from the bite-the-hand-that-feeds-you dept Fri, Jul 15th 2022 05:32am - Karl Bode When last we checked in with right-wing propaganda network One America News (OAN), it was suffering some kind of embolism for being kicked off of DirecTV. Despite a lot of attention, not that many people actually watch the channel, so DirecTV finally kicked it aside. This was distorted by OAN and numerous key Republicans into a claim that the conspiracy theory floating outlet was being “unfairly censored.â ...read more

Climeworks, a leader in direct air capture of carbon dioxide, has facilities alongside a large geothermal power plant outside of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik. The Orca facility is on the far right, and the new Mammoth facility will be to the left, across the road. The pipes are carrying geothermal hot water. Climeworks relies on clean, geothermal power for its operations. (GeekWire Photo / Brent Roraback) REYKJAVIK, Iceland — A short drive from Iceland’s capital, on a lava plateau blan ...read more

from the this-could-get-interesting dept Just a few weeks back we talked about how the US’s unwillingness to fix the way the NSA collects internet data could basically mean that most of the big US internet services cannot work in the EU. That article was about Google, and it goes through the background and history of the various US/EU privacy data sharing agreements, and how each one has been tossed out by EU courts in large part because of the NSA surveillance techniques brought to light b ...read more

A lone dog walker is seen on the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle during the COVID-19 pandemic when tens of thousands of employees retreated to work from home. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Offices in Seattle will remain partly empty until 2024.  At least, that’s what commercial real estate company Broderick Group predicts in a market report for the second quarter of 2022, saying that economic pressures and the work-from-home movement will keep vacancy rates high in commerc ...read more

Why it matters: As Intel rolls out its freshman line of dedicated graphics cards, the first benchmarks are emerging. The company's latest official test tries to make the case for the A750 against Nvidia's midrange GPU, but many questions remain as both companies and AMD prepare to launch new cards in the second half of this year. This week, Intel published a brief benchmark of its upcoming Arc A750 graphics card, claiming it compares favorably with Nvidia's RTX 3060 in a few popular games. Pr ...read more

Since 1914, the National Electrical Safety Code has been a go-to standard for electric and telecom utility companies. The code is updated every five years. The 2023 edition, scheduled to be released on 1 August, becomes effective on 1 February.The NESC updates better protect workers, the public, and facilities during the installation, operation, and maintenance of power and communications supplies. The revisions are designed to help the code remain relevant as new technologies start to be used ...read more

Big tech companies are facing increased scrutiny in South Africa for dominance abuse and anti-competitive behavior, just months after the country’s competition regulator, the Competition Commission (CompCom), started an inquiry into the conduct of online intermediation (b2c) platforms. In its initial findings, the regulator has established that Apple, Google, UberEats, Airbnb, Booking.com, and South Africa’s Mr Delivery; a food ordering and delivery platform, Takealot; an e-commerce site, P ...read more

Lighted drones fly in the shape of a baseball and bat over PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, during a show put on by Sky Elements. (Sky Elements Photo) The Seattle Mariners are the best show in town these days thanks to the winning baseball the team has been playing. Next week, things will even get exciting after a game when T-Mobile Park plays host to a drone light show for the first time. As part of a July 22 celebration kicking off the countdown to Seattle hosting the 2023 All-St ...read more

In a nutshell: Chromebooks aren't for everyone. Their limited functionality makes them less than ideal for use as daily drivers. However, for those with an old out-of-service low-end laptop or PC, Google's stable version of ChromeOS Flex might be the answer to putting that hardware back to work, even for enterprise users. On Thursday, Google announced that it has moved ChromeOS Flex from "early access" to "general availability." Flex is a fork of the Chromebook operating system that is compat ...read more

On Tuesday, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced its first quantum-resistant algorithms—new encryption that will become the standard to guard against attacks by quantum computers, which are not yet here. The four algorithms are CRYSTALS-Kyber, for general encryption, and three schemes for digital encryption: CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON, and SPHINCS+.Over the past few decades, NIST has managed encryption standards, introducing and vetting the schemes that protect ...read more