“Like a half-filled bag of salty snacks, there simply aren’t enough semiconductor chips to go around these days,” writes CNET.
“At General Motors, the crisis struck one of its biggest cash cows as Cadillac confirmed too few chips led it to scrap the S…
Linus Torvalds On Community, Rust and Linux’s Longevity
An anonymous reader writes: This week saw the annual check-in with Linux creator Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America, this year held in Seattle (as well as virtually). Torvalds took the stage for the event’s traditional half-hour of …
More Vaccinations, Less Pushback: America’s Vaccine Mandates Are Working, Says Public Health Professor
Last month U.S. President Biden issued “a mandate that all companies with more than 100 workers require vaccination or weekly testing,” rememembers the New York Times, and “also moved to mandate shots for health care workers, federal contractors and a …
Netflix Reveals Its Most-Watched TV Shows and Movies of All Time
Netflix’s co-CEO revealed a list Monday showing its top shows and movies of all-time, reports NBC News. The list revealed that the 19th-century drama Bridgerton “was its most watched TV series ever, with 82 million subscribers tuning in for at least tw…
Alliance Including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM Vows to Protect Rights and Privacy With ‘Trusted Cloud Principles’
ZDNet reports:
Some of the world’s largest tech giants — Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce/Slack, Atlassian, SAP, and Cisco — have joined forces to establish the Trusted Cloud Principles in what they are claiming is their commitmen…
Bought Web Traffic and A Fake YouTube Executive: the Spectacular Failure of Ozy
The American media company Ozy “boasted of a large audience for its general interest website, its newsletters and its videos,” remembers the New York Times, calling it “a Gen X dream of what millennial media ought to be: earnest, policy-focused, inclus…
‘The Big Delete:’ Inside Facebook’s Crackdown in Germany
“Days before Germany’s federal elections, Facebook took what it called an unprecedented step: the removal of a series of accounts that worked together to spread COVID-19 misinformation and encourage violent responses to COVID restrictions,” reports the…
As Environmental Criticism Mounts, Bitcoin Miners Eye Nuclear Power
“Bitcoin miners, under fire for their sizable environmental footprint, are forging partnerships with owners of struggling nuclear-power plants with electricity to spare,” reports the Wall Street Journal:
The matchups have the potential to solve key is…
Should Billionaires Try Constructing ‘Cities of the Future’ in the Desert?
The Guardian looks at a billionaire’s plan to build a $400 billion “city of the future” in a U.S. desert.
The city — to be named Telosa — “doesn’t exist yet, nor is it clear which state will house the experiment, but the architects of the …
When the FBI Seizes Your Messages from Big Tech, You May Not Know for Years
When America’s law enforcement investigators serve tech companies with subpoenas or search warrants,”the target of the investigation has no idea their data is being seized,” the Washington Post pointed out this weekend.
It’s becoming surprisingly com…