created: 20220922204301052
creator: Octt
modified: 20230306164317245
modifier: Octt
tags: Reading Tech $:/i18n:en
title: Saved/News/Tech

Interesting news I collect from the tech Internet sphere (HN primarily, but not exclusively), that don't fit into other tiddlers.

; March 2023
: [[Facebook and Google are handing over user data to help police prosecute abortion seekers|https://www.businessinsider.com/police-getting-help-social-media-to-prosecute-people-seeking-abortions-2023-2]] - //Social media sites are inundated with police requests for user data and may cooperate even if not legally required to//.

; February 2023
: [[I'm a Stanford professor who's studied organizational behavior for decades. The widespread layoffs in tech are more because of copycat behavior than necessary cost-cutting.|https://www.businessinsider.com/stanford-professor-mass-layoffs-caused-by-social-contagion-companies-imitating-2023-2]]
: [[Even hackers are reportedly getting laid off by organized crime groups|https://www.businessinsider.com/hackers-ransomware-getting-laid-off-amid-better-cybersecurity-report-2023-2]] - //As cybersecurity improves, one hacker group laid off 45 employees//.
: [[Roald Dahl ebooks remotely updated to censored versions after purchase|https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roald-dahl-collection-books-changes-text-puffin-uk-2023-rm2622vl0]].

; December 2022
: [[The FBI recommends using an ad-blocker when searching the web|https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221]]

!!! ''Older''

* [[TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch|https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2022-10-17-otp-on-wrist]]
* [[Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots|https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycle_51_days_stale_data]]
* [[Disposable Root Servers|https://blog.thc.org/disposable-root-servers]]
* [[Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong — what’s next?|https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03229-y]]
* [[retrowin32, a win32 emulator|https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2022/10/retrowin32.html]]
* [[Ray Tracing In Notepad.exe At 30 FPS|http://kylehalladay.com/blog/2020/05/20/Rendering-With-Notepad.html]]
* [[You can't buy a Raspberry Pi right now|https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/you-cant-buy-raspberry-pi-right-now]]
* [[7 Cool HTML Elements Nobody Uses|https://tapajyoti-bose.medium.com/7-cool-html-elements-nobody-uses-436598d85668]]
* [[Despite faster broadband every year, web pages don't load any faster|https://www.datafantic.com/how-much-time-do-we-waste-waiting-for-websites-to-load]] [//[[c|https://readhacker.news/c/5mBGU]]//]
* [[Avoiding homework with code (and getting caught)|https://alistair.blog/mochip]] [//[[c|https://readhacker.news/c/5mBHL]]//]
* [[Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative|https://readhacker.news/c/5mzDH]]
* [[If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)|https://readhacker.news/c/5myKf]]