Furry Technologists

Eight TikTok creators file their own suit against the divest-or-ban law ( www.theverge.com )

Except it's not unique lol...

Online liability protections [for social media companies] have outlived usefulness, top lawmakers say ( thehill.com )

Hmmm... Making social media companies liable for what users post. I'm all for making them take a more active involvement in what's going on but that would open up anyone hosting stuff to a world of liability...

Archie has been resurrected ( archie.serialport.org )

Some people have apparently not only gone through the trouble of digging out the latest available version of Archie (old FTP indexer / search engine from the mid 80's / 90's before Google was a thing), but they even set up a fresh install and made a web interface available. Even better: The entire source code apparently also...

Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT | Tom's Hardware ( www.tomshardware.com )

Negating all VPNs may have been possible since 2002 ( www.techspot.com )

Very interesting exploit of DHCP

ICYMI, Nicky Case's AI-Safety Explainer is finally out (starring robot catboy maids) ( pawb.social )

"Outer Alignment" comic...

Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries ( www.phoronix.com )

YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users ( www.androidpolice.com )

kubernetes 1.30: uwubernetes ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )

The Nvidia GeForce GTX era is finally over ( www.pcgamesn.com )

The end of an era!

HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD - Phoronix ( www.phoronix.com )

Oh, well fuck HDMI then

The Tech Industry Doesn’t Understand Consent - Dhole Moments ( soatok.blog )

Canonical: up to 12 years of support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - gHacks Tech News ( www.ghacks.net )

Core support for Ubuntu won't change according to Shuttleworth. Ubuntu LTS versions continue to be supported for 5 years and non-LTS releases for 9 months. Ubuntu 23.04 is the current release version, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS the current long-term support release....

Students Horrified When Error Message Appears on Vending Machine, Revealing Something Dark (Facial Recognition) ( futurism.com )

Oh this is just too messed up..now vending machines have cameras in them?

Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete | TechRadar ( www.techradar.com )

Those totally look like the isolinear chips from Star Trek

Gay furry hackers infiltrate huge nuclear lab to demand cat-girl research ( www.thepinknews.com )

Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support | Tom's Hardware ( www.tomshardware.com )

Oops all cores