USB-C may be on the chopping block
EU loophole opens floodgates for portless phones
The European Commission has ruled that its instance on the USB-C standard only applies to phones if they charge via a wire.
HP dodges blame for sabotaging its printers
Pays lawyers instead of customers
A US District Court judge has approved a settlement between the makers of expensive printer ink, HP, and a group of furious customers who were understandably miffed that their printers were rendered inoperable by an unwanted firmware update.
Physicists create LED pixels smaller than a virus
For very small screens
A team of Chinese boffins have emerged from their smoke-filled labs having created a pixel which is smaller than a virus.
Clearview AI tried to buy 690 million arrest records
What could possibly go wrong?
Surveillance-snoop-for-hire Clearview AI attempted to snap up nearly 700 million arrest records and 390 million mugshots—complete with Social Security numbers, email addresses, home addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers.
UK bosses are too terrified to check their carbon sins
Fear being cancelled instead of greened.
Nearly half of UK business leaders are reportedly too afraid to examine their own emissions data—presumably for fear it might confirm that their companies have been contributing to global warming at a rate similar to that of a Tesco rotisserie chicken.
