petri 2 years ago

”On average, more than 2,000 companies shared data with Meta about each participant, with some volunteers' data being shared by more than 7,000 companies. ” https://www.thestreet.com/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-privacy-consumer-reports-study-tracking

petri 2 years ago

”Assuming a cost of $15 per Terabyte, a 30TB drive would cost about $450 which is a steal, putting the cost of 1PB storage capacity, capable of storing more than 30,000 Blu-ray movies, at around $14,000.”

TechRadar

Seagate launches biggest hard drive ever — 30TB Exos Mozaic 3+ HDD can store more than 1,000 Blu-ray movies and, yes, everyone will be able to buy them

Seagate is first to reach 30TB barrier, just over three years after the first 20TB hard drives appeared

petri 2 years ago

"YouTube recently started slowing down its entire site whenever ad blockers are used. A new wave of slowdowns is hitting users, with the only resolutions being disabling the ad blocker or upgrading to premium."

9to5Google

YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled

YouTube recently started slowing down its entire site whenever ad blockers are used. A new wave of slowdowns is hitting...

petri 2 years ago

"South Korea unveiled plans by leading firms such as Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. to spend more than $470 billion establishing the world’s largest chipmaking cluster, joining a global race to safeguard domestic supply." https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-15/south-korea-lays-out-470-billion-plan-to-build-chipmaking-hub

petri 2 years ago

This explains a lot. Your peers matter more than your opinions, and it’s all in your actions.

262 | Eric Schwitzgebel on the Weirdness of the World — Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas — Overcast

petri 2 years ago

”The fact that rebuilding Ukraine could end up costing $1 trillion – more than three times the assets’ value – might mollify those who are still reluctant to use them to fund the reconstruction effort.” https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-seizing-russias-frozen-assets-is-the-right-move/

petri 2 years ago

”Europe is more food dependent on Moscow now than we were before the war, with the bloc replacing energy dependency with fertiliser dependency”

Euractiv

EU increasingly food dependent on Russia, fertiliser company CEO warns | Euractiv

Europe is more food dependent on Moscow now than we were before the war, with the bloc replacing energy dependency with fertiliser dependency, the ...

petri 2 years ago

About doing the right thing, how the public opinion can flip in a moment’s notice, and the opinions of elites & academia

The Deutsch Files I — Naval — Overcast

petri 2 years ago

The West sides with Russia ”Putin’s nuclear brinkmanship had gained him time — not just to prevent a military collapse, but also for indispensable military aid to Ukraine to get caught up in the United States’ own domestic politics.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/09/ukraine-war-win-chance-west-lost/

petri 2 years ago

”There are now about 200 companies in Ukraine making drones, and approximately 70 local firms have now signed contracts to supply drones to the state.” https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-producing-more-drones-than-state-can-purchase-minister-says-2024-01-09/

petri 2 years ago

”An oligarch who has supplied building materials to the Russian military machine and for construction in occupied areas of Ukraine is being assisted by Morgan Stanley and Allen & Overy in his attempt to gain control of a huge Russian oil asset”

the Guardian

Morgan Stanley and Allen & Overy helping oligarch’s efforts to seize Russian oil firm

Exclusive: Sergey Kolesnikov has supplied building materials to Russian military and for use in occupied Ukraine

petri 2 years ago

Bluesky hit 3m users

Bluesky Social

Bluesky

petri 2 years ago

The parody called EU has dropped a few new episodes today

TechCrunch

EU checking if Microsoft's OpenAI investment falls under merger rules | TechCrunch

The European Union is checking whether Microsoft's investment in generative AI giant OpenAI is reviewable under the bloc's merger regulat...

petri 2 years ago

"With capacity of 8,212 megawatts (MW), the plant has been offline since 2012 after the Fukushima disaster a year earlier led to the shutdown of all nuclear power plants in Japan at the time." https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/worlds-biggest-nuclear-plant-japan-resume-path-towards-restart-2023-12-27

petri 2 years ago

”The Beijing institute developed the technique to crack an iPhone’s encrypted device log to identify the numbers and emails of senders who share AirDrop content” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-09/china-says-cracked-apple-s-airdrop-to-identify-message-sources

petri 2 years ago

The EU version will be brief: ”Due to regulatory oversight, you are not allowed to chat while in a vehicle.” The rest of the world: "Here's an example of a simplified route but make your own for accurate driving experience."

TechCrunch

Volkswagen is bringing ChatGPT into its cars and SUVs | TechCrunch

Volkswagen, with help from with software partner Cerence, are bringing ChatGPT into vehicles in the second quarter of 2024.

petri 2 years ago

”A lightweight electric personal aircraft that doesn’t require a pilot’s license to fly… …more than 20 miles of range and a charge time of about 75 minutes from 20% to 100% battery using a 240V charger.”

TechCrunch

Pivotal kicks off US sales of its lightweight electric personal Helix aircraft | TechCrunch

Pivotal, the Palo Alto, California–based company backed by Larry Page, kicked off online sales Monday night at CES 2024 for Helix, a lightweight ...

petri 2 years ago

”Russia has increasingly deployed EW to push off-course Ukraine’s western-supplied, precision-guided munitions, such as Himars rockets and Excalibur artillery shells.” https://www.ft.com/content/a477d3f1-8c7e-4520-83b0-572ad674c28e

petri 2 years ago

”The Russian navy is the only navy that can’t manage to grow mostly because it keeps losing ships in combat… The Ukrainian navy, which has no large front-line ships, keeps sinking and blowing up Russian vessels.” https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/01/06/the-ukrainian-navy-blows-up-as-much-russian-naval-tonnage-as-russian-shipyards-manage-to-build/?sh=7c577f2b652d

petri 2 years ago

Audius

Audius — Free Music Streaming for Artists, Labels & Fans

Audius is a music streaming and sharing platform that puts power back into the hands of content creators.

removed repeatedly my podcast episode of Darude. It has no music, just my content. They did not inform me about it but the episode link tells that it was taken down by the copyright owner. They never responded to me. My guess is that they just remove everything that has a musician’s name on it proactively. View quoted note →