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DNA testing giant 23andMe has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit over a data breach that exposed the personal information of 6.4 million customers in 2023.
The proposed class action settlement, filed Thursday in a San Francisco federal court and awaiting judicial approval, includes cash payments for affected customers, which will be distributed within ten days of final approval.
"23andMe believes the settlement is fair, adequate, and reasonable," the company said in a memorandum filed Friday.
- https:// www.reuters.com /technology/how-intel-lost-sony-playstation-business-2024-09-16/
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Intel (INTC.O) lost out on a contract to design and fabricate Sony’s PlayStation 6 chip in 2022, which dealt a significant blow to its effort to build its fledgling contract manufacturing business, according to three sources with knowledge of the events.
The effort by Intel to win out over Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O)in a competitive bidding process to supply the design for the forthcoming PlayStation 6 chip and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) as the contract manufacturer would have amounted to billions of dollars of revenue and fabricating thousands of silicon wafers a month, two sources said.
Intel and AMD were the final two contenders in the bidding process for the contract.
Winning the Sony (6758.T) PlayStation 6 chip design business would have been a victory for Intel's design segment and would have doubled as a win for the company's contract manufacturing effort, or foundry business, which was the centerpiece of Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s turnaround plan.
- • 98%www.techradar.com Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers
Research suggest data centers will emit 2.5 billion tons of greenhouse gas by 2030
A report from Morgan Stanley suggests the datacenter industry is on track to emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play.
The extra demand from GenAI will reportedly lead to a rise in emissions from 200 million tons this year to 600 million tons by 2030, thanks largely to the construction of more data centers to keep up with the demand for cloud services.
- • 96%www.tomshardware.com AMD’s laptop OEMs decry poor support, chip supply, and communication — OEM complains the company has "left billions of US dollars lying around" due to poor execution: Reports
"Partners cited miscommunication, unfulfilled promises, and generally poor treatment, reminiscent of Intel’s behavior during its dominant years." - AC Analysis
- • 100%www.theguardian.com Meta to push on with plan to use UK Facebook and Instagram posts to train AI
Move to use shared posts follows information commissioner concerns and sets collision course with EU over privacy
Mark Zuckberg’s Meta is to go ahead with controversial plans to use millions of UK Facebook and Instagram posts to train its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, in a practice that is effectively outlawed under EU privacy laws.
Meta said it had “engaged positively” with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) over the plan, after it paused similar proposals in June in the UK and EU. The pause came after the ICO warned tech firms to respect the privacy of users when building generative AI.
On Friday, the ICO made it clear it has not provided regulatory approval for the plan, but will instead monitor the experiment after Meta agreed changes to its approach. These include making it easier for users to opt out of allowing their posts to be processed for AI.
- • 97%servo.org Building a browser using Servo as a web engine! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine
Let's build another web browser based on Servo!
Let's build another web browser based on Servo!
- • 94%arstechnica.com Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying
The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.
- • 93%www.theatlantic.com Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI
Can artificial intelligence really enrich fossil-fuel companies and fight climate change at the same time? The tech giant says yes.
- • 85%www.ft.com How China has ‘throttled’ its private sector
Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation
"Venture capital finance has dried up amid political and economic pressures, prompting a dramatic fall in new company formation"
Posted in technology as most of the funded companies are into technology. The most shocking piece is arguably the number of funded company pear year with a clear peak in 2018 which is 50x (!) more than last year, 2023.
- • 73%defector.com Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustain...
By Albert Burneko
9:00 AM EDT on September 11, 2024
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars's dead core? No? Well. It's fine. I'm sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan for shielding live Mars inhabitants from deadly solar and cosmic radiation, forever. No? Huh. Well then let's discuss something else equally realistic, like your plan to build a condo complex in Middle Earth.
...
- apnews.com Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices
Justice Department officials are turning to the 3D-printing industry to help stop the proliferation of tiny pieces of plastic transforming semi-automatic weapons into illegal homemade machine guns on streets across America.
- • 100%www.scmp.com China’s chip making shows progress with new EUV patent despite US sanctions
The patent from Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment is still under review, but producing EUV tools in China would break a monopoly held by ASML.
https://archive.is/AQMn6
- • 91%www.techspot.com Lexar unveils the world's first SD cards made of 316 stainless steel
The new cards are part of Lexar's "Armor" lineup, which already includes ruggedized portable SSDs and other gear designed to withstand harsh conditions. The two new stainless...
- • 100%www.forbes.com Tiny DJI Neo Could Be The Biggest Drone Ever
The DJI Neo launched this week is a self-flying camera, a drone for people not interested in drones. It could be the biggest seller ever.
- • 98%www.tomshardware.com Intel partner offers refund for faulty Core i9-14900K CPU due to lack of stock — affected user sells off Intel hardware and switches to AMD
Hong Kong-based retailer Synnex straight-up offers the Core i9-14900K owner a refund.
