The central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is the growing incompatibility between traditional copyright law and the digital, online world. The culmination of that process was the EU Copyright Directive, passed in 2019. The Directive was supposed to be transposed into local laws by 2021, but aContinue Reading
The Los Angeles Police Department suspended its use of Flock cameras, citing unclear terms around data ownership., The Los Angeles Police Department suspended its use of Flock cameras, citing unclear terms around data ownership., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
TOKYO (AP) — Worries about a bubble in artificial intelligence investments are absurd, SoftBank Group’s CEO Masayoshi Son said Tuesday, deriding such doubts as backward and akin to questioning the use of cars and planes. “To ask whether AI is a bubble is a foolish question,” Son told executives atContinue Reading
GNOME OS is getting a dedicated “Test Center” that finally makes testing experimental apps and system components safe, simple, and reversible on image-based distributions. GNOME OS has always been that cool, slightly wild playground for people who live and breathe GNOME. It’s image-based, atomically updated, super secure… and until now,Continue Reading
Testing experimental software is a hassle right now. You either wait for a stable release, or you dive into the pit of nightly builds hoping the whole thing doesn’t fall on your head. That gets worse on image-based systems like GNOME OS, where the base image is read-only and youContinue Reading
I started using Trello around 2013-14 to work on a team project. Trello was new and rising at the time for its simplicity of providing a collaborative Kanban board. After its acquisition and recent AI surge, Trello has changed a lot. But I still miss its simplicity in Kanban styleContinue Reading
Driventic has begun manufacturing the VEDS 1.5, the latest version of the electric drive system (VEDS) it supplies to bus and truck manufacturers. The main change is a new drive inverter system (DIS) that carries an integrated drive management unit. The DIS weighs 22 kg and uses a connector systemContinue Reading
Mercedes-Benz has opened two new production halls at its Kecskemét plant in Hungary and begun building the new all-electric C-Class there. The company says it is the first time the site has manufactured a battery-electric core model. The expansion took the plant’s footprint from 200 to 440 hectares. Alongside theContinue Reading
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 flying from Thessaloniki, Greece to Memmingen, Germany had to return to its point of departure on Friday, July 10th after debris from an engine failure caused damage to the aircraft’s window. Most notable, the incident injured one of the plane’s passengers, with some reports suggesting thatContinue Reading
Virgin Atlantic has confirmed that it will reduce flights from London Heathrow Airport (LHR) to Bengaluru, Boston, Miami, Las Vegas, and San Francisco. The change, while only temporary, will see roughly half as many flights as previously planned.Continue Reading
Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi was accused of helping an Iranian business associate get around American export control laws., Mahdi Mohammad Sadeghi was accused of helping an Iranian business associate get around American export control laws., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union official on Monday called for limits to be placed on children using social media as a special EU panel looking into the challenge recommended forbidding access for those under 13 until tech companies can prove their platforms are safe. Growing awareness of theContinue Reading
AMD’s latest Radeon drivers hide a Multi-Frame Generation mode that goes up to 8x, going one better than NVIDIA’s 6x. Here’s what it could mean for your frame rate…Continue Reading