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Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)

New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion (medium.com)

Cross posted from: lemmy.world/post/9762996

Ad blocker uninstall rises due to YouTube ban (samrome58.substack.com)

Google Announces to Delete Inactive Accounts, All You Need to Know (samrome58.substack.com)

Google decides to delete any account that has two years of inactivity. See how they decide to go about it.

.io considered harmful (www.beep.blog)

This story really got my blood boiling. CW: involves a forced expulsion of people

Omegle shuts down--founder cites "stress and expense of this fight – coupled with the existing stress and expense of operating Omegle, and fighting its misuse" (www.omegle.com)

So, turns out that nuclear-powered pacemakers were a thing (www.ans.org)

In today’s episode of “weird shit I stumbled onto on the internet”, I bring you: nuclear-powered pacemakers....

Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine (arstechnica.com)

Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! (en.shiftdelete.net)

Elon Musk’s Rebranded Twitter Cuts Ad Prices (www.wsj.com)

Amazon claims it isn’t a “Very Large Online Platform” to evade EU rules (arstechnica.com)

That mom-and-pop Seattle operation just can’t catch a break.

Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars (www.theguardian.com)

Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes

Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools (arstechnica.com)

Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year (electrek.co)

Elon is the gift that keeps on giving. He’s decided that because it’s Friday, we should all have a pile in....

ASML and TSMC Can Remotely Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan (www.bloomberg.com)

ASML Holding NV and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. have ways to disable the world’s most sophisticated chipmaking machines in the event that China invades Taiwan, according to people familiar with the matter....

Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface (futurism.com)

Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals (citizenlab.ca)

Cross posted from: beehaw.org/post/13390116...

Generative AI is still a solution in search of a problem (www.axios.com)

Lemmy's Image Problem (wedistribute.org)

Decentralized networks/ISPs, are they even possible? A talk and my idea

So I was thinking about what if we could make a network that the only thing you needed to connect to it is to directly connect ( through wires or directed wireless antennas ) to at least 1 computer that takes part in it, with no centralized node of any kind. For that we would need a whole new protocol and address system. THIS IS...

Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services (arstechnica.com)

Google's monopoly in the ad industry lets them profit off allowing scam ads to flourish, with no consequences (checkmyads.org)

Google is spoon-feeding fake “Shark Tank approved” weight loss gummy candies to innocent people — and making money doing it.

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