How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet (www.staygrounded.online)
Not paywalled, you can just click "No thanks" on the popup.
😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 (www.theverge.com)
Across the Metaverse: My trip though VR social platforms (www.spacebar.news)
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent (arstechnica.com)
Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! (www.ebu.ch)
Edit: DW changed the link after they published the piece. Sigh. Updated. Edit2: again. What the fuck.
Beeper couldn’t bring iMessage to Android — but it can still make a great chat app (www.theverge.com)
Brailliance - a new game by the makers of Wordvoyance (www.themisgames.com)
I was making a braille learning app when I came up with this game idea. You count the braille dots to guess the word. www.themisgames.com/brailliance/menu...
Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO? (www.wired.com)
archive.is/urG1R
AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft (www.forbes.com.au)
“While no one predicted this specific outcome, we shouldn’t be surprised,” added the investor Benaich. “If antitrust regulators make [mergers and acquisitions] prohibitively difficult, we should expect these bizarre semi-exits to become more common.”
Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled (www.theverge.com)
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)
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 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:...