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Your iPhone 15 could be free. It might still be a bad deal. - AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon offer free or discounted new iPhone 15 models when you tra... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/15/new-iphone-15-cost-discounts-carriers/

Oil Companies Granted Licences To Store Carbon Under the North Sea - Oil companies have been granted licences by the UK government that it hopes will e... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/09/15/1543231/oil-companies-granted-licences-to-store-carbon-under-the-north-sea?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #earth

Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late' - If you don't tackle Redmond's abuse of software licensing in rival clouds it'll be game o... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/09/15/google_exec_microsoft_teams_concession/

Thousands of workers go on strike at Ford, GM, and Stellantis plants - Enlarge / The US auto workers' union announced the start of a strike a... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1968645 #unitedautoworkers #electricvehicles #generalmotors #stellantis #chevrolet #unions #cars #ford #jeep #gmc #uaw #gm

Tricks For Mass-Producing Laser-Etched Art - Art is a funny thing. Sometimes, it’s best done in a one-off fashion and sold for ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/tricks-for-mass-producing-laser-etched-art/ #smallbusiness #laserhacks #production #maker

iPhone 12: Fade away, and radiate? - What’s up with the iPhone radiation story? On the eve of Apple’s big iPhone 15 reveal,... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3706909/iphone-12-fade-away-and-radiate.html#tk.rss_all #smallandmediumbusiness #smartphones #mobile #apple #ios

Horizon Worlds’ avatars now walk among the virtual universe with their own legs - Meta used an AI model to help bring legs to avatars. | Ima... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/15/23874975/horizon-worlds-avatars-legs-now-available

If Elon Musk Had Been a Happy Child, Would He Still Be Launching Rockets? - “Biographer of Genius” Walter Isaacson thinks he cracked the code to Elon Musk—the entrep... - https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-elon-musk-happy-child-launching-rockets/ #business/techculture #plaintext #business

TikTok Fined by Irish Regulator Over Misuse of Children's Data - Irish authorities fined TikTok $367 million, saying that it breached the country’s data-p... - https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-fined-by-irish-regulator-over-misuse-of-childrens-data-c767ed1d?mod=rss_Technology #paid

The iPhone 15 apparently has a slightly bigger battery - iPhone 15 Pro made a bit more room for battery in there. |... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/15/23874884/iphone-15-pro-bigger-battery-capacity-increase

Microsoft Publishes Garbled AI Article Calling Tragically Deceased NBA Player 'Useless' - An anonymous reader shares a report: Former NBA player Brandon Hunter passed away ... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/09/15/1050256/microsoft-publishes-garbled-ai-article-calling-tragically-deceased-nba-player-useless?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #microsoft

Salesforce flipflops from 'you're fired' to 'you're hired' in six short months - Recruitment U-turn down to search for growth and margins, CEO says Salesforce supremo Mar... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/09/15/salesforce_recruitment_turnaround/

This Week in Security: Blastpass, MGM Heist, and Killer Themes - There’s yet another 0-day exploit chain discovered as part of NSO Group’s Pegasus ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/09/15/this-week-in-security-blastpass-mgm-heist-and-killer-themes/ #hackadaycolumns #securityhacks #ransomware #blastpass #honeypots #news

TikTok hit with €345 million fine over privacy settings for children - Enlarge (credit: Bloomberg / Contributor | Bloomberg)

TikTok h... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1968631 #socialmedia #syndication #policy #tiktok #eu

The spectacular downfall of a common, useless cold medicine - Enlarge / A box of Sudafed PE sinus pressure and pain medicine containi... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1968612 #advisorycommittee #over-the-counter #allergymedicine #phenylephrine #coldmedicine #drugefficacy #efficacy #mucinex #sudafed #health #nyquil #merck #chpa #fda

The US military just proved it can get satellites into space super fast - Enlarge / Firefly's Alpha rocket launches on Thursday evening from Vand... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1968617 #spaceforce #science #firefly #space

TikTok fined €345m over children's data privacy - The complaint concerned how the social media app handled children's data in 2020. - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66819174?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Intel spices up its FPGA game with open source and RISC-V freebies - Tech buffet of updates dished out ahead of IFTD event Intel has expanded its FPGA line-up... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/09/15/intel_fpga_updates/

Meta's Horizon Worlds Avatars Finally Have Legs - An anonymous reader quotes a report from UploadVR: Meta Avatars in Horizon Worlds ... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/09/15/0747210/metas-horizon-worlds-avatars-finally-have-legs?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #facebook

DeepMind’s cofounder: Generative AI is just a phase. What’s next is interactive AI. - DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman wants to build a chatbot that does a whole lo... - https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/09/15/1079624/deepmind-inflection-generative-ai-whats-next-mustafa-suleyman/ #artificialintelligence