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Unleash the potential of your phone: Rooting your device does not void its warranty (fsfe.org)

Beeper Finally In Public Invite Stage! (refer.beeper.com)

If any of y’all were curious of Beeper when it came out (a Matrix backed chat app) but weren’t able to get an invite for whatever reason, then here ya go! Feel free to ask any questions about it if you got any! (No I don’t work for Beeper, just like this more than Element and self-hosting)

Google's Bard Urges Google to Drop Web Environment Integrity (archive.is)

I asked Google Bard whether it thought Web Environment Integrity was a good or bad idea. Surprisingly, not only did it respond that it was a bad idea, it even went on to urge Google to drop the proposal.

[News, Call for Action] The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide (www.eff.org)

The U.K. Parliament is close to passing the Online Safety Bill, which threatens global privacy by allowing backdoors into messaging services, compromising end-to-end encryption. Despite objections, no amendments were accepted. The bill also includes content filtering and surveillance measures. There’s still a chance for...

Google owes $338.7 mln in Chromecast patent case, US jury says (www.reuters.com)

AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent (arstechnica.com)

SponsorBlock (and DeArrow): "YouTube is currently experimenting with server-si…" - Fosstodon (fosstodon.org)

cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/14579120...

What is Cara, the anti-AI social media app for artists? (mashable.com)

The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff (finance.yahoo.com)

Archive.org link...

Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away (arstechnica.com)

I hate to go as cliche as “surprising absolutely no one,” but really, this is not a surprise.

GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse (github.com)

This service is still in Alpha release but is already deployable and usable, and federates with other Fediverse servers....

Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate (www.theverge.com)

The US’s latest attempt to chill speech online, KOSA-a bill to effectively force everyone to identify themselves to online platforms-is picking up steam and looking like it will pass the Senate.

Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees (www.theverge.com)

So it continues.

Elon Musk railed against shadow bans—now he’s using them on his critics (www.dailydot.com)

Meta Debuts $500 Quest 3 as Apple Prepares to Launch $3,500 Vision Pro Headset Next Year (www.macrumors.com)

Leo, Brave's browser-native AI assistant, is now available in Nightly version for testing (brave.com)

WD refused to answer our questions about its self- wiping SanDisk SSDs (www.theverge.com)

Splitting the Web (ploum.net)

The free Delta game emulator for iPhones is live on Apple’s App Store (www.theverge.com)

Caveat: It isn’t available in the app store in the EU, and is instead only available via the developer’s marketplace, AltStore¹. As far as I can tell, this genuinely isn’t because of greed, but because of a little detail in Apple’s EU rules (possibly wrong):...

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