Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says (www.reuters.com)
How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’) - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent (arstechnica.com)
SponsorBlock (and DeArrow): "YouTube is currently experimenting with server-si…" - Fosstodon (fosstodon.org)
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What is Cara, the anti-AI social media app for artists? (mashable.com)
The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff (finance.yahoo.com)
Archive.org link...
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away (arstechnica.com)
I hate to go as cliche as “surprising absolutely no one,” but really, this is not a surprise.
GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse (github.com)
This service is still in Alpha release but is already deployable and usable, and federates with other Fediverse servers....
Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate (www.theverge.com)
The US’s latest attempt to chill speech online, KOSA-a bill to effectively force everyone to identify themselves to online platforms-is picking up steam and looking like it will pass the Senate.
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees (www.theverge.com)
So it continues.
Elon Musk railed against shadow bans—now he’s using them on his critics (www.dailydot.com)
Meta Debuts $500 Quest 3 as Apple Prepares to Launch $3,500 Vision Pro Headset Next Year (www.macrumors.com)
Leo, Brave's browser-native AI assistant, is now available in Nightly version for testing (brave.com)
WD refused to answer our questions about its self- wiping SanDisk SSDs (www.theverge.com)
Splitting the Web (ploum.net)
[VERGE] Twitter has started blocking unregistered users (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/32518...
The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store (www.theverge.com)
Caveat: It isn’t available in the app store in the EU, and is instead only available via the developer’s marketplace, AltStore¹. As far as I can tell, this genuinely isn’t because of greed, but because of a little detail in Apple’s EU rules (possibly wrong):...
Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? (locusmag.com)
House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate (www.nbcnews.com)
‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 (www.techradar.com)
This Firefox for Android feature you've been begging for is finally here (www.androidpolice.com)
Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company over song lyrics (www.theguardian.com)
Essay | The Real Story of Musk’s Twitter Takeover (www.wsj.com)
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School district in the U.S. uses ChatGPT to help ban library books (web.archive.org)
Faced with new legislation, Iowa’s Mason City Community School District asked ChatGPT if certain books ‘contain a description or depiction of a sex act.’
Blocked by Cloudflare (jrhawley.ca)
The author was blocked from accessing a work website due to issues with Cloudflare’s browser integrity checks. Despite having credentials to prove his identity, an attempt to bypass the checks by disabling fingerprinting in Firefox resulted in Cloudflare blocking all access. He could still access the site on Chrome, showing...