A hacker group with connections to China maintained unnoticed access to the computer network of the Eindhoven-based chip manufacturer NXP for over two years.

Ooooof

I’m surpsied (but obviously shouldn’t be) that that many potential users would instantly bounce off Firefox instead of changing the default search engine.

In Canada. Yes they do. See my comment here: https://lemmy.world/comment/4958540

Yes. Often an add on. In Canada, it’s especially the case with koodo (telus’ “discount” brand) or lum (sasktel’s).

E.g., https://www.koodomobile.com/en/rate-plans

Pick 1 FREE Perk (available in Self Serve) Premium Voicemail Unlimited International SMS (from Canada) Rollover Data

Where the roll over data is the much better choice that would hurt to give up for roll over data

It happens on device before your carrier. So you don’t have to pay for voicemail. Big unexpected surprise for me (as I don’t have vm). Otherwise it’s on the fly and instant. Thought I wouldn’t care but sending unknow callers there is slick.

https://archive.ph/2023.10.30-205711/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/biden-white-house-ai-executive-order/675837/

I’d completely forgotten this happened. Wild stuff.

In the US the library of Congress has a video game preservation effort

https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2012/09/yes-the-library-of-congress-has-video-games-an-interview-with-david-gibson/

Library of Congress staff discussed its video game collection, the process of making a preservation copy of the data for long-term storage, the unique description challenges for video games and possible access solutions.

https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-8772/

The q&a is super interesting, strongly recommend reading past the headline here

Of all the things in Canada that needs fixing such as health care, educational funding, climate change mitigation, green energy pivot, housing, cost of of living, they decide to bully the few children trying to live their best life. Fucking wild. And truely disappointing.

I don’t understand what this provides. They already make it so you don’t have to give out credit card info. Is it just to avoid bank fees in some way? Avoid banking regulation?

I think it’s trying to say that the gasoline cars have no fuel in them when transported (thus less fire risk) versus the batteries which can still burn when “empty” (which I doubt they are)

At least the front didn’t fall off

I have, just many moons ago. I’ll take another read. Very pertinent

I don’t get it. It’s so strange.

Which book is this from?

Detecting real video as fake seems problematic where it might lead to apathy – folks just don’t believe any video anymore. Similar to Trump’s “everything is fake news” approach

On Saturday night, flood water from a burst river bank poured into the underpass, quickly trapping people in their cars and commuters on a bus.

Ya that’s nightmare material

European regulators gave the deal the go-ahead in May, so Microsoft could now technically close without the UK and without an injunction in the US preventing it. That’s a complicated scenario though, so we’ll likely see Microsoft and Activision Blizzard temporarily extend their merger agreement to cover the CMA appeal process instead

It’s not clear to me what “without the UK” means?

You may find this article helpful in why it still matters:

“My country’s emissions are so negligible, it doesn’t matter what we do. It won’t make a difference”. It’s true: the emissions of many countries in the world are completely dwarfed by a few big players. We see this in the chart below. But there are several reasons why rich countries with ‘negligible’ emissions need to step up to the challenge. What they do does matter.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hannahritchie/p/small-emitters

Individual actions, while inconsequential, can help signal the market ( eg demand for ev infrastructure) and can add up when combined with federal regulations.