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Bluesky Continues Rapid Growth, Reaches Federation Milestone (wedistribute.org)

AI Is Writing Books About Foraging. What Could Go Wrong? (civileats.com)

Would it be possible (at some point) cool aur by pulling heatenergy from it?

I recently had a discussion about ACs and how they heat up cities....

Google’s new Topics API makes users vulnerable to fingerprinting attacks (www.theregister.com)

Google has stated it plans to address developers’ concerns by “making web publishers promise not to abuse the API”....

[Rumor] Youtube is A/B testing disabling "Do not recommend this channel" on me (feddit.de)

Hi lemmy,...

AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, U.S. Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause (www.hollywoodreporter.com)

Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

The difference between the two security features is that Safe Browsing will compare a visited site to a locally stored list of domains, compared to Enhanced Safe Browser, which will check if a site is malicious in real-time against Google’s cloud services....

Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)

FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)

YouTube test threatens to block viewers if they continue using ad blockers | Engadget (www.engadget.com)

Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit (www.404media.co)

Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off (arstechnica.com)

HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers (www.techspot.com)

States sue Meta claiming its social platforms are addictive and harm children's mental health (apnews.com)

Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks (UK/AUS tomorrow, US to follow) (newsroom.spotify.com)

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The Man Amazon Erased (www.tabletmag.com)

A man who got kicked off a service because of an alleged remark.

Does anyone know of a trustworthy and curated list of qanon sites that I can use for my pihole(s)?

So, until recently, I have been using github.com/rimu/no-qanon/blob/master/hosts.txt...

ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is. (www.eff.org)

Just got a Samsung phone after years and years on a moto/droid. What apps should I get to up the qol?

New motos are just too big for my baby hands so I got myself an s23 for a steal, but I’m finding that I miss some of the functionality that I used to have, and that some features are just annoying on this phone....

Sites scramble to block ChatGPT web crawler after instructions emerge (arstechnica.com)

News Corp profits dive 75% as Rupert Murdoch-owned company hints at AI future (www.theguardian.com)

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....

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