- https:// cohost.org /staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down
We have come to the decision to cease operations of cohost and anti software software club due to lack of funding and burnout. As of today, none of us are being paid for our labor1; all of our money in the bank, and any money coming in from people who buy our merch or don’t cancel cohost plus, is going towards servers and operations — paying the bills so we can turn the lights off with as little disruption as possible.
cohost will become read-only on Tuesday, October 1st. At this time, we will make best-effort attempts to keep the servers online through the end of 2024.
- • 80%qz.com Huawei's new smartphone has more than 3 million preorders as Apple launches its new iPhone
The Chinese smartphone maker has outpaced Apple in China since releasing its Mate 60 Pro smartphone series
Lol. Sales stats for the iPhone 16 and Pro aren't out yet, or at least I couldn't find any. Will update this post once the numbers are out.
- www.dw.com Hedgehogs threatened by robot mowers, German activists warn – DW – 09/07/2024
Robot mowers damage biodiversity and harm many creatures, including hedgehogs, according to German conservationists. Some of them are calling for a ban on nighttime mowing.
- • 84%blogsystem5.substack.com Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison
NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?
cross-posted from: https://feditown.com/post/650064
- www.trendforce.com [News] China’s DRAM Expansion Raises Concerns, Potentially Impacting Samsung and SK hynix Profits | TrendForce Insights
According to a report from Korean media ZDNet Korea, Chinese memory manufacturers like CXMT (Changxin Memory Technologies) are aggressively expanding ...
- • 100%www.decarpentier.nl Carpentopod: A walking table project
Back in 2008, I wrote some software for fun to generate various optimized walking mechanisms. And when I also picked up some electronics and wood working skills in more recent years, I was able to turn one of these mechanisms into an actual wireless walking wooden coffee table: the Carpentopod. This...
- techcrunch.com Google's AI note-taking app NotebookLM can now explain complex topics to you out loud | TechCrunch
Google's AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding a new "audio overview" feature.
Google announced on Wednesday that its AI note-taking and research app, NotebookLM, is adding an “Audio Overview” feature. Audio Overview will give users another way to digest and comprehend the information in the documents they have uploaded to the app, such as course readings or legal briefs.
Since its launch, NotebookLM has used text to summarize and explain source materials, but now, it can do so out loud using audio. The feature is geared toward people who grasp materials better by listening to explanations as opposed to reading them.
- • 98%www.independent.co.uk Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body
Biohybrid machine ushers new era of robotics, scientists say
I'm looking for a way to dump raw data from an entire phone or at least the
sda
block to a PC, using a method other thanadb pull
.When I run
adb pull /dev/block/sda sdaDump.img
, it creates a dump file. To find what I need, I have to search through this raw data using aHex Editor
. If the dump comes from a fully functioning phone, I can usually find what I’m looking for because all the data is still intact.However, I accidentally wiped the
metadata
partition on my phone, so the decryption keys/files are gone. Now, because of that, some folders appear empty when checked with TWRP's File Manager, even though the actual files are still there.If I create a dump now, the raw data in the file won't be the same as when the
metadata
was present, and those folders weren't showing as empty.Running
adb pull /dev/block/sda sdaDump.img
now results in a dump where theHex Editor
shows zeroes (no data) where these files should be.Is there any alternative method to create a raw data dump of the
sda
block or entire phone storage, that will capture that data as it is (not empty folders, but the data in them), even if it's encrypted?I don't want to create the raw data dump onto the phone storage and then transfer it to a PC, but something that works like
adb pull
, in the sense that it pulls the data from the phone directly onto a PC.Thanks a lot in advance to everyone!
- • 62%redsails.org Artisanal Intelligence: What’s the Deal with “AI” Art?
We already know, and it is a waste of air to keep pointing out, that everything coming out of the mouths of the venture capital freaks of the Silicon Valley and the LinkedIn influencers is a nightmarish sludge of inane nonsense. It’s a mix of blind tech enthusiasm (“This tech…
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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5599990
> A new browser with a "new engine" apparently ("that being chromium, gecko and webkit" according to one comment). > > Your overall thoughts on it? The video is less than 20 minutes so far. Looks 'ight so far too, afaik. But I'm no expert.
- • 97%www.spacebar.news These repairable phones still aren't built to last
HMD's "sustainable" phones don't have software built to last.
- • 97%werd.io Threads is trading trust for growth
Yesterday the Internet Archive lost its appeal in the digital lending case it’s been fighting for the last few years. In March 2020, the Internet Archive, a
Ben Werdmuller, a tech leader at ProPublica, discusses the trust crisis in Meta's Threads app after his comment about the Internet Archive's legal issues unexpectedly attracted a hostile audience. He was surprised by accusations of engagement farming, prompting him to question the assumptions behind such claims. Werdmuller discovered that Meta has been paying certain creators up to $5,000 for viral posts, leading to a climate where all content is viewed with suspicion.
