Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out (arstechnica.com)
Don't like this article 😠 posting it in search of rebuttals. The word "moderation" is not to be found anywhere in it.
OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub (futurism.com)
New evidence strongly suggests that OceanGate’s submersible, which imploded and killed all passengers on its way to the Titanic wreck, was unfit for the journey. The CEO, Stockton Rush, bought discounted carbon fiber past its shelf life from Boeing, which experts say is a terrible choice for a deep-sea vessel. This likely...
so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process? (kbin.social)
I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.
Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues (apnews.com)
ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text (arstechnica.com)
Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for defence users (www.theregister.com)
Report: Apple isn’t paying OpenAI for ChatGPT integration into OSes (arstechnica.com)
If Apple aren’t paying OpenAI and OpenAI aren’t playing Apple, it means that consumers are paying both.
Firefox Browser Blocks Anti-Censorship Add-Ons at Russia’s Request (theintercept.com)
Mozilla, the maker of the popular web browser Firefox, said it received government demands to block add-ons that circumvent censorship....
FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared. (www.fromjason.xyz)
Consumer first; Citizen second (hertig.blog)
From housing, to media, to printers, to everything else. Get ready to own nothing; pay rent on everything....
Inside the shifting plan at Elon Musk’s X to build a new team and police a platform ‘so toxic it’s almost unrecognizable’ (fortune.com)
Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees (www.theverge.com)
The cuts work out to roughly 8 percent of the overall Microsoft Gaming division that stands at around 22,000 employees in total.
The Worst Devices of CES 2024! By iFixIt (piped.video)
Piped link: piped.video/watch?v=NXhmnQzZ7n8...
New solid state battery charges in minutes, lasts for thousands of cycles (www.pv-magazine.com)
Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times — more than any other pouch battery cell — and can be recharged in a matter of minutes....
Social media lobby group sues US State for protecting children from Meta, TikTok and Snapchat (www.firstpost.com)
A new law, signed by Republican Governor Mike DeWine in July, is considered as a way to safeguard children’s mental health, citing concerns about the intentionally addictive nature of social media.
TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms (arstechnica.com)
Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used (arstechnica.com)
Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood (themarkup.org)
Nothing Chats has already been pulled from Google Play over privacy issues (www.theverge.com)
Hints are so yesterday. Pro tip for Xmas if your loved ones aren't privacy nerds (twitter.com)
Tuta(nota) users, what do you think about their new setup? (tuta.com)
Have a look at their blog post but then please also look at this. What do you think?...