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Americans reporting nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless and other providers (apnews.com)

The Cult of AI: How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future (www.rollingstone.com)

From the (middle of the) story: The reason CES was so packed with random “AI”-branded products was that sticking those two letters to a new company is seen as something of a talisman, a ritual to bring back the (VC) rainy season.

Hertz 180: Rental giant to sell 20,000 EVs and replace them with gas-powered vehicles (www.techspot.com)

X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film (techcrunch.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/7435108...

Something weird going on at DuckDuck… (beehaw.org)

The Intercept conservative?! The Nation conservative?! What gives? https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/17db21e0-7037-4d77-b3fd-fa7b958a3432.webp

We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score | iFixit News (www.ifixit.com)

Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For (www.techdirt.com)

Ubisoft is suspending "inactive" accounts, removing access to attached games (www.vg247.com)

Musk is lightyears away from a self-driving car (archive.ph)

Large Language Models Are Drunk at the Wheel (matt.si)

Google Discloses That Incognito Mode in Chrome Isn't Entirely 'Private' (news.itsfoss.com)

Google was already in the middle of a class-action lawsuit regarding the incognito mode, where they were accused of tracking user activity. And, they agreed to settle the lawsuit....

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 (arstechnica.com)

Decentralized Matrix messaging network says it now has 115M users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing battle (venturebeat.com)

The news isn’t a surprise as Unity angered a lot of its loyal game developers a few weeks ago after pushing through a price increase based on numbers of downloads — and then retracted it after an uproar.

Apple is locking down the iPhone App Store to comply with a new law in China (www.theverge.com)

China forced Apple to remove any app where the developer isn’t registered in China. Meaning they asked Apple to remove 95% of the apps and games available in the App Store....

Android 14 adds support for using smartphones as a webcams (www.esper.io)

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...

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