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Terraform, Vault, Nomad etc by HashiCorp moving away from Open Source (thenewstack.io)

HashiCorp is moving its products previously licensed as Open Source away from it to Business Source License (BSL) moving forward...

Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users (gizmodo.com)

LMAO

Comcast, Centurylink Fail To Derail Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network In Bountiful, Utah (www.techdirt.com)

The city of Bountiful, Utah voted to build a $48 million fiber network to provide affordable gigabit broadband for its residents and businesses. Regional internet providers Comcast and CenturyLink opposed the plan and tried to force a public vote through a taxpayer group they fund. However, communities often build their own...

A rant, with useful information, about the ‘Web Environment Integrity’ proposal by Google" (orowith2os.gitlab.io)

One of my first blog posts in a while, I go over Google’s recent web proposal, and point out exactly why it won’t turn out well. Hope y’all have fun with it.

Google’s new security pilot program will ban employee Internet access (arstechnica.com)

Mark F***king Zuckerberg Is Not Your Friend (catvalente.substack.com)

I recently listened to a “tech” podcast host drone on for 45 minutes about the “Elon vs Zuck” cage match and this piece perfectly captures the frothing, screaming stream-of-conciousness in my brain at the thought of seeing another discussion about Twitter vs Threads/Insta/Face/burning-sh*itpile. I felt some small amount...

You can't post ass, Threads is doomed (techcrunch.com)

Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content (futurism.com)

G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a “modest test” of AI content on its sites....

U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)

The department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device....

Frequent/Long-Term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways (www.businessinsider.com)

"Open Source Windows" ReactOS just got better GUI install setup, no GPT yet (www.neowin.net)

Thoughts on BOOX Tab Ultra C? (shop.boox.com)

Does anyone here have a BOOX e-paper tablet? I’m a big fan of e-paper devices—I love my Pebble smartwatch, Kindle Paperwhite, and Light Phone II. I’ve been eyeing the Tab Ultra C for quite a while, and I am considering the pros and cons. Mostly, I intend to use it for browsing the web and maybe some light note taking and...

The activist who’s taking on artificial intelligence in the courts: ‘This is the fight of our lives’ (english.elpais.com)

The American Matthew Butterick has started a legal crusade against generative artificial intelligence (AI). In 2022, he filed the first lawsuit in the history of this field against Microsoft, one of the companies that develop these types of tools (GitHub Copilot). Today, he’s coordinating four class action lawsuits that bring...

Instagram Suspends Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Account: Raises Concerns About Policy Enforcement (samrome58.substack.com)

I still wondered why, I’ve read the story over and over again.

One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion (arstechnica.com)

Why Unity felt the need to “rush out” its controversial install-fee program (arstechnica.com)

Tinder now lets mom pick your next date (www.theverge.com)

Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next-gen encryption (www.newscientist.com)

We need [Gen AI] literacy like media literacy (jamesg.blog)

Thoughts from James who recently held a Gen AI literacy workshop for older teenagers....

I try synthetic salmon and enter the “uncanny valley” of taste (arstechnica.com)

Bad software destroyed my doctor’s memory (www.theregister.com)

Amazon starting to track and penalize workers who work from home too much (www.theguardian.com)

Some staff members were alerted on Wednesday they were “not currently meeting our expectation of joining your colleagues in the office at least three days a week”, according to emails shared with the Financial Times. The emails were also discussed on the anonymous corporate message board platform Blind.

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