- • 100%www.scmp.com Ancient blacksmith technique brings China’s modern tunnelling machine to life
A 2,500-year-old Chinese sword has helped solve a major challenge to build the world’s largest tunnel boring machine.
https://archive.is/c1ZIc
- www.dexerto.com Google & Facebook partner admits it can listen to device microphone to serve ads - Dexerto
A media firm has admitted that it can target adverts based on what you said out loud near device microphones.
- www.scmp.com Chinese nanotube wire sets conductivity record, could someday be used in space
Superstrong, ultrathin carbon fibres, also known as buckytubes, could be used in array of hi-tech sectors, from energy storage to aerospace.
https://archive.is/4byIc
I need to ask a small favor from the good people of Lemmy.ml Community.
In short, I accidentally wiped the
metadata
partition on myPoco F3
and now I can't boot into the OS and access my data. I have a lot of pictures, videos and other stuff that I would hate to lose, because of a mistake. But all that is still on the phone, I just can't boot the phone to access it.Thankfully, there is a way to fix this by creating a full backup of the phone with
adb
, then using a HEX Editor to manually look through that gigantic file and try to find the files that were in that metadata partition.A huge thanks to bluet33th, a user from XDA Forums, without whom I would be helpless and couldn't do any of this. It might be a bit complicated and manual process, but it is possible. He explained everything in great detail here, so check it out, especially if you are facing the same problem, this will help you tremendously: https://xdaforums.com/t/how-to-recover-data-if-metadata-partition-was-deleted.4686789/
In order to find these files and put them back where they belong, I need your help, because I have to know their names, exact sizes and at least part of their content, so that I can search for it. Because I'm searching for a specific text in a text file that is 128 GB in size.
I have already tried this on another Xiaomi phone, to make sure this procedure works on Xiaomi phones and it does, but that phone had
HyperOS
withAndroid 14
and since every phone and android version is probably different, in order to be sure, I need this information specifically forPoco F3
withAndroid 13
.It doesn't take long, but if you don't have the time to look inside your
metadata
partition and tell me which files are inside of that partition and their sizes in bytes, you can just make a backup of themetadata
partition and sent it to me, and I'll do the rest of the work.Here are the steps on how to create a backup:
- Turn on your phone and boot into
TWRP
, then connect your phone to a PC, typecmd
inside Windows search and run cmd, then position cmd into yourplatform-tools
folder (if you flashed your ROM, you should already have the necessary drivers installed for the next steps to work). For example, if yourplatform-tools
folder on Windows is insideC:\platform-tools
, all you need to type into cmd is:cd C:\platform-tools
You can also just go inside your
platform-tools
folder and typecmd
in the address bar and the cmd will start already positioned inside that folder.- Then type
adb devices
and you should see your device, if you do, that means that all the drivers are successfully installed and your phone is detected.
- Type
adb pull /dev/block/by-name/metadata
- After that, you should see a file named
metadata
insideC:\platform-tools
. That is the file that I'm looking for and as you can see, it takes just a few minutes to get it.
You can skip the next steps (5 and 6), but I'll explain them, just in case someone wants to extract these files for themselves, so that you have them in case something like this happens to you. Of course, you can also proceed to extract the files and tell me their names and sizes.
Here is what you need to do:
-
Extract the content of the
metadata
file, you can use a software like7-Zip
. Go inside that extracted folder, then intovold > metadata_encryption > key
-
Inside of that
key
folder, you should see a few files. These are the important files and save them somewhere safe in case you ever need them. Since I don't have them anymore, in order to recreate them, I need to know their exact names and sizes in bytes. You can check the size of every individual file by right clicking on the file and choosingProperties
. Then look underSize
, notSize on disk
, and in parenthesis, you should see the size in bytes.
Please, if you could check the size of every file and write down which file has what size. I would really appreciate it.
I'm specifically looking for someone who has a
Poco F3
withAndroid 13
andMIUI
, because I'm not sure ifHyperOS
changed something, so maybe the number of files or their size is different. But feel free to post the information even if you haveHyperOS
, but please mention that, so that I am aware of it.Thanks a lot for your help, it really means a great deal.
- Turn on your phone and boot into
- • 92%phys.org Novel glass-forming liquid electrolyte shows glass transition across broad range
As the world shifts towards a more sustainable future, the development of advanced electrochemical devices, such as rechargeable batteries with higher energy densities and efficient electrodeposition capabilities, has become increasingly crucial. In recent years, ultra-concentrated electrolyte solut...
- • 88%www.livescience.com Specialist 'carbon nanotube' AI chip built by Chinese scientists is 1st of its kind and '1,700 times more efficient' than Google's
Scientists in China have developed a tensor processing unit (TPU) that uses carbon-based transistors instead of silicon – and they say it's extremely energy efficient.
- www.dexerto.com Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” - Dexerto
Discord is lowering the upload limit for free users from 25MB to 10MB, citing operational and financial reasons.
- • 96%futurism.com OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
- android-developers.googleblog.com Android 15 is released to AOSP
Android 15 is released to AOSP with new features and improvements, including tools for app development, typography, internationalization, and more.