Project Ghostbusters: Facebook Accused of Using Your Phone to Wiretap Snapchat (gizmodo.com)
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Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate (www.theverge.com)
The US’s latest attempt to chill speech online, KOSA-a bill to effectively force everyone to identify themselves to online platforms-is picking up steam and looking like it will pass the Senate.
Spotting Visual Signs of Gentrification at Scale (hai.stanford.edu)
Is Threads Hiding Mentions of Pixelfed? (wedistribute.org)
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)
The department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device....
Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)
Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use?
I haven’t used an Android device since my last one, the Galaxy S8. Beautiful hardware, beautiful design, but it was plagued with animation stutters and dropped frames. I switched to an iPhone and an iPad around 6 years ago. And the animations were buttersmooth. It was almost unthinkable to achieve such a fluid interface on any...
What's the deal with these methane satellites? - Volts by David Roberts (www.volts.wtf)
Should I *GASP* create a reddit account so I can get support from Tuta(nota)?
Because they’re not answering my support queries, and I’ve been having connectivity issues since the last two versions or so. Most of the time they’ve been pretty good, but if their desktop client can’t sync to their servers it’s of no use to me. Is anyone else having this problem?...
OpenCat: An open source quadruped robot pet framework (github.com)
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)
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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.”