Active - technology

Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies (www.wired.com)

Apps that offer to “do it all” will subject users to even more exploitation and surveillance, while large tech companies profit.

Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (wapo.st)

Public health experts denounced the platform’s moderation policies, which they say restrict access to critical health information...

Axon’s Ethics Board Resigned Over Taser-Armed Drones. Then the Company Bought a Military Drone Maker. (themarkup.org)

Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! (en.shiftdelete.net)

An excerpt from You Deserve A Tech Union on deskilling, automation, artificial intelligence, and unions (roadmapmag.com)

the possible titles for this were all bad so this is a wholesale invented title by me to summarize the contents of this link, which i think otherwise is interesting....

Fairphone 5 Released (shop.fairphone.com)

With 5 years of OS support and 8 years of security update....

How to talk to an AI (wapo.st)

An ordinary human’s guide to getting extraordinary results from a chatbot like ChatGPT...

Microsoft to Drop Support for Third-Party Printer Drivers on Windows (petri.com)

“With the release of Windows 10 21H2, Windows offers inbox support for Mopria compliant printer devices over network and USB interfaces via the Microsoft IPP Class Driver. This removes the need for print device manufacturers to provide their own installers, drivers, utilities, and so on. Device experience customization is now...

Essay | The Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover (www.wsj.com)

ghostarchive.org...

DisplayPort: A Better Video Interface (hackaday.com)

A giant leap forwards for encryption with MLS (matrix.org)

5th Circuit finds Biden White House, CDC violated First Amendment (wapo.st)

The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General’s office’s contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms’ content decisions...

X Faces Potential FTC Scrutiny Over Missing Ad Labels, While Creators Complain of Ad Revenue Share Errors (www.socialmediatoday.com)

EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from !android...

Mozilla flunks 25 major car brands for data privacy fails (www.theregister.com)

…and the related Mozilla report

Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

Google’s new Topics API makes users vulnerable to fingerprinting attacks (www.theregister.com)

Google has stated it plans to address developers’ concerns by “making web publishers promise not to abuse the API”....

Injured person reportedly dies after Cruise cars block first responders (www.sfgate.com)

“AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)

Introducing yet another AutoMod for Lemmy (github.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.basedcount.com/post/225838...

Microsoft to defend customers on AI copyright challenges | Reuters (www.reuters.com)

YouTube is going to remove ad controls for creators (support.google.com)

China's widening iPhone curbs roil US technology sector - Reuters (www.reuters.com)

cross-posted from !apple...

It feels like we're on the cusp of the first reimagining of CPUs since multicore and a real shot at relegating towers to the extreme high end, but I've not seen any good coverage about it (beehaw.org)

Not quite there yet … from left on surface, 5G internet, WireGuard router, pihole on a Zero W and 4x4 N95 HTPC, plus 1080p projector. When a computer that size (actually smaller, since I don’t need a SATA bay) can outperform my tower, though …...