Really liked this article about the monopolies in the mail industry (cfenollosa.com)
I’m sure the email I sent to an academics using proton has gone in the spam. :( too bad
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Happy 40th birthday, Turbo Pascal! (blog.marcocantu.com)
November 28, 2023 - Turbo Pascal turns 40...
Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way (www.spacebar.news)
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Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV (9to5google.com)
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Anger as some Google cloud customers locked out of files (www.bbc.com)
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Sam Altman explains being fired and rehired by OpenAI - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
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ChatGPT one year on: From viral AI bot to OpenAI's boardroom battle (www.reuters.com)
It’s ChatGPT’s first “birthday”. And it was a very eventful first year for the field of AI.
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Unity Layoff 3.8% Of Workforce - Weta Digital Closed – GameFromScratch.com (gamefromscratch.com)
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Tumblr sheds Post Plus subscriptions as the platform downsizes (www.theverge.com)
TL;DR: Tumblr is discontinuing its Post Plus feature, allowing creators to charge for content, starting December 1st. This decision follows a leaked memo about downsizing due to struggles in meeting usage and revenue targets. Post Plus, introduced in 2021, didn’t meet expectations, leading to its discontinuation. Existing Post...
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New “Stable Video Diffusion” AI model can animate any still image (arstechnica.com)
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Google search ads spotted in compromising placements (techcrunch.com)
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Police warning parents about new iPhone feature (thehill.com)
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New GitHub user and extension developer claims Twitch’s website has malware (github.com)
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184#issuecomment-1829172308...
Amazon's iRobot purchase sucks up formal competition concerns in EU (techcrunch.com)
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How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) (ploum.net)
A warning and a perspective from an insider who has been through this before.
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NASA Sent A Laser Message Beamed Over 10 Million Miles; Achieves Historic Milestone (samrome58.substack.com)
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Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge (arstechnica.com)
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Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Kagi Blog (blog.kagi.com)
Kagi is a paid alternative to ad-supported search engines like Google and DuckDuckGo. It has recently revised its pricing model, reducing the cost for a plan with unmetered searches from $25 per month to $10....
Amazon hit by strikes, protests across Europe during Black Friday (www.reuters.com)
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Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin (www.mercurynews.com)
There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
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China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities (www.bloomberg.com)
A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.
Rhysida, the new ransomware gang behind British Library cyber-attack (www.theguardian.com)
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Instagram Suspends Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Account: Raises Concerns About Policy Enforcement (samrome58.substack.com)
I still wondered why, I’ve read the story over and over again.
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Effective obfuscation (newsletter.mollywhite.net)
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