TikTok prepares to challenge Instagram with 'TikTok Photos' (www.androidauthority.com)
From mono to mainstream: 20 years of Bluetooth audio (archive.is)
Loving these articles about how the technology has changed in 20 years.
Why it’s hard to write a good book about the tech world (www.economist.com)
WHEN PEOPLE ask Michael Moritz, a former journalist and prominent tech investor, what book they should read to understand Silicon Valley, he always recommends two. “They are not about Silicon Valley, but they have everything to do with Silicon Valley,” he says....
Trump 'tried to sell Truth Social to Musk' as SPAC deal stalled (www.theregister.com)
Are We Watching The Internet Die? (www.wheresyoured.at)
‘We definitely messed up’: why did Google AI tool make offensive historical images? (www.theguardian.com)
Brin’s “We definitely messed up.”, at an AI “hackathon” event on 2 March, followed a slew of social media posts showing Gemini’s image generation tool depicting a variety of historical figures – including popes, founding fathers of the US and, most excruciatingly, German second world war soldiers – as people of...
Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” (arstechnica.com)
Reddit gets ready for IPO, setting a top valuation of $6.4 billion (www.axios.com)
Free Group Cards (kbin.melroy.org)
free Group Cards on Sendwishonline.com offer a dynamic and collaborative platform for celebrating special occasions, milestones, or achievements within a group or community. These digital cards provide a modern and inclusive way for members to come together, contribute personalized messages, and create a unified expression of...
Consumer first; Citizen second (hertig.blog)
From housing, to media, to printers, to everything else. Get ready to own nothing; pay rent on everything....
Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok (archive.is)
Should Caddy and Traefik Replace Certbot? (www.eff.org)
The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy (www.nyuengelberg.org)
this is a very lengthy piece but quite interesting. from the introduction:...
To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol (techcrunch.com)
Once Again, Ron Wyden Had To Stop Bad “Protect The Children” Internet Bills From Moving Forward (www.techdirt.com)
Wyden has been spectacular on actually understanding tech issues for a very long time at this point. The gerontocracy needs to stop acting like they have any clue how the internet works....
Apple's Epic ban is questioned by EU regulators; more details (9to5mac.com)
On DMA eve, Google whines, Apple sounds alarms, and TikTok wants out (arstechnica.com)
As a general rule, when trillion-dollar companies don’t like regulation, it simply means they’re admitting the rules are good for their customers.
Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU (support.apple.com)
As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their “platform policies for security and privacy” even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of...
Generative AI Tools Now Advanced Enough to Mislead Voters, Researchers Show (www.extremetech.com)
Not much to add here, given the opening dependent clause.
Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android (learn.microsoft.com)
cross-posted from !android...
How positive male role models are detoxifying the social media ‘manosphere’ (www.theguardian.com)
Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
First focusing on AI and now this, already cancelled my donations, do we have a good fork to move to?
Brailliance - a new game by the makers of Wordvoyance (www.themisgames.com)
I was making a braille learning app when I came up with this game idea. You count the braille dots to guess the word. www.themisgames.com/brailliance/menu...
AMD continues to lock down AMDGPU features (www.phoronix.com)
Well, apparently, after just a few years the ability to control GPU operation in Linux will slide down considerably.