Zoom terms of use updated to allow AI training on user-generated data, no opt-out
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CA insurance company drops customer after 'drone' took aerial images of yard (abc7.com)
Ex-Facebook Users, What Do You Use Now?
I joined Facebook years ago not long after it took off from its college roots. I also quit it years ago when my feed became full of junk....
Fairphone drawbacks?
There’s been a lot of buzz here about the Fairphone here lately, especially with it coming to the US....
Starlink satellites are dodging objects in orbit thousands of times every month (techcrunch.com)
Creative Good: Why customers don’t want chat bots (creativegood.com)
The author argues that customers do not actually want chat bots for customer service, contrary to what companies claim. Chat bots can only handle simple, routine queries, but for complicated issues customers want to speak to a human representative. Companies are pushing chat bots to reduce costs and increase profits, without...
Microsoft Ruined Windows (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft is ruining Windows. It just keeps getting worse. Whether it be their insistence on AI and cloud garbage, or just a general sense of incompetence, I can’t help but feel like the operating system has seen better days....
Google Says AI Could Break Reality (www.404media.co)
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Tesla worker injured [in 2021] by robot that 'pinned' him to wall with its claws at car company's Texas factory (news.sky.com)
given the scrutiny around Tesla, it’s interesting this story doesn’t seem to have come out sooner since this is a fairly novel workplace accident
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android (techcrunch.com)
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.
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles (arstechnica.com)
Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad (www.theverge.com)
Raspberry Pi 5: EVERYTHING you need to know (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don't give a fuck for life offtheline
Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers (www.theguardian.com)
Paying YouTube for views on your channel (www.youtube.com)
Hacker Shows How to Get Free Laundry For Life (www.404media.co)
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Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data (Project 2025) (cyberscoop.com)
Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)
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Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird (www.ifixit.com)
Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says (finance.yahoo.com)
Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators (www.theverge.com)
Most readers want publishers to label AI-generated articles — but trust outlets less when they do (www.niemanlab.org)
