To buy no longer means anything (youtu.be)
I’ve just watched the video. I find it pretty outrageous. The word about it should spread.
Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable (www.niemanlab.org)
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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)
downloading gmails
my gmail account is full, most of the space is emails. I tried to download them through “takeout” and it has an option that says hey let’s split this up into 2GB chunks. And you select that and it sends you one 12GB .mbox file regardless. The 12GB download keeps failing and now it says you’ve already downloaded these...
Threads Launches in the European Union (www.macrumors.com)
Chinese automaker BYD goes after Tesla’s throne with more than 300,000 electric cars sold in a month (english.elpais.com)
Tesla threatened to sue buyers who resell Cybertruck without written permission (arstechnica.com)
Why Do Teens Use TikTok for Mental Health Diagnoses? (theluddite.org)
Wikipedia Admin Unmasks As Alt Account Of Admin Who Was Extremely Banned In 2015 To The Great Bewilderment Of Everyone (en.wikipedia.org)
What?????? What the hell??? — arbitrator Moneytrees, arbitration request for Lourdes...
When Product Markets Become Collective Traps: The Case of Social Media (bfi.uchicago.edu)
Those findings are crazy. I’ve never been social media addicted, been into luxury or general show-off brands (I pay extra to not look like I’m an advertisement… for anything but metal bands), so I don’t really know much about those issues.
Introducing: Raspberry Pi 5 (www.raspberrypi.com)
Element X preview is now on Android too! (element.io)
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Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)
In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led...
WinRAR zero-day exploited since April to hack trading accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas (www.theguardian.com)
AI language models are rife with political biases (www.technologyreview.com)
From Pretraining Data to Language Models to Downstream Tasks: Tracking the Trails of Political Biases Leading to Unfair NLP Models aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.656.pdf
Scientists vacuumed animal DNA from the air in a forest and the results are amazing (www.earth.com)
How a start-up built the search engine of the future — and then died (www.theverge.com)
Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name (www.reuters.com)
Corsair acquires mechanical keyboard specialist Drop (www.theverge.com)
Corsair has acquired Drop, an online retailer known for its mechanical keyboards and keyboard accessories. Drop will continue to operate independently under the leadership of CEO Jef Holove. Corsair hopes to expand Drops brand globally through its supply chain and distribution network. Drop intends to continue its enthusiast-led...
Gurman: First M3 Apple Silicon Macs likely to launch in October (9to5mac.com)
Somebody has made an affordable, good quality wireless finger trackball - Review of Nulea m505/m505b (clickque.codeberg.page)
I wanted to share this thing I found because it is great....
It’s bots all the way down at kindle unlimited (www.vice.com)
My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech (arstechnica.com)
German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' (www.hrw.org)
- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China’s Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....
