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Critical Vulnerability Exploits Several Lemmy Instances (wedistribute.org)

Taliban Endorses Twitter Over Threads (www.vice.com)

Anas Haqqani, a Taliban thinker with family ties to the leadership, has endorsed Twitter over the Facebook-owned Threads. He said Twitter has more freedom of speech and credibility than other platforms. The Taliban likes Twitter’s lax moderation policies which allow them to spread their message. Facebook and TikTok ban the...

Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM (arstechnica.com)

I have to admire a company following through on the e-waste reduction by doing it’s own updates of the Android OS for an EOL chip. I just wish the fairphone 3 was actually more usable....

What Did People Do Before Smartphones? (www.theatlantic.com)

Mastodon thinks Lemmy’s privacy stinks. What say you? (raddle.me)

Federated services have always had privacy issues but I expected Lemmy would have the fewest, but it’s visibly worse for privacy than even Reddit....

Other Fediverse projects (en.wikipedia.org)

I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I’m enjoying BookWyrm very much; it’s the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I’ve been looking for for years....

Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum (arstechnica.com)

Yay!

I Gazed Lovingly Into Strangers’ Eyes on ‘Eyechat’ (www.404media.co)

Russia legalizes Bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining (cointelegraph.com)

Sam Altman urges formation of US-led AI freedom coalition • The Register (www.theregister.com)

This guy! 😮‍💨

Shooting conspiracies trend on X as Musk endorses Trump (www.theverge.com)

Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage (fedi.simonwillison.net)

simonwillison.net/…/hangout_servicesthunkjs/

Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” (www.themoscowtimes.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/536301...

Figma Disables AI App Design Tool After It Copied Apple’s Weather App (www.404media.co)

Electric Aviation is already better than you think - Volts with David Roberts (www.volts.wtf)

Electric vehicles that can take off and land vertically, but then fly like a plane, are already being sold and used by hospitals and shipping companies. These vehicles have 5 batteries that give it a range of over 350 miles using current battery technology, though the batteries are intended to be swapped over the life of the...

Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts (wedistribute.org)

Hackers Target AI Users With Malicious Stable Diffusion Tool on Github to Protest 'Art Theft' (www.404media.co)

OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public (www.wired.com)

The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. (www.theverge.com)

Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History (www.malwarebytes.com)

After Radio Silence, Kbin App Artemis Shuts Down (wedistribute.org)

New GitHub user and extension developer claims Twitch’s website has malware (github.com)

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/5184#issuecomment-1829172308...

Amazon used an algorithm to essentially raise prices on other sites, the FTC says (apnews.com)

The new excerpts unveiled Thursday allege executives at the e-commerce giant intentionally deleted communication by using a feature on the popular app Signal that makes messages disappear. By doing this, the FTC said Amazon “destroyed more than two years” worth of communications from June 2019 to “at least early 2022”...

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