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Carmen Osorio, expert in technology addiction: ‘It’s not a good idea to give children a smartphone; in any case, you let them borrow yours’ (english.elpais.com)

Amazon's Fire TV is Adding Full-Screen Video Ads That Play When You Start Your Fire TV (cordcuttersnews.com)

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)

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Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription (arstechnica.com)

Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber recently discussed the possibility of one day selling a mouse that customers can use “forever.” The executive said such a mouse isn’t “necessarily super far away” and will rely on software updates, likely delivered through a subscription model....

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)

What’s the Matter with the smart home? (www.theverge.com)

The article discusses expectations for smart home announcements at the upcoming IFA tech show in Berlin. While companies may unveil new smart speakers, cameras and robot vacuums, the smart home remains fragmented as the Matter interoperability standard has yet to fully deliver on integrating devices. The author argues the...

Opinion | Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto (www.nytimes.com)

For the first time in 40 years, Windows will ship without built-in word processor (arstechnica.com)

Thus ending our long national nightmare of accidentally opening things in WordPad on a fresh install.

Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register (www.theregister.com)

Warning: New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft | mailbox.org (mailbox.org)

Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)

“I think the existing, altruistic, free version of Reddit will continue to exist and grow and thrive just the way it has,” Huffman said. “But now we will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas, things of that nature.”

ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself (www.techradar.com)

Are people reading articles before posting them? (imgflip.com)

The Fairphone 5 is a little more repairable and much more modern (www.theverge.com)

Most bosses regret how they mandated workers return to the office. They blamed it on not having enough data (fortune.com)

Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF (littlegreenfootballs.com)

You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

8GB RAM in M3 MacBook Pro Proves the Bottleneck in Real-World Tests (www.macrumors.com)

Google Chrome's Web Environment Integrity feature has been cancelled (9to5google.com)

While WEI is thankfully cancelled, it’s not entirely cancelled… They’re planning on making it available still in WebViews with the intention that websites can check if a malicious Android app is trying to do a phishing scheme....

Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted' (www.businessinsider.com)

OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity (futurism.com)

Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show (1ft.io)

Tens of thousands of Tesla owners have had the suspension or steering of their vehicles — even in practically brand new ones — fail in recent years. Newly obtained documents show how Tesla engineers internally called these incidents “flaws” and “failures.”...

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