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Firefox 118 Released With Killer New Feature - OMG! Ubuntu (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

Taliban weighs using US mass surveillance plan, met with China's Huawei (www.reuters.com)

X previews its 'shadowban' alerts (www.engadget.com)

Accounts that share "sensitive content" will be labeled and restricted from search, recommendations and other features....

GNU 40th anniversary (www.gnu.org)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5592397...

NYC Mayor Announces New NYPD RoboCop That Needs a Cop to Guard It (www.vice.com)

Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform (variety.com)

I’m not sure if this is technically Technology news, but I can remove this post if it’s in the wrong community...

Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)

Bo’s sublime e-scooter of the future is finally ready to buy (www.engadget.com)

All of its technology has changed, but it remains exactly the same....

US FCC chair to seek reinstating net neutrality rules rescinded under Trump (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from: dubvee.org/post/205595...

Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score (stackdiary.com)

Dead NFTs: The Evolving Landscape of the NFT Market (dappgambl.com)

TL;DR: The NFT market has drastically declined since its peak in 2021, with most NFT collections having no value. There’s an oversupply of NFTs, leading to a buyer’s market, and environmental concerns due to energy consumption. Top NFTs also struggle to maintain value, and the future of NFTs depends on utility and genuine...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot now supports prompting with voice and images (www.theverge.com)

TL;DR: OpenAI’s ChatGPT has added voice and image prompting for plus users, coming to everyone else “soon after”. You can now ask questions by speaking or uploading images. It uses advanced text-to-speech and image recognition technology, but with controlled limitations to prevent misuse.

95% of NFTs are Worthless: Report (petapixel.com)

PREDATOR IN THE WIRES: Ahmed Eltantawy Targeted with Predator Spyware After Announcing Presidential Ambitions - The Citizen Lab (citizenlab.ca)

EU hits Intel with $400 million antitrust fine in long-running computer chip case (apnews.com)

How to Hide a $2 Trillion (Google) Antitrust Trial (www.thebignewsletter.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5486771...

The Internet Is About to Get Much Worse (www.nytimes.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5400607...

Android 14 adds support for using smartphones as a webcams (www.esper.io)

Popular Thesaurus Website Used in Sneaky Cryptojacking Scheme (www.hackread.com)

Researchers discover attempt to infect leading Egyptian opposition politician with Predator spyware (apnews.com)

AI Lie: Machines Don’t Learn Like Humans (And Don’t Have the Right To) (www.tomshardware.com)

Avram Piltch is the editor in chief of Tom’s Hardware, and he’s written a thoroughly researched article breaking down the promises and failures of LLM AIs.

X Announces It’s Shutting Down ‘Circles’ As of October 31st (www.socialmediatoday.com)

'Power, influence, notoriety': The Gen-Z hackers who struck MGM, Caesars (www.reuters.com)

Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

Last night, at approximately 2AM ET, a former employee, Madison Reeve, posted a thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, accusing Linus Media Group of cultivating a toxic work environment and encouraging a work culture that was detrimental to her health as well as sexual harassment directed at her by Linus Media...