For years, parents, teenagers, pediatricians, educators and whistleblowers have pushed the idea that social media is detrimental to young people’s mental health and can lead to addiction, eating disorders, sexual exploitation and suicide. For the first time, juries in two states took their side. In Los Angeles on Wednesday, aContinue Reading
LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators are investigating Snapchat over concerns the platform isn’t doing enough to protect kids and exposing them to risks such as increased vulnerability to child predators or recruitment by criminals. The 27-nation EU’s executive Commission said Thursday it was opening a formal investigation into SnapchatContinue Reading
Age verification has suddenly become the most heated topic in the Linux world and it’s not slowing down anytime soon. Distributions are already picking sides. Void and Garuda Linux have outright rejected the idea. The privacy-focused Android distro GrapheneOS isn’t entertaining it either. Meanwhile, Fedora is exploring whether an Apple-styleContinue Reading
Dylan M. Taylor is not a household name in the Linux world. At least, he wasn’t until recently. The software engineer and longtime open source contributor has quietly built a respectable track record over the years: writing Python code for the Arch Linux installer, maintaining packages for NixOS, and contributingContinue Reading
Ubuntu’s App Center software tool makes it easier to manage and update Deb software in its latest update – and nets a few extra options for snaps, too. The changes are part of Canonical’s goal of making App Center, first introduced in Ubuntu 23.10, the epicentre (I’m sorry) for softwareContinue Reading
FCC boss Brendan Carr spends an awful lot of time pretending to be a tough guy, threatening any broadcasters that aren’t suitably deferential to our mad, idiot king. Carr’s had giant temper tantrums over comedians who make jokes, daytime and late night talk shows that refuse to kiss Republican ass,Continue Reading
300 families undergo 6-week trial to test impact on sleep, school, and home life The UK government will trial different levels of restrictions on social media for under-16s with the help of 300 families, alongside a public consultation that has already gathered nearly 30,000 responses.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
CarStation/PlayMobile won’t hit the road after pile-up of tax and competition issues in China and the USA Sony and Honda have broken up, meaning their joint vision to deliver a revolutionary electric vehicle won’t happen.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Scalvy says a joint concept evaluation with Valeo has validated its modular battery-integrated power architecture for EVs under WLTC operating conditions, marking a step toward automotive deployment of the company’s distributed “Power Neuron” platform. Instead of using separate centralized inverters, DC-DC converters and onboard chargers, Scalvy’s architecture distributes those functionsContinue Reading
hofer Vienna and Pankl Turbosystems are jointly developing fully integrated electrified turbo systems for hybrid and high-performance powertrains, combining the turbomachine, electric machine, power electronics and control strategy into a single engineered system. The companies say the idea is to avoid treating the e-turbo or e-compressor as an add-on subsystem.Continue Reading
Immediately after the public backlash prompted by the DLSS 5 announcement, Nvidia provided additional info regarding the underlying technology that the upcoming technology is based on, yet most of the statements were still unclear and up to interpretation. Youtuber Daniel Owen directly contacted Nvidia’s Jacob Freeman in order to clarify all the carefully crafted verbiageContinue Reading
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission is poised to take humans around the moon for the first time in over 50 years. The mission is historic: a return to the moon by an astronaut crew that will serve as the vanguard for what NASA hopes will lead to a permanent outpost on the lunar surface. Below, you’llContinue Reading
An illustration of the TESS exoplanet hunter detecting close-in planets around a distant star. (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Astronomers have discovered over 100 new worlds beyond the solar system hiding in data collected by NASA’s exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), and it’s thanks to artificial intelligence. The technique also identifiedContinue Reading