Battista looks almost as good as it goes. And... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1960866 #batteryelecticvehicle #pininfarinabattista #electrichypercar #electricsupercar #mahindrabattista #electricvehicle #pininfarinaev #carreview #cars

Cities Aren’t Supposed to Burn Like This Anymore—Especially Lahaina - Humans figured out how to prevent huge fires in urban areas over a century ago. Why have ... - https://www.wired.com/story/cities-arent-supposed-to-burn-like-this-anymore-especially-lahaina/ #science/environment #theageofflames #science

How online safety tech is failing women - A team of researchers at King’s College London, has demonstrated that, despite bei... - https://thenextweb.com/news/online-safety-failing-women-how #corporatesandinnovation #dataandsecurity

Ninja Outdoor Oven Review: Smoky Goodness - This astonishingly affordable little outdoor electric oven has replaced my indoor one. - https://www.wired.com/review/ninja-outdoor-woodfire-oven/ #gear/products/outdoor #gear/products #productreview #gear/reviews #gear

Screwdrivers and Nuclear Safety: The Demon Core - Harry Daghlian and Louis Slotin were two of many people who worked on the Manhatta... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/15/screwdrivers-and-nuclear-safety-the-demon-core/ #manhattanproject #originalart #radiation #featured #history #nuclear

Microsoft may store your conversations with Bing if you're not an enterprise user - New AI Services policies also prohibit any reverse engineering and data collection of its... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/15/microsoft_will_store_your_conversations/

For a generation of students, the iMac was a gateway to the future - If only most dorms were this spacious in the early 2000s. ... - https://www.theverge.com/23831323/imac-twenty-five-years-students-dorm-experience

A.I. Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job - Developers are embracing artificial intelligence tools like drones, cameras, apps and rob... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/business/artificial-intelligence-construction-real-estate.html #artificialintelligence #building(construction) #realestate(commercial) #robotsandrobotics #productivity

'Flying Aliens' Harassing Village Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The mysterious attacks began... - https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/0227225/flying-aliens-harassing-village-are-actually-illegal-miners-with-jetpacks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #scifi

The Download: China’s autonomous race, and Kiva’s controversial changes - This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a d... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/15/1077910/the-download-chinas-autonomous-race-and-kivas-controversial-changes/ #thedownload

Discord.io Temporarily Shuts Down After Breach Affecting 760,000 Members - Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland shares a report from BleepingComputer: The D... - https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/0215216/discordio-temporarily-shuts-down-after-breach-affecting-760000-members?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #security

Let Venice Sink - The impulse to save everything no longer makes sense. It's time to leave the city as a mo... - https://www.wired.com/story/climate-change-heritage-preservation-venice/ #ideas

Red Hat's Mexican standoff: Job cuts? Yes, but we still need someone to boot Linux - Time for some fresh GRUB Although it's not long after job cuts at Red Hat, the company's ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/08/15/red_hat_bootloader_role/

Ireland’s Alchemy battles e-waste by giving Apple products a new life - Many of us have become accustomed to getting the newest, flashiest versions of our... - https://thenextweb.com/news/alchemy-e-waste-apple-products-tradein-circularity #corporatesandinnovation #startupsandtechnology #investorsandfunding #sustainability #nextfeatured

The rise of the tech ethics congregation - Just before Christmas last year, a pastor preached a gospel of morals over money ... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/15/1077369/tech-ethics-congregation/ #humansandtechnology