Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump (www.theverge.com)
[Gamers Nexus] Intel's CPUs Are Failing, ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs (www.youtube.com)
Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage (fedi.simonwillison.net)
simonwillison.net/…/hangout_servicesthunkjs/
Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” (www.themoscowtimes.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/536301...
Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App (www.404media.co)
Electric Aviation is already better than you think - Volts with David Roberts (www.volts.wtf)
Electric vehicles that can take off and land vertically, but then fly like a plane, are already being sold and used by hospitals and shipping companies. These vehicles have 5 batteries that give it a range of over 350 miles using current battery technology, though the batteries are intended to be swapped over the life of the...
Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts (wedistribute.org)
Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' (www.404media.co)
Flexible Display (www.youtube.com)
What do you think about privacy services like Incogni?
I’d like to purge some of my info from the interwebs, and was considering trying one of these services. Does anyone have any experience with them?
OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public (www.wired.com)
Facebook degrading Firefox user experience now?
Recently, most images on Facebook have stopped loading for me. Sometimes it’s just a few images. Other times it’s almost all images. The longer I scroll, the worse it gets. Today, I couldn’t even see my own pictures. Are any other Firefox users having this problem, or maybe it’s a server issue on Facebook’s end?
The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. (www.theverge.com)
Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History (www.malwarebytes.com)
After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down (wedistribute.org)
New GitHub user and extension developer claims Twitch’s website has malware (github.com)
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184#issuecomment-1829172308...
Amazon used an algorithm to essentially raise prices on other sites, the FTC says (apnews.com)
The new excerpts unveiled Thursday allege executives at the e-commerce giant intentionally deleted communication by using a feature on the popular app Signal that makes messages disappear. By doing this, the FTC said Amazon “destroyed more than two years” worth of communications from June 2019 to “at least early 2022”...
Here’s a rare look at Google’s most lucrative search queries (www.theverge.com)
Word turns 40: From 'new kid on the block' to 'I can't believe it's not bloatware' (www.theregister.com)
YouTube wants to get you watching more news from ‘authoritative sources’ - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2379225 (!google)
RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war (www.reuters.com)
Swedish criminal gangs using fake Spotify streams to launder money (www.theguardian.com)
Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
Firefox can now import and use Chrome extensions as part of its migration import option (debugpointnews.com)
In a major update towards cross-browser compatibility, Firefox users are set to enjoy the benefits of importing Chrome extensions (note this is really part of the data import/migration from an existing Chrome browser installed, just for extensions that are already supported, and not installing from the Chrome web store), thanks...
[News] If You Have These 6 Personality Traits, You're More Vulnerable to Phishing Scams (www.makeuseof.com)
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