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Carmen Osorio, expert in technology addiction: ‘It’s not a good idea to give children a smartphone; in any case, you let them borrow yours’ (english.elpais.com)

Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality (www.theverge.com)

Americans fear they can't pay back their debts, credit cards (www.newsweek.com)

Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies (www.theverge.com)

Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies::The FCC reaffirmed a decision not to award Starlink a nearly $900 million subsidy for offering 100Mbps/20Mbps low-latency internet service in 35 states.

OpenAI says it is investigating reports ChatGPT has become ‘lazy’ (www.independent.co.uk)

OpenAI says it is investigating reports ChatGPT has become ‘lazy’::OpenAI says it is investigating complaints about ChatGPT having become “lazy”.

Alabama police officer caught on video using stun gun on handcuffed man: ‘Do you want it again?’ (www.al.com)

An Alabama police officer is on leave while authorities investigate a weekend arrest captured on video in Reform showing a handcuffed man being hit with a stun gun....

Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com)

Inmate charged with attempted murder after George Floyd killer Chauvin stabbed 22 times (www.reuters.com)

The complaint alleges that while incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Tucson, John Turscak, 52, stabbed Chauvin about 22 times “with an improvised knife,” prosecutors said....

Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year (9to5mac.com)

In a surprising move, Apple has announced today that it will adopt the RCS (Rich Communication Services) messaging standard. The feature will launch via a software update “later next year” and bring a wide range of iMessage-style features to messaging between iPhone and Android users....

Senior Citizen Sex (lemmy.zip)

Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff (arstechnica.com)

It’s not quite the end of Tumblr, but when management is supposedly sending memos with the Lord Tennyson quote about having “loved and lost,” it doesn’t look like there’s much of a future....

Omegle has shutdown with a thoughtful farewell from the founder (www.omegle.com)

IDF eliminates Mustafa Daloul, central Hamas commander in Gaza (www.i24news.tv)

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)

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YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market (www.404media.co)

The Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia is one of the most brutally obvious signs of America’s public health crisis. The so-called “open air drug market” in the middle of the country’s sixth most populous city is where hundreds of people use drugs, some of whom are unhoused, usually without being arrested by the...

US to build new nuclear gravity bomb (www.defensenews.com)

US to build new nuclear gravity bomb::Experts say this new higher-yield nuclear bomb appears intended to pave the way for retiring the older B83 megaton bomb.

White House: Russia is executing soldiers who refuse to follow orders (www.reuters.com)

‘Nothing is changing’ — Reddit is denying a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content if it can’t reach deals with AI companies (www.theverge.com)

‘Nothing is changing’ — Reddit is denying a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content if it can’t reach deals with AI companies::Reddit initially denied a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content. However, the Post says it may still block...

People Want Threads to Be Old Twitter. Threads Would Prefer Not To. (gizmodo.com)

Hamas supporter fucked hard publicly [18+] (i.postimg.cc)

‘Dream’ AI Girlfriend Randomly Turns Into Nude Jennifer Lopez, Has Four Legs (www.404media.co)

A nightmare scenario previously only imagined by AI researchers, where AI image generators accidentally spit out non-consensual pornography of real people, is now reality.

SmartTube - an advanced player for set-top boxes and tv running Android OS (github.com)

I’ve already been paying for YouTube Premium for many years to get rid of advertisement, and I’ve been using SponsorBlock for a year or so on my laptop to skip the inline ads, but because most of my watching of YouTube happens on the TV I always had to use the remote to skip it. It helps to see the “most rewind” area so...