Great question Michael (jlai.lu)
Report: 75K loyal Redditors can snag shares before Reddit goes public (arstechnica.com)
This is one of the more scathing pieces to come out on Ars about Reddit. As the site did not respond to inquiries, all that was available to report on was profoundly negative statements that Advance is unlikely to enjoy seeing.
How Google is killing independent sites like ours (housefresh.com)
Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final (mastodon.online)
Microsoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition, Call of Duty now part of Xbox (www.theverge.com)
Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook (www.wsj.com)
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Lawsuit Alleges Reddit Fired Employee for Taking Medical Leave, ‘Toxic’ Culture (www.404media.co)
A lawsuit was filed against Reddit alleging that the company fired an employee with anxiety for taking medical leave. The employee, Jamie Lee, had worked at Reddit as an accountant for over 4 years with positive reviews. In July 2022, Lee requested 3 days off for her health but was denied. She was later placed on medical leave...
Zoom terms of use updated to allow AI training on user-generated data, no opt-out
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CA insurance company drops customer after 'drone' took aerial images of yard (abc7.com)
Ex-Facebook Users, What Do You Use Now?
I joined Facebook years ago not long after it took off from its college roots. I also quit it years ago when my feed became full of junk....
Google Says AI Could Break Reality (www.404media.co)
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Tesla worker injured [in 2021] by robot that 'pinned' him to wall with its claws at car company's Texas factory (news.sky.com)
given the scrutiny around Tesla, it’s interesting this story doesn’t seem to have come out sooner since this is a fairly novel workplace accident
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android (techcrunch.com)
China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities (www.bloomberg.com)
A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.
280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles (arstechnica.com)
Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad (www.theverge.com)
Raspberry Pi 5: EVERYTHING you need to know (www.youtube.com)
Microsoft announces Python formulas in Excel... which have to get sent to the cloud (techcommunity.microsoft.com)
Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don't give a fuck for life offtheline
Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers (www.theguardian.com)
Paying YouTube for views on your channel (www.youtube.com)
Hacktivists release two gigabytes of Heritage Foundation data (Project 2025) (cyberscoop.com)
Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)
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Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird (www.ifixit.com)
Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says (finance.yahoo.com)
