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Tinder now lets mom pick your next date (www.theverge.com)

House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate (www.nbcnews.com)

Lemmy's Image Problem (wedistribute.org)

Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked (techcrunch.com)

Mozilla Drops Axe on its Privacy-Friendly Location Service (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

We're Hosting Our Own Fediverse Instance. Here's Why. (wedistribute.org)

Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub (wedistribute.org)

I use Beyond Compare to sync files from my laptop to my NAS which is a QNAP (my laptop is Linux Mint). It is incredibly slow, to the point that it is driving me crazy. Admittedly, I have lots of large files on my laptop that I move around frequently, so that may just be how it is. I do have my laptop setup to sync to my phone...

Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken (arstechnica.com)

Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood (theconversation.com)

Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and how people use their computers, to detect and predict how someone is feeling. It can be used in the workplace, for hiring, etc. Loss of privacy is just the beginning. Workers are...

Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears (www.wired.com)

🤔Am I overdoing it with all the reddit-related posts? archive.is/SFcRn

To buy no longer means anything (youtu.be)

I’ve just watched the video. I find it pretty outrageous. The word about it should spread.

To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol (techcrunch.com)

I see your Outlook (new) and I raise you Microsoft Teams classic (work or school) (beehaw.org)

Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation (www.wired.com)

The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions....

Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet (arstechnica.com)

Ars provides this asterisk:...

SIM swappers hijacking phone numbers in eSIM attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/9868784...

TikTok prepares to challenge Instagram with 'TikTok Photos' (www.androidauthority.com)

‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? (www.theguardian.com)

Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of...

From mono to mainstream: 20 years of Bluetooth audio (archive.is)

Loving these articles about how the technology has changed in 20 years.

Why it’s hard to write a good book about the tech world (www.economist.com)

WHEN PEOPLE ask Michael Moritz, a former journalist and prominent tech investor, what book they should read to understand Silicon Valley, he always recommends two. “They are not about Silicon Valley, but they have everything to do with Silicon Valley,” he says....

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