Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Google says 400M+ Google Accounts have used passkeys since the rollout, logging 1B+ authentications, and expands passkeys to its Advanced Protection Program — Google is kicking off World Password Day by updating us on its efforts toward replacing the often hacked, guessed, and stolen form of authentication with passkeys.
Sony plans to remove Horizon Zero Dawn, one of its biggest first-party games, from PlayStation Plus on May 21; the game is PS4-only, hinting at a PS5 release (Tom Phillips/Eurogamer.net)
Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net:
Sony plans to remove Horizon Zero Dawn, one of its biggest first-party games, from PlayStation Plus on May 21; the game is PS4-only, hinting at a PS5 release — Horizon Zero Dawn to leave later this month. — News by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief — Follow Horizon: Zero Dawn
Tech Transparency Project: US extremist militias are quietly coordinating across ~200 Facebook groups and profiles, after lying low since the January 6 riot (Tess Owen/Wired)
Tess Owen / Wired:
Tech Transparency Project: US extremist militias are quietly coordinating across ~200 Facebook groups and profiles, after lying low since the January 6 riot — After lying low for years in the aftermath of January 6, exclusive reporting shows, militia extremist groups and profiles …
Sources and documents: Huawei is secretly funding cutting-edge research at US universities including Harvard via an independent Washington-based foundation (Kate O’Keeffe/Bloomberg)
Kate O’Keeffe / Bloomberg:
Sources and documents: Huawei is secretly funding cutting-edge research at US universities including Harvard via an independent Washington-based foundation — – Chinese telecom maker is sole funder of optics competition — Blacklisted company’s role kept private by DC-based group
Starlink users in some unauthorized regions can seemingly still use the internet, despite SpaceX telling users the service would be unavailable to them by May 1 (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Starlink users in some unauthorized regions can seemingly still use the internet, despite SpaceX telling users the service would be unavailable to them by May 1 — – Company told users it would crack down in unlicensed areas — A March Bloomberg investigation revealed the extent of misuse
A profile of US District Court judge Amit P. Mehta, who is presiding over the US v. Google case, which could set a precedent for other US tech antitrust cases (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
A profile of US District Court judge Amit P. Mehta, who is presiding over the US v. Google case, which could set a precedent for other US tech antitrust cases — Amit P. Mehta, a judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, will issue a landmark antitrust ruling.
A look at Ukraine’s combat drone startup industry, based on commercial first-person-view or photography drones; an estimated ~200 local companies produce drones (Justin Ling/Wired)
Justin Ling / Wired:
A look at Ukraine’s combat drone startup industry, based on commercial first-person-view or photography drones; an estimated ~200 local companies produce drones — Ukraine needs small drones to combat Russian forces—and is bootstrapping its own industry at home.
As people yearn for the web’s “good old days”, bringing those days back is possible with new tech, the possibility of new protocols, and more internet users (Molly White/Citation Needed)
Molly White / Citation Needed:
As people yearn for the web’s “good old days”, bringing those days back is possible with new tech, the possibility of new protocols, and more internet users — Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better …
TMTG co-founder Andy Litinsky, testifying as a witness in an insider trading case, says Trump nearly derailed the DWAC deal in October 2021, before signing on (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)
Matthew Goldstein / New York Times:
TMTG co-founder Andy Litinsky, testifying as a witness in an insider trading case, says Trump nearly derailed the DWAC deal in October 2021, before signing on — Andy Litinsky, who helped start the former president’s social media company, revealed Mr. Trump’s last-minute doubts about an agreement that made them all very wealthy.
AI has the potential to ease the US meat industry’s labor vulnerability by letting robots perform some of the high precision tasks required to butcher meat (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
AI has the potential to ease the US meat industry’s labor vulnerability by letting robots perform some of the high precision tasks required to butcher meat — Advances in computer vision and machine learning allow robots to perform some of the high precision tasks required to butcher beef and chicken.
