Reckless DMCA Deindexing Pushes NASA's Artemis Towards Black Hole (torrentfreak.com)
Adobe gives up on $20 billion acquisition of Figma (arstechnica.com)
Debunking the Top 10 Myths About Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
Tumblr sheds Post Plus subscriptions as the platform downsizes (www.theverge.com)
TL;DR: Tumblr is discontinuing its Post Plus feature, allowing creators to charge for content, starting December 1st. This decision follows a leaked memo about downsizing due to struggles in meeting usage and revenue targets. Post Plus, introduced in 2021, didn’t meet expectations, leading to its discontinuation. Existing Post...
Broadcom planning to complete deal for $69 billion acquisition of VMWare after regulators give OK (apnews.com)
Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College (themarkup.org)
An investigation by the media organization The Markup found the pixel by Facebook and Instagram-parent Meta on dozens of popular websites targeting kids from kindergarten to college, including sites that students are all but required to use if they want to participate in school activities or apply to college....
Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support (www.theregister.com)
Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them? (apnews.com)
Twitter's mayhem year (lemmy.eco.br)
The UK’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally becomes law (www.theverge.com)
Firefish *Could* Be the Next Big Thing (wedistribute.org)
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Israel’s Failure to Stop the Hamas Attack Shows the Danger of Too Much Surveillance (www.wired.com)
Google adds tracking to Google docs documents? (fosstodon.org)
Title says it all. Somewhat interesting if true. I wouldn’t be surprised either way.
We tested ChatGPT in Bengali, Kurdish, and Tamil. It failed. (restofworld.org)
Outside of English, ChatGPT makes up words, fails logic tests, and can’t do basic information retrieval.
The endless battle to banish the world’s most notorious stalker website (wapo.st)
The anonymous forum, known as Kiwi Farms, keeps popping back online despite a relentless campaign by transgender activists and a former insider...
A DIY ‘bionic pancreas’ is changing diabetes care — what's next? (www.nature.com)
Duet AI for Google Meet can take notes, summarize, and even attend meetings - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Another new Meet feature lets Duet “attend” a meeting on your behalf. On a meeting invite, you can click an “attend for me” button, and Google can auto-generate some text about what you might want to discuss. Those notes will be viewable to attendees during the meeting so that they can discuss them.
Gitlab working on ActivityPub for Merge/Pull requests (writing.exchange)
The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse (US focused) (buttondown.email)
Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act)....
New Emulator Lets Some x86-64 Games Run on RISC-V Dev Board (www.tomshardware.com)
25 years ago, Apple changed everything with the first iMac (www.xda-developers.com)
Social media channels in China are filled with anti-black racist content, rights activists say (www.hrw.org)
"For you" isn't - The case against corporate algorithmic feeds (www.staygrounded.online)
Designing Friction (philosophical essay about technology) (designingfriction.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/39429322...
U.S. regulator proposes new rules for AI-generated robocalls and robotexts to protect consumers and stop election misinformation by phone (www.engadget.com)
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