AI-powered news sites are dumb and Redditors managed to trick them (www.gamingonlinux.com)
This is the humanless future, hurray!
Apple threatens to kill FaceTime and iMessage in the U.K (www.macworld.com)
Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says (techcrunch.com)
Piped: The Youtube Experience You've Been Waiting For (github.com)
Anyone who's been using privacy-respecting frontends for some time will recognise Piped. A YouTube frontend with no ads, integrated SponsorBlock, return dislikes, and a customisable UI....
Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app (www.bbc.com)
Microsoft's Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You Thought (www.wired.com)
OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation (www.theguardian.com)
Networks in China and Iran also used AI models to create and post disinformation but campaigns did not reach large audiences...
Maven Is a New Social Network That Eliminates Followers—and Hopefully Stress (www.wired.com)
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Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads and Signal from app store in China (www.washingtonpost.com)
Apple has complied with the Chinese government’s request to remove several popular communication apps from its app store, including WhatsApp, Threads, Signal, and Telegram, due to national security concerns. This action was taken following a directive from the Cyberspace Administration of China. These apps have been crucial...
VW vehicles to converse with drivers via ChatGPT by mid-year (www.volkswagen-newsroom.com)
I guess our car is not our private space anymore, and we are not given a choice when buying a car from Volkswagen.
Microsoft is discontinuing Windows Mixed Reality (www.theverge.com)
Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)
New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)
Cross posted from: lemmy.world/post/9762996
Ad blocker uninstall rises due to YouTube ban (samrome58.substack.com)
Google Announces to Delete Inactive Accounts, All You Need to Know (samrome58.substack.com)
Google decides to delete any account that has two years of inactivity. See how they decide to go about it.
.io considered harmful (www.beep.blog)
This story really got my blood boiling. CW: involves a forced expulsion of people
Omegle shuts down--founder cites "stress and expense of this fight – coupled with the existing stress and expense of operating Omegle, and fighting its misuse" (www.omegle.com)
So, turns out that nuclear-powered pacemakers were a thing (www.ans.org)
In today’s episode of “weird shit I stumbled onto on the internet”, I bring you: nuclear-powered pacemakers....
Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine (arstechnica.com)
Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! (en.shiftdelete.net)
Elon Musk’s Rebranded Twitter Cuts Ad Prices (www.wsj.com)
Amazon claims it isn’t a “Very Large Online Platform” to evade EU rules (arstechnica.com)
That mom-and-pop Seattle operation just can’t catch a break.
Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars (www.theguardian.com)
Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes
Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year (electrek.co)
Elon is the gift that keeps on giving. He’s decided that because it’s Friday, we should all have a pile in....
ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan (www.bloomberg.com)
ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have ways to disable the world’s most sophisticated chipmaking machines in the event that China invades Taiwan, according to people familiar with the matter....