Commented - technology

FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)

Aww … poor little ISPs.

Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget (www.engadget.com)

Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)

Mozilla will open Firefox for Android for more extensions (blog.mozilla.org)

Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee to Be on the Platform (variety.com)

I’m not sure if this is technically Technology news, but I can remove this post if it’s in the wrong community...

'LLM-free' is the new '100% organic' - Creators Are Fighting AI Anxiety With an ‘LLM-Free’ Movement (www.theatlantic.com)

As soon as Apple announced its plans to inject generative AI into the iPhone, it was as good as official: The technology is now all but unavoidable. Large language models will soon lurk on most of the world’s smartphones, generating images and text in messaging and email apps. AI has already colonized web search, appearing in...

Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)

Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub (daringfireball.net)

Adam Mosseri:...

As Teens Take to E-Bikes, Parents Ask: Is This Freedom or Danger? (www.nytimes.com)

NYT gift article expires in 30 days....

Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)

Heat pumps twice as efficient as fossil fuel systems in cold weather, study finds (www.theguardian.com)

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ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI (www.nature.com)

Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)

Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI....

😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 (www.theverge.com)

95% of NFTs are Worthless: Report (petapixel.com)

Twitter is now X (www.twitter.com)

Gen Z is bringing back landline phones because they think they look ‘cool’: ‘I love to twirl the cord’ (nypost.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/10105454...

"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." (pluralistic.net)

Your next Windows PC may need at least 16GB of RAM (www.ghacks.net)

After Axing Headlines, Elon Musk To Hide Retweet, Like Buttons On Twitter (www.pcmag.com)

Injured person reportedly dies after Cruise cars block first responders (www.sfgate.com)

Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)

The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing by $2 to $13.99 per month in the US for new and current customers....

Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds (www.wired.com)

Meta conducted an experiment where thousands of users were shown chronological feeds on Facebook and Instagram for three months. Users of the chronological feeds engaged less with the platforms and were more likely to use competitors like YouTube and TikTok. This suggests that users prefer algorithmically ranked feeds that show...

Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)

We estimate that by 2025, Signal will require approximately $50 million dollars a year to operate—and this is very lean compared to other popular messaging apps that don’t respect your privacy.