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Spotify is about to cost more with a price increase planned for next week (9to5mac.com)

According to the report, Spotify will raise its standard subscription rate by $1 next week, bringing the monthly cost from $9.99 to $10.99.

Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras (www.wired.com)

They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.

Tumblr says it’s going to “fix” its “core experience” to appeal to new users (www.theverge.com)

Tumblr plans to make changes to appeal to new users and improve growth. The post states that Tumblr is currently difficult for new users to use and curates content poorly. Tumblr aims to improve how users discover and sign up, encourage frequent engagement, and boost creators’ ability to attract audiences. Specific changes...

Finally a useful feature (no) (jlai.lu)

Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program Mac users run, and when and where they ran it (sneak.berlin)

Edit: Guys I didn't write the headline; the subtitle that I added, I've now fixed tho...

How to make an MP3 player work in 2023?

If I wanted an MP3 player again, in 2023, and wanted to rip cds to it and put digitally purchased albums on it, as actual owned files (not inside an proprietary ecosystem where I pay to only listen to that track within that service) could I still do that? What would I need? I don’t own, and can’t afford, a “real...

DisplayPort: A Better Video Interface (hackaday.com)

‘Life or Death:’ AI-Generated Mushroom Foraging Books Are All Over Amazon (www.404media.co)

Many mushroom identification and foraging books being sold on Amazon are likely generated by AI with no human authorship. These books could provide dangerous misinformation and potentially lead to deaths if people eat poisonous mushrooms based on the AI’s inaccurate descriptions. Two New York mushroom societies have warned...

Apple now endorses Right to Repair legislation (www.404media.co)

I believe this is genuine support of the bill from Apple. Between Right to Repair winning in Massachusetts and the EU demanding compliance, I think Apple decided to flip the script. They would want to continue the illusion of customer friendly tech.

ULTRARAM will allow you to close your laptop, come back a thousand years later and pick up where you left off (www.techradar.com)

Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla (lunduke.locals.com)

The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.

He has cancer — so he made an AI version of himself for his wife after he dies (www.npr.org)

Company he works at eternos.life

"We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic) (pluralistic.net)

Twitter's short link service, t.co, is adding a five-second delay to some domains. Like threads.net (news.ycombinator.com)

How much of your life have you degoogled? (beehaw.org)

We're reaching the end of an era wherein billions of dollars of investor money was shovelled into tech startups to build large user-bases, and now those companies (now monoliths) are beginning to constrict their user-bases and squeeze for every single penny they can possibly extract. Fair or not....

Twitter API has a list of users who are allowed to use racial slurs (beehaw.org)

Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times (www.axios.com)

Sam Altman to return as CEO of OpenAI (www.theverge.com)

US Email Providers - Other then Google, MS, Apple, ...

I need to change ISPs and need to find a new email provider. This time I want to move to my own domain which I purchased through Namecheap and I do not want to use another ISP’s email system nor do I want to use Google, or Microsoft since I am Linux (and Android too) based. I would like this to be US based or at least have a...

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