It's Twilight of the Mods for Bluesky and Reddit (www.wired.com)
Kevin Mitnick has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. (www.dignitymemorial.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2241073...
There’s a handy new label to tell you if your gadget is easy to hack or not (www.vox.com)
Sarah Silverman and other authors are suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement, alleging that they're training their LLMs on books via Library Genesis and Z-Library (www.thedailybeast.com)
Help the EFF protect our digital privacy (www.eff.org)
Weawow is a free and ad-free weather service with 4.9 ratings, choice of weather service, and highly customisable widgets (beehaw.org)
I rediscovered this weather app again (for Android and iOS) and am quite amazed that it now has a 4.9 out of 5 rating on the Google app store, and 5m+ downloads just on Android....
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed [Opinion] (web.archive.org)
Reddit on iOS has an ugly new icon – and you have to pay to change it (9to5mac.com)
2023 Layoff Tracker: Microsoft Cuts More Staff, Report Says (www.forbes.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/126296...
3nm Zen 5 by 2024? (lemmy.ninja)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ninja/post/138875...
Netflix got rid of the $9.99 basic plan in Canada (www.narcity.com)
It’s like they are trying to irritate people into canceling their accounts....
Who could use a new Mod Bot? (github.com)
I made a simple mod bot for Lemmy....
The next CPU and GPU architecture… (lemmy.ninja)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ninja/post/119287...
Non right-wing tech podcasts?
It feels like every time I find a podcast about security/networking/technology the hosts end up saying some pretty off-color stuff, or I look them up and they also host right wing podcasts. Are there any that are more leftist, hosted by LGBT peeps, or at least not actively bigoted ?
Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse (www.wired.com)
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon (arstechnica.com)
No, Threads didn't rate limit like Twitter. Here's what Meta did. (mashable.com)
Threads recently announced that they would be introducing tighter rate limits to combat spam on their new social media platform. This led many to compare it to Twitter’s controversial rate limiting that restricted how many tweets users could view. However, Threads’ rate limits are unlikely to significantly impact users as...
G/O Media Execs Full Speed Ahead On Injecting Half-Cooked ‘AI’ Into A Very Broken US Media (www.techdirt.com)
It’s always good to remember that the people most pissed off about the clusterfuck corporate media has become are journalists who want to go out and commit journalism but are considered too expensive.
USB battery bank recommendations?
In need of a rechargeable battery bank I can keep in my car and use to charge my phone. My car is a little older and has one of those cigarette lighter things. Only problem is it doesn’t charge the phone, it just keeps it from dying, which is inconvenient for my current setup. Looking for good ones for the price, and hopefully...
Samsung confirms ‘slimmer and lighter’ Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5, teases tablets and watches (9to5google.com)
tl;dr: samsung confirms the z fold 5, z flip 5, tab 9, & both watch 6 models. with the foldables, they’re adopting a new hinge design that will finally remove the hinge gap from the previous models. they also hint at even more cross-device connectivity in one ui.
iPhone Photo Rejected from Photo Contest for Suspected AI Use (www.theguardian.com)
Always love when self agrandized authorities act like idiots. Feels like the box wine wins wine competition article....
Report: OpenAI holding back GPT-4 image features on fears of privacy issues (arstechnica.com)
RAM issues help please (beehaw.org)
hey all. I’ve tried different ram, a different windows version, I’ve messed around in bios and updated it as well. How can i get my pc to register the rest of my ram??...
Should it really be Telegram? (tim.kicker.dev)
Is Telegram really that bad and should i look more into it or is sticking to signal really the best option?
Linux for Microsoft Surface devices. It is reality! (upload.wikimedia.org)
I would like to share with you a very cool project that develops drivers for correct operation of Microsoft Surface devices on Linux. I myself use Surface Pro 6 with these drivers and everything works like a charm (battery life is good, cameras work, stylus, keyboard, touchscreen, screen). The developers are gods. From myself, I...
